Modules missing in vmlinux-prep.initrd (netboot)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, Ok, Sven, i got your kernel booting on the OF prep machine, with the daily netboot image (btw, now the other ppc (PPCBug) does not work...). It boots quite well, switches from serial to console once the video card (matrox millenium) has been detected, and lauches the setup. It then freeze on hardware detection, and all i got from the logs are some modules missing: ncr53c8xx usb-storage (i don't care, i don't have usb controller) ide-detect | ide-generic| idem, i don't have ide. ide-mod| ide-probe-mod | Before filing a bug report, i am calling for advice: do i miss something ? Is there something i need to do to get the modules ? And by the way, as i am writing, how can i get expert mode from netboot installation ? TIA to all people that give me advice. Best regards, Jerome Walter -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (MingW32) iD8DBQFBMs4++i7U/c9vdcYRAiOkAJ4pquP+z+MKBqaX5vEBl3P7lO83PQCguFkP fY0MkjOw12asu0dKtLUn8fs= =ZGvm -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Booting installer on RS/6000 43p-140
Sven Luther wrote: On Sat, Jul 10, 2004 at 07:00:21PM +0200, Helge Kreutzmann wrote: Hello, for helping d-i I got an 43p-140 (IBM RS/6000). Since there are no specific install instructions on http://d-i.alioth.debian.org/manual/en.powerpc/index.html Is it possible, to boot d-i on this prep-machine? And if so, which would be the proper command? Ah, this is a PReP machine, very fine then. It won't naturally not boot yaboot, but you should try netbooting : http://people.debian.org/~luther/debian-installer/daily-powerpc-built/daily/powerpc/netboot/vmlinuz-prep.initrd Or even the 2.6 kernel when it will become available (tomorrow i think, but i can build you a special one) : http://people.debian.org/~luther/debian-installer/daily-powerpc-built/daily/powerpc/netboot/vmlinuz-prep.initrd Still not working on my old Prep. I get stuck to Now booting kernel... with both cd and netboot vmlinuz-prep.initrd. Is there a reason for it to display this on the serial console and not the following ? For memory, my machine is a Bull Estrella 300 (Prep Utah PowerStack II Pro4000 to /proc/cpuinfo and has OpenFirmware). Regards, Jerome Walter signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: Booting installer on RS/6000 43p-140
Sven Luther wrote: On Mon, Jul 12, 2004 at 04:04:13PM +0900, Jerome Walter wrote: Sven Luther wrote: http://people.debian.org/~luther/debian-installer/daily-powerpc-built/daily/powerpc/netboot/vmlinuz-prep.initrd Still not working on my old Prep. None of them ? None. I get stuck to Now booting kernel... with both cd and netboot vmlinuz-prep.initrd. [snip] This is normal, as the serial console was not activated in the 2.6.7-3 kernel, which was included in the .udebs only yesterday or even this monring. This means that starting from tomorrow the netboot image will have it, and starting from wednesday, it can be used in the netinst iso. Ok, i won't see it. I am leaving for my only week of holiday this year (i wish i could have been in France, he ;) ) Are you able to netboot ? IF so i could prepare you a custom kernel or something, and you could send me back the serial log ? Kernel was netboot'ed as cdrom does not load. For memory, my machine is a Bull Estrella 300 (Prep Utah PowerStack II Pro4000 to /proc/cpuinfo and has OpenFirmware). Yep, i have heard of this one. ... Perhaps in a thread about it, one month ago ;) Mmm, it has OpenFirmware ? Enough to boot the -chrp kernels ? Could you give them a try ? Last time, it did not work, so i did not try this time either. Also, we are very interested in getting a prep machine booting on the -2.6 kernels/d-i, and i would gladly work with you to make that happen. Same as for the -chrp. And you have no 2.6-prep.initrd ;) Will see that later, but if it works, i will enjoy updating d-i documentation. As soon as i am back to climatizated office ;) Regards, Jerome signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: Booting installer on RS/6000 43p-140
Sven Luther wrote: On Mon, Jul 12, 2004 at 05:40:38PM +0900, Jerome Walter wrote: [snip] I get stuck to Now booting kernel... with both cd and netboot vmlinuz-prep.initrd. [snip] Are you able to netboot ? IF so i could prepare you a custom kernel or something, and you could send me back the serial log ? Kernel was netboot'ed as cdrom does not load. Ok, why you don't use the netboot d-i then ? Mmmh, i did try netboot. But kernel gets stuck to Now booting kernel too... Best regards, Helge, did you have had more success than me on your RS/6000 ? If i succeed in installing Debian on this machine, i will have another PPC (don't know what's inside) to install, more RS/6000-like, so all the feedbacks are welcome. Jerome signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Bug#252000: debian-installer installation report
