Re: Linux Install booter problems

[John Steven Sobtzak <john.sobtzak@ndsu.nodak.edu>]

 Oops, I think I forgot the file.  Just in case....

 JSS


--On Friday, January 24, 2003 4:48 PM -0800 Brad Boyer <flar@pants.nu> 
wrote:

> On Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 05:10:25PM -0600, John Steven Sobtzak wrote:
> >  Dear Debian:
> > I am having troubles starting the Penguin-18 bootstrap installer on my
> > PowerBook 520.  I start the Penguin booter, set the setting to point to
> > the  'linux' kernel  and 'root.bin' ram disk file, set 'root=/dev/ram'
> > in the  command line, save these settings as defaults, choose 'Boot
> > Now', and it  stops on a white screen with black lettering (monochrome
> > screen) saying:
>
> This error would appear to be the kernel trying to read from an
> address that doesn't have anything. The address in question is
> 0x50f08000, which is in the block reserved from I/O devices.
>
> This particular address would normally be the NCR5380 SCSI controller
> registers, but I don't know if your machine really has that. The
> different source trees I have laying around disagree. If your machine
> doesn't have this chip, but the kernel thinks it does, that could
> easily cause a problem just like this one. I really couldn't tell
> you for sure what SCSI chip this model has, but that appears to
> be the issue.
>
> If I had the System.map for your kernel, I could look up the addresses
> and see if it is the mac_scsi driver causing the problem.
>
> 	Brad Boyer
> 	flar@allandria.com



########## SCSI Device Info ##########
SCSI device id: 00
  /dev/sda  (Hard disk)
    /dev/sda1 : Apple_partition_map             (31 KB)
    /dev/sda2 : Apple_Driver43                  (16 KB)
    /dev/sda3 : Apple_UNIX_SVR2                 (156.2 MB)
    /dev/sda4 : Apple_HFS                       (9.8 MB)
    /dev/sda5 : Apple_UNIX_SVR2                 (31.4 MB)
    /dev/sda6 : Apple_HFS                       (48.8 MB)
SCSI device id: 01
  (not present)
SCSI device id: 02
  (not present)
SCSI device id: 03
  (not present)
SCSI device id: 04
  (not present)
SCSI device id: 05
  (not present)
SCSI device id: 06
  (not present)
SCSI device id: 07
  Macintosh
######################################


########### Machine Profile ##########
  Mac              : 72 (PowerBook [520 | 540 | 550])
  Sys              : 7.5.3
  RAM              : 12 MB
  CPU              : 68040
  FPU              : No FPU
  MMU              : 68040 built-in
  ADB              : v0 - PowerManager (guessing)
  ATA/IDE          : No  (ATA hardware)
  NuBus            : No  (no slots present)
  VIA1             : Yes 
  VIA2             : Yes 
  RBV              : No  
  OSS              : No  
  ASC              : Yes 
  SCC              : Yes 
  SCSI_5380        : Yes 
  SCSI_5380 DMA    : No  
  SCSI_5396:1      : No  (internal bus)
  SCSI_5396:2      : No  (external bus)
  SWIM IOP         : No  
  SCC IOP          : No  
  Sonic            : Yes (built-in ethernet)
  SoftPowerOff     : Yes 
######################################


######################################
## MMU Device Mappings, Log -> Phys ##
  ROM       : 0x40000000 -> 0x40000000 
  VIA1      : 0x50F00000 -> 0x50F00000 
  VIA2      : 0x50F02000 -> 0x50F02000 (VIA2/RBV/OSS)
  SCCRd     : 0x50F04000 -> 0x50F04000 
  SCCWr     : 0x50F04000 -> 0x50F04000 
  IWM       : 0x50F16000 -> 0x50F16000 
  SCSIBase  : 0x50F10000 -> 0x50F10000 
  ASCBase   : 0x50F14000 -> 0x50F14000 
  PMgrBase  : 0x000021D0 -> 0x000021D0 (PowerManager)
  Video     : 0x60000000 -> 0x60000000
######################################