Re: Booting installer on RS/6000 43p-140
Sven Luther said:
> On Sun, Jul 18, 2004 at 09:09:49AM +0100, Leigh Brown wrote:
>> Sven Luther said:
>> > On Tue, Jul 13, 2004 at 10:56:23AM +0100, Leigh Brown wrote:
>> >> Sven Luther said:
>> >> > Could you please try netbooting
>> >> > http://people.debian.org/~luther/debian-installer/daily-powerpc-built/2004-07-13/powerpc/netboot/2.6/vmlinuz-prep.initrd
>> >> >
>> >> > With the console=ttyS0 option or whatever, and send me the serial
>> >> > log?
>> >>
>> >> Hi Sven. I thought I'd give that kernel a try. I don't netboot, put
>> >> I wrote that kernel to my second harddisk and booted from it. In
>> >> summary, it boots, but it doesn't seem to include the pcnet32 driver.
>> >> Since every single RS6000 "offical" ethernet card that I've ever seen
>> >> uses pcnet32, I'd say its important to include it in the initrd.
>> >
>> > Ok, mmm, you mean the pcnet32 driver is not in the debian-installer
>> net
>> > drivers ?
>> >
>> > It is in the nic-extra-modules, which is not part of the initrd, we
>> > will fix this, either move it to nic-modules or add the
>> > nic-extra-modules to the initrd.
>> >
>> > Thanks for testing. Could you try again tomorrow or later ?
>>
>> Just to let you know I tried your latest 2.6 vmlinuz-prep.initrd kernel
>> and this time the installer detected my ethernet card just fine. This
>> time it got to the partitioner without loading a SCSI driver. I might
>> be a bit dim but I couldn't work out how to download the additional
>> kernel modules for that.
>
> Could you send us a lscpi and lspci -n output on that box ? What scsi
> card do you have ?
It's my 140. I've attached the lspci output at the end. However, every
PReP box I have has an onboard Symbios 53c8xx SCSI controller compatible
with the sym53c8xx v2 driver. That driver probably covers 99% (if not
100%, but I'm not sure) of all RS/6000 PReP boxes. Even my Motorola
Powerstack has a sym53c8xx controller.
00:00.0 Host bridge: Motorola MPC106 [Grackle] (rev 30)
00:00.0 Class 0600: 1057:0002 (rev 30)
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
00:0b.0 ISA bridge: IBM Fire Coral (rev 03)
00:0b.0 Class 0601: 1014:000a (rev 03)
Flags: bus master, slow devsel, latency 0
I/O ports at 1000 [size=8]
00:0c.0 Ethernet controller: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] 79c970 [PCnet32
LANCE] (rev 16)
00:0c.0 Class 0200: 1022:2000 (rev 16)
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 22
I/O ports at 1020 [size=32]
Memory at fad9d000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=32]
Expansion ROM at fada0000 [disabled] [size=64K]
00:0d.0 Class ff00: IBM MPIC interrupt controller
00:0d.0 Class ff00: 1014:0046
Flags: medium devsel
Memory at fadc0000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256K]
00:10.0 SCSI storage controller: LSI Logic / Symbios Logic 53c825 (rev 13)
00:10.0 Class 0100: 1000:0003 (rev 13)
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 23
I/O ports at 1400 [size=256]
Memory at fad9e000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256]
Memory at fad9f000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
00:16.0 VGA compatible controller: Matrox Graphics, Inc. MGA 1064SG
[Mystique] (rev 03) (prog-if 00 [VGA])
00:16.0 Class 0300: 102b:051a (rev 03)
Subsystem: Matrox Graphics, Inc. MGA 1064SG [Mystique]
Flags: bus master, stepping, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 17
Memory at fc000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [disabled] [size=8M]
Memory at fb000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [disabled] [size=16K]
Memory at fb800000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [disabled] [size=8M]
Expansion ROM at fadb0000 [disabled] [size=64K]
00:17.0 PCI bridge: IBM IBM27-82351 (rev 01) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
00:17.0 Class 0604: 1014:0022 (rev 01)
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32
Bus: primary=00, secondary=01, subordinate=01, sec-latency=128
I/O behind bridge: 007ff000-007fffff
Memory behind bridge: 3ae00000-3affffff
01:02.0 Ethernet controller: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] 79c970 [PCnet32
LANCE] (rev 26)
01:02.0 Class 0200: 1022:2000 (rev 26)
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 21
I/O ports at 7ff000 [size=32]
Memory at faeff000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=32]
Expansion ROM at faf00000 [disabled] [size=1M]
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