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 Posted: Sat Aug 27, 2005 3:38 am Post subject: Installation on a Compaq ProLiant 5000 - problem |
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I've put the latest Gentoo Universal 2005.1 CD into the SCSI CD-ROM drive on this machine, which has 896MB of RAM fitted, booted up and entered the following at the Gentoo prompt:
gentoo mem=exactmap mem=640k@0 mem=895M@1M doscsi acpi=off noapic
It does the "loading gentoo.............." and "loading gentoo.igz............................" stuff fine, then "Ready. You passed an undefined mode number. Press <RETURN> to see video modes available, <SPACE> to continue or wait 30 secs"
Under the "VESA VGA" table I select "0" (80x25) and continue on.
All that happens next is the mesage "Uncompressing Linux... Ok, booting the kernel." and it hangs and that's it.
Any ideas?
I've not used a boot disk yet, my assumption is that the "doscsi" option at boot time will load the drivers for me - don't know if that's correct.
Toggling the "noapic" and/or "acpi=off" doesn't make any difference. |
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try the nofb option too
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| nixnut wrote: | | try the nofb option too |
Yes I tried that also - all to no avail. If you run the Memtest option, it passes everything so I don't know where it's going wrong. |
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At least someone seems to have been able to install gentoo on that machine:
https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-1693698.html#1693698
You could try contacting that person.
edit: found something that may help
| Quote: | | gentoo mem=exactmap mem=640k@0 mem=895M@1M doscsi acpi=off noapic |
https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?p=733302#733302 says:
| Quote: | | mem=exactmap mem=640k@0m mem=1023m@1m |
Notice the m after the 640k@0 and maybe capitalisation is important too: m instead of M
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I've tried what you suggested - upper/lower case, adding the 'm' suffix, all comes to nada 
I'll send a pm to the guy you sent a link about and see if he can shed any light on it. I've just installed RH9 on it to at least have *something* running on the machine, but running RH9... gee....... I feel very, very dirty. |
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Hi.
If you feel too dirty, you can always install SuSE!   At least, until you can install Gentoo.
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I'm still not having any luck so far but here's the output from dmesg once Redhat 9 has started up, in case it's worth anything:
| Code: | Linux version 2.4.20-8smp (bhcompile@porky.devel.redhat.com) (gcc version 3.2.2 20030222 (Red Hat Linux 3.2.2-5)) #1 SMP Thu Mar 13 17:45:54 EST 2003
BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
BIOS-88: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009f000 (usable)
BIOS-88: 0000000000100000 - 0000000001000000 (usable)
0MB HIGHMEM available.
16MB LOWMEM available.
found SMP MP-table at 000f4ff0
hm, page 000f4000 reserved twice.
hm, page 000f5000 reserved twice.
hm, page 000fb000 reserved twice.
hm, page 000fc000 reserved twice.
On node 0 totalpages: 4096
zone(0): 4096 pages.
zone(1): 0 pages.
zone(2): 0 pages.
Intel MultiProcessor Specification v1.4
Virtual Wire compatibility mode.
OEM ID: COMPAQ Product ID: PROLIANT APIC at: 0xFEE00000
Processor #3 Pentium(tm) Pro APIC version 16
Processor #0 Pentium(tm) Pro APIC version 16
Processor #1 Pentium(tm) Pro APIC version 16
Processor #2 Pentium(tm) Pro APIC version 16
I/O APIC #8 Version 17 at 0xFEC00000.
Enabling APIC mode: Flat. Using 1 I/O APICs
Processors: 4
Kernel command line: ro root=/dev/ida/c0d0p4
Initializing CPU#0
Detected 200.007 MHz processor.
Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
Calibrating delay loop... 398.95 BogoMIPS
Memory: 11780k/16384k available (1480k kernel code, 4088k reserved, 1094k data, 156k init, 0k highmem)
Dentry cache hash table entries: 2048 (order: 2, 16384 bytes)
Inode cache hash table entries: 1024 (order: 1, 8192 bytes)
Mount cache hash table entries: 512 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
Buffer-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
Page-cache hash table entries: 4096 (order: 2, 16384 bytes)
CPU: L1 I cache: 8K, L1 D cache: 8K
CPU: L2 cache: 512K
Intel machine check architecture supported.
Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#0.
CPU: After generic, caps: 0000fbff 00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU: Common caps: 0000fbff 00000000 00000000 00000000
Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
mtrr: v1.40 (20010327) Richard Gooch (rgooch@atnf.csiro.au)
mtrr: detected mtrr type: Intel
CPU: L1 I cache: 8K, L1 D cache: 8K
CPU: L2 cache: 512K
Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#0.
CPU: After generic, caps: 0000fbff 00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU: Common caps: 0000fbff 00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU0: Intel Pentium Pro stepping 09
per-CPU timeslice cutoff: 1460.51 usecs.
task migration cache decay timeout: 10 msecs.
enabled ExtINT on CPU#0
ESR value before enabling vector: 00000000
ESR value after enabling vector: 00000000
Booting processor 1/0 eip 2000
Initializing CPU#1
masked ExtINT on CPU#1
ESR value before enabling vector: 00000000
ESR value after enabling vector: 00000000
Calibrating delay loop... 399.76 BogoMIPS
CPU: L1 I cache: 8K, L1 D cache: 8K
CPU: L2 cache: 512K
Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#1.
CPU: After generic, caps: 0000fbff 00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU: Common caps: 0000fbff 00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU1: Intel Pentium Pro stepping 09
Booting processor 2/1 eip 2000
Initializing CPU#2
masked ExtINT on CPU#2
ESR value before enabling vector: 00000000
ESR value after enabling vector: 00000000
Calibrating delay loop... 399.76 BogoMIPS
CPU: L1 I cache: 8K, L1 D cache: 8K
CPU: L2 cache: 512K
Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#2.
CPU: After generic, caps: 0000fbff 00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU: Common caps: 0000fbff 00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU2: Intel Pentium Pro stepping 09
Booting processor 3/2 eip 2000
Initializing CPU#3
masked ExtINT on CPU#3
ESR value before enabling vector: 00000000
ESR value after enabling vector: 00000000
Calibrating delay loop... 399.76 BogoMIPS
CPU: L1 I cache: 8K, L1 D cache: 8K
CPU: L2 cache: 512K
Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#3.
CPU: After generic, caps: 0000fbff 00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU: Common caps: 0000fbff 00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU3: Intel Pentium Pro stepping 09
Total of 4 processors activated (1598.25 BogoMIPS).
ENABLING IO-APIC IRQs
Setting 8 in the phys_id_present_map
...changing IO-APIC physical APIC ID to 8 ... ok.
init IO_APIC IRQs
IO-APIC (apicid-pin) 8-0 not connected.
..TIMER: vector=0x31 pin1=2 pin2=0
number of MP IRQ sources: 16.
number of IO-APIC #8 registers: 16.
testing the IO APIC.......................
IO APIC #8......
.... register #00: 08000000
....... : physical APIC id: 08
.... register #01: 000F0011
....... : max redirection entries: 000F
....... : PRQ implemented: 0
....... : IO APIC version: 0011
.... register #02: 00000000
....... : arbitration: 00
.... IRQ redirection table:
NR Log Phy Mask Trig IRR Pol Stat Dest Deli Vect:
00 000 00 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 00
01 0FF 0F 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 39
02 0FF 0F 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 31
03 0FF 0F 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 41
04 0FF 0F 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 49
05 0FF 0F 1 1 0 0 0 1 1 51
06 0FF 0F 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 59
07 0FF 0F 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 61
08 0FF 0F 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 69
09 0FF 0F 1 1 0 0 0 1 1 71
0a 0FF 0F 1 1 0 0 0 1 1 79
0b 0FF 0F 1 1 0 0 0 1 1 81
0c 0FF 0F 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 89
0d 0FF 0F 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 91
0e 0FF 0F 1 1 0 0 0 1 1 99
0f 0FF 0F 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 A1
IRQ to pin mappings:
IRQ0 -> 0:2
IRQ1 -> 0:1
IRQ3 -> 0:3
IRQ4 -> 0:4
IRQ5 -> 0:5
IRQ6 -> 0:6
IRQ7 -> 0:7
IRQ8 -> 0:8
IRQ9 -> 0:9
IRQ10 -> 0:10
IRQ11 -> 0:11
IRQ12 -> 0:12
IRQ13 -> 0:13
IRQ14 -> 0:14
IRQ15 -> 0:15
.................................... done.
