High Point 370 (Abit VP6) Support

[Colin Bell]

Hi,
 
I don't know if this is headed to the right place 
but the installation CD said to mail here if there were any problems with the 
installation process.  I'm wondering if there is any support for UDMA100 
controllers (specifically the HPT370 chipset on the ABIT VP6).   There 
is a patch to make the HPT370 work under Linux.
 
If there is not a disk image now, is there a 
reference on custom building them?  I have used Red Hat for the past 3 
years and I want to move up in the world as I am off to start Computer Science 
next year.  This looks like it might be my first project.  
:-)
 
Thanks,
 
Colin Bell

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Repository: boot-floppies/debian
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time:   Thu Jul 12 19:33:02 PDT 2001


Log Message:

when writing a problem report nfs mount must be read/write (Closes: #104117)


Files:

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cvs commit to boot-floppies/utilities/dbootstrap by dwhedon

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Repository: boot-floppies/utilities/dbootstrap
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time:   Thu Jul 12 19:33:02 PDT 2001


Log Message:

when writing a problem report nfs mount must be read/write (Closes: #104117)


Files:

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Log Message:

Danish update thanks to Claus Hindsgaul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>



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Re: Bug#104115: 3.0.7-2001-07-04: vga16 penguin is miscolored for some reason

[Chris Tillman]

> On Wed, Jul 11, 2001 at 04:34:39PM -0700, David Whedon wrote:
>> 3 different boards here have a miscolored penguin as well.
>
> I see the same thing using the compact boot-floppies.  I have a
> Matrox Millenium II graphics board, if that helps.  Isn't this a
> kernel bug anyway?
>
> Matt
>

Well the powerpc penguin looks fine. I also saw the same psychadelic penguin
on idepci.


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Re: Dell PowerEdge 2450 boot

[Fabrice Lorrain (home)]

> "D. Andrew Pease" wrote:
> 
> I searched through the mail list archives for answers to a question
> that I am sure has been answered before, but without luck.
> 
> I would like to install Debian on a rack of Dell PowerEdge 2450
> servers. These machines use an Adaptec AIC-7866 SCSI Raid controller
> card (also referred to as PERC/2 si). I found mention of methods to
> use boot floppies with modified kernels and adding "aic7xxx=no_probe"
> to the boot: prompt during the install startup. I am attempting to use
> a CD with Debian 2.2r2, but even with the added command the install is
> not able to see the drives.


Hi,

Have a look at http://domsch.com/linux you will find everything you
need.

You have to options : 
1- use the prebuild disks from Kevin Traas (that's what I did).
2- get the patchs, build a kernel, and do your own set of boot
disks. Ask in debian-user for any help.

Tchao.

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Instalation report

[Gustavo Noronha Silva]

Hello all, this is a little installation report:

I got the latest woody root and rescue floppies, dd'ed them into
two floppies

The F5 help screen at boot time is fscked, the colors doesn't get
shown... I booted normally, when asked to insert root.bin, it
could not load the floppy... it gave me: floppy0 detect failed
or such...

I went to the net and got root.bin and drivers1.bin flavor 'compact'
the installation proceeded but when I went to configure the device
drivers it claimed that /lib/modules/2.2.19 had no modules for 
configuring... 

Of course, I was using rescue from the normal install system and
drivers from compact... I linked /lib/modules/2.2.19-compact to
/lib/modules/2.2.19, I forgot the io of my ne2000 isa card
so I decided to go back and get the rescue from the compact
directory...

rescue booted with the penguin logo with wrong colors... (is the
compact rescue.bin really meant to be fbuffer?)

After booting I get some number codes and then:

status=0
fdc_busy=0
cont=
CURRENT=00
command_status=-1

floppy0: unexpected interrupt
VFS: Insert root floppy disk to be loaded into RAM disk and press ENTER
floppy0: unexpected interrupt
floppy0: sensei repl[0]=c0 repl[1]=0
floppy0: sensei repl[0]=c1 repl[1]=0
floppy0: sensei repl[0]=c2 repl[1]=0
floppy0: sensei repl[0]=c3 repl[1]=0

I ignored this and inserted the root.bin disk after that it
detected RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0... but it
gave me errors while reading the floppy... I rebooted and went through
the process again... 

