Re: Boot disks

[Istvan Gyenes <frts@simba.sch.bme.hu>]

Hi All,

This weekend I tried out the boot floppies on my Jensen.
(http://people.debian.org/~falk/disks-alpha/jensen/)
The booting went fine, the install screen came up correctly.
:-)))

OTOH two things are missing:
1st: There is no driver for the AHA1742 SCSI controller in the install
kernel. So I can't do an install.
2nd: The is no driver for the NE2000 ISA network card.

In my oppinion, the common network cards in the Jensen are: DE203, 205,
422 (the EISA one), and NE2000. But maybe I'm wrong.
So I think it is a good idea to include the drivers for these cards in the
installation kernel. If it fits on the floppy.


--
Steve


ps:Here is the booting message:

#
# Bootparameters for Debian-Installation
#
# Installation-Boot with:  boot dva0 -fl 0
# Rescue-Boot with:        boot dva0 -fi linux.gz -fl root=/dev/...
#
# from SRM-Console
#
0:linux.gz ro root=/dev/fd0 load_ramdisk=1
aboot> b linux.gz root=/dev/fd0 load_ramdisk=1 console=ttyS0
aboot: loading compressed linux.gz...
aboot: segment 0, 2369304 bytes at 0xfffffc0000310000
aboot: zero-filling 242544 bytes at 0xfffffc0000552718
aboot: starting kernel linux.gz with arguments root=/dev/fd0
load_ramdisk=1 cons
ole=ttyS0
Linux version 2.2.19 (herbert@cardolan) (gcc version 2.95.4 20010319
(Debian pre
release)) #1 Sun Jun 10 11:08:18 UTC 2001
Booting on Jensen using machine vector Jensen from SRM
Command line: root=/dev/fd0 load_ramdisk=1 console=ttyS0
Max ASN from HWRPB is bad (0xf)
Console: colour dummy device 80x25
64=1c, 60=c3, 3fa=01 2fa=01
Calibrating delay loop... 147.84 BogoMIPS
Memory: 125096k available
Dentry hash table entries: 16384 (order 5, 256k)
Buffer cache hash table entries: 131072 (order 7, 1024k)
Page cache hash table entries: 16384 (order 4, 128k)
POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
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
TCP: Hash tables configured (ehash 131072 bhash 65536)
Initializing RT netlink socket
Starting kswapd v 1.5
parport0: PC-style at 0x3bc [SPP,PS2]
parport0: no IEEE-1284 device present.
initialize_kbd: Keyboard reset failed, no ACK
Detected PS/2 Mouse Port.
Serial driver version 4.27 with<4>keyboard: Timeout - AT keyboard not
present?
keyboard: Timeout - AT keyboard not present?
 no serial options enabled
ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16450
ttyS01 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16450
pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured
lp0: using parport0 (polling).
RAM disk driver initialized:  16 RAM disks of 4096K size
loop: registered device at major 7
ide1: ports already in use, skipping probe
ide1: ports already in use, skipping probe
ide1: ports already in use, skipping probe
ide1: ports already in use, skipping probe
Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 2.88M
DOR0=4
floppy interrupt on bizarre fdc 2
handler=0000000000000000
FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077
scsi : 0 hosts.
scsi : detected total.
VFS: Insert root floppy disk to be loaded into RAM disk and press ENTER
RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.
Freeing unused kernel memory: 72k freed
serial console detected.  Disabling virtual terminals.
init started:  BusyBox v0.60.0 (2001.08.03-21:27+0000) multi-call binary