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The DF MB2
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Location: Sydney, Australia
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 Posted: Fri Jun 24, 2005 4:53 am Post subject: Install on IBM 7043-140 |
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I downloaded the Minimal 2005.0 ISO and burnt it to a CD and attempted to install Gentoo on this IBM machine. As the system booted the CD the drive stopped reading it after a second and stayed idle.
I'd guess that this port is predominately supporting Macintosh PPC computers, how much PReP support is there as well? Should booting the CD on this system have the same ease as a Macintosh (or others like Amiga machines) or would I be booting from floppies (like Debian)? I'm installing this via serial console.
Should there be some Open Firmware commands I should be aware of to boot it properly?
Thanks,
Simon
EDIT: I followed the guide on this site: http://www.solinno.co.uk/7043-140/walkthrough/firstboot/ got to booting the floppy but it kept throwing errors at me. I used this image: http://www.solinno.co.uk/7043-140/files/2.6.9-rc2-bk5/zImage.prep thinking it was the 'latest' release. Now, I'm stuck on what to load at the 'Linux/PPC load:' prompt. The default load options didn't work:
| Code: | Linux/PPC load: console=tty0 console=ttyS0 root=/dev/sda3
Uncompressing Linux...done.
Now booting the kernel
Total memory = 256MB; using 512kB for hash table (at c0380000)
Linux version 2.6.9-rc2-bk5 (leigh@george) (gcc version 3.3.2) #2 Sun Sep 19 14:
29:22 BST 2004
PReP architecture
IBM planar ID: d5
MPIC at 0xf7fc0000 (0x37fc0000), length 0x00040000 mapped to 0xeffc0000
Built 1 zonelists
Kernel command line: console=tty0 console=ttyS0 root=/dev/sda3
OpenPIC Version 1.0 (4 CPUs and 16 IRQ sources) at effc0000
PID hash table entries: 2048 (order: 11, 32768 bytes)
time_init: decrementer frequency = 16.617604 MHz
Console: colour dummy device 80x25
Dentry cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
Inode-cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
Memory: 255488k available (2248k kernel code, 1004k data, 164k init, 0k highmem)
Mount-cache hash table entries: 512 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
NET: Registered protocol family 16
PCI: Probing PCI hardware
Setting PCI interrupts for a "IBM Model 7042/7043 (ED)"
PCI: Cannot allocate resource region 0 of PCI bridge 1
PCI: bridge 1 resource 0 moved to 7ff000..7fffff
PCI: Cannot allocate resource region 0 of device 0000:00:0b.0
PCI: Cannot allocate resource region 0 of device 0000:00:0c.0
PCI: Cannot allocate resource region 0 of device 0000:00:10.0
PCI: Cannot allocate resource region 0 of device 0000:01:03.0
Linux Plug and Play Support v0.97 (c) Adam Belay
SCSI subsystem initialized
VFS: Disk quotas dquot_6.5.1
Dquot-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order 0, 4096 bytes)
Initializing Cryptographic API
isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards...
isapnp: No Plug & Play device found
Generic RTC Driver v1.07
Macintosh non-volatile memory driver v1.1
serio: i8042 AUX port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12
serio: i8042 KBD port at 0x60,0x64 irq 1
Serial: 8250/16550 driver $Revision: 1.90 $ 8 ports, IRQ sharing disabled
ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
ttyS1 at I/O 0x2f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
Using deadline io scheduler
Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 2.88M
FDC 0 is a National Semiconductor PC87306
RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 4096K size 1024 blocksize
loop: loaded (max 8 devices)
pcnet32.c:v1.30i 06.28.2004 tsbogend@alpha.franken.de
PCI: Enabling device 0000:00:0c.0 (0000 -> 0003)
pcnet32: PCnet/PCI II 79C970A at 0x1020, 00 06 29 21 77 61 assigned IRQ 22.
eth0: registered as PCnet/PCI II 79C970A
pcnet32: 1 cards_found.
