Karmic & Lucid (sparc) - Installer: "Fast Data Access MMU Miss"

I also receive this error when trying to use the latest Karmic and Lucid sparc netboot images.

If there are any directions on how to build my own netboot images from sources I will be happy to test fixes. I have a SunFire T1000 and can create new VMs to test in.

I have tried to install Ubuntu 9.10 SPARC on a SUN Netra T1.
The Bootprocess print me the same errormessage ... Are there any solutions or workarounds available ??

I've had this issue on a SunFire v120 when booting from CD, it doesn't happen with booting from an HDD. May be an issue with the old OpenPROM's in the Sunfire and Netra T1 (which I also have one of).

upstart on karmic on sparc is broken however, and will caused the system to fail to boot. I've not managed to boot lucid on SPARC either, but I'm looking to see if a hardy->lucid upgrade will work.

I have the same message when trying to boot a Lucid Lynx CD (lucid-alternate-sparc.iso MDS5UM: fac4a3fa3f973a0a3aef1515ff847daa) from 29 March 2010 on a Sun Fire V100:

http://www.zoobab.com/sun-fire-v100

> Executing last command: boot cdrom
> Boot device: /pci@1f,0/ide@d/cdrom@3,0:f File and args:
> SILO Version 1.4.14
> Fast Data Access MMU Miss

Any idea where it comes from?

Silo version 1.4.10 works for me on my Sunfire v120.

Currently looking to put on dapper and upgrade from there as a work around. Will post my findings and a guide if I am successful.

Using ubuntu 6.06 sparc I was able to install ubuntu (note: This did actually say there was an MMU error however a reboot and retry appeared to fix this!?!?)

Once this was installed ran

sudo apt-get install update-manager-core

sudo do-release-upgrade

This took the distro up to Hardy

Once Lucid is released this will probably take it up to lucid however at time of writing that is not the case.

I then put the lucid sparc image on the machine and mounted this using

sudo mount -o loop "path to your lucid image" /media/cdrom0

I then kicked off the updater

/media/cdrom0/cdromupgrade

you could probably just put the image on the machine and upgrade from there but this is how I ended up doing it and it worked...

Ok though the update work the boot does not :(

Sun Fire V120 (UltraSPARC-IIe 648MHz), No Keyboard
OpenBoot 4.0, 512 MB memory installed, Serial #56372057.
Ethernet address 0:3:ba:5c:2b:59, Host ID: 835c2b59.

Boot device: disk File and args:
SILO Version 1.4.14
boot:
Allocated 64 Megs of memory at 0x40000000 for kernel
Uncompressing image...
Loaded kernel version 2.6.32
Loading initial ramdisk (9467849 bytes at 0x1F000000 phys, 0x40C00000 virt)...
\

is as far as it gets.

Sorry leaving this to run it now hangs at:

Boot device: disk File and args:
SILO Version 1.4.14
boot:
Allocated 64 Megs of memory at 0x40000000 for kernel
Uncompressing image...
Loaded kernel version 2.6.32
Loading initial ramdisk (9467849 bytes at 0x1F000000 phys, 0x40C00000 virt)...
\
                                                                         [ OK ]
 * Starting MD monitoring service mdadm --monitor [ OK ]
 * PulseAudio configured for per-user sessions

Ok hangs at both. If anyone can shed some light would be much appreciated!

Not a solution, but same problem!
I installed Dapper 6.06 (in December 2006) on a SPARC blade 1000. Yesterday I used "do-release-upgrade" to upgrade to Hardy 8.04, which worked fine!!
Then I used "do-release-upgrade" in Hardy to go to Lucid 10.04, it worked all the way, until reboot. It boots into silo and loads the kernel, but then the kernel panics. (I'll add the exact message when I get home tonight.)

One question: Is there a netboot image for Lucid 10.04 for SPARC somewhere ? These systems do not have CD-players.

On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 11:30 AM, cobbautpaul <email address hidden> wrote:
> Not a solution, but same problem!
>
> One question: Is there a netboot image for Lucid 10.04 for SPARC
> somewhere ? These systems do not have CD-players.