Gary Whittaker wrote: I'm sorry, I don't know what you mean... What do you mean by modules (could you give an example?); loaded where?; how do I load some more?; what would be examples of some more? I think Martin was speaking about kernel modules. To know what modules are loaded, issue the 'lsmod' command. Modules are additional drivers that can be dynamically loaded into the kernel, for additionnal functionnality and/or hardware support. They can be found by categories into /lib/modules/YOUR_KERNEL_VERSION/kernel/CATEGORIES (just replace YOUR_KERNEL_VERSION and CATEGORIES by the good values). If you find modules of which the name could be of significant interest for you needs, issue the 'modprobe' command like in the following example : - I have Intel Pro 100 NIC, and driver is a module called e100.ko. - I issue 'modprobe e100' - Messages are saying if it works or fail. - 'lsmod' shows that e100 module is loaded and used. - ifconfig is showing eth0 ;) In your case, i think you show first submit here the modules loaded you have, we will go step by step ;) Thanks again for your assistance and patience, --Gary That's the way Free Software goes forward Regards, Jerome -Original Message- From: Martin Michlmayr [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 01, 2004 8:47 PM To: Gary Whittaker Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Bug#252000: debian-installer installation report * Gary Whittaker [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004-06-01 19:41]: I used the exact same CD (20040530 sarge-i386-netinst) to install to a Gateway today, so there must be something about that IBM's drive. What should I look for? Can you check which kind of modules are loaded and maybe load some more? -- -+-- Jerome Walter - EFREI p2004 +- Mail *is* private signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Bug#248067: Now gets (=D) is not a directory error on PPC PowerBook install
John Gilmore wrote: Installation was cooking along fine with the 20040523 CD, until: Setting up kernel-image-2.4.25-powerpc-smp-prep (2.4.25-8) ... Internal Error: (=D) is not a directory! dpkg: error processing kernel-image-2.4.25-powerpc-smp-prep (--configure): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 2 I don't know what this means. I had similar problem when installing a Debian on a Bull Estrella (PReP Blackhawk (Powerstack)). There is a problem with a perl script i think. If i remember well, i did a search into installation scripts, and dropped some line. (try grep or vim /=D...). By the way, i never managed to get the 2.4.x working on this machine. Always stuck at boot. I am so running a 2.6 kernel, and it works great (had to backport libc and module-init-tools). I am willing to make a kernel-image package for prep machine, if someone need it, and is ready to test it (i have only this prod-Prep 133Mhz). BTW, i did some other packages and backports for PPC machines (ie recompiled Bind which gave BSD_COMPAT errors). Let me a few time to set up a repository for it. For now, you could get my config on http://perso.efrei.fr/~walter/debian-ppc/ but kernel is very limited to my machine, and is unlikely to work on any other. I will make more generic and non-backporting-required package when free time will come. BTWII: if someone could help me finding why 2.4 kernels do not like my Estrella... Regards, J.Walter -- -+-- Jerome Walter - EFREI p2004 - NexantiS Corp. +- Mail *is* private signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Cannot manage to boot kernel on Prep PowerPc
Hello, I have been trying for some days (due to compile time length), to compile a 2.4 kernel on an old Estrella station. This have a PowerStack Prep processor. Having managed to compile this, i am quite lost when it comes to preparing bootloader, as the system does not really have one. I dd'ed vmlinux into /dev/sda1 (Prep boot partition), but when booting, it stops to Uncompressing Kernel (or something like this). I have the idea that it could come from missing ramimage, or something like this, but get lost into the few documentation i found. Prehaps someone here could help me getting this running, and i promise i'll write a documentation to avoid people playing with old stations such matters ;). TIA for your answers, Jerome Walter P.S: fallback:/usr/src/linux# cat /proc/cpuinfo processor : 0 cpu : 604 clock : 127MHz revision: 3.4 bogomips: 266.24 zero pages : total 0 (0Kb) current: 0 (0Kb) hits: 0/359 (0%) machine : PReP Blackhawk (Powerstack) L2 : none simms : 0:16M 1:16M 2:64M 3:64M -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