Using local APIC timer interrupts.
calibrating APIC timer ...
..... CPU clock speed is 199.9968 MHz.
..... host bus clock speed is 66.6654 MHz.
cpu: 0, clocks: 666654, slice: 133330
CPU0<T0:666640,T1:533296,D:14,S:133330,C:666654>
cpu: 1, clocks: 666654, slice: 133330
cpu: 2, clocks: 666654, slice: 133330
cpu: 3, clocks: 666654, slice: 133330
CPU1<T0:666640,T1:399968,D:12,S:133330,C:666654>
CPU2<T0:666640,T1:266640,D:10,S:133330,C:666654>
CPU3<T0:666640,T1:133312,D:8,S:133330,C:666654>
checking TSC synchronization across CPUs: passed.
Starting migration thread for cpu 0
smp_num_cpus: 4.
Starting migration thread for cpu 1
Starting migration thread for cpu 2
Starting migration thread for cpu 3
PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xf0066, last bus=2
PCI: Using configuration type 1
PCI: Probing PCI hardware
PCI: i440KX/GX host bridge 00:19.0: secondary bus 00
PCI: i440KX/GX host bridge 00:1a.0: secondary bus 02
PCI BIOS passed nonexistent PCI bus 1!
PCI: Device 00:78 not found by BIOS
PCI: Device 00:a0 not found by BIOS
PCI: Device 00:c8 not found by BIOS
PCI: Device 00:d0 not found by BIOS
PCI: Device 02:78 not found by BIOS
isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards...
isapnp: No Plug & Play device found
Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.4
Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039
Initializing RT netlink socket
apm: BIOS not found.
Starting kswapd
VFS: Disk quotas vdquot_6.5.1
pty: 2048 Unix98 ptys configured
Serial driver version 5.05c (2001-07-08) with MANY_PORTS MULTIPORT SHARE_IRQ SERIAL_PCI ISAPNP enabled
ttyS0 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
ttyS1 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
Real Time Clock Driver v1.10e
Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
FDC 0 is a National Semiconductor PC87306
NET4: Frame Diverter 0.46
RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 4096K size 1024 blocksize
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00beta-2.4
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
ide-floppy driver 0.99.newide
ide-floppy driver 0.99.newide
md: md driver 0.90.0 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MD_SB_DISKS=27
md: Autodetecting RAID arrays.
md: autorun ...
md: ... autorun DONE.
pci_hotplug: PCI Hot Plug PCI Core version: 0.5
NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0
IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP, IGMP
IP: routing cache hash table of 512 buckets, 4Kbytes
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 1024 bind 1024)
Linux IP multicast router 0.06 plus PIM-SM
NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0.
RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
Freeing initrd memory: 287k freed
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).
SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00
Compaq SMART2 Driver (v 2.4.25)
cpqarray: Device 0xae10 has been found at bus 1 dev 0 func 0
cpqarray: Finding drives on ida0 (SMART-2/P)
cpqarray ida/c0d0: blksz=512 nr_blks=25149120
blk: queue c04474a0, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff)
Partition check:
ida/c0d0: p1 p2 p3 p4
ncr53c8xx: at PCI bus 2, device 10, function 0
ncr53c8xx: 53c825 detected
ncr53c825-0: rev 0x2 on pci bus 2 device 10 function 0 irq 14
ncr53c825-0: ID 7, Fast-10, Parity Checking
scsi0 : ncr53c8xx-3.4.3b-20010512
Vendor: COMPAQ Model: CRD-254V Rev: 1.06
Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02
reiserfs: checking transaction log (device 48:04) ...
