Re: SPARC SunBlade 2000 fails to find disks: ql2200_fw.bin not found, "Firmware image unavailable." (kernel 2.6.26, Debian lenny)
Hi Jurij e.a.,
Op Wed 3 Feb 2010 om 10:22:15 +0100 schreef Joost van Baal:
> Op Wed 3 Feb 2010 om 07:36:50 +0000 schreef Jurij Smakov:
> > On Wed, Feb 03, 2010 at 06:23:03PM +0100, Joost van Baal wrote:
> > >
> > > I'm installing Debian lenny on a SunBlade 2000 sparc for demo-ing at the FOSDEM
> > > conference debian booth. ql2200_fw.bin is not found by my kernel, while it
> > > _is_ included in the initrd. Booting the system from a Debian installer CD,
> > > and supplying ql2200_fw.bin via an USB-stick works just fine: I've installed
> > > the complete OS on the system's disks this way.
> > >
> > > The kernel on disk is vmlinuz-2.6.26-2-sparc64 from
> > > linux-image-2.6.26-2-sparc64 package, version 2.6.26-21.
> > > /usr/sbin/update-initramfs is from initramfs-tools (0.92o).
> > >
> > > Any clues on how to get this system to find it's disks is very much
> > > appreciated. Unfortunately little time is left for me: the conference is gonna
> > > happen in 3 days, while the system is scheduled to get shipped there even
> > > earlier....
> >
> > Can you check that the firmware file actually makes it to the initrd?
> > It's just a gzipped cpio archive, you can extract it like that (in a
> > temp directory):
> >
> > cp /boot/initrd-<version> initrd.gz
> > gzip -d initrd.gz
> > cpio -i < initrd
>
> Yes, it is included in the initrd:
>
> ~ # mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt
> ~ # for i in proc sys dev dev/pts; do mount --bind /$i /mnt/$i ;done
> ~ # chroot /mnt
> sh-3.2# mount /usr
> sh-3.2# mount /tmp
> sh-3.2# cd /tmp
> sh-3.2# zcat /boot/initrd.img | cpio -i
> 18477 blocks
> sh-3.2# ls -l lib/firmware/ql2*
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 76802 Feb 3 21:19 lib/firmware/ql2100_fw.bin
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 84566 Feb 3 21:19 lib/firmware/ql2200_fw.bin <- the right one
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 123170 Feb 3 21:19 lib/firmware/ql2300_fw.bin
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 132978 Feb 3 21:19 lib/firmware/ql2322_fw.bin
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 227884 Feb 3 21:19 lib/firmware/ql2400_fw.bin
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 198044 Feb 3 21:19 lib/firmware/ql2500_fw.bin
>
> I'll reboot once more and will record the exact kernel error messages.
> Perhaps that'll help...
Some of the boot messages:
[...] QLogic Fiber Channel HBA Driver: 8.02.01-k4
[...] qla2xxx 0001:00:04.0: Found an ISP2200, irq 22, iobase 0x00....
[...] qla2xxx 0001:00:04.0: Configuring PCI space...
[...] qla2xxx 0001:00:04.0: Configure NVRAM parameters...
[...] qla2xxx 0001:00:04.0: Inconsistent NVRAM detected: checksum=0x0 id=<4>qla2xxx 0001:00:04.0: Falling back to functioning (yet invalid -- WWPN) defaults.
[...] qla2xxx 0001:00:04.0: Verifying loaded RISC code...
[...] firmware: requesting ql2200_fw.bin
[...] qla2xxx 0001:00:04.0: Firmware image unavailable.
[...] qla2xxx 0001:00:04.0: Firmware images can be retreived from: ftp://ftp.qlogic.com/outgoing/linux/firmware/.
Failed to initialize adapter
done.
Begin: Running /scripts/init-premount ... done.
....
Waiting for root filesystem ... done.
Gave up waiting for root device. Common problems:
...
ALERT! /dev/sdb1 does not exist. Dropping to a shell!
Perhaps ql2200_fw.bin should not be installed as /lib/firmware/ql2200_fw.bin in
the initrd, but at some other location? (I'll inspect the installer's initrd
tomorrow; first get some sleep now...)
Or maybe some needed modules are missing from the initrd? (While installing
I've chosen "custom", not "just include all modules".)
Or maybe the "Inconsistent NVRAM" is causing the troubles?
Any help is welcomed.
Thanks, Bye,
Joost
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