Re: [Leaf-user] dachstein CD v1.0.1 hangs during boot
Don't you need to have support for serial console in the kernel as well? Oh... http://lrp.steinkuehler.net/files/kernels/Dachstein-normal/normal.config CONFIG_SERIAL_CONSOLE=y Well there you go then :-) Dropping my Dachstein CD in for some VMWare work right now... On Mon, 19 Nov 2001, Charles Steinkuehler wrote: > > it all works now. thanks again. one lingering question: is there a way to > configure > > a serial console when you boot from CD rather than from a floppy? > > You can simply add a serial console entry to /etc/inittab, and you'll get a > serial console. Of course, without changing your syslinux configuration > (and kernel command line in the process) you won't see boot messages on the > serial console, but it will work once the system is running. If you have to > see boot messges, you'll need to burn a new CD, using a modified > bootdisk.bin. > > Charles Steinkuehler > http://lrp.steinkuehler.net > http://c0wz.steinkuehler.net (lrp.c0wz.com mirror) > > > > ___ > Leaf-user mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user > -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture... ___ Leaf-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user
Re: [Leaf-user] dachstein CD v1.0.1 hangs during boot
> it all works now. thanks again. one lingering question: is there a way to configure > a serial console when you boot from CD rather than from a floppy? You can simply add a serial console entry to /etc/inittab, and you'll get a serial console. Of course, without changing your syslinux configuration (and kernel command line in the process) you won't see boot messages on the serial console, but it will work once the system is running. If you have to see boot messges, you'll need to burn a new CD, using a modified bootdisk.bin. Charles Steinkuehler http://lrp.steinkuehler.net http://c0wz.steinkuehler.net (lrp.c0wz.com mirror) ___ Leaf-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user
Re: [Leaf-user] dachstein CD v1.0.1 hangs during boot
"Mark T. Kennedy" wrote: > > Charles Steinkuehler wrote: > > > > So what's going on? Your system is *NOT* hung, it just looks that way. The > > console is running on your KB/Monitor, which you have disconnected. The > > default system doesn't have entries in /etc/inittab to bring up a console on > > the serial port, so once your system is actually 'running', and out of the > > init process (which uses the kernels definition of the console device), you > > don't have a way to login. > > > > can you tell that i'm old? weary? that my in-laws are visiting this weekend? sigh. > i completely forgot that i have to start a getty. double sigh. and thanks. > > /mark it all works now. thanks again. one lingering question: is there a way to configure a serial console when you boot from CD rather than from a floppy? /mark begin:vcard n:Kennedy;Mark x-mozilla-html:TRUE org:The Kennedy Family adr:;; version:2.1 email;internet:[EMAIL PROTECTED] x-mozilla-cpt:;-19168 fn:Mark Kennedy end:vcard
Re: [Leaf-user] dachstein CD v1.0.1 hangs during boot
Charles Steinkuehler wrote: > > So what's going on? Your system is *NOT* hung, it just looks that way. The > console is running on your KB/Monitor, which you have disconnected. The > default system doesn't have entries in /etc/inittab to bring up a console on > the serial port, so once your system is actually 'running', and out of the > init process (which uses the kernels definition of the console device), you > don't have a way to login. > can you tell that i'm old? weary? that my in-laws are visiting this weekend? sigh. i completely forgot that i have to start a getty. double sigh. and thanks. /mark begin:vcard n:Kennedy;Mark x-mozilla-html:TRUE org:The Kennedy Family adr:;; version:2.1 email;internet:[EMAIL PROTECTED] x-mozilla-cpt:;-19168 fn:Mark Kennedy end:vcard
Re: [Leaf-user] dachstein CD v1.0.1 hangs during boot
> i pulled a copy of modules.lrp off the CD, added my driver entries, > and dropped it on the floppy. it found & configured the network > cards, but it hung at exactly the same place while booting. > > the box has no monitor/keyboard and i modifed syslinux.cfg to turn > on the serial console. other than that and the modules.lrp change > described above, it is vanilla. Ah-Ha! > i've attached a copy of the console log. any idea what runs > after the network_misc script? Not much...on a handy test system: # ls /etc/rc2.d/ -1 S00sysklogd S02netstd_init S03netbase S10ssh S10watchdog S15cron S16rmnologin S30dhcpd S30netstd_misc S55vpn-ssh S60dnscache So the only thing running after netstd_misc is stuff from packages you're not loading (ssh and dnscache). So what's going on? Your system is *NOT* hung, it just looks that way. The console is running on your KB/Monitor, which you have disconnected. The default system doesn't