Boot floppies broken on SPARC?
My Situation:
Sun Ultrasparc (E450), console is connected via ttya (9600 bps), this
machine does not have a graphics card.
Today, I tried to install Debian/woody but failed, the rescue disc boots
fine from floppy, but when the system is ready for the disc containg
root.bin, it is locked up (to be more accurate: the system doesn't
accept input via the terminal, nor does it output anything).
I thought about a terminal issue (maybe linux expects console not on
ttya?), see attached the firmware's environment and the bootlog.
Setting the kernel parameter console=ttya didn't solve the problem.
TIA.
--
Warning: You are not root
-- nmap V. 2.54BETA31
{0} ok printenv
Variable Name Value Default Value
upa-port-skip-list 6,1d,1e 6,1d,1e
scsi-initiator-id 7 7
keyboard-click? false false
keymap
ttyb-rts-dtr-off false false
ttyb-ignore-cd true true
ttya-rts-dtr-off false false
ttya-ignore-cd true true
ttyb-mode 9600,8,n,1,- 9600,8,n,1,-
ttya-mode 9600,8,n,1,- 9600,8,n,1,-
pci2-probe-list 6,2,3,4,5 6,2,3,4,5
pci3-probe-list 1 1
pcib-probe-list 1,2,3,4 1,2,3,4
pcia-probe-list 1 1
mfg-mode off off
diag-level max max
#power-cycles 123
system-board-serial#
system-board-date
last-poweroff-cause 0 0
env-monitor enabled enabled
fcode-debug? false false
output-device ttya screen
input-device ttya keyboard
load-base 16384 16384
auto-boot-retry? false false
use-boot-table? false false
boot-command boot boot
auto-boot? true true
watchdog-reboot? false false
diag-file
diag-device disk net net
boot-file
boot-device disk disk net
local-mac-address? false false
net-timeout 0 0
ansi-terminal? true true
screen-#columns 80 80
screen-#rows 34 34
silent-mode? false false
use-nvramrc? false false
nvramrc
security-mode none
security-password
security-#badlogins 0
oem-logo
oem-logo? false false
oem-banner
oem-banner? false false
hardware-revision
last-hardware-update
diag-switch? false false
{0} ok boot floppy
Initializing Memory \
Boot device: /pci@1f,4000/ebus@1/fdthree File and args:
SILO
Welcome to Debian GNU/Linux 3.0!
This is the Debian Rescue disk. Keep it once you have installed
your system, as you can boot from it to repair the system on your
hard disk if that ever becomes necessary.
On most systems, you can go ahead and press <ENTER> to begin
installation. You will probably want to try doing that before you try
anything else. If you run into trouble, or if you already have
questions, press the <TAB> key to list alternative boot options or
enter the "help" keyword to show a message about SILO boot commands.
If you are booting the sun4c rescue image, you should use the normal
sparc install images for the kernel and drivers once the install asks you
for them. The only reason this image is needed, is to make booting the
slow sun4c systems easier by not compressing the kernel image on the
floppy disk. This is not a problem once the system is installed on the
harddrive.
WARNING: You should completely back up all of your hard disks before
proceeding. The installation procedure can completely and
irreversibly erase them! If you haven't made backups yet, remove
the rescue disk from the drive and enter the "halt" keyword
to get back to the monitor.
Debian GNU/Linux comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY, to the extent
permitted by applicable law.
This disk uses the Linux kernel 2.4.18-sun4u
Press <F1> for help, or <ENTER> to boot.
boot:
Uncompressing image...
/
Remapping the kernel... done.
Booting Linux...
PROMLIB: Sun IEEE Boot Prom 3.10.50 1999/09/13 14:38
Linux version 2.4.18 (root@vore) (gcc version egcs-2.92.11 19980921 (gcc2 ss-980609 experimental)) #2 Thu Apr 11 14:37:17 EDT 2002
ARCH: SUN4U
Ethernet address: 08:00:20:c4:cc:b6
On node 0 totalpages: 261547
zone(0): 393047 pages.
zone(1): 0 pages.
zone(2): 0 pages.
Found CPU 0 (node=f0084bd4,mid=0)
Found CPU 1 (node=f0084f40,mid=1)
Found 2 CPU prom device tree node(s).
Kernel command line: root=/dev/fd1 rw load_ramdisk=1 prompt_ramdisk=1 disksize=1.44
Calibrating delay loop... 799.53 BogoMIPS
Memory: 2043200k available (1944k kernel code, 512k data, 168k init) [fffff80000000000,00000000bfeae000]
Dentry-cache hash table entries: 262144 (order: 9, 4194304 bytes)
Inode-cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 8, 2097152 bytes)
Mount-cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 6, 524288 bytes)
Buffer-cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 7, 1048576 bytes)
Page-cache hash table entries: 262144 (order: 8, 2097152 bytes)
POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
PCI: Probing for controllers.
