Re: [gentoo-sparc] Booting the system...

2008-03-28 Thread Ferris McCormick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 28 Mar 2008 15:23:33 -0400 Ivan Kabaivanov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thursday 27 March 2008 19:05, Ferris McCormick wrote: > > On Thu, 27 Mar 2008 17:06:47 -0400 > > > > [snip] > > > > you're almost there. Get the binary firmware from

Re: [gentoo-sparc] Booting the system...

2008-03-28 Thread Ivan Kabaivanov
On Thursday 27 March 2008 19:05, Ferris McCormick wrote: > On Thu, 27 Mar 2008 17:06:47 -0400 > [snip] > > you're almost there. Get the binary firmware from > > ftp://ftp.qlogic.com/outgoing/linux/firmware (just get the .bin files, > > not the .bin-version files). There are five or six files al

Re: [gentoo-sparc] Booting the system...

2008-03-27 Thread BRM
Subject: Re: [gentoo-sparc] Booting the system... On Thursday 27 March 2008 16:41, BRM wrote: > Here's my silo.conf: > > # Example of how can be silo.conf set up > partition = 1 > root = /dev/sda1 > timeout = 300 > > default = Linux > > image = /boot/kernel-gen

Re: [gentoo-sparc] Booting the system...

2008-03-27 Thread Ferris McCormick
espite the > > message about starting a shell, pressing 'q' or anything else - I can't use > > STOP+A to get back to the PROM, nor can I use CTRL+ALT+DEL to restart the > > system. I have to power-cycle to reboot. > > > > Per #3 - I do seem to have CONFIG_PROM_CONSOLE

Re: [gentoo-sparc] Booting the system...

2008-03-27 Thread Ivan Kabaivanov
he > next time I build the kernel. Thanks for the tip. Right now I just need to > get the system fully booting. (Then I can rebuild the kernel > appropriately.) > > Thanks! > > Ben > > - Original Message > From: brant williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: gentoo-sparc@l

Re: [gentoo-sparc] Booting the system...

2008-03-27 Thread BRM
just need to get the system fully booting. (Then I can rebuild the kernel appropriately.) Thanks! Ben - Original Message From: brant williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: gentoo-sparc@lists.gentoo.org Sent: Thursday, March 27, 2008 3:32:09 PM Subject: Re: [gentoo-sparc] Booting th

Re: [gentoo-sparc] Booting the system...

2008-03-27 Thread brant williams
F5C4 7420 6784 4DEB 6002 On Wed, 26 Mar 2008, BRM wrote: Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2008 14:39:09 -0700 (PDT) From: BRM <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: gentoo-sparc@lists.gentoo.org To: gentoo-sparc@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-sparc] Booting the system... Figured it out. I could have eit

Re: [gentoo-sparc] Booting the system...

2008-03-26 Thread BRM
finding a valid initrd image. Shouldn't genkernel have built a valid one to install? TIA, Ben - Original Message From: Benjamen R. Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: gentoo-sparc@lists.gentoo.org Sent: Monday, March 24, 2008 3:57:19 PM Subject: [gentoo-sparc] Booting the system...

[gentoo-sparc] Booting the system...

2008-03-24 Thread Benjamen R. Meyer
I got the system installed, and everything seems to be okay with three exceptions: 1) I have to run "boot disk1:1" at the PROM prompt to get the system to boot. I assume I can set that into the PROM, just like I set the cdrom to be what is boot, no? If not, how do I resolve that? FYI - In case