Bug#284417: installation-reports: [ARM] netwinder install success with serial console
Package: installation-reports
Severity: normal
I bought ARM machine to improve Sarge release progress.
Finally I succeeded to install Sarge on this machine, and it already works
as personal buildd (I'd like to join official buildd network).
Debian-installer-version: sarge rc2
uname -a: Linux arm 2.4.27-netwinder #1 Fri Aug 20 01:24:32 BST 2004 armv4l GNU/Linux
Date: 2004-12-05
Method: network boot (boot de0:) *comment
Machine: ARM (netwinder) evaluation board with CATS firmware.
Processor: StrongARM-110 rev 4 (v4l)
Memory: 256MB
Root Device: IDE (/dev/hda)
Root Size/partition table: hda1 (/boot), hda2 (/), hda5 (swap)
Output of lspci and lspci -n:
0000:00:00.0 I2O: Digital Equipment Corporation StrongARM DC21285 (rev 03)
0000:00:08.0 ISA bridge: ALi Corporation M1533 PCI to ISA Bridge [Aladdin IV] (rev c3)
0000:00:09.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10)
0000:00:0a.0 Ethernet controller: Digital Equipment Corporation DECchip 21140 [FasterNet] (rev 22)
0000:00:0b.0 VGA compatible controller: S3 Inc. 86c775/86c785 [Trio 64V2/DX or /GX] (rev 16)
0000:00:11.0 IDE interface: ALi Corporation M5229 IDE (rev c1)
0000:00:12.0 Bridge: ALi Corporation M7101 Power Management Controller [PMU]
0000:00:15.0 USB Controller: ALi Corporation USB 1.1 Controller (rev 03)
0000:00:00.0 0e00: 1011:1065 (rev 03)
0000:00:08.0 0601: 10b9:1533 (rev c3)
0000:00:09.0 0200: 10ec:8139 (rev 10)
0000:00:0a.0 0200: 1011:0009 (rev 22)
0000:00:0b.0 0300: 5333:8901 (rev 16)
0000:00:11.0 0101: 10b9:5229 (rev c1)
0000:00:12.0 0680: 10b9:7101
0000:00:15.0 0c03: 10b9:5237 (rev 03)
Base System Installation Checklist:
[O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it
Initial boot worked: [O] *comment
Configure network HW: [O] *comment
Config network: [O] *comment
Detect CD: [ ]
Load installer modules: [O]
Detect hard drives: [O]
Partition hard drives: [O]
Create file systems: [O]
Mount partitions: [O]
Install base system: [O]
Install boot loader: [ ] *comment
Reboot: [O]
Comments/Problems:
- This machine needs CATS image to boot up. There is image for Woody,
but isn't for Sarge. I built tftp image on other machine using
catsboot, but it is better to provide official cats boot image.
Hmm, d-i manual said there was
/debian/dists/sarge/main/installer-arm/current/cats/tftpboot.img,
but there wasn't.
Is this build system issue?
- This machine has S3 Trio64, but VGA16FB shows broken screen (shows
green vertical bar only). I added video=vga16:off, but it causes
empty screen. I tried to change video card to S3 968, but result is
same.
Woody installer (it hasn't FB) can show me colorful normal screen.
Finally I used serial cable (console=ttyS0) and English locale.
It's not so big problem, but is VGA16FB really needed for arm machines?
- DECchip 21140 won't be found by discover. I choose 'tulip' by hand,
then it was detected... but tulip driver seems buggy. I tried DHCP
or static IP, but I couldn't connect other hosts. Additional NIC,
RTL8139 is found and works (unfortunatelly CATS couldn't boot up
from this NIC...).
FYI, de4x5 driver (this driver isn't included in d-i) works
partially, but this driver is buggy also. Connection often down
with silence.
Netwinder kernel problem?
- There is no description/structure about booting from CATS.
I did things by hand: Run shell, chroot /target, apt-get install
catsboot, catsboot /boot/cats.bin /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.27-netwinder.
It is better to include catsboot in install-packages.
It is best to create cats boot binary on d-i boot-loader menu.
- This machine often hung-up, but it becomes good after I enabled IDE
DMA.
Thanks,
--
Kenshi Muto
kmuto@debian.org
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