[Cooker] stops at boot (fwd)
FYI Stew Benedict -- MandrakeSoft PPC FAQ: http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/ppcFAQ.php3 IRC: irc.openproject.net #cooker-ppc Archives: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=mandrake-cooker-ppc&r=1&w=2 -- Forwarded message -- Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2002 15:27:27 +0100 From: Per Øyvind Karlsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Cooker] stops at boot I just updated a machine at work against cooker today and ran into a problem when I rebooted, it stopped when it came to 'init', don't know what happened, the machine responded to sysrq and it was able to read from the disk etc. so I suspect there must've been something else than hardware troubles. I tried to booting with init=/bin/sh and it seemed to work fine and then I continued with /etc/rc.sysinit and no problems there either, but it could'nt open /dev/initctl, don't know if it's related though, but I had to start every service manually etc. This might also just be this stupid compaq presario 5676(I _TRULY_ hate it), as it had other weird problems before, but then it has usually just totally freezed. -- Mvh Per Øyvind Karlsen Delonic Technology Group AS Sysadmin, developer, greasemonkey www.delonic.no - +47 41681061
RE: iMac boot problem
On Wed, 13 Nov 2002, Damon Garn wrote: > I have had exactly the same problem. iMac 266 with a 40GB drive. I've got > OSX on the first 7.5 GB then attempted a Mandrake 8.2PPC install on the > next partition. However, my install was CD-based. I too get to the > bootloader and then pick Linux and receive the Unknown or corrupt filesystem > error. I've also verified my OpenFirmware settings with the same line. > Booting into OSX is still successful. I've tried this several times > (reboots, not reinstalls). > > Any thoughts on this? > Thanks! > Damon Garn > > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:cooker-ppc-owner@;linux-mandrake.com]On Behalf Of Curtis Kline > Sent: Tuesday, November 12, 2002 1:50 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: iMac boot problem > > > I have an iMac 333Mhz with a 6 Gig drive and 96MB RAM. I did a netboot > and an FTP install of Mandrake PPC 8.2, and the install process seemed > to go well. When it said I needed to reboot to start Mandrake, I did so. > I get a bootloader menu and choose "l" for linux. Then Yaboot comes up, > and soon it attempts to load the kernel. It then fails: > > "hd:5,/vmlinuz-2.4.18-6.1mdk: Unknown or corrupt filesystem" > > I tried going into OpenFirmware and entering: > > "setenv boot-device hd:5,\\:tbxi" > > Rebooting after this produces exactly the same results. > > > Any ideas on how to get my iMac to boot Mandrake would be hugely > appreciated. > > It's possible both of you made the mistake of configuring bootstrap as /boot. The one above of hd:5 seems odd for a couple of reasons. One, a machine with MacOS usually consumes 3 or 4 partitions for "drivers". Secondly, since the syntax doesn't specify hd:5,/boot/vmlinuz., it appears you are using a seperate /boot. This is fine, but it should not be the same partition as the bootstrap. The bootstrap partition is only to boot the machine and should not be part of Linux's (or MacOS's) mounted filesystem. A lot of people fall into this trap, I guess because one of the distributions did treat bootstrap as /boot, but that is not how we configure things. It's only possible to make this happen, afaik, by manually selecting the bootstrap and mounting it as /boot. The default configuration is only 1MB, so it doesn't leave much room for 1 kernel and initrd, let alone multiple kernels and yaboot, etc. Also, since the bootstrap is normally an hfs partition, you lose any permissions, etc. that a normal Linux filesystem maintains. The people I've helped in the past on IRC were able to recover from this setup by booting into rescue, mounting "/" and examining /boot to verify their kernel etc. were there and then editing yaboot.conf to point to the correct partition, with the /boot prefix for all the kernel and initrd entries. It's also possible you guys are hitting the hardware issue on the old iMacs of needing the kernel fairly low in the partition table. I keep a seperate /boot on my machine for this very reason. Stew Benedict -- MandrakeSoft PPC FAQ: http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/ppcFAQ.php3 IRC: irc.openproject.net #cooker-ppc Archives: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=mandrake-cooker-ppc&r=1&w=2
Re: New problem!
On Wed, 13 Nov 2002, Ernst Persson wrote: > Ok, I downgraded to SysVInit 2.83 and now everything works again... > > //ernie > Interesting. I'm installing all the packages automagically on the build machine as they're rebuilt and doing regular urpmi --auto-select on my Powerbook. The Powerbook hasn't been rebooted, but I did take the build machine down since that update to setup a kvm switch. [stew@rs6000 stew]$ rpm -qi SysVinit Name: SysVinit Relocations: (not relocateable) Version : 2.84 Vendor: MandrakeSoft Release : 1mdk Build Date: Thu Nov 7 17:04:34 2002 Install date: Thu Nov 7 17:04:39 2002 Build Host: rs6000.mandrakesoft.com [stew@rs6000 stew]$ uptime 06:04:27 up 2 days, 9:40, 7 users, load average: 2.28, 2.40, 2.27 [stew@rs6000 stew]$ date Wed Nov 13 06:04:31 EST 2002 I didn't notice any boot issues, but this machine's a bit different, no usb for one thing. I know we had usb issues with the initscripts back pre-8.0, so maybe those came back with the update. I'll take the Powerbook down later today and see what I can see. Stew Benedict -- MandrakeSoft PPC FAQ: http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/ppcFAQ.php3 IRC: irc.openproject.net #cooker-ppc Archives: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=mandrake-cooker-ppc&r=1&w=2
Re: [Cooker-PPC] Problem with server wizards
On Wed, 13 Nov 2002, Phil Lavigna wrote:
>
> Hi Stew,
>
> After updating to tonight's PPC Cooker from ftp.ciril.fr, the server
> wizards no longer work. I'm not running x86 Cooker, so I don't know if it's a
> widespread problem.
