8.04 Hardy installation fails on SPARC

[Mark Sitkowski]

8.04 Hardy nstallation from CD proceeds to "Selecting and installing software" stage, then fails.Installation from Mini-iso fails, since no archive carries the hardy distribution.
9.04 boots, but never gets off the ground, since 9.04 can't find the CDROM drive from which it booted. If a USB CDROM drive is used, it then can't find the IDE disks, even if the driver is specified.

I know this may be low priority for you, but it is impossible, for one reason or another, to install anything but 6.06 on a Sun Blade 100, or a Sun Ultra 10. Any attempt to upgrade from this, leads to either failure, or an unusable system.

##edited title removing 9.04 because it reaches end of life.

[Fabio Marconi (fabiomarconi)]

Already tryied alternate version ?

[Mark Sitkowski (xmarks)]

Hi Fabio,

I’ve tried all the versions, and none of them installs.

The main problem is, that Sun’s Openboot only allocates about 4MB – 10MB

for the kernel, which means that whether you install from CD or network,

it loads until it reaches address 0xA00000, and then you get the familiar

‘Fast data access MMU miss’ error.

This happens for versions of Openboot of 4.0 or less, with all versions of Ubuntu from 9.10, to 10.10.

Ubuntu 8.04 boots and runs, till it gets to ‘Select and install software’, when the

installer fails, but I think this is because it tries to download the software from

an archive server, none of which has version 8.04.

9.04 boots and runs, but doesn’t understand IDE drives – I think this is because it’s

loaded the drivers into an inaccessible (for Openboot) part of memory.

If you could shrink initrd down to the right size, everything would work.

The nearest I’ve had to success, is to install Ubuntu 6, and do a manual upgrade to

8.04 from a CD, but it’s a long and painful process, as you have to do it piece by

piece, or dependencies get very mixed up, and the OS becomes corrupted.

Best Regards,

Mark

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From: <email address hidden> [mailto:<email address hidden>] On Behalf Of Fabio Marconi
Sent: 16 November 2010 02:39
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Subject: [Bug 675343] Re: 8.04 Hardy and 9.04 Jaunty installation fails on SPARC

Already tryied alternate version ?

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8.04 Hardy and 9.04 Jaunty installation fails on SPARC
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Bug description:
8.04 Hardy nstallation from CD proceeds to "Selecting and installing software" stage, then fails.
Installation from Mini-iso fails, since no archive carries the hardy distribution.
9.04 boots, but never gets off the ground, since 9.04 can't find the CDROM drive from which it booted. If a USB CDROM drive is used, it then can't find the IDE disks, even if the driver is specified.

I know this may be low priority for you, but it is impossible, for one reason or another, to install anything but 6.06 on a Sun Blade 100, or a Sun Ultra 10. Any attempt to upgrade from this, leads to either failure, or an unusable system.

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[Fabio Marconi (fabiomarconi)]

Hello Mark
Have you tried this image?
http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ports/releases/8.04/release/
selecting spark?
The ports archive certainly has hardy still
Thanks
Fabio

[Mark Sitkowski (xmarks)]

Hi Fabio,

The image works fine, and the machine boots and tries to install. The problem (this time) comes when it connects to a mirror, and tries to download whatever extra stuff it needs – giving the failure at ‘selecting and installing software’. No mirrors carry whatever it tries to download.

I’m only using this release as a stepping stone, so I can gradually upgrade to 10.04,

but it would be a lot easier if the real problem was fixed, and the size of initrd was reduced to the same size as in Ubuntu 6 or 8. Then both CD and net install would work (see the explanation in my earlier reply, below).

Best Regards,

Mark

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From: <email address hidden> [mailto:<email address hidden>] On Behalf Of Fabio Marconi
Sent: 17 November 2010 06:50
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Subject: [Bug 675343] Re: 8.04 Hardy installation fails on SPARC

Hello Mark
Have you tried this image?
http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ports/releases/8.04/release/
selecting spark?
The ports archive certainly has hardy still
Thanks
Fabio

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8.04 Hardy installation fails on SPARC
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/675343
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Status in Ubuntu: New

Bug description:
8.04 Hardy nstallation from CD proceeds to "Selecting and installing software" stage, then fails.Installation from Mini-iso fails, since no archive carries the hardy distribution.
9.04 boots, but never gets off the ground, since 9.04 can't find the CDROM drive from which it booted. If a USB CDROM drive is used, it then can't find the IDE disks, even if the driver is specified.

