Re: help ?

[Dale Scheetz <dwarf@polaris.net>]

On Thu, 29 Aug 1996 shankar@csnio.ren.nic.in wrote:

> Hi,
> My pentium is not booting after I installed Debian 1.1 (kernel 2.0.0).  The
> system hangs after configuring the serial ports.  Here is what the last screen
> looks like.
> 
> ----------------
> Running /etc/init.d/boot
> .
> Loading modules lp ...
> ne loading device 'eth0'
> eth0: NE2000 found at 0x300, using irq 9
> .
> cdrom Module inserted ...
> isofs ncpfs nfs nfs smbfs ipx                   # module nfs is loaded twice?
> .
> serial Serial driver version 4.13 with no serial options enabled
> tty00 at 0x03f8 (irq=4) is a 16550A
> tty01 at 0x02f8 (irq=3) is a 16550A
> 
> Mounting local file systems...
> /proc on /proc type proc (rw)
> /dev/sda2 on /user1 type ext2 (rw)
> /dev/sdb1 on /user2 type ext2 (rw)
> 
> none: Host name lookup failure                 # But hostname was configured
> 
> Mounting remote file systems...
> Local time:                                    # I chose "localtime" *
> 
> Cleaning up /tmp, /var/run and /var/lock ... done
> Console setup:
>    Linking /dev/console to /dev/tty0
> 
> Configuring serial ports....done.
> /dev/cua0 at 0x03f8 (irq=4) is a 16550A
> /dev/cua1 at 0x02f8 (irq=3) is a 16550A
> 
> -------------------------
> That's it; here the system hangs.
> I went over the installation procedure again, this time doing everything except
> partitioning the two SCSI disks - the old scheme was retained.  After
> configuring, I went into the shell instead of rebooting and checked some of the
> boot scripts.  I am not familiar with shell scripts, but found one error in
> /etc/init.d/boot : a chown command was wrong (chown root.tty ...); I changed
> root.tty to root:tty, and rebooted the system.  It hung at the same point.
> 
> The first time I did the installation, I chose the "hard disk boot" option, but
> this did not work.  It hung, searching for a disk in the FDD.  On inserting the
> boot floppy, which too had been prepared, it booted, only to hang as mentioned
> above.
> 
> I am not sure what other information would be useful, but here are some of the
> hardware details.
> 
> Pentium 100 MHz
> Two SCSI HDDs : SEAGATE ST5 1080N (1030 Mb each)
> using Future Domain TMC-3260 (PCI) controller.
> One 3.5" FDD
> One ATAPI CDROM
> NE2000 ethernet
> Monitor is 14" SVGA colour
> 
Looks like you have no driver for the Future Domain controler in your
kernel. Look at the special kernels and see if there is one that will
work. If not, let me know, and I will try to build you a custom kernel.

Luck,

Dwarf

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