The same things ocurred 'till it asked the root disk but it now
loaded it cleanly...

I chose my keyboard layout (where's the language selection? =()
used my old partitions for swap (/dev/hda6) and / (/dev/hda2)

went to install device drivers, it asked me for inserting rescue.bin,
did that, installed cleanly... asked drivers disk, inserted... it gave
me this error:

Floppy read error: the floppy unexpectedly ended.

how could that be? I used the same floppy the first time and
all went fine!

tried again... it went fine... quite strange went to configure
device drivers and modules... selected net/ne2000 and installed
it fine... installed some other modules

the network configuration went fine... now it was time to install
the base system... I wanted to install from network... it asked
me about what site to download from, I left it default, configured a
proxy (my main computer) and began downloading things...

when dbootstrap was downloading Packages.gz I stoped the process
to rebegin at night when telephone bills are cheap hehee =)

I'll send a new message as soon as I complete the whole process to
inform you how well it was...

thanks for the great work =)

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Re: Dell PowerEdge 2450 boot

[Stephen R Marenka]

Disregard the ravings of this madman.

On Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 02:17:54PM -0500, Stephen R Marenka wrote:
> FWIW, the specs for the 1550 don't look all that different from the 
> 2450 (1U vs. 2U issues and such aside). My stock 1550 said it had a 
> MegaRAID while it was booting. That driver is supported by the kernel.
> 
> What does your scsi bios actually report?
 
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Re: Dell PowerEdge 2450 boot

[Stephen R Marenka]

FWIW, the specs for the 1550 don't look all that different from the 
2450 (1U vs. 2U issues and such aside). My stock 1550 said it had a 
MegaRAID while it was booting. That driver is supported by the kernel.

What does your scsi bios actually report?

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Re: Dell PowerEdge 2450 boot

[Tapio Lehtonen]

On Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 11:34:42AM -0400, D. Andrew Pease wrote:

I think this should be in Debian user, since the question is not about
developing Debian boot system.

Anyway, the only the PERC/SC is supported in Linux kernel. The other
Adaptec SCSI RAID controllers that Dell has in its latest machines are
not supported in Linux kernel, Adaptec only provides a binary only
driver that works with a specific version of Red Hat kernel.

If you already bought the stack of Dell servers, bad luck. Otherwise
explain to your sales representative that you need a SCSI controller
that is supported by the Linux kernel (add that you mean Linux kernel,
not Red Hat kernel). I had this problem every time I needed to
purchase a Dell server, seems they use a different Adaptec chip in
almost all new server models.

As for compiling the kernel, for servers especially it is well worth
the effort the compile your own kernel, so you can get the most of
your servers. Just include those things that you need and leave out
all the rest. Use the Debian package kernel-package to do the
compilation, you get a .deb file that you can easily install to all
the similar servers.

Disclaimer: This was the situation six months ago. I have not checked
after that which Adaptec chips are supported by the kernel.

> I searched through the mail list archives for answers to a question that I
> am sure has been answered before, but without luck.
> 
> I would like to install Debian on a rack of Dell PowerEdge 2450 servers.
> These machines use an Adaptec AIC-7866 SCSI Raid controller card (also
> referred to as PERC/2 si). I found mention of methods to use boot floppies
> with modified kernels and adding "aic7xxx=no_probe" to the boot: prompt
> during the install startup. I am attempting to use a CD with Debian 2.2r2,
> but even with the added command the install is not able to see the drives.
> 
> I have some information from a Mr. Ossama Othman regarding this, but the
> information is 2 years old. I have had no luck finding the custom boot
> floppies he refered to, and I admit that rebuilding the kernel is currently
> beyond my skill.
> 
> My question: where can I get a set of boot floppies that will work with my
> systems and allow me to continue the install from CD, thereby keeping my
> numerous installs as quick as possible?
> 
> - Andrew Pease
> 

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Bug#104115: 3.0.7-2001-07-04: vga16 penguin is miscolored for some reason

[David Whedon]

Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 08:22:52AM -0600 wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 11, 2001 at 04:34:39PM -0700, David Whedon wrote:
> > 3 different boards here have a miscolored penguin as well.
> 
> I see the same thing using the compact boot-floppies.  I have a
> Matrox Millenium II graphics board, if that helps. 