>
> drakxtools-1.1.11-3mdk
> drakwizard-1.0-2mdk
>
> Each wizard crashes after clicking the icon; the console messages are:
> Undefined subroutine &main::_ called at /usr/sbin/drakwizard line 119
> Undefined subroutine &main::_ called at /usr/sbin/drakwizard line 215
> Undefined subroutine &main::_ called at /usr/sbin/drakwizard line 150, etc.
>
> BTW - KDE 3.1 RC2 looks real nice.
>
I think this is fallout from the global change Pixel is making in the
translations of the drak tools. We were using:
_("Some string to translate"),
and now I believe it's:
N("Some string to translate")
And I bet the wizards haven't been updated yet.
Stew Benedict
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Re: New problem!
Hi cookers, Just installed the new drakxtools. It really looks nice to me and it seems to be working fine now (I tried drakconf). Thanks to Stew for the work. I do however have a few problems with updating cooker. If I try to update it always needs aspell >= 0.50.2. I know there are two files which can be retrieved from the home page of Stew Benedict, but even then I observe problems. When I try to install it, I get an error saying that it needs some kind of library source. I am at work now, so I can't be more specific. I will post my findings later this evening. Is there a way to edit the hdlist in /base in order to make urpmi think aspell-0.50.2* is in /var/cache/urpmi/rpms ? I think this would solve my problem. Cause I moved these aspell-packages (downloaded from Stew's site) to this dir. Jeroen
drakxtools great
Hi cookers, Just installed the new drakxtools. It really looks nice to me and it seems to be working fine now (I tried drakconf). Thanks to Stew for the work. I do however have a few problems with updating cooker. If I try to update it always needs aspell >= 0.50.2. I know these two files can be retrieved from the home page of Stew Benedict , but even then I observe problems. When I try to install it, I get an error saying that it needs some kind of library source. I am at work now, so I can
[Cooker-PPC] Problem with server wizards
Hi Stew, After updating to tonight's PPC Cooker from ftp.ciril.fr, the server wizards no longer work. I'm not running x86 Cooker, so I don't know if it's a widespread problem. drakxtools-1.1.11-3mdk drakwizard-1.0-2mdk Each wizard crashes after clicking the icon; the console messages are: Undefined subroutine &main::_ called at /usr/sbin/drakwizard line 119 Undefined subroutine &main::_ called at /usr/sbin/drakwizard line 215 Undefined subroutine &main::_ called at /usr/sbin/drakwizard line 150, etc. BTW - KDE 3.1 RC2 looks real nice. Bye, Phil
Re: New problem!
Ok, I downgraded to SysVInit 2.83 and now everything works again... //ernie > > initrd=hd:9,initrd-2.4.19-16mdk.img > > Ok, now I've tried: > > 2.4.19 without devfs mount. > 2.4.19 with devfs mount. > 2.4.19 without devfs mount and single. > 2.4.19 with devfs mount and single. > 2.5.47 with and without single. > > And since everything worked yesterday, I don't think the problem lies > there... > It says freeing kernel memory, the loads all my usb-stuff, and then > nothing. > If I press enter the console scrolls a line but I doesn't seem to > respond to anything like ctrl-C etc... > > > You could try to include "single", in your boot selection: > > > > linux single > > > > And see what you can find. Do you know what all you updated? > > All as in Everyting that's on the > http://ftp.du.se/pub/os/mandrake-devel/cooker/ppc/Mandrake/RPMS/?M=D > mirror. > Probably something built between saturday and monday. > > Mabye one of these are causing trouble? > > util-linux-2.11x-2mdk.ppc.rpm10-Nov-2002 03:48 > 1.3M > utempter-0.5.2-9mdk.ppc.rpm 10-Nov-2002 03:48 >16k > timezone-2.2.5-17mdk.ppc.rpm 10-Nov-2002 03:48 > 176k > sysklogd-1.4.1-4mdk.ppc.rpm 10-Nov-2002 03:48 >66k > sed-4.0.1-1mdk.ppc.rpm 10-Nov-2002 03:48 >95k > mount-2.11x-2mdk.ppc.rpm 10-Nov-2002 03:47 > 117k > losetup-2.11x-2mdk.ppc.rpm 10-Nov-2002 03:47 >30k > autofs-4.0.0-0.18mdk.ppc.rpm 10-Nov-2002 03:31 >93k > SysVinit-2.84-1mdk.ppc.rpm 10-Nov-2002 03:31 > 111k > makedev-4.0-2mdk.noarch.rpm 07-Nov-2002 18:49 >76k > > SysVinit is definitively a suspect... > > I could chroot into the system from the rescue-disk and start services, > the network, edit my yaboot.conf file and run X. But I didn't really > know what to do to fix this problem... > > //ernie
