Re: Woody installation on IBM 44P-170 - really close

2002-05-22 Thread Rolf Brudeseth

Does anybody know where I may obtain the source code for boot-floppies
3.0.23? PowerPC if it makes a difference.

I compiled a boot/root Power3 install image with level 3.0.23 of the
boot-floppies. I boot via BOOTP/tftp. However, I still am not able to do an
NFS or HTML install. At this point I am not selecting the correct
rescue.bin file, but I believe the failure occurs prior to attempting to
install the image. It appears to be mounting problems in both cases. I
would assume that this has been tested on other platforms, so it is very
likely operator error. I have gone through the config file I use during the
compile. It is the default power3 config file. It looks ok, but I am no
kernel guru. The errors are documented below.

I will have to create my own rescue.bin image. What kind of image is this?
Do I need to create a true rescue image with bootloader etc, or is this
really just the zImage kernel? If it is a true rescue image, I would assume
that I use yaboot? I know how to make one; however, does Debian have
documentation how they made theirs?

My NFS server is version 2.

Snippets from config file:
#
# Block devices
#
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_FD=y
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_XD is not set
# CONFIG_PARIDE is not set
# CONFIG_BLK_CPQ_DA is not set
# CONFIG_BLK_CPQ_CISS_DA is not set
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_DAC960 is not set
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_LOOP=y
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_NBD is not set
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_RAM=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_RAM_SIZE=4096
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_INITRD=y

#
# Network File Systems
#
# CONFIG_CODA_FS is not set
# CONFIG_INTERMEZZO_FS is not set
CONFIG_NFS_FS=y
# CONFIG_NFS_V3 is not set
# CONFIG_ROOT_NFS is not set
CONFIG_NFSD=y
# CONFIG_NFSD_V3 is not set
CONFIG_SUNRPC=y
CONFIG_LOCKD=y
# CONFIG_SMB_FS is not set
# CONFIG_NCP_FS is not set
# CONFIG_NCPFS_PACKET_SIGNING is not set
# CONFIG_NCPFS_IOCTL_LOCKING is not set
# CONFIG_NCPFS_STRONG is not set
# CONFIG_NCPFS_NFS_NS is not set
# CONFIG_NCPFS_OS2_NS is not set
# CONFIG_NCPFS_SMALLDOS is not set
# CONFIG_NCPFS_NLS is not set
# CONFIG_NCPFS_EXTRAS is not set
# CONFIG_ZISOFS_FS is not set
# CONFIG_ZLIB_FS_INFLATE is not set

Rolf

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Rolf Brudeseth
05/15/2002 11:53 AM


To:Chris Tillman [EMAIL PROTECTED],
   [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]
cc:

From:  Rolf Brudeseth/Austin/IBM@IBMUS
Subject:Re: Woody installation on IBM 44P-170 - really close
Importance: Normal




On Tue, May 14, 2002 at 01:41:54PM -0500, Rolf Brudeseth wrote:
 I believe I am really close to getting Debian working on an IBM 44P-170
 workstation.

 I made a combined boot/root image. The kernel is 2.4.18 from kernel.org,
 while the root image is from Debian. I used the default power3 config
file
 (power3_defconfig).

 Root image:

http://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/woody/main/disks-powerpc/current/chrp/root.bin

No, I actually used:
http://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/woody/main/disks-powerpc/current/chrp/images-1.44/root.bin


 02-Apr-2002

 I download the boot/root image from Open Firmware via BOOTP. It starts
up
 the installation routine. I am able to successfully partition/format the
 hard drive.


 However, if I try to install via NFS I get the following error message:
 Error mounting NFS filesystem, 'server:/path', please try again.

 Does it literally say 'server:/path', indicating the variables are not
 getting initialized? or is the path correct as far as you can see?
 If you look in vc 3, is there another possibly more detailed error
 message there?

No, I enter the correct server and path name.

 I know NFS is working, because I am able to mount from other systems.

 If I try to install via HTTP/FTP it will successfully download
rescue.bin
 and drivers.tgz; however I get the following error messages:
 Unable to mount the Rescue Floppy.
 The attempt to extract Rescue Floppy failed.
 Installation of the file '/tmp/rescue.bin' failed.



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Re: Woody installation on IBM 44P-170 - really close

2002-05-22 Thread Matt Zimmerman

On Wed, May 22, 2002 at 11:27:15AM -0500, Rolf Brudeseth wrote:

 Does anybody know where I may obtain the source code for boot-floppies
 3.0.23? PowerPC if it makes a difference.