Warning, log replay starting on readonly filesystem
reiserfs: replayed 2 transactions in 2 seconds
Using r5 hash to sort names
ReiserFS version 3.6.25
Freeing unused kernel memory: 156k freed
Adding Swap: 877192k swap-space (priority -1)
reiserfs: checking transaction log (device 48:01) ...
reiserfs: replayed 1 transactions in 4 seconds
Using r5 hash to sort names
ReiserFS version 3.6.25
parport0: PC-style at 0x3bc [PCSPP]
Attached scsi CD-ROM sr0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 5, lun 0
ncr53c825-0-<5,*>: target did not report SYNC.
sr0: scsi-1 drive
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.12
ip_tables: (C) 2000-2002 Netfilter core team
ThunderLAN driver v1.15
divert: allocating divert_blk for eth0
TLAN: eth0 irq= 9, io=6400, Compaq Netelligent 10/100 TX PCI UTP, Rev. 16
divert: allocating divert_blk for eth1
TLAN: eth1 irq= 5, io=6410, Compaq Netelligent 10/100 TX PCI UTP, Rev. 16
TLAN: 2 devices installed, PCI: 2 EISA: 0
ip_tables: (C) 2000-2002 Netfilter core team
TLAN: eth0: Starting autonegotiation.
TLAN: Giving autonegotiation more time.
TLAN: Please check that your adapter has
TLAN: been properly connected to a HUB or Switch.
TLAN: Trying to establish link in the background...
TLAN: eth0: Autonegotiation complete.
TLAN: eth0: Link active
ip_tables: (C) 2000-2002 Netfilter core team
TLAN: eth1: Starting autonegotiation.
TLAN: Giving autonegotiation more time.
TLAN: Please check that your adapter has
TLAN: been properly connected to a HUB or Switch.
TLAN: Trying to establish link in the background...
parport0: PC-style at 0x3bc [PCSPP]
lp0: using parport0 (polling).
lp0: console ready
mtrr: type mismatch for c0000000,200000 old: uncachable new: write-combining
mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
mtrr: type mismatch for c0000000,200000 old: uncachable new: write-combining
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Funny thing is, I've also loaded up the Jackass LiveCD and invoked it with no arguments for memory at all, just 'gentoo doscsi'. The damn thing runs all the way down to where it's looking for the scsi modules, then when it comes to the bit about ncr53c8xx (my controller is an ncr53c825) it just says "Killed" and then of course when it comes to mounting the file systems it freaks because the SCSI CD-ROM doesn't show up because it failed to load the ncr53c8xx driver. |
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Do you think this could be one of those things that works better on the 2.4 kernel than on the 2.6?
Have you any 2004.0 minimal live-cd around or can get it from any mirror, just to try if it works?
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Hmmm that might be an idea. I tried it with a 2003 install CD and it actually worked right down to loading the ncr53c8xx driver, but for some reason the cpqarray module wasn't anywhere to be found, so it freaked because it couldn't find a hard drive to play with - naturally enough, considering that cpqarray wasn't around. Perhaps a 2004 CD *has* the cpqarray module. I'll see if I can find a 2004 live CD and give that a go.
By the way, I've just found some live CDs on a local mirror, but there are several versions: 2004.0, 2004.1, 2004.2, and 2004.3. I'll download 2004.3 as I assume that's the "best" one to use, but is there any reason for choosing another version, such as 2004.0? What's the important difference, if any? |
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I think that 2004.3 was the first Gentoo live-cd with a 2.6 kernel. Therefore, I would try the 2004.2 live-cd.
