On 6/9/19 6:11 PM, Finn Thain wrote: > On Sun, 9 Jun 2019, user...@yahoo.com wrote: > ... > > Note that 2 GB of swap is excessive. If the system needs that much swap > then it will have effectively locked up anyway because writing and reading > that much storage at 0.5 MBps takes hours (not including CPU time). > > I suggest approx. 2 times physical RAM. This also avoids wasting physical > RAM on large page tables required for all the unused virtual memory.
ok, thanks. I had it set that large previously so that programs such as gcc would compile (as I recall, some versions of gcc required at least 500 MB to compile). I'll change it to 512 MB. > ... >> I tried twice using the stock CD-ROM drive and once using a more modern >> CD-ROM drive. In all three cases, installation of the basic system >> succeeded after about four hours, then stopped at the "Configure the >> package manager" menu -- "Your installation CD or DVD has been scanned >> ... Scan another CD or DVD?". > > Maybe you need to use a different initrd? There are several on the ISO. I see these: ./cdrom/initrd.gz ./hd-media/initrd.gz ./nativehd/initrd.gz I used ./cdrom/initrd.gz. >> After one of the failures, I tried booting into the new system. >> Booting using the kernel from the CD didn't work -- there was a >> two-minute pause, which ended in a kernel panic after not finding >> a root filesystem (or any SCSI devices). > > Can you capture this sequence using the serial console and post it here? Please see Centris-650.txt, attached. I suspect SCSI requires an initrd with this kernel. It would probably work with a non-installation initrd. > ... > >> I see a login prompt on the VGA screen and on the serial console. The >> keymap on the VGA screen is wrong, > > On the framebuffer console, what characters do you see when you type > "root"? I see "2==3" when I type "root". > ... > If the installation completed normally, the log would be found in the > target filesystem... please see > https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch06s01.html.en ok, thanks. I don't see "/var/log/installer", so apparently it wasn't written. > ... > Did you run "apt-get update" after editting sources.list? No, I hadn't done that, thanks. Unfortunately, it starts updating but then appears to hang while running; I'll have to try it again later.
[ 0.000000] Linux version 4.19.0-5-m68k (debian-ker...@lists.debian.org) (gcc version 8.3.0 (Debian 8.3.0-7)) #1 Debian 4.19.37-1 (2019-05-05) [ 0.000000] Detected Macintosh model: 30 [ 0.000000] Apple Macintosh Centris 650 [ 0.000000] Built 1 zonelists, mobility grouping on. Total pages: 34476 [ 0.000000] Kernel command line: root=/dev/sda6 console=ttyS0,9600n8 printk.time [ 0.000000] Dentry cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes) [ 0.000000] Inode-cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 4, 65536 bytes) [ 0.000000] Sorting __ex_table... [ 0.000000] Memory: 133000K/139264K available (2870K kernel code, 399K rwdata, 1004K rodata, 156K init, 202K bss, 6264K reserved, 0K cma-reserved) [ 0.000000] random: get_random_u32 called from __kmem_cache_create+0x2c/0x498 with crng_init=0 [ 0.000000] SLUB: HWalign=16, Order=0-3, MinObjects=0, CPUs=1, Nodes=8 [ 0.000000] NR_IRQS: 200 [ 0.000000] Console: colour dummy device 80x25 [ 0.130000] console [ttyS0] enabled [ 0.140000] Calibrating delay loop... 16.25 BogoMIPS (lpj=81280) [ 0.280000] pid_max: default: 32768 minimum: 301 [ 0.310000] Mount-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order: 0, 4096 bytes) [ 0.320000] Mountpoint-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order: 0, 4096 bytes) [ 0.440000] devtmpfs: initialized [ 0.480000] clocksource: jiffies: mask: 0xffffffff max_cycles: 0xffffffff, max_idle_ns: 19112604462750000 ns [ 0.490000] futex hash table entries: 256 (order: -1, 3072 bytes) [ 0.520000] NET: Registered protocol family 16 [ 0.730000] NuBus: Scanning NuBus slots. [ 0.740000] Slot C: Board resource ID is invalid! [ 1.310000] SCSI subsystem initialized [ 1.360000] VFS: Disk quotas dquot_6.6.0 [ 1.380000] VFS: Dquot-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order 