[Aurora-sparc-user] Netra T1 200 install problems

[Tom "spot" Callaway]

On Tue, 2007-04-10 at 15:16 +0100, Plasma wrote:
> It seems the T1 100 I thought I had is actually a T1 200, and seems a rather
> better spec that the 105's. 
> 
> T105's:
> Netra t1 (UltraSPARC-IIi 440MHz), No Keyboard
> OpenBoot 3.10.24 ME, 256 MB memory installed, Serial #11722863. 
> 
> 
> T1 200:
> Netra T1 200 (UltraSPARC-IIe 500MHz), No Keyboard
> OpenBoot 4.0, 2048 MB memory installed, Serial #50673442.
> 
> So I'm going to keep the T1 200 and use that as my experimental machine at
> home. Having trouble getting 2.98 on it though. In order to get the FTP
> install to work I have to disable IPv6 otherwise the installer crashes with
> this when trying to gather IP information....
> 
> loader received SIGSEGV!  Backtrace:
> install exited abnormally [1/1]
> sending termination signals...done
> sending kill signals...done
> disabling swap...
> unmounting filesystems...
>         /proc done
>         /dev/pts done
>         /sys done
>         /tmp/ramfs done
> you may safely reboot your system
> 
> Install goes well after disabling IPv6, then at the end when I reboot it
> always hangs at:
> 
> INIT: Entering runlevel: 3
> Entering non-interactive startup
> Starting background readahead: [  OK  ]
> Checking for hardware changes [  OK  ]
> Starting cpuspeed: [  OK  ]
> Applying ip6tables firewall rules:
> 
> The 2.0 install used to do the same but I got round it by choosing not to
> install the firewall, seems I don't have that luxury with 2.98. :'( If
> anyone has any suggestions can they make them as detailed as possible
> bearing in mind I have very little Linux knowledge, although I am
> comfortable using vi and can navigate the filesystem.

Boot the system to single user: (at the silo prompt, hit tab to see the
options, then type the one you want and append a 1, like this:

silo: linux 1

That should boot it to single user, well before these items kick in. If
ntsysv is installed, run it, and disable cpuspeed (this may be locking
you up, not the firewall) and ip6tables/iptables. If ntsysv isn't there,
use chkconfig to disable these services. Then reboot normally.

~spot