RE: Debian on Sparc 4 - woody to sarge - some progress
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Hi
All,
Well, I gave it
another bash, but I still experienced a problem with the
reboot.
Applicable
output seen are: -
<snip>
VFS: Disk quotas
vdquot_6.5.1
devfs: boot_options
0x0
Console: switching
to mono PROM 80x34
pty: 256 Unix98 ptys
configured
Floppy drive(s): fd0
is 1.44M
FDC 0 is a post-1991
82077
RAMDISK driver
initialized: 16 RAM disks of 812K size 1024 blocksize
Initializing
Cryptographic API
NET4: Linux TCP/IP
1.0 for NET4.0
IP: routing cache
hash table of 512 buckets, 4Kbytes
TCP: Hash tables
configured (established 4096 bind 8192)
NET4: Unix domian
sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0.
VFS: Cannot open
root device "sda1" or 08:01
Please append a
correct "root=" boot option
Kernel panic: VFS:
Unable to mount root fs on 08:01
Press L1-A to
return to the boot prom
I have no idea what
L1-A is and cannot seem to get a prompt, so I rebooted and used 'stop-a' to get
the boot prompt.
I used the following
command: -
linux
image=1/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.27-2-sparc32
initrd=1/boot/initrd.img-2.4.2.27-2-sparc32 root=/dev/sda1
It appeared to be
working, decompressing the image, but then I just got what appeared to be
the prom prompt back: -
Uncompressing
image...
Loading initial
ramdisk....
PROMLIB: obio_ranges
1
bootmem_init: Scan
sp_banks,
init_bootmem(spfn[20a],bpfn[20a],mlpfn[3faf])
free_bootmem:
base[0] size[3faf000]
reserve_bootmem:
base[1000000] size[10d000]
reserve_bootmem:
base[0] size[20a000]
reserve_bootmem:
base[20a000] size[7f8]
Booting
Linux
Type 'go'
to resume
Type help
for more information
Typing 'go' booted
into Linux with the upgraded kernel surprisingly, I thought I was back at the
beginning again ... shows you how often I have done that before ... never
:-)
So, before doing
anything else, I thought it would be wise to check a few things and also
understand why I got the problem booting into the new kernel and what to do to
repair everything.
I found out my
ethernet interface is missing, an ifconfig -a just shows my loopback, which is
possibly unfortunate. There is no associated hostname file in /etc
anymore. I think this means I will have to configure the kernel which I
have also not done before, so it could be interesting, which is why I say it is
_possibly_ unfortunate :-)
Checking the
kern.log I see this is indeed a SPARC4 sun4m which clears up an earlier
question: -
ARCH:
SUN4M
TYPE: SPARCstation
4
:-)
I also see that it
has seen my ethernet interface as it states the MAC in the log. Checking
the syslog I see only the following: -
Ethernet address:
<MAC>
Whereas I used to see the below entries when it worked
ok: -
Ethernet address:
<MAC>
eth0: LANCE
<MAC>
eth0: using
auto-carrier-detection.
eth0: Carrier Lost,
trying TPE
As this was a
completely basic system with hardly any software installed (wanted to upgrade it
first) there is not too much to check, I can create, edit and remove
files. It would be good to get to a system which needs no interaction
on a reboot and can communicate with other devices though :-) Can
anyone help out?
Thanks again for
your time all.
Cheers,
Steve
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