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From: vertigo on 30 Dec 2009 02:32
Hello

I've installed linux (gentoo) on SunFire280R.
It's hard drive is connected using FibreChannel and qla2xx drivers.

The problem is that these drivers need a firmware. Default gentoo
installation does not use initrd.
After booting (silo) durring qla2xx loading i've received error that
"Firmware images unavailable".
But i have them in /lib/firmware!

Where is the problem ? Do i need initrd ? (but i can not install initrd
package because it's masked
for sparc version - maybe inird is not supported on sparc platform ? but
silo has initrd option.....)

So i need to use initrd ? How to create it ?

Has anybody installed Linux on sparc machine with qla2xx drivers disks ?

Thanx
From: Chris Cox on 30 Dec 2009 14:31
vertigo wrote:
> Hello
>
> I've installed linux (gentoo) on SunFire280R.
> It's hard drive is connected using FibreChannel and qla2xx drivers.
>
> The problem is that these drivers need a firmware. Default gentoo
> installation does not use initrd.
> After booting (silo) durring qla2xx loading i've received error that
> "Firmware images unavailable".
> But i have them in /lib/firmware!
>
> Where is the problem ? Do i need initrd ? (but i can not install initrd
> package because it's masked
> for sparc version - maybe inird is not supported on sparc platform ? but
> silo has initrd option.....)
>
> So i need to use initrd ? How to create it ?
>
> Has anybody installed Linux on sparc machine with qla2xx drivers disks ?
>
> Thanx

IMHO, you need to post this to a gentoo forum or to a Linux forum.
(I don't know a gentoo answer to your question.... sorry I couldn't
help)
From: Cydrome Leader on 30 Dec 2009 19:21
vertigo <ve(a)onet.pl> wrote:
> Hello
>
> I've installed linux (gentoo) on SunFire280R.
> It's hard drive is connected using FibreChannel and qla2xx drivers.
>
> The problem is that these drivers need a firmware. Default gentoo
> installation does not use initrd.
> After booting (silo) durring qla2xx loading i've received error that
> "Firmware images unavailable".
> But i have them in /lib/firmware!
>
> Where is the problem ? Do i need initrd ? (but i can not install initrd

the problem is you're running the wrong operating system.

You can get solaris CD/DVD images from sun.com. Unlike the hackjob world
of linux, solaris runs pretty good on sun hardware.
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