Thus spake Steve Langasek: > Hmm, I don't think so; the images I uploaded that used 2.4.26-1-generic > couldn't load any modules, so couldn't talk to the NIC at all. :) This > couldn't possibly be the same d-i image that I uploaded... Actually, mine would always hang before loading the NIC modules. It acts like it's recognizing and scanning the NIC's onboard bridge before it knows that it's part of a NIC. > Can you download from <http://people.debian.org/~vorlon/fixed-alpha-kernels/> > again now that the images include a fixed modprobe utility, and see if > the results are any different? Just grabbed again (date on the file is 13 June at 13:50), and I get the same results: P00>>>set EWB0_PROTOCOLS BOOTP P00>>>boot -fl i -file boot.img ewb0 (boot ewb0.0.0.2000.0 -file boot.img -flags i) Trying BOOTP boot. Broadcasting BOOTP Request... Received BOOTP Packet File Name is: local inet address: 192.168.129.200 remote inet address: 192.168.129.10 TFTP Read File Name: boot.img netmask = 255.255.255.0 Server is on same subnet as client. ................................................................ .................. bootstrap code read in base = 200000, image_start = 0, image_bytes = 517f0c initializing HWRPB at 2000 initializing page table at 1fff0000 initializing machine state setting affinity to the primary CPU jumping to bootstrap code aboot: Linux/Alpha SRM bootloader version 0.9b aboot: switching to OSF/1 PALcode version 1.45 aboot: loading initrd (4036876 bytes/7885 blocks) at 0xfffffc001fc14000 Enter kernel arguments: aboot> root=/dev/ram initrd=boot/root.bin ramdisk_size=16384 devfs=mount,dall console=ttyS0 aboot: starting kernel network with arguments root=/dev/ram initrd=boot/root.bin ramdisk_size=16384 devfs=mount,dall console=ttyS0 Linux version 2.4.26-1-generic (vorlon@quetzlcoatl) (gcc version 3.3.3 (Debian 20040320)) #1 Thu Jun 10 23:43:13 CDT 2004 Booting GENERIC on Sable using machine vector Sable from SRM Major Options: LEGACY_START Command line: root=/dev/ram initrd=boot/root.bin ramdisk_size=16384 devfs=mount,dall console=ttyS0 memcluster 0, usage 1, start 0, end 256 memcluster 1, usage 0, start 256, end 65527 memcluster 2, usage 1, start 65527, end 65536 freeing pages 256:384 freeing pages 746:65527 reserving pages 746:747 Initial ramdisk at: 0xfffffc001fc14000 (4036876 bytes) t2_init_arch: enabling SG TLB, IOCSR was 0xfe00008423028190 On node 0 totalpages: 65527 zone(0): 65527 pages. zone(1): 0 pages. zone(2): 0 pages. Kernel command line: root=/dev/ram initrd=boot/root.bin ramdisk_size=16384 devfs=mount,dall console=ttyS0 HWRPB cycle frequency bogus. Estimated 274958292 Hz Using epoch = 2000 Turning on RTC interrupts. Console: colour dummy device 80x25 Calibrating delay loop... 543.04 BogoMIPS Memory: 509656k/524216k available (1569k kernel code, 12512k reserved, 591k data, 176k init) Dentry cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 7, 1048576 bytes) Inode cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 6, 524288 bytes) Mount cache hash table entries: 512 (order: 0, 8192 bytes) Buffer cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 262144 bytes) Page-cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 524288 bytes) POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX pci: enabling save/restore of SRM state PCI: Bus 1, bridge: Digital Equipment Corporation DECchip 21152 At that point, it just hangs and nothing further happens. (The 21152 chip is on the NIC in question). If I remove the NIC and boot with the cdrom image (I tried netbooting from the onboard 21040, but for some reason it wouldn't work, so I had to waste another CD-R after all :), it actually finishes booting. Messages from a boot (without the NIC) below: aboot: loading uncompressed boot/linux... aboot: loading compressed boot/linux... aboot: zero-filling 407464 bytes at 0xfffffc000056bf28 aboot: loading initrd (4026649 bytes/3932 blocks) at 0xfffffc001fb0a000 aboot: starting kernel boot/linux with arguments root=/dev/ram ramdisk_size=16384 devfs=mount,dall console=ttyS0 Linux version 2.4.26-1-generic (vorlon@quetzlcoatl) (gcc version 3.3.3 (Debian 20040320)) #1 Thu Jun 10 23:43:13 CDT 2004 Booting GENERIC on Sable using machine vector Sable from SRM Major Options: LEGACY_START Command line: root=/dev/ram ramdisk_size=16384 devfs=mount,dall console=ttyS0 memcluster 0, usage 1, start 0, end 256 memcluster 1, usage 0, start 256, end 65527 memcluster 2, usage 1, start 65527, end 65536 freeing pages 256:384 freeing pages 746:65527 reserving pages 746:747 Initial ramdisk at: 0xfffffc001fb0a000 (4026649 bytes) t2_init_arch: enabling SG TLB, IOCSR was 0xfe00000423020190 On node 0 totalpages: 65527 zone(0): 65527 pages. zone(1): 0 pages. zone(2): 0 pages. Kernel command line: root=/dev/ram ramdisk_size=16384 devfs=mount,dall console=ttyS0 HWRPB cycle frequency bogus. Estimated 274958784 Hz Using epoch = 2000 Turning on RTC interrupts. Console: colour dummy device 80x25 Calibrating delay loop... 543.04 BogoMIPS Memory: 509664k/524216k available (1569k kernel code, 12504k reserved, 591k data, 176k init) Dentry cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 7, 1048576 bytes) Inode cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 6, 524288 bytes) Mount cache hash table entries: 512 (order: 0, 8192 bytes) Buffer cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 262144 bytes) Page-cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 524288 bytes) POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX pci: enabling save/restore of SRM state Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.4 Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039 Initializing RT netlink socket Starting kswapd VFS: Disk quotas vdquot_6.5.1 devfs: v1.12c (20020818) Richard Gooch (rgooch@atnf.csiro.au) devfs: boot_options: 0x1 initialize_kbd: Keyboard reset failed, no ACK keyboard: Timeout - AT keyboard not present?(ed) pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured Serial driver version 5.05c (2001-07-08) with HUB-6 MANY_PORTS MULTIPORT SHARE_IRQ SERIAL_PCI enabled ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A ttyS01 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 2.88M FDC 0 is a National Semiconductor PC87306 COMX: driver version 0.85 (C) 1995-1999 ITConsult-Pro Co. <info@itc.hu> RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 16384K size 1024 blocksize Initializing Cryptographic API NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0 IP: routing cache hash table of 8192 buckets, 64Kbytes TCP: Hash tables configured (established 65536 bind 65536) Linux IP multicast router 0.06 plus PIM-SM RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0 Freeing initrd memory: 3932k freed VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly. Mounted devfs on /dev Freeing unused kernel memory: 176k freed Setting up filesystem, please wait ... umount: /initrd: Invalid argument -- Nathan Poznick <poznick@conwaycorp.net> Were it offered to my choice, I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults in the first. - Benjamin Franklin
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