RE: Dropping to a shell
-Original Message- the instructions for this please? Thanks you for your help!! You can lsmod in the shell and find out whether or not the driver for your SATA or SCSI card is loaded. If not, then you have to boot again with your netinst CD and mount the root partition. Modify the /etc/modules to include the driver, and re-make the initramfs. I'm going off some instructions that I googled, but here it is the best I can remember. I'd installed from the Etch netinst CD, but after the first reboot, it always dropped to a shell because the installed kernel didn't have the sata_mv module, that is needed for my Marvell SATA controller. I went through the netinst again, all the way upto when it asks you to reboot. At this point I switched to another console (Alt-F2 or Alt-F3 or Alt-F3 till you find one to use, because the log is on one of them). Since you are running netinst, your future root partition is mounted at /target. I edited the /target/etc/mkinitramfs/modules and added sata_mv. You can find the module you need by doing lsmod, and looking in the output for the SATA or SCSI driver for your hardware. Some instruction say at this point to mount /rpoc with `mount proc /target/proc', but I don't remember that I actually did this. Then chroot to /target with `chroot /target`. I think at this point you have to mount your future boot partition, if any, at /boot, for example, if /dev/sda2 is your boot partition, `mount /dev/sda2 /boot`. Then re-make the initramfs, with `mkinitramfs -o /boot/initrd.img-version`. You can TAB, and it'll complete the version or give you a choice. Then `umount /boot`, `exit` (to exit from the chroot), `umount /target`, and reboot.
Re: Dropping to a shell
On Wednesday 15 March 2006 15:15, William Humphrey wrote: I am using the latest official testing version of debian (kernel 2.6.15) on a DL580 G3 with Quad Procs. I used the netinst image. Once I installed the program, I have the problem to where is keep dropping to a shell and will not boot. It say that it cannot find my hard drive partition which is /dev/cciss/c0d01. And on top of that, it does not create an /etc/fstab for me to mount it. I have tried creating a fstab myself, but once I reboot, it goes away. Has anyone had this problem? If so please help! Waiting 20 seconds and ctl-d'ing out of the shell works here. When mine does that drop into a shell trick, I just let it sit for 10 or 15 seconds. The boot process prints on the screen that it's created the relevant drive in /dev. And a couple seconds after that, 'ls /dev/sd*' shows the partitions. And ctl-d climbs out of the shell, and the boot process finishes. What you describe is happening here on 2 machines: a dual Opteron Sun running smp etch in 32 bit mode and a single P4 homebrew running sid. Both of them have a SCSI boot drive and a SATA to store big stuff on. (The servers running sarge are fine.) The 2.6.15 kernel and/or the current udev and/or something else I don't know about are/is bent pretty badly. SATA drives are not SCSI drives. If the developers want to run them through the SCSI driver, that's fine. But they could at least call them sdA... so things wouldn't get confused. And whoever's doing that reordering should be put up against the wall. Or at least the installer should be told about the reordering algorithm. -- Glenn English [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG ID: D0D7FF20 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Dropping to a shell
Thanks for the reply Glenn! I just tried your suggestion and it still does the same thing. I also forgot to mention that I am using Quad Xeon's 3.33ghz 64-bit. I did an ls- l on my partition /dev/cciss/c0d0p1 and it finds it, but ctrl-d does get me out of the shell, it just continues to say tty job control turned off. Do you maybe have any other suggestions? -Original Message- From: Glenn English [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 16, 2006 12:32 PM To: debian-amd64@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Dropping to a shell On Wednesday 15 March 2006 15:15, William Humphrey wrote: I am using the latest official testing version of debian (kernel 2.6.15) on a DL580 G3 with Quad Procs. I used the netinst image. Once I installed the program, I have the problem to where is keep dropping to a shell and will not boot. It say that it cannot find my hard drive partition which is /dev/cciss/c0d01. And on top of that, it does not create an /etc/fstab for me to mount it. I have tried creating a fstab myself, but once I reboot, it goes away. Has anyone had this problem? If so please help! Waiting 20 seconds and ctl-d'ing out of the shell works here. When mine does that drop into a shell trick, I just let it sit for 10 or 15 seconds. The boot process prints on the screen that it's created the relevant drive in /dev. And a couple seconds after that, 'ls /dev/sd*' shows the partitions. And ctl-d climbs out of the shell, and the boot process finishes. What you describe is happening here on 2 machines: a dual Opteron Sun running smp etch in 32 bit mode and a single P4 homebrew running sid. Both of them have a SCSI boot drive and a SATA to store big stuff on. (The servers running sarge are fine.) The 2.6.15 kernel and/or the current udev and/or something else I don't know about are/is bent pretty badly. SATA drives are not SCSI drives. If the developers want to run them through the SCSI driver, that's fine. But they could at least call them sdA... so things wouldn't get confused. And whoever's doing that reordering should be put up against the wall. Or at least the installer should be told about the reordering algorithm. -- Glenn English [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG ID: D0D7FF20 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Dropping to a shell
