Hi On Thu, Mar 06, 2008 at 04:19:29PM +0200, Ulrich Enslin wrote: > > I installed debian 40r3 on a IBM Power 620 (7025-f0) from CD > (debian-40r3-powerpc-netinst.iso). The install was successful, but the > system did not boot from the scsi disc, with the output shown below. > > Boot messages: > > Welcome to yaboot version 1.3.13 > Enter "help" to get some basic usage information > boot: > Linux old > boot: Linux > Please wait, loading kernel... > Elf32 kernel loaded... > Loading ramdisk... > ramdisk loaded at 02200000, size: 5264 Kbytes > OF stdout device is: /[EMAIL PROTECTED]/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/[EMAIL PROTECTED] > command line: root=/dev/sda4 ro console=ttyS0 > memory layout at init: > alloc_bottom : 02724000 > alloc_top : 00000000 > alloc_top_hi : 00000000 > rmo_top : 00000000 > ram_top : 00000000 > Looking for displays > alloc_down() called with mem not initialized > EXIT called ok > 0 >
This looks like the kernel dies very early during the boot. > > I booted with the rescue option 'rescue64 conlose=ttyS0), booting into a > chroot of the installed environment. > > Frans Pop suggested rebuilding the rebuild the initrd (using update-initramfs > -u), but that did not work. He also suggested looking at what kernel was > installed. Here is what I see when I look in the boot directory: > > sh-3.1# ls -la /boot > total 10550 > drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 1024 Mar 6 15:27 . > drwxr-xr-x 22 root root 4096 Mar 2 17:47 .. > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 745419 Feb 12 05:05 System.map-2.6.18-6-powerpc-smp > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 57120 Feb 11 11:14 config-2.6.18-6-powerpc-smp > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 31 Mar 2 17:48 initrd.img -> > initrd.img-2.6.18-6-powerpc-smp > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5384155 Mar 6 15:27 initrd.img-2.6.18-6-powerpc-smp > drwx------ 2 root root 12288 Mar 2 17:42 lost+found > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 28 Mar 2 17:48 vmlinux -> > vmlinux-2.6.18-6-powerpc-smp > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4551303 Feb 12 05:04 vmlinux-2.6.18-6-powerpc-smp > > Should the kernel not have a 64 somewhere in the name. Yes I think you have the wrong kernel installed. Try to install linux-image-2.6-powerpc64. Try "aptitude install linux-image-2.6-powerpc64" after booting into rescue mode and mounting /proc and /sys (see below). > > Steve Luther suggested looking at '/proc/cmdline' to see which console > the system has. I was using 'conlose=ttyS0'. In the rescue system the > whole /proc is empty. This seems very odd, am I doing something wrong > here? The proc filesystem is not mounted inside the rescue chroot. You can mount it with "mount -t proc none /proc". You probably also need to mount sysfs before installing the kernel (mount -t sysfs none /sys). Gaudenz -- Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better. ~ Samuel Beckett ~ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
