Re: Has anyone ever got Debian to install on an SGI Altix?
On Wed, 2005-08-31 at 16:39 -0500, Greg Edwards wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 31, 2005 at 03:30:09PM -0600, dann frazier wrote:
> | On Wed, 2005-08-31 at 09:14 -0500, Greg Edwards wrote:
> | > I'll try to dig into this today and see if I can isolate what's going
> | > on.
> |
> | Great, thanks. I've been given access to an Altix box as well (thanks
> | Ian), so I might be able to help.
>
> console output is stopping when busybox init is run. I added a set -x to
> sbin/init and saw:
>
> + uname -r
> + grep ^2.2.
> + [ = ]
> + mount /proc
> + umount initrd
> + true
> + mount -t tmpfs -o size=100M tmpfs /mnt
> + :
> + umount /proc
> + ls -1 /
> + grep -v \(dev\|lost+found\|mnt\|proc\)
> + cp -a bin etc floppy init initrd lib preseed.cfg sbin sys tmp usr var
> /mnt
> + cd /mnt
> + pivot_root . initrd
> + mkdir proc dev
> + [ -x /sbin/udevstart ]
> + /lib/debian-installer/init-udev-devices
> + mount /proc
> + exec /usr/sbin/chroot . /bin/busybox init
> [... no more ...]
>
> The box is still up at this point, as I was able to enter kdb (I had
> kdb built into a kernel I had shoehorned in). Interestingly, the kdb
> output showed on the screen, but I never got the kdb prompt, so something
> is messing with the console (ttySG0 is the console on Altix).
Yes - this is exactly what I saw w/ 2.6.8. Is this w/ the latest d-i
build w/ a 2.6.12 kernel?
> SuSE (and Red Hat too, I believe) have relocatable turned on all the ia64
> boxes by default. It doesn't have an adverse effect on those platforms
> that don't require it. If you need to check for Altix, you could look
> for the existence of /proc/sgi_sn. This will be present on any
> Altix/Prism system.
Well, I'm told its a problem for 2.4 kernels. Debian still includes a
2.4.27 (though we'll drop it before etch).
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