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Re: Installing etch on netra T1 200 => no disk found



On Thu, 2009-02-19 at 10:58 +0100, Laurent GUERBY wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm trying to install etch (since lenny installer freezes during network
> detection) on my netra T1 200. My problem is that no disk are detected
> whereas I added two disks to the netra.
> 
> Any idea on what to try? I did a loop modprobe on all drivers in scsi
> but this didn't make a difference. May be there's something to do in the
> firmware?

The disks were not secured to their scsi plug so I just needed to push
and lock them... Stoopid me :).

Etch installed fine, with just a bizarre thing
during partitionning: even if the disk is displayed at 36GB
the partitionner used only 6GB and displayed an error about
too many partitions. But this did not prevent the install
and etch came up fine.

gcc54:~# df -h
Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda2             6.0G  640M  5.0G  12% /
tmpfs                 759M     0  759M   0% /lib/init/rw
udev                   10M   56K   10M   1% /dev
tmpfs                 759M     0  759M   0% /dev/shm
/dev/sda1              93M   13M   76M  15% /boot
gcc54:~# fdisk /dev/sda

Command (m for help): p

Disk /dev/sda (Sun disk label): 27 heads, 107 sectors, 4425 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 2889 * 512 bytes

   Device Flag    Start       End    Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1             0        68     98226    1  Boot
/dev/sda2            68      4427   6296575+  83  Linux native
/dev/sda3             0      4427   6394801+   5  Whole disk

Command (m for help): q

I did not dare play with fdisk, any idea on what to try to recover 36GB?
The disk reference: Seagate Cheetah 73LP 36GB 10K U160 80pin SCA-2 SCSI
Hard Drive ST336605LC.

I then dist-upgraded to lenny but at reboot it looks like
when detecting the network the machine froze, just like the lenny
installer did. Garbled in the serial console I believe I saw
a kernel panic backtrace scrolling. My guess is that the
lenny kernel driver for the ethernet card has some issue
the etch kernel driver didn't have.

So back to reinstalling etch for me.

Thanks in advance,

Laurent

> ~ # lspci -nn
> 00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: Sun Microsystems Computer Corp. Ultra IIe [108e:a001]
> 00:01.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Sun Microsystems Computer Corp. Simba Advanced PCI Bridge [108e:5000] (rev 13)
> 
> 00:01.1 PCI bridge [0604]: Sun Microsystems Computer Corp. Simba Advanced PCI Bridge [108e:5000] (rev 13)
> 
> 01:03.0 Non-VGA unclassified device [0000]: ALi Corporation M7101 Power Management Controller [PMU] [10b9:7101]
> 01:05.1 Ethernet controller [0200]: Sun Microsystems Computer Corp. RIO GEM [108e:1101] (rev 01)
> 
> 01:05.3 USB Controller [0c03]: Sun Microsystems Computer Corp. RIO USB [108e:1103] (rev 01)
> 01:07.0 ISA bridge [0601]: ALi Corporation M1533/M1535 PCI to ISA Bridge [Aladdin IV/V/V+] [10b9:1533]
> 01:0c.0 Bridge [0680]: Sun Microsystems Computer Corp. RIO EBUS [108e:1100] (rev 01)
> 01:0c.1 Ethernet controller [0200]: Sun Microsystems Computer Corp. RIO GEM [108e:1101] (rev 01)
> 01:0c.3 USB Controller [0c03]: Sun Microsystems Computer Corp. RIO USB [108e:1103] (rev 01)
> 01:0d.0 IDE interface [0101]: ALi Corporation M5229 IDE [10b9:5229] (rev c3)
> 02:08.0 SCSI storage controller [0100]: LSI Logic / Symbios Logic 53C896/897 [1000:000b] (rev 07)
> 02:08.1 SCSI storage controller [0100]: LSI Logic / Symbios Logic 53C896/897 [1000:000b] (rev 07)
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 
> Laurent
> 
> 


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