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
PCI: Enabling device 0000:00:10.0 (0010 -> 0013)
sym0: <825a> rev 0x13 at pci 0000:00:10.0 irq 23
sym0: No NVRAM, ID 7, Fast-10, SE, parity checking
sym0: SCSI BUS has been reset.
scsi0 : sym-2.1.18j
sym0:2: FAST-10 SCSI 7.8 MB/s ST (128.0 ns, offset 8)
Vendor: ARCHIVE Model: IBM4326NP/RP !D Rev: 5AL0
Type: Sequential-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
scsi(0:0:2:0): Beginning Domain Validation
sym0:2: asynchronous.
sym0:2: FAST-10 SCSI 7.8 MB/s ST (128.0 ns, offset 8)
scsi(0:0:2:0): Domain Validation skipping write tests
scsi(0:0:2:0): Ending Domain Validation
Vendor: MATSHITA Model: CD-ROM CR-508 Rev: XS07
Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02
scsi(0:0:3:0): Beginning Domain Validation
sym0:3: FAST-10 SCSI 10.0 MB/s ST (100.0 ns, offset 8)
scsi(0:0:3:0): Domain Validation skipping write tests
scsi(0:0:3:0): Ending Domain Validation
sym0:4: FAST-10 WIDE SCSI 20.0 MB/s ST (100.0 ns, offset 8)
Vendor: IBM Model: DCHS04U Rev: 2929
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
sym0:4:0: tagged command queuing enabled, command queue depth 16.
scsi(0:0:4:0): Beginning Domain Validation
sym0:4: FAST-10 SCSI 10.0 MB/s ST (100.0 ns, offset 8)
sym0:4: FAST-10 WIDE SCSI 20.0 MB/s ST (100.0 ns, offset 8)
scsi(0:0:4:0): Domain Validation skipping write tests
scsi(0:0:4:0): Ending Domain Validation
Vendor: IBM Model: DNES-309170W Rev: SA30
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 03
sym0:6:0: tagged command queuing enabled, command queue depth 16.
scsi(0:0:6:0): Beginning Domain Validation
scsi(0:0:6:0): Domain Validation skipping write tests
scsi(0:0:6:0): Ending Domain Validation
SCSI device sda: 8813870 512-byte hdwr sectors (4513 MB)
SCSI device sda: drive cache: write through
sda: sda1 sda2 sda3 sda4 < sda5 sda6 sda7 >
Attached scsi disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 4, lun 0
SCSI device sdb: 17916240 512-byte hdwr sectors (9173 MB)
SCSI device sdb: drive cache: write back
sdb: unknown partition table
Attached scsi disk sdb at scsi0, channel 0, id 6, lun 0
sr0: scsi-1 drive
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20
mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
atkbd.c: keyboard reset failed on isa0060/serio1
atkbd.c: keyboard reset failed on isa0060/serio0
md: linear personality registered as nr 1
md: raid0 personality registered as nr 2
md: raid1 personality registered as nr 3
md: raid5 personality registered as nr 4
raid5: measuring checksumming speed
8regs : 404.000 MB/sec
8regs_prefetch: 360.000 MB/sec
32regs : 372.000 MB/sec
32regs_prefetch: 348.000 MB/sec
raid5: using function: 8regs (404.000 MB/sec)
md: md driver 0.90.0 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MD_SB_DISKS=27
NET: Registered protocol family 2
IP: routing cache hash table of 2048 buckets, 16Kbytes
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 16384 bind 32768)
NET: Registered protocol family 1
NET: Registered protocol family 17
NET: Registered protocol family 15
md: Autodetecting RAID arrays.
md: autorun ...
md: ... autorun DONE.
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.
Freeing unused kernel memory: 164k init 28k pmac 4k chrp 4k openfirmware
Warning: unable to open an initial console.
Kernel panic - not syncing: No init found. Try passing init= option to kernel.
