[rescue] Which current Linux works on SB2000?

[Peter Stokes]

Hi

Just to clarify in case of confusion. The Blade 1000/2000/280 all used the
same motherboard, the 1000 used the earlier 750/900Mhz non Cu CPUs and the
2000 used the later 900/1015/1050/1200 Mhz Cu CPUs. The 1000/2000 chassis were
the same apart from outer plastics. The 280 could come with any of the CPUs.
There were updated versions of the OBP which allowed the faster CPUs to be
used as time went by.

I am sure others can add to this with odd bits I have missed!

Peter

> On 1 May 2021, at 03:50, Ethan Hawke <ehawk at ember.systems> wrote:
>
> Interesting, I have a sunfire 280R (Which is a Sun Blade 1000 in a 4U
chassis), and have got modern Linux running on it, but not the ISP2200, I just
use an external 711 SCSI enclosure.
>
> From what I can tell, the SB2000 is mostly the same machine as the
SB1000/280R, so should work.
>
> However! The Linux SPARC port is quite poor, and runs on relatively few
machines, it generally only runs on low end machines and coolthreads
(T-Series) servers.
>
> Even though it runs on my 280R, it's not completely stable, I haven't had it
panic, but random process will crash in the background, and it will sometimes
get stuck on shutdown. My other fireplane system (a V490) it kernel panics on
boot, same with my E3000's and any multiprocessor sun4m system (although I
think it boots if you less than 128MB of RAM).
>
> The BSDs are significantly higher quality if you just want a modern OS
running on it.
>
> On 5/1/21 4:49 AM, Nemo Nusquam wrote:
>> On 2021-04-22 11:37, Nemo Nusquam wrote:
>>> On 2021-04-21 07:53, Romain Dolbeau wrote:
>>>> Le mar. 20 avr. 2021 C 23:01, Nemo Nusquam<cym224 at gmail.com> a C)crit :
>>>>> For testing purposes, I need Linux running on my SB2000.B Any advice on
>>>>> which distribution to install?
>>>> The Debian port 'sparc64' is actively being worked on. I have it
>>>> installed on both a SB2500 and a T5120; I haven't updated it recently
>>>> (>1year), but then it was working fine on my Ultra 1E as well.
>>>>
>>>> Beware; if memory serves, at some points there were issues between
>>>> Linux and the FC-AL controller for the SB2000 disks.
>>>>
>>>> You may want to look at alternate solutions if that is still the case,
>>>> some were discussed recently (e.g.
>>>> <http://www.sunhelp.org/pipermail/rescue/2021-April/142574.html>).
>>>>
>>>> Cordially,
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Romain Dolbeau
>>>
>>> My thanks to Alexander and you for your suggestions.
>>>
>>> I found that there was an issue with the QLogic FC-AL controller in the
SB1000/2000 boxes.BB  This seems to have been resolved, at least in Gentoo,
with some users reporting no problems with recent releases. I note that Gentoo
released a new version a few days ago, so I shall try that one.
>> No luck installing either Gentoo or Debian (kernel panic each time) so the
Linux-based test must await when something else frees up.
>>
>> N.
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