have entries in /etc/inittab to bring up a console on the serial port, so once your system is actually 'running', and out of the init process (which uses the kernels definition of the console device), you don't have a way to login. You need to temporarily hook up a KB/Monitor to your system, edit /etc/inittab to create a console on one (or more) of your serial ports and verify everything works. Then you can pull the KB/Monitor, and leave them disconnected. NOTE: You will likely also have to edit a couple other files...see my serial-HOWTO for details: http://lrp.steinkuehler.net/Documentation/LRP-Serial-HOWTO.txt Charles Steinkuehler http://lrp.steinkuehler.net http://c0wz.steinkuehler.net (lrp.c0wz.com mirror) ___ Leaf-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user
Re: [Leaf-user] dachstein CD v1.0.1 hangs during boot
Charles Steinkuehler wrote: > > > it is an old dell 166MHz box with 64M of ram. any way to tell it to load > > specific modules from the boot command line? > > Your system should be OK...I typically run old Pentium 133/166 systems with > 32 megs (old gateway systems with SDRAM support), and 64 megs is more then > enough RAM. > > There's no way to load specific modules from the command line, but you *CAN* > use your modules.lrp file from your floppy disk. The CD system is setup to > load modules directly from the CD, but it can use the floppy version (with > the modules in /lib/modules) as well. I can't understand what would hang if > you don't have NIC modules loaded, however. I boot this way all the time > when testing, and have never had the system hang... > > Charles Steinkuehler > http://lrp.steinkuehler.net > http://c0wz.steinkuehler.net (lrp.c0wz.com mirror) i pulled a copy of modules.lrp off the CD, added my driver entries, and dropped it on the floppy. it found & configured the network cards, but it hung at exactly the same place while booting. the box has no monitor/keyboard and i modifed syslinux.cfg to turn on the serial console. other than that and the modules.lrp change described above, it is vanilla. i've attached a copy of the console log. any idea what runs after the network_misc script? /mark Linux version 2.2.19 (root@debian) (gcc version 2.7.2.3) #5 Fri Aug 17 13:21:56 CDT 2001 BIOS-provided physical RAM map: BIOS-e820: 0009f000 @ (usable) BIOS-e820: 03f0 @ 0010 (usable) Detected 166194 kHz processor. Console: mono EGA+ 80x25 Calibrating delay loop... 331.77 BogoMIPS Memory: 62264k/65536k available (1112k kernel code, 412k reserved, 964k data, 52k init) Dentry hash table entries: 8192 (order 4, 64k) Buffer cache hash table entries: 65536 (order 6, 256k) Page cache hash table entries: 16384 (order 4, 64k) CPU: Intel Pentium 75 - 200 stepping 0c Checking 386/387 coupling... OK, FPU using exception 16 error reporting. Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK. Intel Pentium with F0 0F bug - workaround enabled. POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfc9d1 PCI: Using configuration type 1 PCI: Probing PCI hardware Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.2 Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039 NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0 for Linux NET4.0. NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0 IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP, IGMP TCP: Hash tables configured (ehash 65536 bhash 65536) Linux IP multicast router 0.06 plus PIM-SM klips_info:ipsec_init: KLIPS startup, FreeS/WAN IPSec version: 1.91 early initialization of device ipsec0 is deferred early initialization of device ipsec1 is deferred early initialization of device ipsec2 is deferred early initialization of device ipsec3 is deferred Initializing RT netlink socket Starting kswapd v 1.5 Detected PS/2 Mouse Port. Serial driver version 4.27 with<4>keyboard: Timeout - AT keyboard not present? keyboard: Timeout - AT keyboard not present? MANY_PORTS MULTIPORT SHARE_IRQ enabled ttyS01 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A ttyS02 at 0x03e8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A Software Watchdog Timer: 0.05, timer margin: 60 sec Real Time Clock Driver v1.09 RAM disk driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 12288K size PIIX: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 38 PIIX: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later PIIX: neither IDE port enabled (BIOS) hda: DC5-E6, ATAPI CDROM drive ide2: ports already in use, skipping probe ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14 Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M FDC 0 is a National Semiconductor PC87306 md driver 0.90.0 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MAX_REAL=12 raid5: measuring checksumming speed 8regs : 171.831 MB/sec 32regs: 130.683 MB/sec using fastest function: 8regs (171.831 MB/sec) NET4: Ethernet