<0>Rebooting in 180 seconds.. |
EDIT: reformatting. |
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The DF MB2
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Joined: 26 Mar 2005
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| Posted: Sat Jun 25, 2005 7:13 am Post subject: Follow up |
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I followed what was said in http://www.solinno.co.uk/7043-140/walkthrough/firstboot/, which gives me:
| Code: | Linux/PPC load: root=/dev/fd0 load_ramdisk=1 ramdisk_size=128000 video=s3trio:off console=ttyS0
Uncompressing Linux...done.
Now booting the kernel
Total memory = 256MB; using 512kB for hash table (at c0380000)
Linux version 2.6.9-rc2-bk5 (leigh@george) (gcc version 3.3.2) #2 Sun Sep 19 14:
29:22 BST 2004
PReP architecture
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NET: Registered protocol family 1
NET: Registered protocol family 17
NET: Registered protocol family 15
md: Autodetecting RAID arrays.
md: autorun ...
md: ... autorun DONE.
VFS: Insert root floppy disk to be loaded into RAM disk and press ENTER |
Thing is, I don't have one! I tried changing the option from 'root=/dev/sda3' to 'root=/dev/scd0' :
| Code: | Linux/PPC load: root=/dev/scd0 load_ramdisk=1 ramdisk_size=128000 video=s3trio:off console=ttyS0
Uncompressing Linux...done.
Now booting the kernel
Total memory = 256MB; using 512kB for hash table (at c0380000)
Linux version 2.6.9-rc2-bk5 (leigh@george) (gcc version 3.3.2) #2 Sun Sep 19 14:
29:22 BST 2004
PReP architecture
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TCP: Hash tables configured (established 16384 bind 32768)
NET: Registered protocol family 1
NET: Registered protocol family 17
NET: Registered protocol family 15
md: Autodetecting RAID arrays.
md: autorun ...
md: ... autorun DONE.
VFS: Cannot open root device "scd0" or unknown-block(0,0)
Please append a correct "root=" boot option
Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0,0)
<0>Rebooting in 180 seconds.. |
Now I'm stumped. I've changed it from scd0 to sr0:
| Code: | Linux/PPC load: root=/dev/sr0 load_ramdisk=1 ramdisk_size=128000 video=s3trio:off console=ttyS0
Uncompressing Linux...done.
Now booting the kernel
Total memory = 256MB; using 512kB for hash table (at c0380000)
Linux version 2.6.9-rc2-bk5 (leigh@george) (gcc version 3.3.2) #2 Sun Sep 19 14:
29:22 BST 2004
PReP architecture
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TCP: Hash tables configured (established 16384 bind 32768)
NET: Registered protocol family 1
NET: Registered protocol family 17
NET: Registered protocol family 15
md: Autodetecting RAID arrays.
md: autorun ...
md: ... autorun DONE.
VFS: Mounted root (iso9660 filesystem) readonly.
Freeing unused kernel memory: 164k init 28k pmac 4k chrp 4k openfirmware
Warning: unable to open an initial console.
Kernel panic - not syncing: No init found. Try passing init= option to kernel.
<0>Rebooting in 180 seconds.. |
I've tried every init= option to no avail. As a newbie to PPC PReP Linux installs, I have no idea what to do now.