The source is the same for all architectures, and can be found in
/pool/main/b/boot-floppies/ on any Debian mirror.  Note that you do not need
this in order to make a new rescue.bin.

 I will have to create my own rescue.bin image. What kind of image is this?
 Do I need to create a true rescue image with bootloader etc, or is this
 really just the zImage kernel? If it is a true rescue image, I would assume
 that I use yaboot? I know how to make one; however, does Debian have
 documentation how they made theirs?

This chapter in the installation manual:

http://www.debian.org/releases/woody/i386/ch-boot-floppy-techinfo.en.html

explains how the rescue disk works, specifically how to replace the kernel.

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Re: Woody installation on IBM 44P-170 - really close

2002-05-15 Thread German Poo Caaman~o

El mar, 14-05-2002 a las 14:41, Rolf Brudeseth escribió:
 I believe I am really close to getting Debian working on an IBM 44P-170
 workstation.
 
 I made a combined boot/root image. The kernel is 2.4.18 from kernel.org,
 while the root image is from Debian. I used the default power3 config file
 (power3_defconfig).
 
 Root image:
 http://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/woody/main/disks-powerpc/current/chrp/root.bin

There are not such image.  Anyway I'll try with the images on this
directory.  I have an IBM 44P-170 running Woody over SuSE.

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Re: Woody installation on IBM 44P-170 - really close

2002-05-15 Thread Josh Huber

German Poo Caaman~o [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 El mar, 14-05-2002 a las 14:41, Rolf Brudeseth escribió:
 I believe I am really close to getting Debian working on an IBM 44P-170
 workstation.
 
 I made a combined boot/root image. The kernel is 2.4.18 from kernel.org,
 while the root image is from Debian. I used the default power3 config file
 (power3_defconfig).
 
 Root image:
 http://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/woody/main/disks-powerpc/current/chrp/root.bin
   ^
It's just missing the image-1.44/ ---|

 There are not such image.  Anyway I'll try with the images on this
 directory.  I have an IBM 44P-170 running Woody over SuSE.

ttyl,

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Re: Woody installation on IBM 44P-170 - really close

2002-05-15 Thread Rolf Brudeseth

German,

Sorry, your correct. I have /images-1.44/ missing from the link. I was
working way to late.

http://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/woody/main/disks-powerpc/current/chrp/images-1.44/root.bin

Rolf

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German Poo Caaman~o [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 05/15/2002 10:44:47 AM

To:Rolf Brudeseth/Austin/IBM@IBMUS
cc:[EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject:Re: Woody installation on IBM 44P-170 - really close


El mar, 14-05-2002 a las 14:41, Rolf Brudeseth escribió:
 I believe I am really close to getting Debian working on an IBM 44P-170
 workstation.

 I made a combined boot/root image. The kernel is 2.4.18 from kernel.org,
 while the root image is from Debian. I used the default power3 config
file
 (power3_defconfig).

 Root image:

http://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/woody/main/disks-powerpc/current/chrp/root.bin


There are not such image.  Anyway I'll try with the images on this
directory.  I have an IBM 44P-170 running Woody over SuSE.

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Re: Woody installation on IBM 44P-170 - really close

2002-05-15 Thread Rolf Brudeseth


On Tue, May 14, 2002 at 01:41:54PM -0500, Rolf Brudeseth wrote:
 I believe I am really close to getting Debian working on an IBM 44P-170
 workstation.

 I made a combined boot/root image. The kernel is 2.4.18 from kernel.org,
 while the root image is from Debian. I used the default power3 config
file
 (power3_defconfig).

 Root image:

http://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/woody/main/disks-powerpc/current/chrp/root.bin

No, I actually used:
http://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/woody/main/disks-powerpc/current/chrp/images-1.44/root.bin


 02-Apr-2002

 I download the boot/root image from Open Firmware via BOOTP. It starts
up
 the installation routine. I am able to successfully partition/format the
 hard drive.

 It'll be great if you can write up the steps required to get here.

Well, I was not planning to get into this yet, but since you brought up the
subject of documentation, here it comes.

