Hello, iīm trying to install an Debian Linux on an IBM 43P-150 (chrp) workstation but i couldnīt succeed yet. I took the graphik card out and iīm using a serial console with null-modem-cable.
A) I tried debian woody V.3.0R0 with the Image-File LINUX.BIN , 913 kb B) Image from Suse Linux.bin 1.108 kb. Stopped with remark to insert root.bin- disk , but machine is no more reacting on any input from the serial console nor keyboard. Thanks in advance for every tipp concerning the installation of Debian on the 43P 150. Please responde to [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------- machine type: PowerPC,604e 375 MHz L2-Cache 1024K Memory Memory DIMM slot = 3 size = 256 MB Memory DIMM slot = 4 size = 256 MB .... Diskette Drive addr=3f0 Display Panel Integrated Ethernet addr=0004ac973590 SCSI controller id= 7 CD-ROM id,lun=3,0 36703 MB Harddisk id,lun=4,0 36703 MB Harddisk id,lun=5,0 PCI Adapters ... System Information Serial Number TCP99256 Firmware Version 09/13/99 Firmware Date --------------------------- (AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA) 0 > boot floppy:,\linux.bin root=/dev/fd0 load_ramdisk=1 console=ttyS0,9600 chrpboot starting: loaded at 0x400000 avail_ram = 4e5000 gunzipping (0x10000 <- 0x415cb8:0x4e3194)...done 1934704 bytes start address = 0x10000 instantiating rtas...rtas at 00565000 done copying OF device tree...done booting... device tree used 29000 bytes No RTAS service called display-character No RTAS service called display-character No RTAS service called display-character No RTAS service called display-character No RTAS service called display-character No RTAS service called display-character No RTAS service called display-character No RTAS service called display-character No RTAS service called display-character No RTAS service called display-character No RTAS service called display-character No RTAS service called display-character No RTAS service called display-character No RTAS service called display-character No RTAS service called display-character No RTAS service called display-character No RTAS service called display-character No RTAS service called display-character No RTAS service called display-character No RTAS service called display-character No RTAS service called display-character No RTAS service called display-character No RTAS service called display-character Total memory = 512MB; using 2048kB for hash table (at c0600000) Linux version 2.2.20-chrp ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 2.95.4 20011002 (Debian prerelease)) #1 Thu Mar 21 16:32:58 EST 2002 Boot arguments: root=/dev/fd0 load_ramdisk=1 console=ttyS0,9600 Warning: no mac-io found PCI buses 0..1 controlled by pci at 80000000 RTAS Event Scan Rate: 1 (2999 jiffies) OpenPIC Version 1.0 (4 CPUs and 16 IRQ sources) at fcec0000 OpenPIC timer frequency is not set time_init: decrementer frequency = 1246845840/60 Console: colour dummy device 80x25 Calibrating delay loop... NIP: FCEC0000 XER: 20000000 LR: 0000466C REGS: c018fa80 TRAP: 0700 MSR: 00083912 [FP, DR, ME] TASK = c018e220[0] 'swapper' mm->pgd c018c000 Last syscall: 0 last math c018e220 GPR00: 00001012 C018FB30 C018E220 0018FBB0 00565000 405656DC 0000466C 0018FA70 GPR08: 005656DC 00001002 C018FBCC 00000008 84842022 00000000 00000000 00000000 GPR16: 00000000 00000000 20000002 00000000 00001032 00190050 00000000 C0004154 GPR24: C0007068 C01B0000 00000007 C0190028 00000001 00001032 C018FBB0 00000004 Call backtrace: C01D64F4 C0005B6C C00070DC C0004154 C0018198 C01AF380 C01AF818 C0003CF0 Kernel panic: Exception in kernel pc fcec0000 signal 4 In swapper task - not syncing Rebooting in 180 seconds..NIP: FCEC0000 XER: 20000000 LR: 0000466C REGS: c018f7f0 TRAP: 0700 (AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA) (BBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBB) 0 > boot floppy:,\Linux.bin root=/dev/fd0 load_ramdisk=1 prompt_ramdisk=1 consol e=ttyS0,9600 chrpboot starting: loaded at 0x400000 avail_ram = 516000 gunzipping (0x10000 <- 0x416128:0x513e60)...done 2428452 bytes start address = 0x10000 instantiating rtas...rtas at 00596000 done copying OF device tree...done booting... device tree used 