Bug#170904: Kernel parameters for serial console & more on network booting - or not.
Package: boot-floppies
Version: woody May 16 2002
I don't know whether what you specified works, but as you can see, this
does;-)
ROM segment 0x0800 length 0x4000 reloc 0x9400
A20 enabled via BIOS
Etherboot 5.0.8 (GPL) Tagged ELF for [3C90X]
Boot from (N)etwork or from (L)ocal? N
Probing...[3C90X]Found 10/100 TPO ROM address 0x0000
3C90X Driver 2.00 Copyright 1999 LightSys Technology Services, Inc.
Portions Copyright 1999 Steve Smith
Provided with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
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MAC Address = 00:E0:B8:17:8E:96
Connectors present: 10Base-T / 100Base-TX.
Searching for server (DHCP)...
..Me: 192.168.0.102, Server: 192.168.0.1, Gateway 192.168.0.1
Loading 192.168.0.1:/tftpboot.nbi ...(NBI)...
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....................................................done
A20 disabled via BIOS
Linux version 2.4.18-bf2.4 (root@zombie) (gcc version 2.95.4 20011002 (Debian
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erelease)) #1 Son Apr 14 09:53:28 CEST 2002
BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009f800 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 000000000009f800 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000000e6c00 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 00000000040fd800 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 00000000040fd800 - 00000000040ff800 (ACPI data)
BIOS-e820: 00000000040ff800 - 00000000040ffc00 (ACPI NVS)
BIOS-e820: 00000000040ffc00 - 0000000008000000 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 00000000fffe6c00 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
On node 0 totalpages: 32768
zone(0): 4096 pages.
zone(1): 28672 pages.
zone(2): 0 pages.
Local APIC disabled by BIOS -- reenabling.
Found and enabled local APIC!
Kernel command line: rw root=/dev/nfs
ip=192.168.0.102:192.168.0.1:192.168.0.1:2
55.255.0.0:wombat console=0,9600
Initializing CPU#0
This follows on from my previous. After discovering wget's stupid trick of
changing the name of the target file each time and fixing that, I'm managed
to boot Network Bootable Image version of the tftboot.img file.
However, it doesn't find my NIC, and I don't see what I should do (short of
build my own kernel) to help it.
The documentation I've been following is like what I did some years ago to run
RHL 5.x off the LAN with NFS root.
There is a alternative, playing tricks with initd and linuxrc and such.
Here's what I did to your kernel:
mknbi-linux tftpboot.img --output=tftpboot.nbi
--ip=192.168.0.102:192.168.0.1:192.168.0.1:255.255.0.0:wombat
--append='console=0,9600' && vidmode tftpboot.nbi 6
That boots. Here's the full log:
X [8086/7110] at 00:07.0
Limiting direct PCI/PCI transfers.
Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.4
Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039
Initializing RT netlink socket
Starting kswapd
VFS: Diskquotas version dquot_6.4.0 initialized
Journalled Block Device driver loaded
vga16fb: mapped to 0xc00a0000
Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 80x30
fb0: VGA16 VGA frame buffer device
pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured
Serial driver version 5.05c (2001-07-08) with MANY_PORTS SHARE_IRQ SERIAL_PCI
enabled
ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
ttyS01 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
Real Time Clock Driver v1.10e
block: 128 slots per queue, batch=32
RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 4096K size 1024 blocksize
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 6.31
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
PIIX4: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 39
PIIX4: chipset revision 1
PIIX4: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
ide0: BM-DMA at 0x1000-0x1007, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:pio
ide1: BM-DMA at 0x1008-0x100f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:pio
hda: WDC WD102AA, ATA DISK drive
hdc: CRD-8400B, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
hda: 20044080 sectors (10263 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=1247/255/63
hdc: ATAPI 40X CD-ROM drive, 128kB Cache
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.12
ide-floppy driver 0.97.sv
Partition check:
hda: hda1 hda2
Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077
Loading I2O Core - (c) Copyright 1999 Red Hat Software
I2O configuration manager v 0.04.
(C) Copyright 1999 Red Hat Software
loop: loaded (max 8 devices)
Compaq CISS Driver (v 2.4.5)
HDLC support module revision 1.02 for Linux 2.4
Cronyx Ltd, Synchronous PPP and CISCO HDLC (c) 1994
Linux port (c) 1998 Building Number Three Ltd & Jan "Yenya" Kasprzak.
ide-floppy driver 0.97.sv
Highpoint HPT370 Softwareraid driver for linux version 0.01
No raid array found
SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00
Red Hat/Adaptec aacraid driver, Apr 14 2002
DC390: 0 adapters found
3ware Storage Controller device driver for Linux v1.02.00.016.
3w-xxxx: No cards with valid units found.
request_module[scsi_hostadapter]: Root fs not mounted
request_module[scsi_hostadapter]: Root fs not mounted
i2o_scsi.c: Version 0.0.1
chain_pool: 0 bytes @ c40f9e20
(512 byte buffers X 4 can_queue X 0 i2o controllers)
NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0
IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP, IGMP
IP: routing cache hash table of 1024 buckets, 8Kbytes
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 8192 bind 8192)
NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0.
VFS: Cannot open root device "nfs" or 00:ff
Please append a correct "root=" boot option
Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 00:ff
Oh, to be clear, I'm using a kernel from
/debian/dists/woody/main/disks-i386/3.0.23-2002-05-21/bf2.4
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Cheers
John Summerfield
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