I am soon going on vacation. I will be back June 13th. Then I plan to
submit bugs or post to the various Debian news groups where I will document
issues, suggestions, solutions, etc (if still unresolved), such as:

- It appears that powerpc Woody will be released with kernel 2.2 and not
2.4. I suspect that there is limited support for IBM CHRP/PREP systems in
the 2.2 kernel. I will investigate and document this.
- Apparently there is a bug in the version of glibc that Debian is using,
which will prevent Debian from running the 64 bit kernel on the IBM CHRP
systems. I will investigate and document this.
- Document requires patches for IBM CHRP/PREP systems.
- I am uncertain whether Debian has determined how to create bootable CDs
for IBM CHRP/PREP systems. I will investigate and document this.
- I will document how to perform an HTTP/FTP and NFS install on IBM
CHRP/PREP systems (after I figure it out).
- I will write up and submit README files for
'ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/woody/main/disks-powerpc/current/' that will
make things clearer for non-kernel/non-install hackers, like myself (see
below).
- Help out document how to create kernels and combined install/rescue
images for the various IBM CHRP/PREP systems that can be place in the
directory mentioned above.
- I will continuously document the IBM CHRP/PREP systems where I have been
able to successfully install Debian. I have access to pretty much all the
various RS6000/pSeries systems.

 However, if I try to install via NFS I get the following error message:
 Error mounting NFS filesystem, 'server:/path', please try again.

 Does it literally say 'server:/path', indicating the variables are not
 getting initialized? or is the path correct as far as you can see?
 If you look in vc 3, is there another possibly more detailed error
 message there?

No, I enter the correct server and path name. Aha, I assume the 'vc3' is an
error log application? I will try to use it to get better failure
information.

 I know NFS is working, because I am able to mount from other systems.

 If I try to install via HTTP/FTP it will successfully download
rescue.bin
 and drivers.tgz; however I get the following error messages:
 Unable to mount the Rescue Floppy.
 The attempt to extract Rescue Floppy failed.
 Installation of the file '/tmp/rescue.bin' failed.

 Why is rescue.bin even required at this point?

 boot-floppies never dropped the floppy terminology even when
 they added new paths for installation. rescue.bin is the file
 that contains the kernel; and the code looks for that file name.

I do not think that 'rescue.bin' contains a kernel. I believe it is only
the rescue root image. The reason I assume this, is because it is the same
size as the 'root.bin' file. When I created the combined install root/boot
image, I renamed 'root.bin' to 'ramdisk.image.gz' and copied it to the '
/usr/src/linux/arch/ppc/boot/images' directory, and then ran a 'make
zImage.initrd'.

I go the clue from the 'powermac' subdirectory. There you will find the
following symbolic link:
ramdisk.image.gz - images-1.44/root.bin

The 'http://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/woody/main/disks-powerpc/current/'
directories could benefit from having a lot more README files. I will
document this and submit bugs or forward it to the mailing Debian powerpc
mailing list.

 Are these known issues?

 I just looked through the bug list, and indeed there is an nfs bug
 #142267 in the current release. It was fixed by Matt Kraai and is
 pending for the next release.

 The extract thing sounds familiar to me too, but I can't place it.
 The target is not an nfs share too? Thinking the other bug may be
 causing this as secondary.

 Do I need to submit a bug?
 Is there a way I can work around the problem?

 You could use wget within the installer to download rescue.bin and
 drivers.tgz to your target manually, then point the installer there
 for installation of kernel and drivers ('mounted partition').
 They need to be arranged as:
 powermac/drivers.tgz
 powermac/images-1.44/rescue.bin

 But maybe the vc3 error messages will give a 

Re: Woody installation on IBM 44P-170 - really close

2002-05-15 Thread German Poo Caaman~o

El mié, 15-05-2002 a las 12:53, Rolf Brudeseth escribió:
 On Tue, May 14, 2002 at 01:41:54PM -0500, Rolf Brudeseth wrote:
  I believe I am really close to getting Debian working on an IBM 44P-170
  workstation.
 
  I made a combined boot/root image. The kernel is 2.4.18 from kernel.org,
  while the root image is from Debian. I used the default power3 config
 file
  (power3_defconfig).
 
  Root image:
 
 http://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/woody/main/disks-powerpc/current/chrp/root.bin
 
 No, I actually used:
 
http://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/woody/main/disks-powerpc/current/chrp/images-1.44/root.bin
 
 
  02-Apr-2002
 
  I download the boot/root image from Open Firmware via BOOTP. It starts
 up
  the installation routine. I am able to successfully partition/format the
  hard drive.
 
  It'll be great if you can write up the steps required to get here.
 
 Well, I was not planning to get into this yet, but since you brought up the
 subject of documentation, here it comes.
 
 I am soon going on vacation. I will be back June 13th. Then I plan to
 submit bugs or post to the various Debian news groups where I will document
 issues, suggestions, solutions, etc (if still unresolved), such as:
 
 - It appears that powerpc Woody will be released with kernel 2.2 and not
 2.4. I suspect that there is limited support for IBM CHRP/PREP systems in
 the 2.2 kernel. I will investigate and document this.

