prep and boot-floppies (was bugid 141769)
Adam,
here are the answers on your questions and some extra info.
> Machine 1
> Bull Estrella 200 (Motorala Powerstack with utah board)
> PREP method PPCBUG firmware.
> PowerPC with 601 ? a 100 MHZ processor
Is this the machine you were using for the woody attempts?
-->Yes, this is the machine in the office and is not my own.
-->On this machine installing woody 226 and the download from 3022220020403
works fine
> Software used : Debian3.0.19PPCBeta
What is that? Is it possible to use boot-floppies 3.0.22 (the latest) ?
--> Seems to be potato 2.2.3
> Booting of the net with tftp, using root from floppy.
I don't quite understand this. If you boot on the net, you should
be able to use TFTP to get the root floppy, no?
> Saying that there are problems with the root floppy
> Booting from cdrom
> Saying that there are problems with the root floppy
What is the exact message?
--> I can reproduce it but that will be at a later time just as a reference
for the community.
> Did not test a complete boot from floppy, this has to be done.
> If the results are known I will let you know if you are interested
Very interested.
In fact, the above machine is installed now using the boot floppies.
> And finally my own machine
>
> Machine 2
> Bull Estrella 300 (Motorala Powerstack with utah board)
> PREP method openfirmware.
> PowerPC with 604e 200 MHZ processor
> Difference with the real motorola is the on-board vga which a Bull does
not
> have.
> Software used : Debian potato 2.2.3
>
> During the boot phase (flop,net and cdrom) I get the following messages
> concerning the scsi controller :
>
> ncr53c8xx : At PCI bus 0, device 12, function 0
> ncr53c8xx : setting PCI_COMMAND_IO PCI_COMMAND_MEMORY...
> ncr53c8xx : setting PCI_COMMAND_MASTER...(fix up)
> ncr53c8xx : changing PCI_LATENCY_TIMER from 0 to 80
> ncr53c8xx : 53c825a detected
> ncr53c825a-0 : rev 0x13 on pci bus 0 device 12 function 0 irq 15
> ncr53c825a-0 : ID 7, fast-io, parity checking
> scsi0 : ncr53c8xx-3.4.1-200000726
> scsi1: 1 host
> scsi aborting commmand due to timeout : pid 0, scsi0, channel 0, id 0,
lun
> 0, test unit ready 00 00 00 00
> ncr53c8xx_abort : pid 0 serial_number=1 serial_number_timeout=1
>
> Than the machine hangs.
>
> The same applies to the woody release 3.0.19 beta when booting from the
net
> or cdrom.
> Same message.
Ok, there might be a kernel boot-argument that you can use to work
around this. Again, I'm only interested really in results using the
latest boot-floppies.
--> Latest info : The error message appears when booting from the boot
floppy using woody 3.0.22 !!!
And now the interesting part comes.
I finally succeeded in "getting something" to run as you already guessed
correctly.
The actual release running on this machine is the one that says 2.2.12 in
/proc/version.
This release installed correctly but couldn't be booted when the partition
was as follows :
1) primary partition Prep type 41 / 4 Mb
2) Logical partition Linux ext2 type 83 / 4 Gb
3) logical partition Linux swap type 82 / 128 Mb
Maybe the install guide from matt porter has to be modified.
I changed the partitioning scheme as follows :
1) primary partition Linux ext2 type 83 / 64 Mb
2) primary partition Prep boot type 41 / 4 Mb
3) primary partition Linux swap type 82 / 100 Mb
We now now that not only AIX was running without problems on this system,
but also an outdated debian release.
I want to use this minimal running system as a reference when creating a
bugreport in kernel-image-2.2.20-prep
The software says that my system is a Powerstack II pro4000.
Question : Can I use the /var/log/syslog as a reference to my hardware ?
Any more wanted when creating the bug report ?
What potato release am I running now (2.2.12) ?
This is the full string in /proc/version : Linux version 2.2.12
(root@beef) (gcc version 2.95.1 19990816
(release)) #1 Thue Nov 11 16:02:41 MST 1999
And here you will find the contents of the base2_2.tgz as mentioned on the
cdrom
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge
| Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err:
uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Description
+++-===============-==============-============================================
ii adduser 3.11.1 Add users and groups to the system.
ii ae 962-26 Anthony's Editor -- a tiny full-screen
edito
ii amiga-fdisk 0.04-1 Partition editor for Amiga
ii apt 0.3.15 Advanced front-end for dpkg
ii base-files 2.1.12 Debian Base System Miscellaneous Files
ii base-passwd 3.1.5 Debian Base System Password/Group Files
ii bash 2.03-3 The GNU Bourne Again SHell
ii bsdutils 2.10d-3 Basic utilities from 4.4BSD-Lite.
