Sven Luther wrote:
On Thu, Jun 03, 2004 at 03:09:53PM +0900, Jerome Walter wrote:I am currently trying to install a Woody on an Bull Estrella 300 machine, running a Prep Motorola 604e Utah processor (/proc/cpuinfo) and OpenFirmware. Having also an Estrella 200 running fine with it (Estrella 200 is Blackhawk with PPCBug firmware).How much memory have those boxes ?
128MB for the one i am installing, the same for the other 300 series, and 160MB for Estrella 200 one.
Not a memory problem though. The box was running AIX fine. (Gosh, it seams like a post in debian archive dating back to popato, but the guy was having linux booting...
I tried any cd from woody to debian-installer tc1 passing by netboot and floppies. They all give the same result: nice black screen (except from d-i that gives "The attempt to load a boot image failed").
Please, don't use woody, but debian-installer and sarge. I would be glad to help you out making sure sarge will install and work fine on your hardware. debian-installer needs between 24 and 32 Mo of ram though, which may be a problem on PReP boxes, not sure what is your case.
It is funny, on debien-devel ("Lost Trust"), people are saying that one should use Stable for prod systems ;) Ok, i am not here to troll, so i will test every single solution, even if i have to downgrade afterwards.
I have already a similar machine running a woody (2.2.12), from a previous installation i didn't do, so i think there is a way to get it working.Ok, ... So, the first order of business is to understand what hardware those boxes have. Please provide a lspci -n, lspci and dmesg output. (possibly to me, or better yet to a debian-installer bug report). Also the content of /proc/cpuinfo would be welcome.
Sorry, i won't snip dmesg ... # lspci -n 00:0b.0 Class 0601: 10ad:0565 (rev 04) 00:0b.1 Class 0101: 10ad:0105 (rev 05) 00:0c.0 Class 0100: 1000:0003 (rev 11) 00:0e.0 Class 0200: 1011:0009 (rev 20) 00:11.0 Class 0200: 1011:0009 (rev 22) 00:12.0 Class 0300: 1013:00b8 # lspci 00:0b.0 ISA bridge: Symphony Labs W83C553 (rev 04) 00:0b.1 IDE interface: Symphony Labs SL82c105 (rev 05)00:0c.0 SCSI storage controller: LSI Logic / Symbios Logic (formerly NCR) 53c825 (rev 11) 00:0e.0 Ethernet controller: Digital Equipment Corporation DECchip 21140 [FasterNet] (rev 20) 00:11.0 Ethernet controller: Digital Equipment Corporation DECchip 21140 [FasterNet] (rev 22)
00:12.0 VGA compatible controller: Cirrus Logic GD 5446 # dmesg is funnier : pages of Bogus interrupt from PC = c0008fec... # cat /var/log/dmesg PReP architecture Total memory = 128MB; using 512kB for hash table (at c0200000)Linux version 2.2.12 (root@beef) (gcc version 2.95.1 19990816 (release)) #1 Thu
Nov 11 16:02:41 MST 1999 Boot arguments: linux root=/dev/sda3 time_init: decrementer frequency = 3692688360/60 (58MHz) Console: colour VGA+ 80x25 Calibrating delay loop... 1474.56 BogoMIPSMemory: 127600k available (1052k kernel code, 2320k data, 100k init) [c0000000,c
8000000] POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX PCI: Probing PCI hardware Setting PCI interrupts for a "Utah (Powerstack II Pro4000)" Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.2 Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039 NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0 for Linux NET4.0. NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0 IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP, IGMP Starting kswapd v 1.5 initialize_kbd: Keyboard reset failed, no ACK Detected PS/2 Mouse Port. Serial driver version 4.27 with MANY_PORTS enabled ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A ttyS01 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured Real Time Clock Driver v1.09 Macintosh non-volatile memory driver v1.0 RAM disk driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 4096K size loop: registered device at major 7 