And if it helps, 2.2.18pre21 idepci (and I think compact as well) had a good
looking penguin for me.

> Isn't this a
> kernel bug anyway?
sounds right to me.

-David
> 
> Matt
> 
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cvs commit to boot-floppies/utilities/dbootstrap by kraai

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Repository: boot-floppies/utilities/dbootstrap
who:kraai
time:   Thu Jul 12 08:46:13 PDT 2001


Log Message:

Send cp error messages to the log rather than the console, and eliminate
some segfaults.


Files:

changed:problem_report.c


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cvs commit to boot-floppies/debian by kraai

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Repository: boot-floppies/debian
who:kraai
time:   Thu Jul 12 08:46:12 PDT 2001


Log Message:

Send cp error messages to the log rather than the console, and eliminate
some segfaults.


Files:

changed:changelog


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Dell PowerEdge 2450 boot

[D. Andrew Pease]

I searched through 
the mail list archives for answers to a question that I am sure has been 
answered before, but without luck.
 
I would like to 
install Debian on a rack of Dell PowerEdge 2450 servers. These machines use an 
Adaptec AIC-7866 SCSI Raid controller card (also referred to as PERC/2 si). I 
found mention of methods to use boot floppies with modified kernels and adding 
"aic7xxx=no_probe" to the boot: prompt during the install startup. I am 
attempting to use a CD with Debian 2.2r2, but even with the added command the 
install is not able to see the drives.
 
I have some 
information from a Mr. Ossama Othman regarding this, but the information is 2 
years old. I have had no luck finding the custom boot floppies he refered to, 
and I admit that rebuilding the kernel is currently beyond my 
skill.
 
My question: where 
can I get a set of boot floppies that will work with my systems and allow me to 
continue the install from CD, thereby keeping my numerous installs as quick 
as possible?
 
- Andrew 
Pease
 

Bug#104115: 3.0.7-2001-07-04: vga16 penguin is miscolored for some reason

[Matt Kraai]

On Wed, Jul 11, 2001 at 04:34:39PM -0700, David Whedon wrote:
> 3 different boards here have a miscolored penguin as well.

I see the same thing using the compact boot-floppies.  I have a
Matrox Millenium II graphics board, if that helps.  Isn't this a
kernel bug anyway?

Matt


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cvs commit to boot-floppies/utilities/dbootstrap by rhirst

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Repository: boot-floppies/utilities/dbootstrap
who:rhirst
time:   Thu Jul 12 07:07:36 PDT 2001


Log Message:

Don't redisplay keyboard selection menu if user hits cancel on it.  Makes
it easy to keep kernel keymap if a suitable alternative is not available.


Files:

changed:main_menu.c


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cvs commit to boot-floppies/debian by rhirst

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Repository: boot-floppies/debian
who:rhirst
time:   Thu Jul 12 07:07:35 PDT 2001


Log Message:

Don't redisplay keyboard selection menu if user hits cancel on it.  Makes
it easy to keep kernel keymap if a suitable alternative is not available.


Files:

changed:changelog


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Re: [M68k-build] boot-floppies 3.0.7 for m68k

[Christian T. Steigies]

Hi,
On Fri, Jul 06, 2001 at 03:02:04PM -0500, Christian T. Steigies wrote:
> Hi,
> I am uploading the latest m68k boot-floppies build to:
>  http://auric.debian.org/~cts/bf/
I just put a CVS build (not yet finished 3.0.8) there. Works much better for 
me. Now it fails when trying to install the base system. I tried to install 
over the net with my shiny new DSL setup and I got:
 couldn't work out current architecture
in debootstrap. Is this a known problem? Maybe my debootstrap is too old?
debootstrap_0.1.11_m68k.deb (with 0.1.13 available, will try with 0.1.15).
Anyhow, the mount problem should be gone now.
 