Here's ls / if you're interested:
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00c4b1b8: /cpus
00c4ba68: /PowerPC,604@0
00c4bf80: /l2-cache
00c4c850: /mac-rom@ff000000
00c4d2d8: /chosen
00c4d408: /memory@0
00c4da08: /IBM,DIMM@0
00c4dc70: /IBM,DIMM@1
00c4ded8: /IBM,DIMM@2
00c4e6f0: /memory-controller@80000cf8
00c4e818: /rom@fff00000
00c4e9e8: /openprom
00c53958: /options
00c544b0: /aliases
00c55cf8: /packages
00c55d80: /deblocker
00c56568: /disk-label
00c56c50: /obp-tftp
00c62198: /ip
00c68250: /mac-files
00c68960: /mac-parts
00c690c0: /prep-boot
00c6b798: /fat-files
00c6d278: /utilities
00c6eb30: /net
00c72f90: /iso-9660-files
00c73cd8: /xcoff-loader
00c74590: /residual
00c77670: /boot-mgr
00c8b978: /pe-loader
00c8bf10: /elf-loader
00c8dea0: /terminal-emulator
00cc6f70: /gui
00d41490: /post
00c8df38: /pci@80000000
00c91718: /isa@b
00c933e8: /IBM,tablet-port@i898
00c937a8: /nvram@i74
00c93fd0: /rtc@i70
00c95760: /ibm,eeprom@i78
00c97548: /parallel@i3bc
00c97ff8: /serial@i3f8
00c99458: /serial@i2f8
00c9a8b8: /sound@i534
00ca2b00: /ibm,speaker@i42
00ca2f78: /8042@i60
00ca4c28: /fdc@i3f0
00ca8480: /disk@0
00ca8ab8: /IBM,op-panel@i808
00ca9018: /IBM,pwr-mgmt@i82a
00ca98f8: /timer@i40
00ca9dd0: /interrupt-controller@i20
00caa298: /dma-controller@i0
00caa8b8: /ethernet@c
00cafc00: /interrupt-controller@d
00cb0520: /scsi@10
00cb5558: /sd
00cb6628: /st
00cb7a58: /display@16
00cbc5e8: /pci-bridge@17
00cbec30: /ethernet@3
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EDIT: I need to use the Preview more 
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The DF MB2
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| Posted: Sun Jun 26, 2005 12:58 pm Post subject: |
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I downloaded the boot and root disks for the latest release of Debian install and the boot disk never worked. The root disk in conjunction with the above 2.6 boot disk ended with:
| Code: | Linux/PPC load: root=/dev/fd0 load_ramdisk=1 ramdisk_size=128000 video=s3trio:off console=ttyS0
Uncompressing Linux...done.
Now booting the kernel
Total memory = 256MB; using 512kB for hash table (at c0380000)
Linux version 2.6.9-rc2-bk5 (leigh@george) (gcc version 3.3.2) #2 Sun Sep 19 14:
29:22 BST 2004
PReP architecture
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NET: Registered protocol family 1
NET: Registered protocol family 17
NET: Registered protocol family 15
md: Autodetecting RAID arrays.
md: autorun ...
md: ... autorun DONE.
VFS: Insert root floppy disk to be loaded into RAM disk and press ENTER
RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
RAMDISK: incomplete write (-28 != 32768) 4194304
VFS: Insert root floppy and press ENTER
Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(2,0)
<0>Rebooting in 180 seconds.. |
I ended up getting a Debian Woody root disk from http://krichard.web.elte.hu/43p-140/ where I had better success where I could go through with the install process (to an extent, can't finish it) and access and partition hard drives but I could not get to run the install on the Gentoo CD. I even got the Universal PPC CD and it gave me the same results.
I'm about to scrap the disks and trying to make my own disks. Only thing is, I don't have a clue how to! But I gotta learn somehow. So here's some questions:
I would have to compile a kernel for the boot and root disks, how is that done?
I also have a PowerMac G3 Beige with MacOS 10.2 (Developers Tools Dec. 2002). Will that compile a Linux kernel compatible with the 7043-140?
Will it matter if it is based on kernel version 2.4 or 2.6?
If a PReP-specific boot disk can successfully install a Gentoo installation from the CD, can a modified LiveCD have it incorporated in the boot area of the CD-ROM doing away with the floppy? If that's the case, is it plausible to have it integrated with the mainstream Gentoo PPC release CDs? It could enable us RS/6000 users to install Gentoo with the same ease as our Macintosh counterparts.
I'm pretty convinced that if I can boot the CD properly, I can install it without any problems. I aim to get the floppy to load the appropriate drivers (such as SCSI and squashfs) and have it load the CD (whether by boot load option or automatically).
If anyone could help me with the above, it would be greatly appreciated.
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