[Aurora-sparc-user] [ANNOUNCE] Aurora SPARC Linux Build 2.99 (Beta 2 for 3.0)

[Karel van Houten]

Hi,

Tom "spot" Callaway wrote:
> It's ready!
> 
> This interim build should resolve the following failures in 2.99:
> 
> * USB keyboard/mouse driven systems couldn't install
> * mouse didn't work during install for systems with "old" style Sun
> keyboard/mouse (preventing a sane GUI install)
> * IDE based SPARC systems couldn't find their drives (or CDROMs)

Thanks a lot!

The IDE issue seems resolved. But I've made the following observations 
during the install:

- The code for scanning the partitions scans hda[abcd][1-9], AND 
hd[abcd][1-9]p[0-9], with the result of having multiple partitions with 
the same label. Modifying fstab to just use a plain /dev/hda[n] for 
filesystems and swap fixes that.
- I have 2 discs, one as master on the primary ide, one as master on the 
secondary ide. After running linux, and returning to the 'ok' prompt, 
the secondary ide is missing (even probe-ide returns 'no secondary 
ide..' or a similar message). Reset won't fix that, only power-off, 
power-on. Then I can boot linux again with 'boot disk2' (solaris is on 
disk0).
- The Creator3D graphic card works ok, but seems quite slow. I thought 
that it should be quite a fast card....

Thanks for the good work. I love linux to run on non-intel hardware!

Regards,
Karel.