0, 4096 bytes) [ 1.680000] NET: Registered protocol family 2 [ 1.730000] tcp_listen_portaddr_hash hash table entries: 512 (order: 0, 4096 bytes) [ 1.740000] TCP established hash table entries: 2048 (order: 1, 8192 bytes) [ 1.750000] TCP bind hash table entries: 2048 (order: 1, 8192 bytes) [ 1.760000] TCP: Hash tables configured (established 2048 bind 2048) [ 1.780000] UDP hash table entries: 256 (order: 0, 4096 bytes) [ 1.790000] UDP-Lite hash table entries: 256 (order: 0, 4096 bytes) [ 1.810000] NET: Registered protocol family 1 [ 1.820000] NET: Registered protocol family 44 [ 1.860000] Key type blacklist registered [ 1.870000] workingset: timestamp_bits=11 max_order=16 bucket_order=5 [ 2.350000] zbud: loaded [ 2.560000] random: fast init done [ 133.760000] random: crng init done [ 146.040000] Block layer SCSI generic (bsg) driver version 0.4 loaded (major 252) [ 146.060000] io scheduler noop registered [ 146.080000] io scheduler cfq registered (default) [ 146.090000] io scheduler mq-deadline registered [ 146.120000] atafb_init: start [ 146.130000] macfb: framebuffer at 0xf9001000, mapped to 0x371948e8, size 384k [ 146.140000] macfb: mode is 1024x768x4, linelength=512 [ 147.440000] Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 128x48 [ 148.720000] fb0: DAFB frame buffer device [ 148.740000] pmac_zilog: 0.6 (Benjamin Herrenschmidt <b...@kernel.crashing.org>) [ 148.750000] scc.0: ttyS0 at MMIO 0x50f0c022 (irq = 4, base_baud = 230400) is a Z85c30 ESCC - Serial port [ 148.770000] scc.1: ttyS1 at MMIO 0x50f0c020 (irq = 4, base_baud = 230400) is a Z85c30 ESCC - Serial port [ 148.790000] adb: Mac II ADB Driver v1.0 for Unified ADB [ 148.840000] mousedev: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice [ 148.860000] rtc-generic rtc-generic: rtc core: registered rtc-generic as rtc0 [ 148.870000] ledtrig-cpu: registered to indicate activity on CPUs [ 148.890000] NET: Registered protocol family 17 [ 148.910000] mpls_gso: MPLS GSO support [ 148.940000] registered taskstats version 1 [ 148.950000] zswap: loaded using pool lzo/zbud [ 148.970000] rtc-generic rtc-generic: setting system clock to 2019-06-09 19:08:18 UTC (1560107298) [ 148.990000] List of all partitions: [ 149.000000] No filesystem could mount root, tried: [ 149.000000] [ 149.020000] Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0,0) [ 149.020000] CPU: 0 PID: 1 Comm: swapper Not tainted 4.19.0-5-m68k #1 Debian 4.19.37-1 [ 149.020000] Stack from 0842bef4: [ 149.020000] 0842bef4 003a3823 0002c220 00008001 000f0ee0 002c6474 00002096 0842bf54 [ 149.020000] 000500ba 002c6474 005de598 0043238c 00368295 0842bf54 00000000 0842bf54 [ 149.020000] 0038e0f5 00000000 0000000c 0003ec9e 002c63b4 00455b2c 0044e094 002c629e [ 149.020000] 756e6b6e 6f776e2d 626c6f63 6b28302c 3029009c 003682f9 00006180 00000000 [ 149.020000] 0043241e 003682f9 00008001 00000056 00000008 00432594 000eda64 00455b2c [ 149.020000] 0044e094 00432034 00000000 fffffffc 160dc080 00000000 002c9dfe 00000000 [ 149.020000] Call Trace: [<0002c220>] panic+0xa4/0x232 [ 149.020000] [<00008001>] pcmcia_copy_tuple+0x19/0x76 [ 149.020000] [<000f0ee0>] ksys_mount+0x0/0x82 [ 149.020000] [<002c6474>] strlen+0x0/0x14 [ 149.020000] [<00002096>] do_one_initcall+0x0/0x162 [ 149.020000] [<000500ba>] printk+0x0/0x18 [ 149.020000] [<002c6474>] strlen+0x0/0x14 [ 149.020000] [<0043238c>] mount_block_root+0x21a/0x232 [ 149.020000] [<0003ec9e>] parse_args+0x0/0x2c4 [ 149.020000] [<002c63b4>] strncmp+0x0/0x34 [ 149.020000] [<002c629e>] strcpy+0x0/0x1c [ 149.020000] [<00006180>] flush_icache_range+0x7c/0xd2 [ 149.020000] [<0043241e>] mount_root+0x7a/0x82 [ 149.020000] [<00008001>] pcmcia_copy_tuple+0x19/0x76 [ 149.020000] [<00432594>] prepare_namespace+0x16e/0x17c [ 149.020000] [<000eda64>] ksys_dup+0x0/0x46 [ 149.020000] [<00432034>] kernel_init_freeable+0x172/0x192 [ 149.020000] [<002c9dfe>] kernel_init+0x0/0xd2 [ 149.020000] [<002c9e06>] kernel_init+0x8/0xd2 [ 149.020000] [<002c9dfe>] kernel_init+0x0/0xd2 [ 149.020000] [<000028a0>] ret_from_kernel_thread+0xc/0x14 [ 149.020000] ---[ end Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0,0) ]---
