Re: Ultra 5 won't boot from HD after install
On Fri, May 02, 2003 at 07:47:09PM -0400, Ben Collins wrote: Are you sure that you have the disk setup as Master, and not cable select or something else weird. Yup, entirely. I found another IDE disk (6x the capacity!) and it works fine. I don't know what was wrong before. I know the disk was jumpered properly. It was a weird ancient disk, so who knows. Now, one more question, to which I should know the answer by now: When compiling the kernel in a default woody installation on this system, the build fails because there is no sparc64-linux-gcc on the system. I've worked around that problem in the past by making that a symlink to gcc-3.0. What's the actual right thing to do? noah -- ___ | Web: http://web.morgul.net/~frodo/ | PGP Public Key: http://web.morgul.net/~frodo/mail.html pgpy9Uahj24LO.pgp Description: PGP signature
Ultra 5 won't boot from HD after install
Hi all. I just installed potato on an Ultra 5 (will upgrade once it's working, but that's all I had on CD) but the machine doesn't seem to want to boot from the IDE hard drive. It had no problem booting the install CD and the installation seemed to go fine. No errors were reported when installing SILO. Here's the output of my interaction with OpenBoot: ok boot disk Boot device: /[EMAIL PROTECTED],0/[EMAIL PROTECTED],1/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/[EMAIL PROTECTED],0 File and args: Can't open boot device The partition table has a Linux partition first, occupying most of the disk, followed by swap. The 3rd partition is the entire disk in the Sun disklable. The disk in the machine is not the original Sun-supplied disk but is an old 1.2 gig IDE disk. The manual with hardware detected defaults option when creating a sun disklabel in fdisk seemed to pick the right values, according to the label on the disk, and as I said, there was no sign of problems during the installation of the system or of SILO. Any suggestions? noah -- ___ | Web: http://web.morgul.net/~frodo/ | PGP Public Key: http://web.morgul.net/~frodo/mail.html pgpgsd6UTA0jh.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Ultra 5 won't boot from HD after install
On Fri, May 02, 2003 at 01:15:34PM -0400, Noah Meyerhans wrote: Hi all. I just installed potato on an Ultra 5 (will upgrade once it's working, but that's all I had on CD) but the machine doesn't seem to want to boot from the IDE hard drive. It had no problem booting the install CD and the installation seemed to go fine. No errors were reported when installing SILO. Here's the output of my interaction with OpenBoot: ok boot disk Boot device: /[EMAIL PROTECTED],0/[EMAIL PROTECTED],1/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/[EMAIL PROTECTED],0 File and args: Can't open boot device The partition table has a Linux partition first, occupying most of the disk, followed by swap. The 3rd partition is the entire disk in the Sun disklable. The disk in the machine is not the original Sun-supplied disk but is an old 1.2 gig IDE disk. The manual with hardware detected defaults option when creating a sun disklabel in fdisk seemed to pick the right values, according to the label on the disk, and as I said, there was no sign of problems during the installation of the system or of SILO. I'm only guessing but OBP doesn't seem to detect the device, atleast not at the OBP address that the disk alias points to. Try doing boot disk1 or boot disk2, boot disk3... -- Debian - http://www.debian.org/ Linux 1394 - http://www.linux1394.org/ Subversion - http://subversion.tigris.org/ Deqo - http://www.deqo.com/
Re: Ultra 5 won't boot from HD after install
On Fri, May 02, 2003 at 03:09:04PM -0400, Ben Collins wrote: I'm only guessing but OBP doesn't seem to detect the device, atleast not at the OBP address that the disk alias points to. Try doing boot disk1 or boot disk2, boot disk3... That didn't work. show-devs reveals, among a bunch of other non-disk things, a disk at /[EMAIL PROTECTED],0/[EMAIL PROTECTED],1/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/disk, which is the device that disk seems to be pointing to (how do I view device aliases?). I don't suppose there's some IDE equivalent to probe-scsi-all that I need to run, or something like that, is there? noah -- ___ | Web: http://web.morgul.net/~frodo/ | PGP Public Key: http://web.morgul.net/~frodo/mail.html pgphyYnflY4uL.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Ultra 5 won't boot from HD after install
