Hi Brian, Thanks for the useful info. Hopefully we can find the differences in the kernel configs.
BTW, what is your AstLinux image of choice? geni586 or geni586-serial ? Lonnie On Dec 20, 2011, at 2:22 PM, Brian Barr wrote: > Lonnie - > > Here's a snip from the boot sequence in /var/log/messages from another > identical (hardware wise except for 512 MB memory) T5710 running 0.7.9: > > Nov 10 15:00:19 pbx-aa user.info kernel: Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver > Nov 10 15:00:19 pbx-aa user.info kernel: ide_generic: please use > "probe_mask=0x3f" module parameter for probing all legacy ISA IDE ports > Nov 10 15:00:19 pbx-aa user.info kernel: ide: disallowing DMA for hda > Nov 10 15:00:19 pbx-aa user.info kernel: ide: disallowing DMA for hdb > Nov 10 15:00:19 pbx-aa user.info kernel: ide: disallowing DMA for hdc > Nov 10 15:00:19 pbx-aa user.info kernel: ide: disallowing DMA for hdd > Nov 10 15:00:19 pbx-aa user.debug kernel: Probing IDE interface ide0... > Nov 10 15:00:19 pbx-aa user.info kernel: hda: 512MB ATA Flash Disk, ATA DISK > drive > Nov 10 15:00:19 pbx-aa user.debug kernel: Switched to high resolution mode on > CPU 0 > Nov 10 15:00:19 pbx-aa user.debug kernel: Probing IDE interface ide1... > Nov 10 15:00:19 pbx-aa user.info kernel: ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14 > Nov 10 15:00:19 pbx-aa user.info kernel: ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15 > Nov 10 15:00:19 pbx-aa user.info kernel: hda: max request size: 128KiB > Nov 10 15:00:19 pbx-aa user.info kernel: hda: 1000944 sectors (512 MB) w/1KiB > Cache, CHS=993/16/63 > Nov 10 15:00:19 pbx-aa user.info kernel: hda: cache flushes not supported > Nov 10 15:00:19 pbx-aa user.info kernel: hda: hda1 hda2 > Nov 10 15:00:19 pbx-aa user.notice kernel: aic94xx: Adaptec aic94xx SAS/SATA > driver version 1.0.3 loaded > Nov 10 15:00:19 pbx-aa user.info kernel: megasas: 00.00.04.01 Thu July 24 > 11:41:51 PST 2008 > Nov 10 15:00:19 pbx-aa user.warn kernel: 3ware Storage Controller device > driver for Linux v1.26.02.002. > Nov 10 15:00:19 pbx-aa user.warn kernel: 3ware 9000 Storage Controller device > driver for Linux v2.26.02.011. > Nov 10 15:00:19 pbx-aa user.warn kernel: Driver 'sd' needs updating - please > use bus_type methods > > The above was obtained using the astlinux web interface from a running > astlinx system. > > So the above is not reflective of the runnix to astlinux handoff sequence, it > is reflective of the post runnix (astlinux) environment. > > The internal SSD in the T5710 is plugged directly into a 44 pin IDE header on > the motherboard and appears to the world as a IDE drive. > > So from my understanding here of the boot sequence, the system initially > boots into runnix (fine) from the internal IDE SSD and then craps out when > runnix later attempts to mount the astlinux file system.. > > Thanks, > > Brian Barr > > > On Dec 20, 2011, at 2:37 PM, Lonnie Abelbeck wrote: > >> Hi Brian, >> >> I more carefully read your post here and I see you tried a fresh install, so >> this is not a runnix mismatch issue. >> >> No doubt this is a kernel config issue not detecting your SSD drive. >> >> At the runnix# prompt your SSD is not mounted, correct? >> >> Using 0.7, can your provide a snippet of log messages where the SSD is >> detected, that would be helpful. Is this IDE or SATA ? >> >> FYI, the RUNNIX Kernel Config is currently: >> >> http://astlinux.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/astlinux/branches/1.0/project/runnix/geni586/linux.config >> >> Lonnie >> >> >> On Dec 20, 2011, at 12:38 PM, Brian Barr wrote: >> >>> I'm having some issues getting 1.0 working on a T5710 .. >>> >>> The T5710 has an internal 512MB SSD and 256MB memory. >>> >>> All works fine using 0.7.9 (or any 0.7.x for that matter) >>> >>> After installing 1.0, boot sequence fails with "Runnix: Astlinux medium not >>> found." >>> >>> I have tried two different install methods: >>> >>> 1)Boot machine using Damm Small Linux off of USB stick. Download >>> astlinux.img.gz using firefox to T5710. >>> Clear HDA ( dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda) >>> Install Astlinux (gunzip -c astlinux.img.gz > /dev/hda) >>> >>> or >>> >>> 2)Install 0.7.9 per above and boot normally. >>> Install/update to 1.0 using instructions on website. >>> >>> Both sequences have same result. >>> >>> >>> As I recall this happened some time ago in the 0.4 series. Unsure of the >>> fix. Timing issue? As I said, a non issue with 0.7x versions. >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Write once. Port to many. Get the SDK and tools to simplify cross-platform app development. Create new or port existing apps to sell to consumers worldwide. Explore the Intel AppUpSM program developer opportunity. appdeveloper.intel.com/join http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-appdev _______________________________________________ Astlinux-users mailing list Astlinux-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/astlinux-users Donations to support AstLinux are graciously accepted via PayPal to pay...@krisk.org.