I know this may be low priority for you, but it is impossible, for one reason or another, to install anything but 6.06 on a Sun Blade 100, or a Sun Ultra 10. Any attempt to upgrade from this, leads to either failure, or an unusable system.

##edited title removing 9.04 because it reaches end of life.

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Hi Fabio,

I’ve tried all the versions, and none of them installs.

The main problem is, that Sun’s Openboot only allocates about 4MB – 10MB

for the kernel, which means that whether you install from CD or network,

it loads until it reaches address 0xA00000, and then you get the familiar

‘Fast data access MMU miss’ error.

This happens for versions of Openboot of 4.0 or less, with all versions of Ubu...

[Fabio Marconi (fabiomarconi)]

Hello Mark
I found this
http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ports/releases/10.04/release/
initrd is 7.3 MB
Can you try with this, here the mirrors has to work.
Fabio

[Fabio Marconi (fabiomarconi)]

Obviusly download the sparc alternate version ;-)

[Mark Sitkowski (xmarks)]

Hi Fabio,

‘Fast data access MMU miss’ – for both the server image and the alternate image.

Is there a 10.04 netboot image which downloads into an address space less than 0xA00000? (That’s the address where OBP shuts off the boot image download).

Best Regards,

Mark

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From: <email address hidden> [mailto:<email address hidden>] On Behalf Of Fabio Marconi
Sent: 22 November 2010 08:35
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Subject: [Bug 675343] Re: 8.04 Hardy installation fails on SPARC

Obviusly download the sparc alternate version ;-)

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8.04 Hardy installation fails on SPARC
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/675343
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Status in Ubuntu: New

Bug description:
8.04 Hardy nstallation from CD proceeds to "Selecting and installing software" stage, then fails.Installation from Mini-iso fails, since no archive carries the hardy distribution.
9.04 boots, but never gets off the ground, since 9.04 can't find the CDROM drive from which it booted. If a USB CDROM drive is used, it then can't find the IDE disks, even if the driver is specified.

I know this may be low priority for you, but it is impossible, for one reason or another, to install anything but 6.06 on a Sun Blade 100, or a Sun Ultra 10. Any attempt to upgrade from this, leads to either failure, or an unusable system.

##edited title removing 9.04 because it reaches end of life.

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[Fabio Marconi (fabiomarconi)]

Hello
sorry for the wasted time, i found the master bug, can you please subscribre to it and mark as affecting you too.
I'm going to triage it.
Thanks
Fabio

[Fabio Marconi (fabiomarconi)]

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/silo/+bug/476234

[Fabio Marconi (fabiomarconi)]

Hello Mark
I've noted that in the iso image of the 10.04 the /boot/silo.conf is empty, instead in the 8.04 is written, can try to build an image of 10.04 sparc with the 8.04 silo.conf ?

[Mark Sitkowski (xmarks)]

Hi Fabio,

I’ll give it a try, but it may be tricky to add a boot track to the CD, after I’ve

unravelled the ISO..

Best Regards,

Mark

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From: <email address hidden> [mailto:<email address hidden>] On Behalf Of Fabio Marconi
Sent: 23 November 2010 07:29
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Subject: [Bug 675343] Re: 8.04 Hardy installation fails on SPARC

*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 476234 ***
    https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/476234

Hello Mark
I've noted that in the iso image of the 10.04 the /boot/silo.conf is empty, instead in the 8.04 is written, can try to build an image of 10.04 sparc with the 8.04 silo.conf ?

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8.04 Hardy installation fails on SPARC
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/675343
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Status in Ubuntu: New

Bug description:
8.04 Hardy nstallation from CD proceeds to "Selecting and installing software" stage, then fails.Installation from Mini-iso fails, since no archive carries the hardy distribution.
9.04 boots, but never gets off the ground, since 9.04 can't find the CDROM drive from which it booted. If a USB CDROM drive is used, it then can't find the IDE disks, even if the driver is specified.

I know this may be low priority for you, but it is impossible, for one reason or another, to install anything but 6.06 on a Sun Blade 100, or a Sun Ultra 10. Any attempt to upgrade from this, leads to either failure, or an unusable system.

##edited title removing 9.04 because it reaches end of life.

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