You can try http://ports.ubuntu.com/dists/lucid/main/installer-sparc/current/images/netboot/
but I should warn you that it does not work for me (on my SunFire
T1000 system).

I have not been able to do a new install of a Sparc system with any
recent version of Ubuntu. I used to be able to install Gutsy and
upgrade from there, but recently even that does not work for reasons I
cannot figure out.

I have switched to using Debian (Testing) which does install properly
on my Sparc systems.

Good luck!
katre

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Indeed, using 10.04 LTS I also get "Fast Data Access MMU Miss" with tftp.
8.04 and 6.06 both work.
I assume the image is too large for my Sun Blade 1000 systems.

Thanks for the link.

Setting to high per request.

Part of the problem lies in the fact that silo.conf is empty.
If you copy a template from one of the other releases, correct the line which has the size of the
initrd.gz file, and rebuild a SPARC bootable CD, it will probably work.
I say 'probably', since old versions of OBP only allocate memory for about 4MB, and initrd.gz is larger. Versions of OBP > 4.0 seem to allow about 10MB (netboot fails when the address shows 0xA00000),
so this shouldn't be a problem.
By the way, if you're rebuilding the CD, you'll need to save the VTOC ('dd if=ubuntu-10.04-alternate-sparc.iso of=ubuntu.vtoc bs=512 count=1') since mkisofs adds an invalid one.

Apologies for the glaring error in my last post. The 'dd' line should (of course) have read:
dd if=/dev/hdb (or wherever your iso image appears on a block device) of=ubuntu.vtoc bs=512 count=1
I used lofiadm on Solaris to put the iso on /dev/lofi/1,
but you can run dd on the cdrom device (/dev/hdb?) directly, and replace /dev/hdb with whichever
device driver your system uses

Further to my previous comments, I have corrected the silo problem, and created a bootable SPARC CDROM.
The machine now boots, and the installer runs.
However, when it tries to detect the CDROM from which it is running, it fails to find it.
Going to the Alt-F2 window, and looking in /dev reveals no devices for cdrom
or hda/hdb/hdc. Adding these by hand with mknod, using major and minor numbers from the x86 version does nothing, so I assume that the installer reads and caches the contents of its original /dev.
An alternate thought is, that it’s looking for UUID entries in /dev/disk/by_xxx, which also doesn’t exist.
I have repeated this exercise for installation CDROM's for 9.04, 9.10, 10.04 server, and 10.04 KUbuntu,
with identical results (except the 9.04 also fails to load 'kernel modules'.
It seems to be significant, that all of these releases use the UUID approach to disk drives.
For what it's worth, upgrading 6.06 ->8.04 -> 10.04 seems to work, except that the system is left unusable, since SILO can't find vmlinuz and, if you boot from 2/vmlinuz, it runs to the point where it tries to mount the root disk, and neither root=/dev/hda1, nor the gobbledy-gook UUID is acceptable - irrespective of what is entered in /etc/fstab.
I can't believe that so many releases can be put into circulation, when not one could possibly be installed.

Did the 6.06->8.04->10.04 on a Sunfire 280R and it worked without a hitch (i.e. SILO booted the system through to the login prompt).

I'm getting this on a Sparc Ultra5 with Ubuntu 10.04, Kubuntu 10.04.
I tried installing Ubuntu 8.04 which gets further but then consistently gets "Select and Install Software: Installation step failed"

In every case MD5 checksums all OK, tried burning multiple CDs at various speeds. All verified OK

Cannot find a Sparc version of 6.06 to download. So it looks like I'm destined not to be able to run ubuntu on this machine.

I'm new to linux/unix and don't have the time to mess around with Solaris or non GUI operating systems.

I'd like to try Suse 7.03 (seems to be the last SUSE for SPARC) but although I can find links to web sites that purport to have the ISO files the links are all broken.

I also cannot believe that these releases are in this condition.