W82C105: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 59 W82C105: device enabled (Linux) W82C105: will probe irqs later W82C105: dma_base is invalid (0x0000) ide0: W82C105 Bus-Master DMA disabled (BIOS) SL82C105 command word: 1 IDE control/status register: 00ff0091 Setting hda from 0x909 to PIO2 timing, 0x3e4 Setting hdb from 0x909 to PIO2 timing, 0x3e4 W82C105: dma_base is invalid (0x0000) ide1: W82C105 Bus-Master DMA disabled (BIOS) Setting hdc from 0x909 to PIO2 timing, 0x3e4 Setting hdd from 0x909 to PIO2 timing, 0x3e4 keyboard: Too many NACKs -- noisy kbd cable? keyboard: Too many NACKs -- noisy kbd cable? Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 2.88M FDC 0 is a National Semiconductor PC87306 ncr53c8xx: at PCI bus 0, device 12, function 0 ncr53c8xx: attempting to force PCI_COMMAND_MASTER...succeeded. ncr53c8xx: attempting to force PCI_COMMAND_IO...succeeded. ncr53c8xx: attempting to force PCI_COMMAND_MEMORY...succeeded. ncr53c8xx: PCI_LATENCY_TIMER=0, bursting should'nt be allowed.ncr53c8xx: PCI_CACHE_LINE_SIZE not set, features based on CACHE LINE SIZE not us
ed. ncr53c8xx: 53c825a detected ncr53c825a-0: rev=0x11, base=0x3008000, io_port=0x1400, irq=15 ncr53c825a-0: ID 7, Fast-10, Parity Checking ncr53c825a-0: on-chip RAM at 0x3009000 ncr53c825a-0: restart (scsi reset). ncr53c825a-0: Downloading SCSI SCRIPTS. scsi0 : ncr53c8xx - version 3.2a-2 scsi : 1 host. Vendor: SEAGATE Model: ST34371W Rev: 0558 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Detected scsi disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 1, lun 0 Vendor: MATSHITA Model: CD-ROM CR-506 Rev: 8S04 Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Detected scsi CD-ROM sr0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 5, lun 0 ncr53c825a-0-<1,0>: tagged command queue depth set to 4 scsi : detected 1 SCSI cdrom 1 SCSI disk total. ncr53c825a-0-<5,*>: FAST-5 SCSI 5.0 MB/s (200 ns, offset 8) Uniform CDROM driver Revision: 2.55 ncr53c825a-0-<1,*>: FAST-5 WIDE SCSI 10.0 MB/s (200 ns, offset 8) SCSI device sda: hdwr sector= 512 bytes. Sectors= 8496960 [4148 MB] [4.1 GB] pcnet32.c: PCI bios is present, checking for devices...eth0: DC21140 at 0x1800 (PCI bus 0, device 14), h/w address 08:00:3e:25:c5:70,
and requires IRQ11 (provided by PCI BIOS).
de4x5.c:V0.544 1999/5/8 davies@maniac.ultranet.com
eth1: DC21140 at 0x1000 (PCI bus 0, device 17), h/w address
00:c0:95:fa:df:25,
and requires IRQ11 (provided by PCI BIOS).
de4x5.c:V0.544 1999/5/8 davies@maniac.ultranet.com
Partition check:
sda: sda1 sda2 sda3
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.
Freeing unused kernel memory: 100k init 8k pmac 12k open firmware
Adding Swap: 249232k swap-space (priority -1)
eth0: media is 100Mb/s full duplex.
Then, to test debian-installer, you need to boot the prep kernel, which you find in install/powerpc/vmlinuz-prep.initrd. This may work out of the box, but if not, we need to know the kernel config used in the working kernel, and/or see for ourselves what is going wrong.
Still "The attempt to load boot file failed" and jumps to hard drive boot. > Do you per
chance have a serial console setup or something such, for getting early kernel log info ?
It would have been too easy with a serial console ;) I do have an async vt100 or similar console, but no way to plug it. Irritating, isn't it ?
BTW, this could be also considered as a boot failure for debian-installer-tc1 image ;)What is tcl ?
TC-one. Test Candidate 1. The one that was advised to be more visible on debian-installer pages yesterday or the day before ;)
http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/sarge_d-i/powerpc/tc1/sarge-powerpc-netinst.iso
Please, keep me CCed on any response here.
Of course ;)
Friendly,
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Sven Luther
Best Regards, Jerome Walter
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