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Dear All,
I'm trying to get Woody up and running on an
Indy (8 bit graphics), 48M RAM, 1GB HD on /dev/sda1(scsi id 1), and and a SCSI
32x CD-ROM drive (Teac 532S) hung on SCSI id 4, perched (not too) precariously
on top of the machine. I'm using a recently purchased official
disc set, which seems to be version 3.0.23, but, thanks to the work done by
Florian Lohoff in documenting the format of SGI volume headers necessary to make
Indy-bootable CDs, I haven't needed to do any netbooting.
I've been making my SGI volume headers on CD with
not much more than a hex editor, some simple C code to do the vol hdr
checksumming, and a copy of Nero on a Win2K machine. I haven't made an
unbootable disc yet, and at the first attempt, I was able to get debootstrap up
and running the hard drive fdisk-ed with all the necessary partitions (incl its
own volume header partition, which I set to about 10MB).
Having said all that, beyond that point I've
observed extremely variable behaviour of the installer between different
versions of the tftpboot.img file;
- a home-made bootable 3.0.23 disc #1
(i.e. disc 1 from the official set, with its iso image patched with a
suitable volume header ) simply didn't offer the CD-ROM as an install
method, so I wasn't even able to install the kernel
- the bootable test iso Florian posted a link to on
his homepage i.e.at http://www.silicon-verl.de/home/flo/software/ip22test.iso
did offer CD-ROM, but I experienced a system hang when the installer tried to
extract rescue.bin (after insertion of the official disc #1) during
kernel installation
- I then made another "homemade" bootdisc, using
the 3.0.24 bootfiles downloaded from
(basically, I put everything below that path on a
disc preserving the tree structure, and made it bootable), and that works much
better; I am able to install the kernel into the harddrive volumeheader and make
the system bootable.
Unfortunately, when I now reboot from the HD
(having set up the prom environment variables), I get a
warning : unable to open an initial
console
and then
kernel panic : no
init found. Try passing init= option to the kernel
Any ideas ??
I also get quite a few corrupted file warnings if I
use my homemade 3.0.24 bootdisc to try to install the base system, which hangs
at various points; I think this is almost certainly a separate problem, and may
be related to the speed of the CD-ROM drive, or its firmware
etc.
Any help much appreciated ?
Bruce
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