Hi,
Op Thu 4 Feb 2010 om 09:16:20 +0000 schreef Jurij Smakov:
> On Thu, Feb 04, 2010 at 06:40:32AM +0100, Joost van Baal wrote:
> > Op Wed 3 Feb 2010 om 11:08:44 +0100 schreef Joost van Baal:
> > > Op Wed 3 Feb 2010 om 09:52:57 +0000 schreef Jurij Smakov:
> > > > Do you see the firmware on the initrd after it drops you into the
> > > > initrd shell?
> > >
> > > Can't check now: just found out my USB keyboard is not working in this shell.
> > > I'll reboot tomorrow with an old school VT terminal, or try to rebuild the
> > > initrd with usb-support.
> >
> > Yes, I see it:
> >
> > (initramfs) ls lib/firmware
> > ql2100_fw.bin ql2300_fw.bin ql2400_fw.bin
> > ql2200_fw.bin ql2322_fw.bin ql2500_fw.bin
> >
> > > > If it's there, what happens if you remove the module and
> > > > then reload it:
> > > >
> > > > modprobe -r qla2xxx
> > > > modprobe qla2xxx
> >
> > This works!
> >
> > [...] sda: sda1 sda2 sda3 sda4
> > ...
> > [...] sdb: sdb1 sdb2
> >
> > However, after disks have been detected, I get:
> >
> > (initramfs) exit
> > Begin: Running scripts/local-premount ... done
> > mount: mounting /dev/sdb1 on /root failed: No such device
>
> Yeah, unfortunately, this is expected. I think that the root device
> setting comes from /etc/silo.conf, change it there, then run 'silo -f'
> as root, just in case. Unfortunately, I don't have any ideas why
> firmware loading fails the first time, but at least you will have a
> workaround now.
Yep, this works around it. Thanks!
I've also done:
root@rolle:/etc/initramfs-tools# vi modules
(add 2 lines:
ohci_hcd
ieee1394
)
root@rolle:~# update-initramfs -k all -u
and reboot, to be able to do edits while on the (initramfs) prompt, using usb
keyboard/mouse with a normal screen (i.e. not serial console).
I believe creating a file /etc/initramfs-tools/scripts/local-top/qla2xxx with
contents
#!/bin/sh
modprobe -r qla2xxx
modprobe qla2xxx
and running
# update-initramfs -k all -u
would work around the need to run these commands each boot in initramfs shell.
Unfortunately had no time to implement and test that.
Furthermore I've uncommented the ttyS0 line in /etc/inittab, and ran
# telinit Q
in order to get a login session on my serial console.
X still looks bad. Perhaps someone at the FOSDEM booth can fix it there;
else we'll demo without X. We'll see :)
Thanks again for your help!
Bye,
Joost
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