 - Apparently there is a bug in the version of glibc that Debian is using,
 which will prevent Debian from running the 64 bit kernel on the IBM CHRP
 systems. I will investigate and document this.

If your refer to memset's problems, they were solve with glibc  2.1.
In my experience, when I installed base files on a new partition 
on SuSE I downloaded base files from potato, chroot died when 
it needed libc6.  With alien, I changed libc6-*-2.2.4 and nscd 
from unstable and all worked fine since then.

AFAIK, the minimum glibc on Woody will be 2.2.4-4.

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Re: Woody installation on IBM 44P-170 - really close

2002-05-15 Thread Chris Tillman

  It'll be great if you can write up the steps required to get here.
 
 Well, I was not planning to get into this yet, but since you brought up the
 subject of documentation, here it comes.
 
 I am soon going on vacation. I will be back June 13th. Then I plan to
 submit bugs or post to the various Debian news groups where I will document
 issues, suggestions, solutions, etc (if still unresolved), such as:
 
 - It appears that powerpc Woody will be released with kernel 2.2 and not
 2.4. I suspect that there is limited support for IBM CHRP/PREP systems in
 the 2.2 kernel. I will investigate and document this.
 - Apparently there is a bug in the version of glibc that Debian is using,
 which will prevent Debian from running the 64 bit kernel on the IBM CHRP
 systems. I will investigate and document this.
 - Document requires patches for IBM CHRP/PREP systems.
 - I am uncertain whether Debian has determined how to create bootable CDs
 for IBM CHRP/PREP systems. I will investigate and document this.
 - I will document how to perform an HTTP/FTP and NFS install on IBM
 CHRP/PREP systems (after I figure it out).
 - I will write up and submit README files for
 'ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/woody/main/disks-powerpc/current/' that will
 make things clearer for non-kernel/non-install hackers, like myself (see
 below).
 - Help out document how to create kernels and combined install/rescue
 images for the various IBM CHRP/PREP systems that can be place in the
 directory mentioned above.
 - I will continuously document the IBM CHRP/PREP systems where I have been
 able to successfully install Debian. I have access to pretty much all the
 various RS6000/pSeries systems.
 

This sounds great! I'm happy to convert words into sgml if you'd like.

 
 I do not think that 'rescue.bin' contains a kernel. I believe it is only
 the rescue root image. The reason I assume this, is because it is the same
 size as the 'root.bin' file. When I created the combined install root/boot
 image, I renamed 'root.bin' to 'ramdisk.image.gz' and copied it to the '
 /usr/src/linux/arch/ppc/boot/images' directory, and then ran a 'make
 zImage.initrd'.
 
 I go the clue from the 'powermac' subdirectory. There you will find the
 following symbolic link:
 ramdisk.image.gz - images-1.44/root.bin
 

Yes, that's true, but rescue.bin is different. It's the kernel, gzipped
and written to a floppy image.

 The 'http://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/woody/main/disks-powerpc/current/'
 directories could benefit from having a lot more README files. I will
 document this and submit bugs or forward it to the mailing Debian powerpc
 mailing list.
 

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Re: Woody installation on IBM 44P-170 - really close

2002-05-15 Thread Rolf Brudeseth

German,

Actually, it is a very good question. It took me a while to figure out.
However, you may not have seen the problem I am describing below.

I set up an RS/6000 43P-150 running SuSE 7.3 as my BOOTP/tftp server:

elas27:~ # cat /etc/bootptab
elas23:\
ht=ethernet:\
ha=000629040055:\
bf=zImage.initrd.chrp-rs6k:\
ip=9.3.52.88:\
sm=255.255.255.224:\
bs=auto

elas27:~ # ls -l /tftpboot
-rwxr-xr-x1 rolfbusers 2689856 May 13 13:29
zImage.initrd.chrp-rs6k

So why does this work? Should it not be:
bf=/tftpboot/zImage.initrd.chrp-rs6k:\

Well, unlike other BOOTP server that I have used before, this one had
/tftpboot hardcoded as root. Therefore, while I was investigating what I
thought was an Open Firmware problem, I was really trying to boot from:
/tftpboot/tftpboot/zImage.initrd.chrp-rs6k

Then all you have to do on the target machine is to issue the following
command from Open Firmware (console optional):
0 boot net console=ttyS0

I created the install boot/root image as follows:
$ mv root.bin ramdisk.image.gz
$ mv ramdisk.image.gz /usr/src/linux/arch/ppc/boot/images
$ make zImage.initrd

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German Poo Caaman~o [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 05/15/2002 03:47:54 PM

To:Rolf Brudeseth/Austin/IBM@IBMUS
cc:
Subject:Re: Woody installation on IBM 44P-170 - really close


El mié, 15-05-2002 a las 12:53, Rolf Brudeseth escribió:

 On Tue, May 14, 2002 at 01:41:54PM -0500, Rolf Brudeseth wrote:
  I believe I am really close to getting Debian working on an IBM
44P-170
  workstation.
 
