Re: Sarge d-i rc3 failled to install d380 :-(

[Richard Hirst <rhirst@levanta.com>]

On Wed, Apr 06, 2005 at 05:38:47PM +0200, Joel Soete wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> I just get an old d380 2-way 256Mb ram (from with I removed a broken remote
> management card and duno if supported)
> 
> It's a good oportunity to test sarge d-i (netinstall cd) :-)
> 
> unfortunately it failled to boot on a well known ramdisk pb:"attempt to access
> beyond end of device"

The initrd on the hppa d-i rc3 iso seems to be about 21MB:

sh-3.00# zcat /mnt/iso/install/initrd.gz  | wc -c
21897216

and the kernel is booted with ramdisk_size of 16M:

sh-3.00# strings /home/richard/downloads/sarge-hppa-netinst.iso | grep ramdisk_size=
Q0/vmlinux root=/dev/ram initrd=0/ramdisk ramdisk_size=16384 init=/linuxrc

so it is indeed unlikely to work.  I don't know the d380; presumably
you can't interact with IPL to edit the kernel cmdline on that box?

I used hexedit to edit the ISO image, so it looked like this:

00000000   80 00 50 41  4C 4F 00 03  00 E4 88 00  00 41 E7 8D  00 2C 00 00  ..PALO.......A...,..
00000014   00 5F 1F 51  30 2F 76 6D  6C 69 6E 75  78 20 72 6F  6F 74 3D 2F  ._.Q0/vmlinux root=/
00000028   64 65 76 2F  72 61 6D 20  69 6E 69 74  72 64 3D 30  2F 72 61 6D  dev/ram initrd=0/ram
0000003C   64 69 73 6B  20 72 61 6D  64 69 73 6B  5F 73 69 7A  65 3D 33 32  disk ramdisk_size=32
00000050   37 36 38 20  69 6E 69 74  3D 2F 6C 69  6E 75 78 72  63 00 00 00  768 init=/linuxrc...
00000064   00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00  ....................

I just changed the ramdisk_size value, to 32768.

(ctrl-X to leave hexedit).  Then I burned a CD and booted it on my B180.
It booted fine, and I got as far as partitioning before I gave up (didn't
want to overwrite the disk).

Richard