Hi,
Hoo boy, I've been having bad luck with the bootdisks.
This time, After I hit [ENTER] to load the ramdisks, the system hangs with
the floppy drive light lit after displaying "Loading root.bin..."
Note the three dots. I take the same boot disk and it works like a charm
on another system.
The system that failed worked with the older February (or was it March)
boot disks. So I have hamm running on that system now and can get more
information (it is on the Internet). It is an IBM BIOS. Here is some
likely helpful info from /proc and so forth:
$ cat /proc/pci
PCI devices found:
Bus 0, device 14, function 0:
Bridge: IBM Unknown device (rev 1).
Vendor id=1014. Device id=4.
Slow devsel. Master Capable. No bursts.
I/O at 0x30.
Bus 0, device 13, function 0:
MicroChannel bridge: IBM Unknown device (rev 2).
Vendor id=1014. Device id=2.
Slow devsel. Fast back-to-back capable. Master Capable. No bursts.
I/O at 0x58.
I/O at 0x50.
I/O at 0x0.
Bus 0, device 12, function 0:
Bridge: IBM Unknown device (rev 1).
Vendor id=1014. Device id=1a.
Slow devsel. Fast back-to-back capable.
Bus 1, device 6, function 0:
Ethernet controller: DEC DC21041 (rev 33).
Medium devsel. Fast back-to-back capable. IRQ 11. Master Capable.
Latency=100.
I/O at 0x6100.
Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xbf800000.
Bus 0, device 11, function 0:
PCI bridge: DEC DC21050 (rev 2).
Medium devsel. Fast back-to-back capable. Master Capable. Latency=96.
Min Gnt=3.
Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0x60010100.
Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0x22806060.
Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xbf80be00.
Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xbdf0bd80.
Bus 0, device 4, function 0:
SCSI storage controller: Adaptec AIC-7871 (rev 3).
Medium devsel. Fast back-to-back capable. IRQ 10. Master Capable.
Latency=100. Min Gnt=8.Max Lat=8.
I/O at 0x500.
Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xbffff000.
Bus 0, device 0, function 7:
Unknown class: Unknown vendor Unknown device (rev 255).
Vendor id=118c. Device id=0.
Fast back-to-back capable. BIST capable. IRQ 255. Master Capable.
Latency=255. Min Gnt=255.Max Lat=255.
I/O at 0xfffffffc.
I/O at 0xfffffffc.
I/O at 0xfffffffc.
I/O at 0xfffffffc.
I/O at 0xfffffffc.
I/O at 0xfffffffc.
Bus 0, device 0, function 6:
Unknown class: Unknown vendor Unknown device (rev 255).
Vendor id=118c. Device id=0.
Fast back-to-back capable. BIST capable. IRQ 255. Master Capable.
Latency=255. Min Gnt=255.Max Lat=255.
I/O at 0xfffffffc.
I/O at 0xfffffffc.
I/O at 0xfffffffc.
I/O at 0xfffffffc.
I/O at 0xfffffffc.
I/O at 0xfffffffc.
Bus 0, device 0, function 5:
Unknown class: Unknown vendor Unknown device (rev 255).
Vendor id=118c. Device id=0.
Fast back-to-back capable. BIST capable. IRQ 255. Master Capable.
Latency=255. Min Gnt=255.Max Lat=255.
I/O at 0xfffffffc.
I/O at 0xfffffffc.
I/O at 0xfffffffc.
I/O at 0xfffffffc.
I/O at 0xfffffffc.
I/O at 0xfffffffc.
Bus 0, device 0, function 4:
Unknown class: Unknown vendor Unknown device (rev 255).
Vendor id=118c. Device id=0.
Fast back-to-back capable. BIST capable. IRQ 255. Master Capable.
Latency=255. Min Gnt=255.Max Lat=255.
I/O at 0xfffffffc.
I/O at 0xfffffffc.
I/O at 0xfffffffc.
I/O at 0xfffffffc.
I/O at 0xfffffffc.
I/O at 0xfffffffc.
Bus 0, device 0, function 3:
Unknown class: Unknown vendor Unknown device (rev 255).
Vendor id=118c. Device id=0.
Fast back-to-back capable. BIST capable. IRQ 255. Master Capable.
Latency=255. Min Gnt=255.Max Lat=255.
I/O at 0xfffffffc.
I/O at 0xfffffffc.
I/O at 0xfffffffc.
I/O at 0xfffffffc.
I/O at 0xfffffffc.
I/O at 0xfffffffc.
Bus 0, device 0, function 2:
Unknown class: Unknown vendor Unknown device (rev 255).
Vendor id=118c. Device id=0.