PCI: Found PSYCHO, control regs at 000001fe00000000
PSYCHO: Shared PCI config space at 000001fe01000000
PCI: Found PSYCHO, control regs at 000001c800000000
PSYCHO: Shared PCI config space at 000001c801000000
PCI1(PBMB): Bus running at 33MHz
PCI1(PBMA): Bus running at 66MHz
PCI0(PBMB): Bus running at 33MHz
PCI0(PBMA): Bus running at 66MHz
ebus0: [auxio] [power] [SUNW,pll] [sc] [se] [su_pnp] [su_pnp] [ecpp] [fdthree] [eeprom] [flashprom] [i2c -> (adc) (adc) (adc) (gpi]
PCIO serial driver version 1.54
su(mouse) at 0x1fff13602f8 (irq = 4,7ea) is a 16550A
Sun Mouse-Systems mouse driver version 1.00
su(kbd) at 0x1fff13803f8 (irq = 9,7e9) is a 16550A
keyboard: not present
SAB82532 serial driver version 1.65
ttyS00 at 0x1fff1400000 (irq = 12,7eb) is a SAB82532 V3.2
ttyS01 at 0x1fff1400040 (irq = 12,7eb) is a SAB82532 V3.2
Console: ttyS0 (SAB82532)
power: Control reg at 000001fff1724000 ... powerd running.
Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.4
Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039
Initializing RT netlink socket
Starting kswapd
Journalled Block Device driver loaded
pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured
rtc_init: no PC rtc found
block: 128 slots per queue, batch=32
RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 4096K size 1024 blocksize
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 6.31
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
FDC 0 is a National Semiconductor PC87306
loop: loaded (max 8 devices)
sunhme.c:v1.99 12/Sep/99 David S. Miller (davem@redhat.com)
eth0: HAPPY MEAL (PCI/CheerIO) 10/100BaseT Ethernet 08:00:20:c4:cc:b6
SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00
sym.0.2.0: setting PCI_COMMAND_PARITY...
sym.0.2.0: setting PCI_COMMAND_INVALIDATE.
sym.0.6.0: setting PCI_COMMAND_PARITY...
sym.0.6.0: setting PCI_COMMAND_INVALIDATE.
sym.0.6.1: setting PCI_COMMAND_PARITY...
sym.0.6.1: setting PCI_COMMAND_INVALIDATE.
sym0: <875> rev 0x4 on pci bus 0 device 2 function 0 irq 4,110
sym0: No NVRAM, ID 7, Fast-20, SE, parity checking
sym0: SCSI BUS has been reset.
sym1: <875> rev 0x14 on pci bus 0 device 6 function 0 irq 4,120
sym1: No NVRAM, ID 7, Fast-20, SE, parity checking
sym1: SCSI BUS has been reset.
sym2: <875> rev 0x14 on pci bus 0 device 6 function 1 irq 4,120
sym2: No NVRAM, ID 7, Fast-20, SE, parity checking
sym2: SCSI BUS has been reset.
scsi0 : sym-2.1.17a
scsi1 : sym-2.1.17a
scsi2 : sym-2.1.17a
Vendor: SEAGATE Model: ST39173WC Rev: 5764
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Vendor: TOSHIBA Model: CD-ROM XM-6401TA Rev: 1015
Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02
sym2:0:0: tagged command queuing enabled, command queue depth 16.
Attached scsi disk sda at scsi2, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
sym2:0: FAST-20 WIDE SCSI 40.0 MB/s ST (50.0 ns, offset 15)
sda: Spinning up disk.....................ready
SCSI device sda: 17783240 512-byte hdwr sectors (9105 MB)
Partition check:
sda: sda1 sda2 sda3
Attached scsi CD-ROM sr0 at scsi2, channel 0, id 6, lun 0
sym2:6: FAST-20 SCSI 20.0 MB/s ST (50.0 ns, offset 16)
sr0: scsi-1 drive
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.12
usb.c: registered new driver usbdevfs
usb.c: registered new driver hub
usb.c: registered new driver keyboard
usbkbd.c: :USB HID Boot Protocol keyboard driver
mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0
IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP
IP: routing cache hash table of 16384 buckets, 256Kbytes
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 262144 bind 65536)
NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0.
VFS: Insert root floppy disk to be loaded into RAM disk and press ENTER
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