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Summary
I'm attempting to install Debian Linux on an
old IBM PS/2 model 70 386. The install hangs soon after placing the
boot disk into the floppy drive and pressing ENTER. The location of the
hang corresponds to the end of section 5.3 in the installation instructions for
x86 machines. I've attempted to troubleshoot the installation process per
those instructions, to no avail.
Problem
Description
When I used the following boot
command
linux ed=925,8,33 verbose
debug
The installation software appears to read
the hardware configuration successfully, and I see the following message output
before the machine hangs:
...
PS/2 ESDI: Integrated ESDI adapter found in slot 4 PS/2 ESDI: DMA arbitration level : 5 PS/2 ESDI: hard reset... PS/2 ESDI: Attention error. Interrupt status : EF PS/2 ESDI: status: 08 PS/2 ESDI: reset interrupt after 1165 jiffies, 11.65 secs PS/2 ESDI: Drive 0 PS/2 ESDI: Device Configuration Status for drive 0 PS/2 ESDI: Spares/cyls: 8Config bits: Zero Defect, Skewed Format, Non-Removeable, Retries PS/2 ESDI: Number of RBA's: 235520 PS/2 ESDI: Physical number of cylinders: 925, Sectors/Track: 33, Heads: 8 PS/2 ESDI: Drive 1 PS/2 ESDI: Attention error. interrupt status : 2F PS/2 ESDI: Device not available PS/2 ESDI: ps2esdi_out_cmd timed out while sending command (status=00) eda: eda1 eda2 < eda5 > VFS: Insert root floppy disk to be loaded into RAM disk and press ENTER I then follow the directions using the disk
containing the image of the file root.bin and...
VFS: Disk change detected on device
fd(2,0)
RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0 ...And that's all she wrote. At that
point, the machine hangs. I've done this approximately a dozen times with
the same results, and I've sometimes waited for between an hour and a day (!) to
see if the boot process will produce additional output. No success
there.
I occasionally see the following error when
no boot command is provided at the first prompt (that is, I just hit {ENTER} to
boot, without specifying the ESDI disk parameters etc.):
110
????? Machine
Configuration
I would like to configure this machine as a
firewall for a small network. For this
reason, the machine contains two NICs. I'm operating under the
assumption that one of the available Debian packages will contain iptables, ipchains or some reasonable
equivalent.
Here is the machine
configuration:
IBM PS/2 model 70 386 (8570-121) 6MB RAM 120 MB HD, ESDI Interface Slot 1 - IBM display adapter 8514a Slots 2 and 3 - 3Com 3C529-TP Network Adapter Slot 4 - Integrated Fixed Disk Controller (ESDI) The machine previously had an external
Dolphin brand 5.25" disk drive set up as B:. I've removed that drive from
the machine (including the little interface card that plugged into the B: drive
interface slot). Upon doing that, I saw that the machine wouldn't boot
properly from the A: drive. I then replaced the A: drive with another 3.5"
drive (reconditioned, from a business that specializes in reconditioned PS/2
parts). I started seeing the problem above (the hang after "RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0") after
that drive was installed, and before I installed the two NICs. The
installation of the NICs appears to have had no effect on the Debian
installation in that sense; however, I think I've only seen the "110" error since the NICs were
installed.
I'd appreciate any help that the readers of
this list might be able to provide. Thanks for your anticipated
assistance.
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