Re keymaps on mac:
> * ...with the exception of a small glitch: some (e.g. all german) keymaps
>   fail to load (because they are missing in /etc/keymaps.tgz)...
...
> The boot-floppie's "configure the keyboard" dialog offers 6 mac keymaps (2
> US, 2 german, 2 french), but /etc/keymaps.gz contains only three of
> these 6; here's a tar -tzf:
>  
> mac/mac-us-std.bmap
> mac/mac-us-ext.bmap
> mac/mac-fr2-ext.bmap
Can I add the missing keymaps to keymaps.sh

case "$arch" in
m68k)
export keymaps="atari/atari-de.kmap.gz
...
mac/mac-us-std.kmap.gz
mac/mac-us-ext.kmap.gz
mac/mac-fr2-ext.kmap.gz"
;;
and maybe also to powerpc?
powerpc)
export keymaps="amiga/amiga-de.kmap.gz
mac/mac-fr2-ext.kmap.gz
...
mac/mac-us-ext.kmap.gz
mac/mac-us-std.kmap.gz"
# Broken in console-data see bts#50588
#mac/mac-de-latin1-nodeadkeys.kmap.gz
;;

Maybe I should leave out the broken keymap, but the others shouldn't hurt?
Where does the installer know the available keymaps from, does it look
at the console-data(?) package?

Christian


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cvs commit to boot-floppies/utilities/dbootstrap by eb

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Repository: boot-floppies/utilities/dbootstrap
who:eb
time:   Thu Jul 12 04:16:08 PDT 2001


Log Message:

- Add patch from Colin Walters to support basedebs.tgz.
- Ignore .resource and .finderinfo when building lists of valid directories
  (HFS cruft).
- Make problem_report create a .fdisk-dump file for each disk, contents is
  the output of fdisk -l .


Files:

changed:choose_medium.c extract_base.c problem_report.c util.c


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Repository: boot-floppies/debian
who:eb
time:   Thu Jul 12 04:16:08 PDT 2001


Log Message:

- Add patch from Colin Walters to support basedebs.tgz.
- Ignore .resource and .finderinfo when building lists of valid directories
  (HFS cruft).
- Make problem_report create a .fdisk-dump file for each disk, contents is
  the output of fdisk -l .


Files:

changed:changelog


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Re: cramfs initrd corruption ?

[Herbert Xu]

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> I'm building kernels from SGI CVS (to get latest XFS code),
> and making initrd images (using initrd-tools and make-kpkg --initrd).
> I can't get the cramfs root to mount correctly.

> 1/ there is (IMHO) a serious bug in drivers/block/rd.c, in function
> identify_ramdisk_image : it will refuse to use anything other than
> a minix, ext2, romfs, or gzipped ramdisk. I had to gzip my cramfs
> ramdisk to be able to mount it.

You need to use the Debian kernel-source package which has fixes to all
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Re: base-8 disk

[Ethan Benson]

On Wed, Jul 11, 2001 at 06:56:49PM -0600, A. Roubicek wrote:
> 
> I read at
> http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch-partitioning.en.html :
> -
> 4.1.1 The Directory Tree
> 
> The following list describes some important directories. It should help
> you to find out what your partitioning scheme should be. If this is too
> confusing for you, just ignore it and reread it when you read the rest of
> the installation manual.
> 
>   /: root represents the starting point of the directory hierarchy. It
> contains the essential programs that the computer can boot. This includes
> the kernel, system libraries, configuration files in /etc and various
> other needed files. Typically 30-50 MB are needed but this may vary.
> -
> 
> So I assigned something like 42 MB to "/", which was insufficient...I
> ended up needing more than 75MB, not sure yet exactly how much because I
> haven't finished the installation.

potato or woody?  with potato and a http base install the 15MB
base.tgz is downloaded to /target/tmp so that must be its own
partition if have a small root filesystem (even if you didn't run into
this during install you would later).  

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Re: YA b-f report

[Ethan Benson]

On Wed, Jul 11, 2001 at 11:47:28PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
> Ethan Benson wrote:
> > its of course rather pointless for woody but when woody becomes stable
> > it will become correct.
> 
> It's quite possible that some old and seldom released packages will have
> a security fix done by the security team that will hit the security
> archive before a fix hits stable, and will be of a newer version than
> what's in stable. That's why I have s.d.o in sources.list on all my
> boxes, even the unstable and testing ones.

s/stable/testing/g i assume...

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