Bridge 007 for NET4.0 early initialization of device brg0 is deferred brg0: network interface for Ethernet Bridge 007/NET4.0 brg0: generated MAC address FE:FD:06:00:93:0D brg0: attached to bridge instance 0 md.c: sizeof(mdp_super_t) = 4096 Partition check: RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0 RAMDISK: Uncompressing root archive: done. RAMDISK: Auto Filesystem - minix: 4096i 12288bk 133fdz(133) 1024zs 2147483647ms autodetecting RAID arrays autorun ... ... autorun DONE. VFS: Mounted root (minix filesystem). RAMDISK: Extracting root archive: done. LINUXRC: Linux Router Project - Root v4.0.1 hda: ATAPI 6X CD-ROM drive, 256kB Cache Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.11 Root Device: ram0 LINUXRC: Installing... etc: /dev/hda ramlog: /dev/hda local: /dev/hda modules: /dev/hda /dev/fd0 LINUXRC: Finished autodetecting RAID arrays autorun ... ... autorun DONE. Freeing unused kernel memory: 52k freed INIT: version 2.78 booting Activating swap... Loading modules: pci-scan - 8390 - ne2k-pci - ne2k-pci.c:v1.01a 10/4/2000 D. Becker/P. Gortmaker http://www.scyld.com/network/ne2k-pci.html eth0: RealTek RTL-8029 found at 0xff80, IRQ 10, 00:80:C6:F4:0F:05. rtl8139 - rtl8139.c:v1.12 9/14/2000 Donald Becker,
Re: [Leaf-user] dachstein CD v1.0.1 hangs during boot
> it is an old dell 166MHz box with 64M of ram. any way to tell it to load > specific modules from the boot command line? Your system should be OK...I typically run old Pentium 133/166 systems with 32 megs (old gateway systems with SDRAM support), and 64 megs is more then enough RAM. There's no way to load specific modules from the command line, but you *CAN* use your modules.lrp file from your floppy disk. The CD system is setup to load modules directly from the CD, but it can use the floppy version (with the modules in /lib/modules) as well. I can't understand what would hang if you don't have NIC modules loaded, however. I boot this way all the time when testing, and have never had the system hang... Charles Steinkuehler http://lrp.steinkuehler.net http://c0wz.steinkuehler.net (lrp.c0wz.com mirror) ___ Leaf-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user
Re: [Leaf-user] dachstein CD v1.0.1 hangs during boot
Charles Steinkuehler wrote: > > > INIT: Entering runlevel: 2 > > Starting system log daemon: syslogd klogd. > > Starting base networking daemons: inetd. > > Starting software watchdog... done. > > Starting periodic command scheduler: cron. > > Starting additional networking services:. > > - > > > > and that is the last thing it says. my dachstein floppy config used > > the modules pciscan, rtl8139, 8390, and ne2k-pci and worked without a > > problem. > > > > thoughts/comments? > > Looks like it's booting properly, but something is obviously going > wrong...how much memory do you have? The CD kind of assumes you've got a > fair amount of RAM, creating a 12 Meg /dev/ram0 and a 4 meg /dev/ram1 by > default, so you need something like 20Meg+ to actually run...I typically put > 32 Meg in my systems. Saddly, if you need to lower (or raise) the size of > the initial ramdisk, you have to either boot from floppy, or burn a new CD > image, with a modified bootdisk.bin (so you can pass new parameters to the > kernel when it boots). > > Charles Steinkuehler > http://lrp.steinkuehler.net > http://c0wz.steinkuehler.net (lrp.c0wz.com mirror) it is an old dell 166MHz box with 64M of ram. any way to tell it to load specific modules from the boot command line? /mark begin:vcard n:Kennedy;Mark x-mozilla-html:TRUE org:The Kennedy Family adr:;; version:2.1 email;internet:[EMAIL PROTECTED] x-mozilla-cpt:;-19168 fn:Mark Kennedy end:vcard
Re: [Leaf-user] dachstein CD v1.0.1 hangs during boot
> INIT: Entering runlevel: 2 > Starting system log daemon: syslogd klogd. > Starting base networking daemons: inetd. > Starting software watchdog... done. > Starting periodic command scheduler: cron. > Starting additional networking services:. > - > > and that is the last thing it says. my dachstein floppy config used > the modules pciscan, rtl8139, 8390, and ne2k-pci and worked without a > problem. > > thoughts/comments? Looks like it's booting properly, but something is obviously going wrong...how much memory do you have? The CD kind of assumes you've got a fair amount of RAM, creating a 12 Meg /dev/ram0 and a 4 meg /dev/ram1 by default, so you need something like 20Meg+ to actually run...I typically put 32 Meg in my systems. Saddly, if you need to lower (or raise) the size of the initial ramdisk, you have to either boot from floppy, or burn a new CD image, with a modified bootdisk.bin (so you can pass new parameters to the kernel when it boots). Charles Steinkuehler http://lrp.steinkuehler.net http://c0wz.steinkuehler.net (lrp.c0wz.com mirror) ___ Leaf-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user