On Fri, May 02, 2003 at 04:11:20PM -0400, Noah Meyerhans wrote: On Fri, May 02, 2003 at 03:09:04PM -0400, Ben Collins wrote: I'm only guessing but OBP doesn't seem to detect the device, atleast not at the OBP address that the disk alias points to. Try doing boot disk1 or boot disk2, boot disk3... That didn't work. show-devs reveals, among a bunch of other non-disk things, a disk at /[EMAIL PROTECTED],0/[EMAIL PROTECTED],1/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/disk, which is the device that disk seems to be pointing to (how do I view device aliases?). Oddly enough, it's the devalias command :) I don't suppose there's some IDE equivalent to probe-scsi-all that I need to run, or something like that, is there? Boot back to the install and switch to a the shell console (ALT+F2) and use dmesg | more to see if you can find some info about your IDE. I have an Ultra5 here working perfectly with a non-stock IDE drive, so I know it works. -- Debian - http://www.debian.org/ Linux 1394 - http://www.linux1394.org/ Subversion - http://subversion.tigris.org/ Deqo - http://www.deqo.com/
Re: Ultra 5 won't boot from HD after install
On Fri, May 02, 2003 at 04:13:56PM -0400, Ben Collins wrote: Boot back to the install and switch to a the shell console (ALT+F2) and use dmesg | more to see if you can find some info about your IDE. I have an Ultra5 here working perfectly with a non-stock IDE drive, so I know it works. Here's the boottime output when initializing the IDE busses: Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 6.31 ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx CMD646: IDE controller on PCI bus 01 dev 18 CMD646: chipset revision 3 CMD646: chipset revision 0x03, MultiWord DMA Force Limited CMD646: 100% native mode on irq 4,7e0 ide0: BM-DMA at 0x1fe02c00020-0x1fe02c00027, BIOS settings: hda:pio, hdb:pio ide1: BM-DMA at 0x1fe02c00028-0x1fe02c0002f, BIOS settings: hdc:pio, hdd:pio hda: Conner Peripherals 1275MB - CFS1276A, ATA DISK drive ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx hdc: CRD-8322B, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive ide0 at 0x1fe02c0-0x1fe02c7,0x1fe02ca on irq 4,7e0 ide1 at 0x1fe02c00010-0x1fe02c00017,0x1fe02c0001a on irq 4,7e0 (shared with ide) hda: 2502308 sectors (1281 MB), CHS=2482/16/63, DMA hdc: ATAPI 32X CD-ROM drive, 128kB Cache Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.12 Partition check: hda: hda1 hda2 hda3 The partition table looks like: Disk /dev/hda (Sun disk label): 16 heads, 63 sectors, 2480 cylinders Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 bytes Device FlagStart EndBlocks Id System /dev/hda1 0 2379 1199016 83 Linux native /dev/hda2 u 2379 2480 50904 82 Linux swap /dev/hda3 0 2480 12499205 Whole disk noah -- ___ | Web: http://web.morgul.net/~frodo/ | PGP Public Key: http://web.morgul.net/~frodo/mail.html pgp5fZaEbU0jD.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Ultra 5 won't boot from HD after install
I have set up a tftp environment from which I can boot the installation system on this machine. What do I need to do to tftp a kernel to this machine and boot it? I obviously can't just send a kernel image to the machine (I tried). I can boot the tftpboot.img file with no troubles, but of course that kicks me into the system installer. I just want to boot the actual installed system via tftp. I've found the silotftp.b bootloader and used tftp to get it running, but it can't seem to access the disk, either. So it really seems like I'll need to download the whole kernel. Of course, even if I manage to do this, who knows if the machine will be stable or not. I'm starting to think there might be something wrong with the PCI bus or the IDE controller. noah -- ___ | Web: http://web.morgul.net/~frodo/ | PGP Public Key: http://web.morgul.net/~frodo/mail.html pgpkDyNYncWZM.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Ultra 5 won't boot from HD after install
On Fri, May 02, 2003 at 07:37:57PM -0400, Noah Meyerhans wrote: I have set up a tftp environment from which I can boot the installation system on this machine. What do I need to do to tftp a kernel to this machine and boot it? I obviously can't just send a kernel image to the machine (I tried). I can boot the tftpboot.img file with no troubles, but of course that kicks me into the system installer. I just want to boot the actual installed system via tftp. I've found the silotftp.b bootloader and used tftp to get it running, but it can't seem to access the disk, either. So it really seems like I'll need to download the whole kernel. Of course, even if I manage to do this, who knows if the machine will be stable or not. I'm starting to think there might be something wrong with the PCI bus or the IDE controller. Are you sure that you have the disk setup as Master, and not cable select or something else weird. -- Debian - http://www.debian.org/ Linux 1394 - http://www.linux1394.org/ Subversion - http://subversion.tigris.org/ Deqo - http://www.deqo.com/