ii console-data 1999.08.29-8 Keymaps, fonts, charset maps, fallback
table
ii debianutils 1.13.2 Miscellaneous utilities specific to
Debian.
ii diff 2.7-20 File comparison utilities
ii dpkg 1.6.4 Package maintenance system for Debian
ii e2fsprogs 1.18-2 The EXT2 file system utilities and
libraries
ii elvis-tiny 1.4-7 Tiny vi compatible editor for the base
syste
ii fbset 2.1-5 Framebuffer device maintenance program.
ii fdutils 5.3-3 Linux floppy utilities
ii fileutils 4.0k-1 GNU file management utilities.
ii findutils 4.1-34 utilities for finding files--find,
xargs, an
ii ftp 0.10-3 The ftp client.
ii gconv-modules 2.1.2-5 GNU C Library: Codeset conversion
modules
ii gettext-base 0.10.35-11.0.0 GNU Internationalization utilities for
the b
ii grep 2.4-1 GNU grep, egrep and fgrep.
ii gzip 1.2.4-33 The GNU compression utility.
ii hostname 2.07 A utility to set/show the host name or
domai
ii kbd 0.99-8 Linux console font and keytable
utilities.
ii ldso 1.9.11-5 The Linux dynamic linker, library and
utilit
ii libc6 2.1.2-5 GNU C Library: Shared libraries and
timezone
ii libgdbmg1 1.7.3-26.2 GNU dbm database routines (runtime
version).
ii libncurses4 4.2-3.4 Shared libraries for terminal handling
ii libnewt0 0.50-5.1 Not Erik's Windowing Toolkit - text mode
win
ii libpam-modules 0.72-1 Pluggable Authentication Modules for PAM
ii libpam-runtime 0.72-1 Runtime support for the PAM library
ii libpam0g 0.72-1 Pluggable Authentication Modules library
ii libpopt0 1.4-1 lib for parsing cmdline parameters
ii libreadlineg2 2.1-16 GNU readline and history libraries,
run-time
ii libstdc++2.10 2.95.2-3 The GNU stdc++ library
ii libwrap0 7.6-1.1 Wietse Venema's TCP wrappers library
ii locales 2.1.2-11.0.1 GNU C Library: National Language
(locale) da
ii login 19990827-12 System login tools
ii mac-fdisk 0.1-1.1 Apple disk partition manipulation tool
ii makedev 2.3.1-35 Creates special device files in /dev.
ii mawk 1.3.3-3 a pattern scanning and text processing
langu
ii modconf 0.2.26.3 Device Driver Configuration
ii modutils 2.3.7-1 Linux module utilities.
ii mount 2.10d-3 Tools for mounting and manipulating
filesyst
ii ncurses-base 4.2-3.4 Descriptions of common terminal types
ii ncurses-bin 4.2-3.4 Terminal-related programs and man pages
ii netbase 3.16-8 Basic TCP/IP networking binaries
ii passwd 19990827-12 Change and administer password and group
dat
ii pciutils 2.1.1-1 Linux PCI Utilities (for 2.[123].x
kernels)
ii pcmcia-cs 3.1.2-1 PCMCIA Card Services for Linux.
ii perl-5.005-base 5.005.03-4.1 The Pathologically Eclectic Rubbish
Lister
ii powerpc-utils 1.1.3-1 Various utilities for Linux/PowerPC
ii ppp 2.3.10-2 Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP) daemon.
ii pppconfig 2.0.1 A text menu based utility for
configuring pp
iF procps 2.0.6-3 The /proc file system utilities.
ii quik 2.0-2 Bootloader for PowerMac or CHRP systems
ii sed 3.02-4 The GNU sed stream editor.
ii setserial 2.15-15 Controls configuration of serial ports.
ii shellutils 2.0-4 The GNU shell programming utilities.
ii slang1 1.3.9-1 The S-Lang programming library - runtime
ver
ii sysklogd 1.3-33 Kernel and system logging daemons
ii sysvinit 2.77-3 System-V like init.
ii tar 1.13.15-1 GNU tar
ii tasksel 1.0-1 New task packages selector
ii tcpd 7.6-1.1 Wietse Venema's TCP wrapper utilities
ii telnet 0.14-9 The telnet client.
ii textutils 2.0-2 The GNU text file processing utilities.
ii update 2.11-1 daemon to periodically flush filesystem
buff
ii util-linux 2.10d-3 Miscellaneous system utilities.
ii whiptail 0.50-5.1 Displays user-friendly dialog boxes from
she
ii xviddetect 0.2-5 XFree86 installation helper
Hope to hear from you.
Regards Ronald Iemenschot
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