Re: New bootdisks available
> Here's a snapshot of the latest 2.2.13 bootdisks, complete with fixes for:
>
> - tftp images being really broken
> - drivers.tgz missing
> - ethtool is now included in the root disk
> - mkswap fixes
> - updated 2.2.15 kernels with fixes from Dave Miller
>
> Let me know how this goes.
Hi Ben,
I just tried to install Potato on both an IPX and a Sparc10 using the
latest bootdisks, with mixed results.
For the most part, everything went fine on the IPX. The only problems
I saw were that a few of the kernel modules in the misc section have
unresolved dependencies, which generates a half-screenful of annoying
messages when depmod runs at start-up. Here's a copy of the output:
Calculating module dependencies...
depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/module s/2.2.15/misc/b1dma.o
depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.2.15/misc/b1pci.o
depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.2.15/misc/c4.o
depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.2.15/misc/eicon.o
depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.2.15/misc/hisax.o
depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.2.15/misc/icn.o
depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.2.15/misc/sc.o
depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.2.15/misc/t1isa.o
depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.2.15/misc/t1pci.o
done.
Other than that, the IPX is now a fully functioning Debian system. Yeah!
I wasn't as lucky with the Sparc10, though. It looks like I'm running
into the same problems that Jonas Oberg pointed out on the list, late last
month, in message <87itxbit92.fsf@poledra.coyote.org>. While booting the
kernel, no matter if I'm using a rescue disk or the TFTP image, it doesn't
seem to be able to find a /proc file system. Here's a captured screen
session, while booting from a serial cable using the TFTP image:
SPARCstation 10 (1 X 390Z50), No Keyboard
ROM Rev. 2.9, 48 MB memory installed, Serial #6318266.
Ethernet address 8:0:20:12:47:2d, Host ID: 726068ba.
Testing Memory
Type help for more information
ok
ok boot net
Initializing Memory
Timeout waiting for ARP/RARP packet
TILO
PROMLIB: obio_ranges 5
Booting Linux...
PROMLIB: Sun Boot Prom Version 3 Revision 2
Linux version 2.2.15 (root@auric) (gcc version 2.95.2 20000313 (Debian GNU/Linux)) #1 Wed May 3 17:49:21 EDT 2000
ARCH: SUN4M
TYPE: Sun4m SparcStation10/20
Ethernet address: 8:0:20:12:47:2d
Boot time fixup v1.6. 4/Mar/98 Jakub Jelinek (jj@ultra.linux.cz). Patching kernel for srmmu[TI Viking]/iommu
[0]: v[f0000000,f1000000](1000000) p[00000000]
[1]: v[f4000000,f5000000](1000000) p[04000000]
[2]: v[f8000000,f8f5d000](f5d000) p[08000000]
SRMMU: Compact physical memory. Using strightforward VA<->PA translations.
Found CPU 0 <node=ffd490e0,mid=8>
Found 1 CPU prom device tree node(s).
Power off control detected.
Calibrating delay loop... 35.94 BogoMIPS
Memory: 43400k available (1260k kernel code, 3680k data, 160k init) [f0000000,f9000000]
Dentry hash table entries: 8192 (order 4, 64k)
Buffer cache hash table entries: 262144 (order 8, 1024k)
Page cache hash table entries: 65536 (order 6, 256k)
POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
IOMMU: impl 0 vers 1 page table at f0580000 of size 262144 bytes
sbus0: Clock 18.0 MHz
dma0: Revision 2
dma1: Revision 2
Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.2
Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039
NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0 for Linux NET4.0.
NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0
IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP, IGMP
TCP: Hash tables configured (ehash 65536 bhash 65536)
Linux IP multicast router 0.06 plus PIM-SM
Starting kswapd v 1.5
Sparc Zilog8530 serial driver version 1.41.2.6
tty00 at 0xffede004 (irq = 44) is a Zilog8530
tty01 at 0xffede000 (irq = 44) is a Zilog8530
tty02 at 0xffedb004 (irq = 44) is a Zilog8530
tty03 at 0xffedb000 (irq = 44) is a Zilog8530
keyboard: not present
Console: ttyS0 (Zilog8530)
pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured
Sun Mouse-Systems mouse driver version 1.00
RAM disk driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 4096K size
loop: registered device at major 7
Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077
md driver 0.36.6 MAX_MD_DEV=4, MAX_REAL=8
esp0: IRQ 36 SCSI ID 7 Clk 40MHz CCF=8 TOut 167 NCR53C9XF(espfast)
ESP: Total of 1 ESP hosts found, 1 actually in use.
scsi0 : Sparc ESP100A-FAST
scsi : 1 host.
Vendor: SEAGATE Model: ST11200N Rev: 9300
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Detected scsi disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 3, lun 0
scsi : detected 1 SCSI disk total.
esp0: target 3 [period 100ns offset 15 10.00MHz FAST SCSI-II]
SCSI device sda: hdwr sector= 512 bytes. Sectors= 2059140 [1005 MB] [1.0 GB]
sunlance.c:v1.12 11/Mar/99 Miguel de Icaza (miguel@nuclecu.unam.mx)
eth0: LANCE 08:00:20:12:47:2d
IP-Config: Incomplete network configuration information.
Partition check:
sda: sda1 sda2 sda3 sda7
RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).
serial console detected. Disabling virtual terminals.
init started: BusyBox v0.43 (2000.05.04-02:28+0000) multi-call binary
modprobe: modprobe: Can't open dependencies file /lib/modules/2.2.15/modules.dep (No such file or directory)
cannot create /dev/tty4: error 19
E: /proc does not appear to be mounted (No such file or directory)
E: /proc does not appear to be mounted (No such file or directory)
E: /proc does not appear to be mounted (No such file or directory)
E: /proc does not appear to be mounted (No such file or directory)
E: /proc does not appear to be mounted (No such file or directory)
E: /proc does not appear to be mounted (No such file or directory)
[...]
Any ideas?
Thanks!
-mct
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