Re: Sarge install on a DECstation 5k/33
Ulrich Teichert wrote:
> Hi,
>
> after a short vacation, I though to retry a sarge install on my
> 5k/33. Yes, I am somewhat masochistic, sometimes ;-)
> With some manual intervention (I had to install the kernel
> and delo by hand, because the installer did not found a suitable
> kernel), I was able to get it to boot for initial configuration,
> but that's it:
>
> ------------------snip-------------------------------
> KN02-CA V2.0m
> >>boot 3/rz2
> delo V0.8
> Copyright 2000-2002 Florian Lohoff <flo@rfc822.org>
> Copyright 2003 Thiemo Seufer <seufer@csv.ica.uni-stuttgart.de>
> Loading /etc/delo.conf . ok
> Loading /vmlinux ........... ok
> This is a Personal DECstation 5000/xx
> CPU revision is: 00000230
> FPU revision is: 00000340
> Primary instruction cache 64kB, linesize 4 bytes.
> Primary data cache 128kB, linesize 4 bytes.
> Linux version 2.4.27-r3k-kn02 (root@solitude) (gcc version 3.3.5 (Debian 1:3.3.5-2)) #1 Fri Jan 21 17:04:58 UTC 2005
> Determined physical RAM map:
> memory: 02800000 @ 00000000 (usable)
> On node 0 totalpages: 10240
> zone(0): 10240 pages.
> zone(1): 0 pages.
> zone(2): 0 pages.
> Kernel command line: root=/dev/sda1 console=ttyS0
> Using 0.000 MHz high precision timer.
> This is a Personal DECstation 5000/xx
> CPU revision is: 00000230
> FPU revision is: 00000340
> Primary instruction cache 64kB, linesize 4 bytes.
> Primary data cache 128kB, linesize 4 bytes.
> Linux version 2.4.27-r3k-kn02 (root@solitude) (gcc version 3.3.5 (Debian 1:3.3.5-2)) #1 Fri Jan 21 17:04:58 UTC 2005
> Determined physical RAM map:
> memory: 02800000 @ 00000000 (usable)
> On node 0 totalpages: 10240
> zone(0): 10240 pages.
> zone(1): 0 pages.
> zone(2): 0 pages.
> Kernel command line: root=/dev/sda1 console=ttyS0
> Using 0.000 MHz high precision timer.
> Console: colour dummy device 80x25
> Calibrating delay loop... 32.82 BogoMIPS
> Memory: 37468k/40960k available (2298k kernel code, 3492k reserved, 120k data, 124k init, 0k highmem)
> Dentry cache hash table entries: 8192 (order: 4, 65536 bytes)
> Inode cache hash table entries: 4096 (order: 3, 32768 bytes)
> Mount cache hash table entries: 512 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
> Buffer cache hash table entries: 1024 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
> Page-cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 4, 65536 bytes)
> Checking for 'wait' instruction... unavailable.
> POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
> TURBOchannel rev. 1 at 12.5 MHz (without parity)
> Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.4
> Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039
> Initializing RT netlink socket
> Starting kswapd
> Journalled Block Device driver loaded
> devfs: v1.12c (20020818) Richard Gooch (rgooch@atnf.csiro.au)
> devfs: boot_options: 0x0
> Installing knfsd (copyright (C) 1996 okir@monad.swb.de).
> pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured
> DECstation Z8530 serial driver version 0.09
> ttyS00 at 0xbc100001 (irq = 14) is a Z85C30 SCC
> ttyS01 at 0xbc100009 (irq = 14) is a Z85C30 SCC
> rtc: Digital DECstation epoch (2000) detected
> Real Time Clock Driver v1.10f
> SLIP: version 0.8.4-NET3.019-NEWTTY (dynamic channels, max=256).
> CSLIP: code copyright 1989 Regents of the University of California.
> RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 6000K size 1024 blocksize
> loop: loaded (max 8 devices)
> PPP generic driver version 2.4.2
> declance.c: v0.009 by Linux MIPS DECstation task force
> declance0: IOASIC onboard LANCE, addr = 08:00:2b:33:7c:1a, irq = 16
> declance0: registered as eth0.
> SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00
> SCSI ID 7 Clk 25MHz CCF=5 TOut 167 NCR53C9x(esp236)
> ESP: Total of 1 ESP hosts found, 1 actually in use.
> scsi0 : ESP236 (NCR53C9x)
> Vendor: DEC Model: RZ25 (C) DEC Rev: 0900
> Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
> Attached scsi disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 2, lun 0
> esp0: target 2 [period 200ns offset 15 5.00MHz synchronous SCSI]
> SCSI device sda: 832527 512-byte hdwr sectors (426 MB)
> Partition check:
> /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target2/lun0: p1 p2
> Initializing Cryptographic API
> NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0
> IP: routing cache hash table of 512 buckets, 4Kbytes
> TCP: Hash tables configured (established 4096 bind 8192)
> NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0.
> EXT3-fs: INFO: recovery required on readonly filesystem.
> EXT3-fs: write access will be enabled during recovery.
> kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
> EXT3-fs: recovery complete.
> EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
> VFS: Mounted root (ext3 filesystem) readonly.
> Freeing unused PROM memory: 124k freed
> Freeing unused kernel memory: 124k freed
> INIT: version 2.86 booting
> Activating swap.
> Adding Swap: 73916k swap-space (priority -1)
> Checking root file system...
> fsck 1.37 (21-Mar-2005)
> /: clean, 9734/171024 files, 171300/341934 blocks
> EXT3 FS 2.4-0.9.19, 19 August 2002 on sd(8,1), internal journal
> System time was Sat Jan 22 19:56:28 UTC 2000.
> Setting the System Clock using the Hardware Clock as reference...
> System Clock set. System local time is now Sat Jan 22 19:56:30 UTC 2000.
> Cleaning up ifupdown...done.
> Not calculating module dependencies: /lib/modules/2.4.27-r3k-kn02 is read only.
> Loading modules:
> modprobe: Can't open dependencies file /lib/modules/2.4.27-r3k-kn02/modules.dep (No such file or directory)
> Checking all file systems...
> fsck 1.37 (21-Mar-2005)
> Setting kernel variables ...
> ... done.
> Mounting local filesystems...
> Cleaning /tmp /var/run /var/lock.
> Running 0dns-down to make sure resolv.conf is ok...done.
> Setting up networking...done.
> Setting up IP spoofing protection: rp_filter.
> Configuring network interfaces...done.
>
> Setting the System Clock using the Hardware Clock as reference...
> System Clock set. Local time: Sat Jan 22 19:56:48 UTC 2000
>
> Initializing random number generator...done.
> Recovering nvi editor sessions... done.
> INIT: Entering runlevel: 2
> Starting system log daemon: syslogd.
> Starting kernel log daemon: klogd.
> Starting MTA: exim4.
> Starting internet superserver: inetd.
> Starting deferred execution scheduler: atd.
> Starting periodic command scheduler: cron.
> ------------------snip-------------------------------
>
> What I am worried about is the line:
>
> Using 0.000 MHz high precision timer.
>
> Would that stop booting at this point? Other possibilties are:
> console is switching from ttyS0 to the build-in framebuffer (I
> alread removed the additional framebuffer, which was recognized
> at boot),
Have you tried setting the firmware's console parameter from '*' to 's' ?
> kernel simply crashes (an nmap scan does not find open
> ports, although exim has been started),
A fatal kernel crash which kills the console would likely happen
earlier. Try to boot with init=/bin/sh to find out if the serial
consoel works.
> I am missing a boot parameter
> to get the installer running, or?
root/console look like they were provided.
> Am I wasting my time with sarge and should test etch beta installers
> instead?
If you want to see DECstation R3k support in etch it would be useful
to test the beta installers.
Thiemo
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