Re: Booting AS 1000A 5/xxx with 99/02/05 disks
I have the same issues/problems boot an AS800 (corelle) which also uses the
EV5 noritake kernel. your suggestion to use aboot interactively worked!
the kernel boots, and i'm thrown into the
Debian GNU/Linux System Installation
main screen where you choose color or monochrome, but the keybord then stops
responsing (i can't hit enter to continue). if i cntrl-alt-del, SIGHUP and
SIGKILL is sent to all processes, and i go back to the SRM console.
any ideas? thanks
-paul ryan
ptryan@ameritech.net
p.s. RH5.2 is unable to boot the AS800 despite the claims by
compaq/redhat -- the QLogic ISP1020 scsi adapter (the on-board adapter) in
the AS800 is not supported.
-----Original Message-----
From: Loic Prylli <Loic.Prylli@ens-lyon.fr>
To: Eduardo Ascenco Reis <eascenco@ib.usp.br>
Cc: debian-alpha@lists.debian.org <debian-alpha@lists.debian.org>
Date: Thursday, March 04, 1999 3:44 PM
Subject: Re: Booting AS 1000A 5/xxx with 99/02/05 disks
>
>Eduardo Ascenco Reis writes:
> >
> > I used the Noritake-primo rescue disk and could load the kernel :).
> >
> > But when I put the root disk the instalation was stoped with a kernel
> > panic, as you can see below:
> >
> > ------------------------------------------
> > VFS: Insert root floppy and press ENTER
> > [MS-DOS FS Rel. 12,FAT 12,check=n,conv=b,uid=0,gid=0,umask=022,bmap]
> > [me=0xba,cs=496,#f=186,fs=38220,fl=34048,ds=14156,de=49094,data=17224,
> > se=36,ts=2821351853,ls=2461,rc=0,fc=4294967295]
> > Transaction block size=512
> > Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 02:00
> > ------------------------------------------
> >
> > I used the root1440.bin image and made the disk in two ways, using
> > rawrite2 (DOS system) and the
> > dd if=root1440.bin of=/dev/fd0 bs=512 conv=sync ; sync
> > in a intel Linux system. Both disks fail.
> >
> > Do you have any sugestion ?
> >
>
>Hi again,
>
>The problem is that the kernel did not try to copy and decompress the
>floppy into a ramdisk, like if the load_ramdisk=1 parameter was ignored.
>I suppose there is no message about ramdisk before the lines you
>mentioned.
>
>Here are two explanations b) is very likely:
>
>a) The SRM boot command:
> "boot dva0 -file linux -flags "root=/dev/fd0 rw ramdisk_size=5120
load_ramdisk=1 prompt_ramdisk=1 "
>was not typed on just one single line, or the load_ramdisk=1 or
>prompt_ramdisk=1 was mistyped (the ramdisk_size is in fact not needed
>anymore).
>
>
>b) The boot command is too long for the SRM console and it truncates
>it , you can try with just :
> "boot dva0 -file linux -flags "root=/dev/fd0 load_ramdisk=1
prompt_ramdisk=1 rw"
>and see if that works
>If that still does not work try:
> boot dva0 -flags i
>this should give you an "aboot>" prompt
>then type:
> "linux root=/dev/fd0 load_ramdisk=1 prompt_ramdisk=1 rw"
>
>Tell us how it works.
>
>Regards,
>
>Loic
>
>
>
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