Re: Sun Blade 100 -- Installer can't see disks
On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 10:57:12PM -0500, Jordan Bettis wrote: > On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 10:47:48PM +0200, Josip Rodin wrote: > > On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 03:36:42PM -0500, Jordan Bettis wrote: > > > The image boots fine, and the installer progresses to disk detection, > > > at which point it says that it can not detect the disk, aska me to > > > select a driver. > > > > > > Switching to the shell, I see the ALI IDE controller in lspci. I also > > > see in lsmod that alim15x3 is loaded. When I look in /proc/ide, I see > > > ide0 and ide1 directories, but no hda, hdb, etc. > > > > The hda, hdb etc devices would be in /dev. In any case, can you run > > Hi. Thanks for your reply. > > Yeah, I meant the device information directories, in /proc/ide, not > the device nodes themselves. > > > 'fdisk -l' in that shell to search for any devices with partitions? > > This produces no output. :< > > After booting the machine back up to try fdisk, I noticed that there's > now a /proc/ide/hda directory. It links from /proc/ide/ide0/. I swear > it wasn't there before. > > Poking through it, I get this: > > /proc/ide/hda/driver: > ide-default version 0.9.newide > > /proc/ide/hda/media: > UNKNOWN > > /proc/ide/hda/model: > 0=5x40,0t pcr_axmdc.1:770 > :1012:.112 12 > > identify and settings are too verbose to transcribe unless it'd be > helpful. Of course, /dev/hda still doesn't exist. > > Just a thought, would it be practical to get a PCI IDE controller for > this machine, and just bypass the crappy builtin one? I guess the main > hangup would be getting OB to boot from it. It looks like your case is worse than the other one - those others actually do detect the drives, but fail when using them with DMA; yours doesn't properly detect the drive, so it doesn't even get to the point where ide=nodma would be useful. Just in case you haven't already, try replacing the IDE cable with a newer one. -- 2. That which causes joy or happiness. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-sparc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Sun Blade 100 -- Installer can't see disks
On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 10:47:48PM +0200, Josip Rodin wrote: > On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 03:36:42PM -0500, Jordan Bettis wrote: > > The image boots fine, and the installer progresses to disk detection, > > at which point it says that it can not detect the disk, aska me to > > select a driver. > > > > Switching to the shell, I see the ALI IDE controller in lspci. I also > > see in lsmod that alim15x3 is loaded. When I look in /proc/ide, I see > > ide0 and ide1 directories, but no hda, hdb, etc. > > The hda, hdb etc devices would be in /dev. In any case, can you run Hi. Thanks for your reply. Yeah, I meant the device information directories, in /proc/ide, not the device nodes themselves. > 'fdisk -l' in that shell to search for any devices with partitions? This produces no output. :< After booting the machine back up to try fdisk, I noticed that there's now a /proc/ide/hda directory. It links from /proc/ide/ide0/. I swear it wasn't there before. Poking through it, I get this: /proc/ide/hda/driver: ide-default version 0.9.newide /proc/ide/hda/media: UNKNOWN /proc/ide/hda/model: 0=5x40,0t pcr_axmdc.1:770 :1012:.112 12 identify and settings are too verbose to transcribe unless it'd be helpful. Of course, /dev/hda still doesn't exist. Just a thought, would it be practical to get a PCI IDE controller for this machine, and just bypass the crappy builtin one? I guess the main hangup would be getting OB to boot from it. -- Jordan Bettis -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-sparc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Sun Blade 100 -- Installer can't see disks
On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 03:36:42PM -0500, Jordan Bettis wrote: > The image boots fine, and the installer progresses to disk detection, > at which point it says that it can not detect the disk, aska me to > select a driver. > > Switching to the shell, I see the ALI IDE controller in lspci. I also > see in lsmod that alim15x3 is loaded. When I look in /proc/ide, I see > ide0 and ide1 directories, but no hda, hdb, etc. The hda, hdb etc devices would be in /dev. In any case, can you run 'fdisk -l' in that shell to search for any devices with partitions? -- 2. That which causes joy or happiness. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-sparc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Sun Blade 100 -- Installer can't see disks
Hi. I don't know if this is related to Nataraj Basappa's problem above or not. It sounds like it might be, but perhaps a worse incarnation. I am trying to install 5.0.2 on a Blade 100. I first tried a netinstall CD. Openboot refused to see the disc, producing the 'bad disk label' error. I then setup the rarp/tftp netinstall option using the image here: http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian/dists/lenny/main/installer-sparc/current/images/netboot/ The image boots fine, and the installer progresses to disk detection, at which point it says that it can not detect the disk, aska me to select a driver. Switching to the shell, I see the ALI IDE controller in lspci. I also see in lsmod that alim15x3 is loaded. When I look in /proc/ide, I see ide0 and ide1 directories, but no hda, hdb, etc. I'd like to try using the ide=nodma option, but I don't get a SILO prompt when using the tftp option. Is there a way to pass kernel options to the tftp image? Another thing that may be significant, is that I got the machine with an ancient version of Red Hat on it (with a 2.4 kernel). Before I tried to install debian, it would boot. But now when I do 'boot disk' from OBP, it produces the "bad magic number in disk label" error. I did remove the disk at one point, but I've checked several times to make sure everything is seated properly. Thanks for any help anybody may have on this. Please let me know if any more information might be useful. -- Jordan Bettis -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-sparc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