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| jmbsvicetto wrote: | | I think that 2004.3 was the first Gentoo live-cd with a 2.6 kernel. Therefore, I would try the 2004.2 live-cd. |
Ah-ha. OK in that case 2004.2 it is. I'll let you know how I go with it. |
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OK now this is starting to drive me nuts. I've tried 2004.0, 2004.1, and 2004.2 minimal install CDs, all to no avail, but with interesting results.
I've stayed with fiddling with the 2004.2 minimal install CD.
If I put in the argument | Code: | | gentoo doscsi mem=exactmap mem=640K@0M mem=895M@1M |
then the system fires up, loads the ncr53x8xx driver, and delivers me to a prompt whereby I can commence installation of Gentoo. That is, I would, if it had loaded the cpqarray module so that I could access the hard drives, but it didn't and if I do then I get a message stating that it can't find the module and that's that. On the plus side, it seems to configure everything else, run on the 1st only CPU out of the 4 (naturally), and I get the feeling that if it had just loaded the cpqarray module I'd be in business to start a net-connected installation.
If I start up with then it proceeds normally but in the section where it's loading the modules, I see | Code: | | :: Scanning for ncr53c8xx... module not found. |
scroll past, which means you know it ain't gonna happen because there's not going to be any SCSI stuff running if you ever manage to get to a command line. The reason you'll never get to a command line is that you see, 7 lines later, | Code: | | :: Scanning for sym53c8xx...scsi_transport_spi, |
and there it stays forever. The machine's not locked up, because you can give it the three-finger salute and it'll happily reboot, so it's sitting in an infinite loop somewhere from what I can tell. Thing is, there's no "noload=" directive for the smp kernel so I can't tell it not to bother with the sym53c8xx driver. On the plus side, as it's getting to this stage, you can see that it's picked up the 4 CPUs and knows about them. Great - at least it can sit and spin 4 times faster now.
If I start with | Code: | | smp doscsi mem=exactmap mem=640K@0M mem=895M@1M |
or | Code: | | smp doscsi memmap=exactmap memmap=640K@0M memmap=895M@1M |
(or smp-nofb) then I'm back to square one with the original "Uncompressing Linux... Ok, booting the kernel." message and a frozen machine that requires you to hit the power switch and start over.
The way I see it, I'm either looking at using the gentoo kernel image and getting cpqarray somehow, or finding out why with the smp image, it freezes up when you pass it the same "mem=" parameters.
Can anybody shed some light on this? I'm at the point where the cat's life is in mortal danger because she meows at the wrong time (just when I've rebooted the machine for the 745th time and I'm armed with a screwdriver).
For what it's worth, here's the output from dmesg once the "gentoo" image has done its thing and landed me at a command line. I don't know how important the following lines are: | Code: | BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
BIOS-88: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009f000 (usable)
BIOS-88: 0000000000100000 - 0000000001000000 (usable)
user-defined physical RAM map:
user: 0000000000000000 - 00000000000a0000 (usable)
user: 0000000000100000 - 0000000038000000 (usable)
0MB HIGHMEM available.
896MB LOWMEM available. |
but I've played with the memory ranges and still can't see any difference in the behaviour.
| Code: | Linux version 2.4.26-gentoo-r6 (root@vertigo.twi-31o2.org) (gcc version 3.3.3 20040412 (Gentoo Linux 3.3.3-r6, ssp-3.3.2-2, pie-8.7.6)) #1 Wed Jul 21 17:24:27 UTC 2004
BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
BIOS-88: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009f000 (usable)
BIOS-88: 0000000000100000 - 0000000001000000 (usable)
user-defined physical RAM map:
user: 0000000000000000 - 00000000000a0000 (usable)
user: 0000000000100000 - 0000000038000000 (usable)
0MB HIGHMEM available.
896MB LOWMEM available.
