On Wed, Dec 10, 2003 at 05:19:58PM -0500, Ben Collins wrote: > > Booting Linux... > > sab82532_console_setup: can't get SAB82532 chainProgram terminated > > ok > > Boot with "linux -p" (or "boot net linux -p" for netboot). See if we can > see some more info.
ok boot net linux -p Boot device: /[EMAIL PROTECTED],700000/[EMAIL PROTECTED],1: File and args: linux -p Timeout waiting for ARP/RARP packet 464c00 PROMLIB: Sun IEEE Boot Prom 4.2.4 2001/06/13 10:10 <4>Linux version 2.4.18 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version egcs-2.92.11 19980921 (gcc2 ss-980609 experimental)) #2 Thu Apr 11 14:2 <4>ARCH: SUN4U Linux version 2.4.18 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version egcs-2.92.11 19980921 (gcc2 ss-980609 experimental)) #2 Thu Apr 11 14:37:2 <4>ARCH: SUN4U ARCH: SUN4U Ethernet address: 00:03:ba:0f:6c:fb Remapping the kernel... done. On node 0 totalpages: 195880 zone(0): 196447 pages. zone(1): 0 pages. zone(2): 0 pages. Booting Linux... Found CPU 0 (node=f006fb30,mid=0) Found 1 CPU prom device tree node(s). Kernel command line: linux -p Calibrating delay loop... 499.71 BogoMIPS Memory: 1542432k available (1944k kernel code, 512k data, 168k init) [fffff80000000000,000000005febe000] Dentry-cache hash table entries: 262144 (order: 9, 4194304 bytes) Inode-cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 8, 2097152 bytes) Mount-cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 6, 524288 bytes) Buffer-cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 7, 1048576 bytes) Page-cache hash table entries: 262144 (order: 8, 2097152 bytes) POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX PCI: Probing for controllers. PCI: Found SCHIZO, control regs at 0000040004400000 SCHIZO PBMB: Local PCI config space at 000007ffee000000 SCHIZO PBMA: Local PCI config space at 000007ffec000000 PCI0(PBMB): Bus running at 33MHz PCI0(PBMA): Bus running at 66MHz ebus: No EBus's found. sab82532_console_setup: can't get SAB82532 chainProgram terminated ok and if i boot from the cd: Welcome to Debian GNU/Linux 3.0! This is the Debian Install CD. Keep it once you have installed your system, as you can boot from it to repair the system on your hard disk if that ever becomes necessary. WARNING: You should completely back up all of your hard disks before proceeding. The installation procedure can completely and irreversibly erase them! If you haven't made backups yet, remove the rescue CD from the drive and press L1-A to get back to the OpenBoot prompt. Debian GNU/Linux comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by applicable law. [ ENTER - Boot install ] [ Type "rescue" - Boot into rescue mode ] Loading initial ramdisk.... PROMLIB: Sun IEEE Boot Prom 4.2.4 2001/06/13 10:10 <4>Linux version 2.4.18 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version egcs-2.92.11 19980921 (gcc2 ss-980609 experimental)) #2 Thu Apr 11 14:2 <4>ARCH: SUN4U Linux version 2.4.18 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version egcs-2.92.11 19980921 (gcc2 ss-980609 experimental)) #2 Thu Apr 11 14:37:2 <4>ARCH: SUN4U ARCH: SUN4U Ethernet address: 00:03:ba:0f:6c:fb Remapping the kernel... done. On node 0 totalpages: 195880 zone(0): 196447 pages. zone(1): 0 pages. zone(2): 0 pages. Booting Linux... Found CPU 0 (node=f006fb30,mid=0) Found 1 CPU prom device tree node(s). Kernel command line: ro cdrom -p Calibrating delay loop... 499.71 BogoMIPS Memory: 1542432k available (1944k kernel code, 512k data, 168k init) [fffff80000000000,000000005febe000] Dentry-cache hash table entries: 262144 (order: 9, 4194304 bytes) Inode-cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 8, 2097152 bytes) Mount-cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 6, 524288 bytes) Buffer-cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 7, 1048576 bytes) Page-cache hash table entries: 262144 (order: 8, 2097152 bytes) POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX PCI: Probing for controllers. PCI: Found SCHIZO, control regs at 0000040004400000 SCHIZO PBMB: Local PCI config space at 000007ffee000000 SCHIZO PBMA: Local PCI config space at 000007ffec000000 PCI0(PBMB): Bus running at 33MHz PCI0(PBMA): Bus running at 66MHz ebus: No EBus's found. sab82532_console_setup: can't get SAB82532 chainProgram terminated ok > This seems to be a problem with the serial console driver in the kernel. > What images are you using? from ftp.debian.org: ftp> pwd 257 "/debian/dists/woody/main/disks-sparc/3.0.23-2002-05-21/sun4u" ftp> ls tftpboot.img 200 PORT command successful. Consider using PASV. 150 Here comes the directory listing. -rw-rw-r-- 1 1176 1176 4591072 May 18 2002 tftpboot.img 226 Directory send OK. ftp> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ls -l /tftpboot/AC1533C9 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4591072 Dec 10 21:34 /tftpboot/AC1533C9 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ I do need sun4u or? not sun4cmd? > Note the installer fully supports serial > console (I use it all the time). i hope as well that this is only a PEBKAC at me... thx for the help. charlie -- Végh Károly - System Engineer - UTA - TIS.SAS.BSS Don't worry. Everything is getting nicely out of control.