Re: Newbie Install Question on Umax S900 (and now 7200! and 7300?)
I worked on the S900 for a couple hours more today. Ditched the old hard drive that was spewing SCSI errors and reinstalled OS9/BootX from scratch on the "new" drive. On reinstalling debian I noticed that there was an optional item to configure the PCMCIA interface that I hadn't noticed previously. On this screen were checkboxes for PCMCIA, serial, and CD-ROM. PCMCIA was checked by default (strange) and CD-ROM was unchecked (even stranger). I unchecked PCMCIA and checked CD-ROM.
No go.
The hated "Init ID 1 respawning too fast" are still alive and well.
My complete configuration:
Umax S900 (8500 clone)
850 mb Quantum HDD
stock 2x Apple CD pulled from older PowerMac
48 mb of RAM
3dfx Voodoo3 2000 PCI video
180 mhz 604e
I have used several kernels including the kernel included with the LinuxPPC 2000 cd I have successfully used in the past with this machine, the 2.2.18 and 2.2.19 kernels, even 2.4.0.
Does anyone have any words of wisdom here?
Ted Swinyar, swinte@wwc.edu
http://www.randomworks.com/
>>> Bruce McIntyre <brucemac@bigfoot.com> - 1/29/01 5:21 PM >>>
Are you still getting the SCSI errors on startup, or was that a
one-off result of hard booting because of the init respawning? I have
been also getting the init id 1 respawning too fast on my 7300. I'm
thinking that the disk 'repair' chucks important stuff into
lost+found, although you should really deinstall the pmcica stuff on
a 7200...
See the 'SCSI woe' messages on this list for more details on my errors.
I also attempted 2.2.17 and .18.
>Just to verify that it's not my S900 that is the problem I pulled an
>old 7200/120 out of the closet and booted it up with a different
>hard drive. On initial boot (using BootX) I get the exact same
>errors with the 7200 as I've been getting with the S900--errors
>included below with my original message. It appears to me that since
>it's balking on the PCMCIA loading that perhaps there is something
>related to the PCMCIA configuration during the base install that has
>gotten goofed up.
>
>Does anyone have any experience with this problem? This is really
>starting to drive me crazy :-)
>
>Ted Swinyar, swinte@wwc.edu
>http://www.randomworks.com/
>
>>>> "Ted Swinyar" <swinte@wwc.edu> - 1/28/01 12:26 AM >>>
>Thank you to everyone who responded to my initial question about
>getting Debian going on the S900.
>
>I've gotten BootX going and pointing to sdb4 where I've installed
>the / partition in the initial configuration. On first boot into
>Debian I get the following error message:
>
>Starting PCMCIA services:
>modules/lib/modules/2.2.17/pcmcia/i82365.o: init_module: Device or
>resource busy
>Hint: this error may be caused by incorrect module parameters,
>including invalid IO or IRQ parameters
>ds: no socket drivers loaded!
>/lib/modules/2.2.17/pcmcia/ds.0: init_module: device or resource busy
>Hint: this error can caused by incorrect module parameters,
>including invalid IO or IRQ parameters
> cardmgr.
>Starting internet superserver: inetd.
>/bin/sh: /sbin/termwrap: No such file or directory
>/bin/sh: exec: /sbin/termwrap: cannot execute: No such file or directory
>
><<< a bunch of the above lines repeated numerous times >>>
>
>INIT: Id "1" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
>
>After this point, the system waits for a couple of minutes before
>displaying the same: "/bin/sh: /sbin/termwrap: No such file or
>directory
>/bin/sh: exec: /sbin/termwrap: cannot execute: No such file or directory"
>error a gazillion times more.
>
>Was there something I should have done differently on the initial
>configuration of debian? Should I use a different kernel than the
>default kernel that came with the Debian CDs from CheapBytes? Has
>anyone run into this error message before?
>
>Thanks!
>
>Ted Swinyar, swinte@wwc.edu
>http://www.randomworks.com/
>
>>>> Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net> - 1/17/01 4:38 PM >>>
>On Wed, Jan 17, 2001 at 02:36:57PM -0800, Ted Swinyar wrote:
>> Hello,
>
>> I am interested in getting Debian PPC going on an old Umax S900
>> I've got sitting around. I got the CheapBytes CDs of Debian PPC and
>> was able to successfully boot into the initial installer and was
>> able to proceed through the installation until the part of the
>> install process where I was supposed to create a boot disk. At that
>> point I received an error message that this procedure was not
>> supported yet and have been unable to continue the process beyond
>> this point. Upon reboot Debian fails to boot and I'm kicked back to
>> square 1.
>
>boot floppy creation is not supported on powerpc so that part is
>normal. bootloader installation only works [partially] on oldworld
>macs such as yours. however the bootloader setup does not configure
>OpenFirmware to boot quik. you can try the following step to set the
>OF variable yourself:
>
>nvsetenv boot-device "$(ofpath /dev/hda)0"
>
>assuming its an ide disk, use /dev/sda if its scsi (and the first scsi
>disk).
>
>the other option is bootx but that requires macos which is quite
>ugly.
>
>> I have been surfing around the net and have read through the Debian
> > install guide, the FAQ-o-matic and penguinppc.net's guides. Has
>> anyone run into this type of problem previously? Is there anything
>> special I need to do to get the S900 going?
>
>the install docs mention the bootloader stuff. quik is not as well
>documented online though. (its simple really, but OpenFirmware is
>black art)
>
>> If this isn't the appropriate place to post questions like these, I
>> apologize in advance and would appreciate any guidance as to other
>> locations where I could find assistance on this.
>
>no this list is fine.
>
>--
>Ethan Benson
>http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
>
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