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Re: Problems booting pegasos I



On Fri, Nov 05, 2004 at 11:07:42PM +0100, Niklaus Giger wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I downloaded  the special pegasos 1 netinst iso at : 
> 
>   http://people.debian.org/~luther/pegasos/sarge-pegasos1-netinst-2004.10.25.iso
> 
> In the OF-prompt I typed 
>  boot /pci/ide/cd@0,0 PEGASOS1.;1
> as my CD-Rom-drive is the primary master. Then I get after about 20 seconds 
> lines like:
> >chrpboot starting
> >initial ramdisk
> >gunzipping
> >heap consumed
> >start adddress
> >calling quiesce
> >return 0x0 from prom_init 
> afterwards I get stucked and even after 120 seconds there is no Linux boot 
> prompt. I have a ATI radeon 9200 AGP card which is identified by lspci as 
> follows:
> 0000:01:00.1 Display controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV280 [Radeon 9200 SE] 
> (Secondary) (rev 01)
> My wh0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: Mai Logic Incorporated Articia S Host Bridge 
> (rev 01)
> 0000:00:01.0 PCI bridge: Mai Logic Incorporated Articia S PCI Bridge
> 0000:00:06.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): VIA Technologies, Inc. IEEE 1394 Host 
> Controller (rev 46)
> 0000:00:07.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8231 [PCI-to-ISA Bridge] 
> (rev 10)
> 0000:00:07.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. 
> VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 06)
> 0000:00:07.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 
> Controller (rev 1e)
> 0000:00:07.3 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 
> Controller (rev 1e)
> 0000:00:07.4 Non-VGA unclassified device: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8235 ACPI 
> (rev 10)
> 0000:00:07.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 AC97 
> Audio Controller (rev 40)
> 0000:00:07.6 Communication controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. Intel 537 [AC97 
> Modem] (rev 20)
> 0000:00:08.0 Ethernet controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6102 [Rhine-II] 
> (rev 51)
> 0000:00:0b.0 Unknown mass storage controller: Silicon Image, Inc. (formerly 
> CMD Technology Inc) PCI0680 Ultra ATA-133Host Controller (rev 02)
> 0000:00:0c.0 Ethernet controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6105 [Rhine-III] 
> (rev 86)
> 0000:01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV280 [Radeon 
> 9200 SE] (rev 01)
> 0000:01:00.1 Display controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV280 [Radeon 9200 SE] 
> (Secondary) (rev 01)
> pole lspci returns:

Strange, should work fine. Can you manage to capture the serial output ? This
may tell us more about it. What kind of pegasos 1 do you have ? Which version
of the openfirmware have you on it ? 

> I never managed to compile a bootable kernel from the official debian 
> kernel-source-2.6.8 even when I took a .config from a working kernel made 
> from the gentoo  2.6.8-pegasos-r2 sources. And I had always the same problem, 
> that the kernel just never continued after the prom_init.

Without the serial log output, not much. It works on my pegasos 1 here.

Friendly,

Sven Luther



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