  I made a combined boot/root image. The kernel is 2.4.18 from
kernel.org,
  while the root image is from Debian. I used the default power3 config
 file
  (power3_defconfig).
 
  Root image:
 

http://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/woody/main/disks-powerpc/current/chrp/root.bin


 No, I actually used:

http://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/woody/main/disks-powerpc/current/chrp/images-1.44/root.bin


 
  02-Apr-2002
 
  I download the boot/root image from Open Firmware via BOOTP. It starts
 up
  the installation routine. I am able to successfully partition/format
the
  hard drive.

Excuse me if my question is stupid, but, how did you boot your
machine?

Thanks in advance,

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Woody installation on IBM 44P-170 - really close

2002-05-14 Thread Rolf Brudeseth

I believe I am really close to getting Debian working on an IBM 44P-170
workstation.

I made a combined boot/root image. The kernel is 2.4.18 from kernel.org,
while the root image is from Debian. I used the default power3 config file
(power3_defconfig).

Root image:
http://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/woody/main/disks-powerpc/current/chrp/root.bin

02-Apr-2002

I download the boot/root image from Open Firmware via BOOTP. It starts up
the installation routine. I am able to successfully partition/format the
hard drive.

However, if I try to install via NFS I get the following error message:
Error mounting NFS filesystem, 'server:/path', please try again.

I know NFS is working, because I am able to mount from other systems.

If I try to install via HTTP/FTP it will successfully download rescue.bin
and drivers.tgz; however I get the following error messages:
Unable to mount the Rescue Floppy.
The attempt to extract Rescue Floppy failed.
Installation of the file '/tmp/rescue.bin' failed.

Why is rescue.bin even required at this point?

Are these known issues?
Do I need to submit a bug?
Is there a way I can work around the problem?

Any help will be appreciated.

Rolf

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Re: Woody installation on IBM 44P-170 - really close

2002-05-14 Thread Chris Tillman

On Tue, May 14, 2002 at 01:41:54PM -0500, Rolf Brudeseth wrote:
 I believe I am really close to getting Debian working on an IBM 44P-170
 workstation.
 
 I made a combined boot/root image. The kernel is 2.4.18 from kernel.org,
 while the root image is from Debian. I used the default power3 config file
 (power3_defconfig).
 
 Root image:
 http://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/woody/main/disks-powerpc/current/chrp/root.bin
 
 02-Apr-2002
 
 I download the boot/root image from Open Firmware via BOOTP. It starts up
 the installation routine. I am able to successfully partition/format the
 hard drive.

It'll be great if you can write up the steps required to get here.

 However, if I try to install via NFS I get the following error message:
 Error mounting NFS filesystem, 'server:/path', please try again.

Does it literally say 'server:/path', indicating the variables are not
getting initialized? or is the path correct as far as you can see?
If you look in vc 3, is there another possibly more detailed error 
message there?
 
 I know NFS is working, because I am able to mount from other systems.
 
 If I try to install via HTTP/FTP it will successfully download rescue.bin
 and drivers.tgz; however I get the following error messages:
 Unable to mount the Rescue Floppy.
 The attempt to extract Rescue Floppy failed.
 Installation of the file '/tmp/rescue.bin' failed.
 
 Why is rescue.bin even required at this point?
 
boot-floppies never dropped the floppy terminology even when 
they added new paths for installation. rescue.bin is the file 
that contains the kernel; and the code looks for that file name.

 Are these known issues?

I just looked through the bug list, and indeed there is an nfs bug
#142267 in the current release. It was fixed by Matt Kraai and is
pending for the next release.

The extract thing sounds familiar to me too, but I can't place it.
The target is not an nfs share too? Thinking the other bug may be 
causing this as secondary. 

 Do I need to submit a bug?
 Is there a way I can work around the problem?

You could use wget within the installer to download rescue.bin and
drivers.tgz to your target manually, then point the installer there
for installation of kernel and drivers ('mounted partition').
They need to be arranged as: 
powermac/drivers.tgz
powermac/images-1.44/rescue.bin

But maybe the vc3 error messages will give a better clue what is
happening.

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