Hi all, I made some more (unsuccessful) attempts.
> Vincent, re. your "cramfs: wrong magic" intermittent problem: > I have this problem on my Blade 100 as well, when I don't hit Stop+A > at precisely the instant that the machine wants it. On my machine I > have to send break after initializing memory, and *immediately* after > it sends the sync signal to the monitor (Boot device: disk a or > whatever is the last line above the "ok" I get post-break). If I wait > any longer than this, I get the "cramfs: wrong magic" issue when > trying to boot from the installer CDROM. If I wait too long before > sending the break when trying to boot disk2 (my Gentoo installation), > I get a really ugly "kernel panic: Aiee!" regarding the swapper. This > is reproducible 100% of the time on my Blade. Attempt 1. netinst 20041015 (md5 ed4ce23d8135ec1ed287d307230e12d2) http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/daily/sparc/20041015/sarge-sparc-netinst.iso Power up. Hit L1-A just after it says Boot device: disk:a File and args: ok boot cdrom boot: <return> still fails, with cramfs and kernel panic as before In case it is helpful, this is what I could transcribe of the boot log .... PCI: found SABRE, main regs at 0000001fe00000000, wsync at 000001fe00001c20 SABRE: Shared PCI config space at 000001fe01000000 SABRE: DVMA at c0000000 [20000000] PCI-IRQ: Routing bus[ 0] slot[ 8] map[0] to INO[23] PCI-IRQ: Routing bus[ 0] slot[ c] map[0] to INO[06] PCI-IRQ: Routing bus[ 0] slot[ c] map[0] to INO[1c] PCI-IRQ: Routing bus[ 0] slot[ c] map[0] to INO[24] PCI-IRQ: Routing bus[ 0] slot[ d] map[0] to INO[0c] PCI-IRQ: Routing bus[ 0] slot[13] map[0] to INO[0f] PCIO(PBMA): Bus running at 33MHz isa0: [dma -> (floppy) (parallel)] ]power] [serial] [serial] ebus0: [flashprom] [idprom] PCIO serial driver version 1.54 su(serial) at 0x1fe020003f8 (tty 0 irq 12.7eb) is a 16550A su(serial) at 0x1fe020002e8 (tty 0 irq 12.7eb) is a 16550A Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.4 Based on Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039 Initialising RT netlink socket Starting kswapd VFS: Disk quotas vdquot_6.5.1 devfs: v1.12c (20020818) Richard Gooch ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) devfs: boot_options: 0x1 atyfb: 3D Rage (XL) [0x4752 rev 0x27] 8M SDRAM, 29.498928 MHz XTAL, 235 MHz PLL, 83 MHz MCLK, 63 MHz XCLK Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 144x56 fb0: ATY Mach64 frame buffer device on PCI kbd_init: Assuming USB keyboard. isa(speaker): iobase[000001fe02000042:000001fe02000061] pty: 256 Unix96 ptys configured rtc_init: no PC rtc found RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 16384K size 1024 blocksize Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE Driver Revision: 7.00beta4-2.4 ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes: override with idebus=xx usb.c: registered new driver usbdevfs usb.c: registered new driver hub usb.c: registered new driver usbmouse usbmouse.c: v1.6:USB HID Boot Protocol mouse driver usb.c: registered new driver usbkbd usbkbd.c: USB HID Boot Protocol keyboard driver Initializing Cryptographic API NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0 IP: routing cache hash table of 8192 buckets, 64Kbytes TCP: Hash tables configured (established 65536 bind 65536) NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0 RAMDISK: Couldn't find a valid RAM disk image starting at 0. Freeing initrd memory: 2027k freed cramfs: wrong magic Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 00:00 Press L1-A to return to the boot prom At this point, the keyboard does not work. Power down. Power up. Hit L1-A in the middle of "Initializing memory" ok boot cdrom boot: <return> successful boot, but the keyboard is nonfunctional in "Choose Language". Attempt 2. JoshK mini-iso from 20041015 (md5 53d25f088f26bee748e85dab4da48b88) Power up. L1-A in middle of boot device: disk: a File and args: ok boot cdrom Boots successfully, but same problem with kbd at "Choose Language" step. So Josh seems to have solved the cramfs problem. Power down. Power up. hit L1-A earlier, after "Initializing Memory" but before the boot device: message appears. ok boot cdrom boot: <return> Fails in same way - boots ok but kbd is nonresponsive at "Choose Language" step. I haven't had a go with Gentoo yet, I'd rather not introduce more variables. I will have a go with a serial console soon and let you know if I get to the point where I can get lspci output. Cheers Vince -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
