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Emphii
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 Posted: Thu Nov 11, 2004 8:06 am Post subject: HPPA distfiles does not copy over from LiveCD 2004.2 |
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I've stucked with copying distfiles over from LiveCD 2004.2.
I've changed memory, cd-rom and HDD once already, but still same
problem occurs.
It mainly stops to X11R6.7.0-src1.tar.gz.
Any helping ideas?
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squawker
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What machine is this?
Which kernel version is on the 2004.2 LiveCD?
SCSI or IDE cd-rom?
If SCSI, which interface (narrow, wide, single ended, differential?)
Which interface is the HD on?
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Emphii
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| Posted: Thu Nov 11, 2004 12:09 pm Post subject: |
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| Quote: | What machine is this?
Which kernel version is on the 2004.2 LiveCD?
SCSI or IDE cd-rom?
If SCSI, which interface (narrow, wide, single ended, differential?)
Which interface is the HD on?
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C360
2.4.26 I suppose
SCSI - SE
HD is WSE. (btw narrow & se = same)
I'm on step 5.d. Installing Portage in the manual, which is on sparc dist more detailed
when you learn to use fdisk.
I downloaded and unpacked stage1 and did the necessary directory.
This - by the way- occurs also, when I execute command:
tar -xvjpf /mnt/cdrom/stages/stage1*.bz2
It does the job for a while, but then it freezes.
Only way to get out is power cord.
Both - stage1 and portage downloaded from network succesfully unpacks,
but I did not manage to find distfiles.tar.bz2 from net, which could be the
wrap. There is a huge job to download all those packages individually.. =)
I think I'll try to install HPUX to this machine first and if it goes ok, then I should
try this again.
md5sum matched to LiveCD.
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| Posted: Thu Nov 11, 2004 3:07 pm Post subject: |
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Hmm, C360 is a Raven W. There was a bug in the CCIO DMA code on Raven machines that was introduced early in the 2.6 series. It showed up as a crash and lockup under heavy disk load. I seem to remember James Bottomley was seeing the problem on a C200 or C240 (Raven U+ - same guts as your C360) and I saw it on a C180 (Raven U).
Sure the live-cd isn't a 2.6.x kernel? If so it could be this bug. I think it got fixed by James - I'll try to check status this evening.
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Emphii
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| Posted: Fri Nov 12, 2004 9:32 am Post subject: |
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| Quote: | Hmm, C360 is a Raven W. There was a bug in the CCIO DMA code on Raven machines that was introduced early in the 2.6 series. It showed up as a crash and lockup under heavy disk load. I seem to remember James Bottomley was seeing the problem on a C200 or C240 (Raven U+ - same guts as your C360) and I saw it on a C180 (Raven U).
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Tadaa..  I got to work this morning and got an bright idea to check the firmware, if
it is quite old. Oh yeah it was - BUT! It turned out, that this machine got ONLY C360
cover.. =) In real life it's C200 =b
So now I'm starting from this point. I'll try to copy files over dir by dir to see, if it helps.
I'll get back to this.
So it might be that in REAL C360 (not only cover saying so) it all could work. I'm not sure
if I have this correct CPU on stock.
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I found C360 CPU from stock, and I'm having problems with graphicscard (after fw upgrade).
I'll get back to this on monday. =)
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Allright. One day wiser.
So - on C360 there were just same bug, as squawker mentioned. This came out with 2.4
kernel and with LiveCD Universal 2004.2. When tried 2.6 kernel (or vmlinux64 on boot)
kernel panic was answer.
Because 2004.3 was released and i'm (trying to be) "extreme" installer with these =) ,
I tried one, but distfiles were missing, as I wrote elsewhere here. Well I did a workaround
and copied distfiles from 2004.2, because there were no disk-issue now.
One (/etc/)issue I got was interesting, when two cd:s were sametime at drives and booted
from drive at id 2 (2004.3). When startup comes to scsi-reset part, it tried to change to
another cd at drive id 1 (2004.2) and got somekind of loop for a while, before I ejected the
disk.
Note, I'm running this vmlinux64 from boot prompt.
Other minor issue were keyboard. Because I'm finnish, I MAY want fi-keyboard layout -
didn't succeed. Enter gives C, Control gives 7 and Caps Lock. Quite annoying. =)
So, default layout - everyone knows yankee-layout.
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| Emphii wrote: | I found C360 CPU from stock, and I'm having problems with graphicscard (after fw upgrade).
I'll get back to this on monday. =) |
Hmm, there's no built-in graphics on C360, is there? So you have a graphics card in one of the GSC or PCI slots? Do you know what card it is. If its an FX then there's no framebuffer support - only STI console. That's because there's no documentation available for FX 
If your luckier you have Vis-EG, HCRX (A4070A/B) or HCRX24 (A4071A/B). These all work, but there are some 32bpp problems on HCRX24 - you might want to boot with the commandline option stifb=bpp:8 to be on the safe side. I sent Helge Deller an HCRX24 a week ago so he can work out the bugs. There are some incomplete workarounds in the current pa kernels. |
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Emphii
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| Quote: | | Hmm, there's no built-in graphics on C360, is there? |
Nope. External only.
| Quote: | | If your luckier you have Vis-EG, HCRX (A4070A/B) or HCRX24 (A4071A/B). These all work, but there are some 32bpp problems on HCRX24 - you might want to boot with the commandline option stifb=bpp:8 to be on the safe side. I sent Helge Deller an HCRX24 a week ago so he can work out the bugs. There are some incomplete workarounds in the current pa kernels. |
Well..The main problem was, that it didn't show up the boot screen, where you can select what to do (boot, configure etc.).
Now I have A4977A VisEG-PCI plugged in. Former was A4982A Vis fxe. Before firmware upgrade it showed up everything, I wanted to see, except little Tux. =)
Anyway, system is now compiling scripts/bootstrap.sh, so it seems to be better now.. =)
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