On node 0 totalpages: 229376
zone(0): 4096 pages.
zone(1): 225280 pages.
zone(2): 0 pages.
DMI not present.
Kernel command line: initrd=gentoo.igz root=/dev/ram0 init=/linuxrc acpi=off looptype=squashfs loop=/livecd.squashfs cdroot vga=791 splash=silent BOOT_IMAGE=gentoo doscsi mem=exactmap mem=640K@0M mem=895M@1M
bootsplash: silent mode.
Initializing CPU#0
Detected 200.012 MHz processor.
Speakup v-2.00 CVS: Thu Mar 11 14:33:29 EST 2004 : initialized
Speakup: loading module "speakup_n"
request_module[speakup_n]: Root fs not mounted
Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
Calibrating delay loop... 398.95 BogoMIPS
Memory: 900856k/917504k available (2388k kernel code, 16264k reserved, 327k data, 124k init, 0k highmem)
Dentry cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 8, 1048576 bytes)
Inode cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 7, 524288 bytes)
Mount cache hash table entries: 512 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
Buffer cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
Page-cache hash table entries: 262144 (order: 8, 1048576 bytes)
initialized device: /dev/synth, node ( MAJOR 10, MINOR 25 )
CPU: L1 I cache: 8K, L1 D cache: 8K
CPU: L2 cache: 512K
CPU: After generic, caps: 0000fbff 00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU: Common caps: 0000fbff 00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU: Intel Pentium Pro stepping 09
Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
Checking for popad bug... OK.
POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
mtrr: v1.40 (20010327) Richard Gooch (rgooch@atnf.csiro.au)
mtrr: detected mtrr type: Intel
ACPI: Subsystem revision 20040326
ACPI: Interpreter disabled.
PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xf0066, last bus=2
PCI: Using configuration type 1
PCI: Probing PCI hardware
PCI: ACPI tables contain no PCI IRQ routing entries
PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00)
PCI: i440KX/GX host bridge 00:19.0: secondary bus 00
PCI: i440KX/GX host bridge 00:1a.0: secondary bus 02
PCI: Device 00:78 not found by BIOS
PCI: Device 00:a0 not found by BIOS
PCI: Device 00:c8 not found by BIOS
PCI: Device 00:d0 not found by BIOS
PCI: Device 02:78 not found by BIOS
isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards...
isapnp: No Plug & Play device found
Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.4
Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039
Initializing RT netlink socket
Starting kswapd
Journalled Block Device driver loaded
devfs: v1.12c (20020818) Richard Gooch (rgooch@atnf.csiro.au)
devfs: boot_options: 0x1
Installing knfsd (copyright (C) 1996 okir@monad.swb.de).
udf: registering filesystem
SGI XFS with no debug enabled
pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured
Real Time Clock Driver v1.10f
Non-volatile memory driver v1.2
Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
FDC 0 is a National Semiconductor PC87306
RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 8192K size 1024 blocksize
loop: loaded (max 8 devices)
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00beta4-2.4
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
ide: late registration of driver.
SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00
kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k scsi_hostadapter, errno = 2
kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k scsi_hostadapter, errno = 2
kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k scsi_hostadapter, errno = 2
Fusion MPT base driver 2.05.11.03
Copyright (c) 1999-2003 LSI Logic Corporation
mptbase: 0 MPT adapters found, 0 installed.
Fusion MPT SCSI Host driver 2.05.11.03
mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
md: md driver 0.90.0 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MD_SB_DISKS=27
md: Autodetecting RAID arrays.
md: autorun ...
md: ... autorun DONE.
LVM version 1.0.8(17/11/2003)
Initializing Cryptographic API
NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0
IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP, IGMP
IP: routing cache hash table of 8192 buckets, 64Kbytes
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 262144 bind 65536)
NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0.
RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
Freeing initrd memory: 1850k freed
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.