You can lsmod in the shell and find out whether or not the driver for your SATA or SCSI card is loaded. If not, then you have to boot again with your netinst CD and mount the root partition. Modify the /etc/modules to include the driver, and re-make the initramfs. -- Bhaskar S. Manda Financial Engineer Cooperfund, Inc. 611 Enterprise Dr. Oak Brook, IL 60523-8811 (630) 573-8700 (630) 573-0652 (Fax) -Original Message- From: William Humphrey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 16, 2006 1:05 PM To: Glenn English Cc: debian-x86-64@lists.debian.org Subject: RE: Dropping to a shell Thanks for the reply Glenn! I just tried your suggestion and it still does the same thing. I also forgot to mention that I am using Quad Xeon's 3.33ghz 64-bit. I did an ls- l on my partition /dev/cciss/c0d0p1 and it finds it, but ctrl-d does get me out of the shell, it just continues to say tty job control turned off. Do you maybe have any other suggestions? -Original Message- From: Glenn English [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 16, 2006 12:32 PM To: debian-amd64@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Dropping to a shell On Wednesday 15 March 2006 15:15, William Humphrey wrote: I am using the latest official testing version of debian (kernel 2.6.15) on a DL580 G3 with Quad Procs. I used the netinst image. Once I installed the program, I have the problem to where is keep dropping to a shell and will not boot. It say that it cannot find my hard drive partition which is /dev/cciss/c0d01. And on top of that, it does not create an /etc/fstab for me to mount it. I have tried creating a fstab myself, but once I reboot, it goes away. Has anyone had this problem? If so please help! Waiting 20 seconds and ctl-d'ing out of the shell works here. When mine does that drop into a shell trick, I just let it sit for 10 or 15 seconds. The boot process prints on the screen that it's created the relevant drive in /dev. And a couple seconds after that, 'ls /dev/sd*' shows the partitions. And ctl-d climbs out of the shell, and the boot process finishes. What you describe is happening here on 2 machines: a dual Opteron Sun running smp etch in 32 bit mode and a single P4 homebrew running sid. Both of them have a SCSI boot drive and a SATA to store big stuff on. (The servers running sarge are fine.) The 2.6.15 kernel and/or the current udev and/or something else I don't know about are/is bent pretty badly. SATA drives are not SCSI drives. If the developers want to run them through the SCSI driver, that's fine. But they could at least call them sdA... so things wouldn't get confused. And whoever's doing that reordering should be put up against the wall. Or at least the installer should be told about the reordering algorithm. -- Glenn English [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG ID: D0D7FF20 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Dropping to a shell
On Thursday 16 March 2006 08:32, Glenn English wrote: On Wednesday 15 March 2006 15:15, William Humphrey wrote: I am using the latest official testing version of debian (kernel 2.6.15) on a DL580 G3 with Quad Procs. I used the netinst image. Once I installed the program, I have the problem to where is keep dropping to a shell and will not boot. It say that it cannot find my hard drive partition which is /dev/cciss/c0d01. And on top of that, it does not create an /etc/fstab for me to mount it. I have tried creating a fstab myself, but once I reboot, it goes away. Has anyone had this problem? If so please help! Waiting 20 seconds and ctl-d'ing out of the shell works here. When mine does that drop into a shell trick, I just let it sit for 10 or 15 seconds. The boot process prints on the screen that it's created the relevant drive in /dev. And a couple seconds after that, 'ls /dev/sd*' shows the partitions. And ctl-d climbs out of the shell, and the boot process finishes. What you describe is happening here on 2 machines: a dual Opteron Sun running smp etch in 32 bit mode and a single P4 homebrew running sid. Both of them have a SCSI boot drive and a SATA to store big stuff on. (The servers running sarge are fine.) The 2.6.15 kernel and/or the current udev and/or something else I don't know about are/is bent pretty badly. SATA drives are not SCSI drives. If the developers want to run them through the SCSI driver, that's fine. But they could at least call them sdA... so things wouldn't get confused. And whoever's doing that reordering should be put up against the wall. Or at least the installer should be told about the reordering algorithm. -- Glenn English [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG ID: D0D7FF20 The cciss indicates it is a hardware raid controller, maybe Compaqs 'smart array' -- Greg Madden -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Dropping to a shell
did you install sid or sarge? (looks like sid) i also cant see what sort of disk controller the machine uses. Dean William Humphrey wrote: I am using the latest official testing version of debian (kernel 2.6.15) on a DL580 G3 with Quad Procs. I used the netinst image. Once I installed the program, I have the problem to where is keep dropping to a shell and will not boot. It say that it cannot find my hard drive partition which is /dev/cciss/c0d01. And on top of that, it does not create an /etc/fstab for me to mount it. I have tried creating a fstab myself, but once I reboot, it goes away. Has anyone had this problem? If so please help! Thanks, William Humphrey Senior Manager, IT - Helpdesk/Network Operations CALGB Information Systems Duke University - Durham, NC Phone: (919) 668-9303 Fax: (919) 668-9320 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
