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NotQuiteSane
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 Posted: Sun Nov 07, 2010 9:23 am Post subject: Failure attempting to boot new install on a ultra 10 |
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I got some of my sparcs from where they were, and am trying to convert the first u10 to gentoo. i get through the handbook fine, but on booting I see:
| Code: | Rebooting with command: boot
Boot device: /pci@1f/pci@1,1/ide@3/disk@0,0:a File and args:
SILO Version 1.4.14
boot:
Allocated 64 Megs of memory aj 0x40000000 for kernel
Cannot find /kernel-2010nov06 )Unknown ext2 error: 2133571404)
Image not found..... try again
boot: |
/boot:
| Code: | total 4454
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 1 Nov 6 06:36 boot -> .
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1024 Nov 6 08:11 fd.b
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 512 Nov 6 08:11 first.b
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1024 Nov 6 08:11 generic.b
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 724 Nov 6 08:11 ieee32.b
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7720 Nov 6 08:11 isofs.b
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 4592976 Nov 6 19:05 kernel-2010nov06
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7680 Nov 6 22:20 old.b
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 77824 Nov 6 23:13 second.b
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 75575 Nov 6 08:11 silotftp.b
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 512 Nov 6 08:11 ultra.b |
fstab:
| Code: | /dev/sda1 / ext2 noatime 0 1
/dev/sda2 none swap sw 0 0
/dev/sdd2 none swap sw 0 0
/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom auto noauto,ro 0 0
shm /dev/shm tmpfs nodev,nosuid,noexec 0 0
/dev/vg/opt /opt ext2 defaults 0 0
/dev/vg/usr /usr ext2 defaults 0 0
/dev/vg/var /var ext2 defaults 0 0
codex:/usr/portage /usr/portage nfs defaults 0 0
codex:/home /home nfs defaults 0 0
codex:/var/lib/portage/packages/sparc /var/lib/portage/packages/sparc nfs |
silo.conf:
| Code: | partition = 1
root = /dev/sda1
timeout = 100
image = /kernel-2010nov06
label = linux |
I can post more if needed, but for kernel settings, to save space please specify what to grep for.
I've searched the error message both here and in google, and tried what was suggested, however I'm having 'no joy' in getting it to boot. Suggestions leading to a solution would be appreciated, I can't move on to the next machine until this one boots.
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aderesch
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| Posted: Sun Nov 07, 2010 9:54 am Post subject: Re: Failure attempting to boot new install on a ultra 10 |
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IIRC the kernel image has to be smaller than 4 MB. Try building more things as modules, use zImage, strip the image.
Actually: Your kernel is in /boot, not in /. You need to fix your silo.conf.
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NotQuiteSane
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| Posted: Sun Nov 07, 2010 12:01 pm Post subject: Re: Failure attempting to boot new install on a ultra 10 |
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| aderesch wrote: | IIRC the kernel image has to be smaller than 4 MB. Try building more things as modules, use zImage, strip the image.
Actually: Your kernel is in /boot, not in /. You need to fix your silo.conf.
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hmm. Handbook says 7.5mb. I rebuilt it, making everything but video, disk and ext2 modules (and one it's up will probably move video to modules). stripped the image, but missed zImage. came out to 4.2mb. just compressed the kernel and now get 1.7mb
changing both old and new kernel to /boot/kernel-{kernel name} lets me start booting kernel, but the video output goes wacky and it's obviously hanging. I tried appending 'video=atyfb:1024x768@60' to the kernel line, but it makes no change.
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| Posted: Sun Nov 07, 2010 12:26 pm Post subject: Re: Failure attempting to boot new install on a ultra 10 |
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The size was just something that caught my eye. It's quite possible, that the limit I recall is valid for older kernels, silo versions, for 32bit systems or plain wrong.
| NotQuiteSane wrote: | | changing both old and new kernel to /boot/kernel-{kernel name} lets me start booting kernel, but the video output goes wacky and it's obviously hanging. I tried appending 'video=atyfb:1024x768@60' to the kernel line, but it makes no change. |
So it boots, good. I would try without framebuffer support (just PROM console) to verify everything else is working.
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| Posted: Sun Nov 07, 2010 1:58 pm Post subject: Re: Failure attempting to boot new install on a ultra 10 |
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| aderesch wrote: | So it boots, good. I would try without framebuffer support (just PROM console) to verify everything else is working.
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Do you mean over a serial console? I'll have to buy a cable first (need it anyhow)
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| Posted: Sun Nov 07, 2010 2:16 pm Post subject: Re: Failure attempting to boot new install on a ultra 10 |
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| NotQuiteSane wrote: | | Do you mean over a serial console? I'll have to buy a cable first (need it anyhow) |
That would be the next step. Right now I just meant disabling all framebuffer drivers, so you get the slow, text-only console provided by OpenPROM.
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| Posted: Mon Nov 08, 2010 2:51 am Post subject: Re: Failure attempting to boot new install on a ultra 10 |
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| aderesch wrote: | | NotQuiteSane wrote: | | Do you mean over a serial console? I'll have to buy a cable first (need it anyhow) |
That would be the next step. Right now I just meant disabling all framebuffer drivers, so you get the slow, text-only console provided by OpenPROM.
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again, same results.
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| Posted: Mon Nov 08, 2010 10:52 am Post subject: |
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The kernel can select the appropriate console driver, you need to ake sure that the required console drivers are compiled in. Which graphic adapter is installed on the Ultra-10? If you know what it is, compile the appropriate console driver into the kernel and reboot. It will then use it if it can find it.
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Well, slight progress. I got fed up and decided to zcat the kernel on the live cd (sysrescuecd, I can't get dvorak to work on the gentoo one). the only change I made was to give it a name in the feild and drop bluetooth. I left every thing else alone. Now I get a full screen, But I do see an irregularity. seems I have a 576mb memory hole with 256mb of ram. I've re-configured the kernel again, taking out everything I know it doesn't have, changing a few things to modules and adding a couple things into the graphics section (while not removing any of what was there). am compiling now and will hopefully get sucess once it's done.
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You need to make sure CONFIG_EARLYFB is enabled, so it can probe for the correct console driver and switch to it during booting.
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| alexbuell wrote: | | You need to make sure CONFIG_EARLYFB is enabled, so it can probe for the correct console driver and switch to it during booting. |
It was, but it still fails to boot.
here is my .config from the latest attempt.
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In your kernel config try eliminating the CMD640 driver and only using the CMD64X driver.
Copy your silo.conf into your /boot directory, then run /sbin/silo.
In /boot/silo.conf, you need to make sure that you specify that your kernel is in /boot, not off of /. |
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| winblowzxp wrote: | In your kernel config try eliminating the CMD640 driver and only using the CMD64X driver.
Copy your silo.conf into your /boot directory, then run /sbin/silo.
In /boot/silo.conf, you need to make sure that you specify that your kernel is in /boot, not off of /. |
ok, it boots to login prompt. however, 3 issues:
no key board
lvm is not starting (and therefor no services, since /usr doesn't mount)
I appended 'video=atyfb:1024x768@60" to the image line in /boot/silo.conf, but silo gives "error parsing silo config file /boot/silo.conf"
i'm double checking the keyboard is present in kernel. lvm2 is installed and in the boot runlevel, so it should run, and i have no idea why silo won't validate
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