Mounted devfs on /dev
Freeing unused kernel memory: 124k freed
EXT2-fs warning: checktime reached, running e2fsck is recommended
usb.c: registered new driver usbdevfs
usb.c: registered new driver hub
uhci.c: USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver v1.1
usb.c: registered new driver hiddev
usb.c: registered new driver hid
hid-core.c: v1.8.1 Andreas Gal, Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@suse.cz>
hid-core.c: USB HID support drivers
Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...
usb.c: registered new driver usb-storage
USB Mass Storage support registered.
sbp2: $Rev: 1074 $ Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org>
ncr53c8xx: at PCI bus 2, device 10, function 0
ncr53c8xx: 53c825 detected
ncr53c825-0: rev 0x2 on pci bus 2 device 10 function 0 irq 14
ncr53c825-0: ID 7, Fast-10, Parity Checking
scsi0 : ncr53c8xx-3.4.3b-20010512
Vendor: COMPAQ Model: CRD-254V Rev: 1.06
Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Attached scsi CD-ROM sr0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 5, lun 0
ncr53c825-0-<5,*>: target did not report SYNC.
sr0: scsi-1 drive
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.12
NCR53c406a: no available ports found
scsi: <fdomain> Detection failed (no card)
GDT: Storage RAID Controller Driver. Version: 2.05
GDT: Found 0 PCI Storage RAID Controllers
DC390: 0 adapters found
Failed initialization of WD-7000 SCSI card!
NCR53c406a: no available ports found
imm: Version 2.05 (for Linux 2.4.0)
imm: parport reports no devices.
sym53c416.c: Version 1.0.0-ac
No sym53c416 found at address 0x000
ISO 9660 Extensions: Microsoft Joliet Level 3
ISO 9660 Extensions: RRIP_1991A
Serial driver version 5.05c (2001-07-08) with MANY_PORTS SHARE_IRQ SERIAL_PCI ISAPNP enabled
ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
ttyS01 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
parport0: PC-style at 0x3bc [PCSPP(,...)]
ThunderLAN driver v1.15
TLAN: eth0 irq= 9, io=6400, Compaq Netelligent 10/100 TX PCI UTP, Rev. 16
TLAN: eth1 irq= 5, io=6410, Compaq Netelligent 10/100 TX PCI UTP, Rev. 16
TLAN: 2 devices installed, PCI: 2 EISA: 0
ThunderLAN driver v1.15
TLAN: eth0 irq= 9, io=6400, Compaq Netelligent 10/100 TX PCI UTP, Rev. 16
TLAN: eth1 irq= 5, io=6410, Compaq Netelligent 10/100 TX PCI UTP, Rev. 16
TLAN: 2 devices installed, PCI: 2 EISA: 0
TLAN: eth0: Starting autonegotiation.
TLAN: Giving autonegotiation more time.
TLAN: Please check that your adapter has
TLAN: been properly connected to a HUB or Switch.
TLAN: Trying to establish link in the background...
uhci.c: USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver v1.1
usb-uhci.c: $Revision: 1.275 $ time 17:25:49 Jul 21 2004
usb-uhci.c: High bandwidth mode enabled
usb-uhci.c: v1.275:USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver
TLAN: eth0: Autonegotiation complete.
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Just a thought...why not install gentoo from your RH9 installation? 
Unfortunately, I'm not sure what disk I used when booting my proliant 5000. As I stated in PM, it got set aside once I found out that the HDDs were crapping out. I'll see if I can't dig it up this week and play. 
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NotExcessive
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| sarumont wrote: | Just a thought...why not install gentoo from your RH9 installation?
Unfortunately, I'm not sure what disk I used when booting my proliant 5000. As I stated in PM, it got set aside once I found out that the HDDs were crapping out. I'll see if I can't dig it up this week and play. |
Would that work though? I do have the drive array set up with the partition sizes and file system types that I want to run under Gentoo, but if I have it running under RH9 from the drive array, and I proceed to do a Gentoo install on the very same partitions on the very same drive array that RH9 is currently running on and hosting the install procedure, won't it shoot itself in the foot?