Fast back-to-back capable. BIST capable. IRQ 255. Master Capable.
Latency=255. Min Gnt=255.Max Lat=255.
I/O at 0xfffffffc.
I/O at 0xfffffffc.
I/O at 0xfffffffc.
I/O at 0xfffffffc.
I/O at 0xfffffffc.
I/O at 0xfffffffc.
warning: page-size limit reached!
$ cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor : 0
cpu : 586
model : Pentium 75+
vendor_id : GenuineIntel
stepping : 5
fdiv_bug : no
hlt_bug : no
f00f_bug : yes
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid : yes
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr mce cx8
bogomips : 39.83
$ dmesg
Console: 16 point font, 400 scans
Console: colour VGA+ 80x25, 1 virtual console (max 63)
pcibios_init : BIOS32 Service Directory structure at 0x000fd800
pcibios_init : BIOS32 Service Directory entry at 0xfd810
pcibios_init : PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfd83f
Probing PCI hardware.
Warning : Unknown PCI device (118c:0). Please read include/linux/pci.h
Warning : Unknown PCI device (118c:0). Please read include/linux/pci.h
Warning : Unknown PCI device (118c:0). Please read include/linux/pci.h
Warning : Unknown PCI device (118c:0). Please read include/linux/pci.h
Warning : Unknown PCI device (118c:0). Please read include/linux/pci.h
Warning : Unknown PCI device (118c:0). Please read include/linux/pci.h
Warning : Unknown PCI device (118c:0). Please read include/linux/pci.h
Warning : Unknown PCI device (118c:0). Please read include/linux/pci.h
Warning : Unknown PCI device (1014:1a). Please read include/linux/pci.h
Warning : Unknown PCI device (1014:2). Please read include/linux/pci.h
Warning : Unknown PCI device (1014:4). Please read include/linux/pci.h
Calibrating delay loop.. ok - 39.83 BogoMIPS
Memory: 63276k/65536k available (676k kernel code, 384k reserved, 1200k data)
Swansea University Computer Society NET3.035 for Linux 2.0
NET3: Unix domain sockets 0.13 for Linux NET3.035.
Swansea University Computer Society TCP/IP for NET3.034
IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP
VFS: Diskquotas version dquot_5.6.0 initialized
Checking 386/387 coupling... Ok, fpu using exception 16 error reporting.
Checking 'hlt' instruction... Ok.
Intel Pentium with F0 0F bug - workaround enabled.
alias mapping IDT readonly ... ... done
Linux version 2.0.33 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 2.7.2.3) #1 Thu Apr 16
15:47:27 EDT 1998
Starting kswapd v 1.4.2.2
PS/2 auxiliary pointing device detected -- driver installed.
Real Time Clock Driver v1.07
Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 2.88M
FDC 0 is an 82078.
aic7xxx: <Adaptec AHA-294X SCSI host adapter> at PCI 4
aic7xxx: BIOS enabled, IO Port 0x500, IO Mem 0xbffff000, IRQ 10
aic7xxx: Wide Channel, SCSI ID 7, 16/16 SCBs, QFull 16, QMask 0x1f
scsi0 : Adaptec AHA274x/284x/294x (EISA/VLB/PCI-Fast SCSI) 4.1.1/3.2.1
scsi : 1 host.
scsi0: Scanning channel A for devices.
Vendor: QUANTUM Model: FIREBALL_TM2110S Rev: 300X
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Detected scsi disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
Vendor: IBM Model: CDRM00203 !K Rev: BZ26
Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Detected scsi CD-ROM sr0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 6, lun 0
scsi : detected 1 SCSI cdrom 1 SCSI disk total.
SCSI device sda: hdwr sector= 512 bytes. Sectors= 4124736 [2014 MB] [2.0 GB]
tulip.c:v0.79 9/3/97 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
eth0: DEC DS21041 Tulip at 0x6100, 21041 mode, 00 40 05 a0 74 8d, IRQ 11.
The following verbose information is emitted for
bug reports on media selection.
eth0:21041 Media information at 30, default media 0800 (Autosense).
eth0: 21041 media 00 (10baseT), csr13 0104 csr14 0000 csr15 0000.
eth0: 21041 media 00 (10baseT), csr13 0000 csr14 0000 csr15 0000.
eth0: 21041 media 00 (10baseT), csr13 0000 csr14 0000 csr15 0000.
Partition check:
sda: sda1 sda2 sda3 sda4
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.
Adding Swap: 48188k swap-space (priority -1)
eth0: No 21041 10baseT link beat, Media switched to AUI.
Serial driver version 4.13 with no serial options enabled
tty00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
tty01 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
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