The main concern I have about installing under Redhat before sorting out the Gentoo kernel problem is, if the gentoo kernel doesn't fire up from any of the Gentoo install disks, then I have doubts as to whether the machine will boot up under its own steam once the installation is finished.
With the Redhat 9 install CD, if I started it with just then it falls over in a screaming heap complaining about not having enough memory, but if I invoke it with | Code: | | linux doscsi mem=exactmap mem=640k@0M mem=895M@1M |
then it fires up and it's a green light all the way to the end without *any* hiccups, so that tells me that the memory parameters being passed to the kernel have to be correct.
I'm certain now that there's something not quite right about the Gentoo kernel as it appears on any of the Live CDs I've found. If the RedHat 9 CD just fires up, builds a system, detects all the 5000's hardware, and the resulting system just screams along (as it does) and the Gentoo CD doesn't get past the starting line, then something's gotta be broken. |
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OK I've successfully installed 2.6.12-r13 (from memory) from Stage 1. My concerns about this kernel not running on this machine are over, as it boots under its own steam quite nicely. However the original question of why none of the Live CDs after Gentoo 1.4 worked at all remains.
I think there's no doubt that something in the way the kernel is put together on the distribution disks is definitely buggered.
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haipakilla
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i had a similar problem on a proliant ml 570..
the only way to get this server work on a 2.6 series kernel is to set the os type in the compaq menu to windows 2000 (!) instead of linux...
really strange...
btw i'm having problems with the new kernel 2.6.13-r3, the old stable (2.6.12-r10) boots fine, but the other hangs after recognizing the floppy!
i'll try to change the os type to linux again.. |
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NotExcessive
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| haipakilla wrote: | i had a similar problem on a proliant ml 570..
the only way to get this server work on a 2.6 series kernel is to set the os type in the compaq menu to windows 2000 (!) instead of linux...
really strange...
btw i'm having problems with the new kernel 2.6.13-r3, the old stable (2.6.12-r10) boots fine, but the other hangs after recognizing the floppy!
i'll try to change the os type to linux again.. |
I've successfully installed 2.6.12-r10 on the 1200, 5500, and 7000 with no dramas, now that I know the tricks. Can't say anything about 2.6.13-r3 though. In all cases, however, I've had to use the Gentoo 1.4 LiveCD to get out of the starting gate. |
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volumen1
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Hmm... I found this thread because I, too, am having problems booting 2.6.13.* on an ML530 or a DL320. I'm having a heck of a time trying to figure out what's wrong. At first I thought it was something wrong with the CCISS driver now, but I'm not convinced anymore. While the machine boots, I get some messages about problems with resources on the serio: driver and pnp: It then shows me that it's loading the floppy driver and hangs hard. I can't really get more information because it hangs hard and I've have to copy it by hand.
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NotExcessive
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| volumen1 wrote: | | Hmm... I found this thread because I, too, am having problems booting 2.6.13.* on an ML530 or a DL320. I'm having a heck of a time trying to figure out what's wrong. At first I thought it was something wrong with the CCISS driver now, but I'm not convinced anymore. While the machine boots, I get some messages about problems with resources on the serio: driver and pnp: It then shows me that it's loading the floppy driver and hangs hard. I can't really get more information because it hangs hard and I've have to copy it by hand. |
All I can suggest is using the 1.4 LiveCD to boot from (it seems to be the only thing that all of my ProLiants have had absolutely no trouble with, and besides, I needed to use it specifically to get around the GRUB problem later during the install). So far I've used it to build a 1200, 5000, 5500, and 7000 with absolutely no hiccups. |
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volumen1
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I figured out my problem. On my dl320 and ml530, ACPI Processor will totally lock the machine up. I've had it built into the kernel since the 2.4 days, but now it hoses me. It took me forever to figure out what it was. Removed it from the kernel and now I can boot 2.6.13.* kernels.
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