29020 bytes No RTAS service called display-character No RTAS service called display-character No RTAS service called display-character No RTAS service called display-character No RTAS service called display-character No RTAS service called display-character No RTAS service called display-character No RTAS service called display-character No RTAS service called display-character No RTAS service called display-character No RTAS service called display-character No RTAS service called display-character No RTAS service called display-character No RTAS service called display-character No RTAS service called display-character No RTAS service called display-character No RTAS service called display-character No RTAS service called display-character Total memory = 512MB; using 2048kB for hash table (at c0600000) Linux version 2.2.16 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 2.95.3 19991030 (prereleas e/franzo/20000625)) #1 Thu Nov 23 10:54:44 GMT 2000 Boot arguments: root=/dev/fd0 load_ramdisk=1 prompt_ramdisk=1 console=ttyS0,9600 Warning: no mac-io found PCI buses 0..1 controlled by pci at 80000000 RTAS Event Scan Rate: 1 (2999 jiffies) OpenPIC Version 1.0 (4 CPUs and 16 IRQ sources) at fcec0000 OpenPIC timer frequency is not set time_init: decrementer frequency = 1246845840/60 Console: colour dummy device 80x25 Calibrating delay loop... 249.04 BogoMIPS Memory: 513692k available (1684k kernel code, 8636k data, 168k init) [c0000000,e 0000000] Dentry hash table entries: 65536 (order 7, 512k) Buffer cache hash table entries: 524288 (order 9, 2048k) Page cache hash table entries: 131072 (order 7, 512k) VFS: Diskquotas version dquot_6.4.0 initialized POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX PCI: Probing PCI hardware Warning: no ADB interface detected pmac nvram is core99: 0 Don't know how to access NVRAM with 4 addresses 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 524288 bhash 65536) NET4: Linux IPX 0.38 for NET4.0 IPX Portions Copyright (c) 1995 Caldera, Inc. NET4: AppleTalk 0.18 for Linux NET4.0 Initializing RT netlink socket Starting kswapd v 1.5 Detected PS/2 Mouse Port. Serial driver version 4.27 with MANY_PORTS MULTIPORT SHARE_IRQ enabled ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A ttyS01 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured Real Time Clock Driver v1.09 Macintosh non-volatile memory driver v1.0 RAM disk driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 64000K size loop: registered device at major 7 W82C105: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 59 W82C105: device enabled (Linux) W82C105: will probe irqs later ide0: BM-DMA at 0xbff000-0xbff007, BIOS settings: hda:pio, hdb:pio SL82C105 command word: 145 IDE timing: 00000909, resetting to PIO0 timing IDE control/status register: 50ff0091 Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 2.88M FDC 0 is a National Semiconductor PC87306 LVM version 0.8e by Heinz Mauelshagen (4/1/2000) lvm -- Driver successfully initialized sym53c8xx: at PCI bus 0, device 16, function 0 sym53c8xx: setting PCI_COMMAND_IO PCI_COMMAND_MEMORY... sym53c8xx: setting PCI_COMMAND_MASTER...(fix-up) sym53c8xx: 53c875 detected sym53c875-0: rev 0x4 on pci bus 0 device 16 function 0 irq 23 sym53c875-0: ID 7, Fast-20, Parity Checking scsi0 : sym53c8xx-1.7.0-20000709 scsi : 1 host. Vendor: IBM Model: CDRM00203 !K Rev: 1_01 Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Detected scsi CD-ROM sr0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 3, lun 0 Vendor: IBM Model: IC35L036UWD210-0 Rev: S5BS Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 03 Detected scsi disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 4, lun 0 Vendor: IBM Model: IC35L036UWD210-0 Rev: S5BS Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 03 Detected scsi disk sdb at scsi0, channel 0, id 5, lun 0 scsi : detected 1 SCSI cdrom 2 SCSI disks total. sym53c875-0-<3,*>: FAST-10 SCSI 10.0 MB/s (100 ns, offset 15) Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.11 SCSI device sda: hdwr sector= 512 bytes. Sectors= 71687340 [35003 MB] [35.0 GB] sdb: Spinning up disk...<6>sym53c875-0-<5,*>: FAST-20 WIDE SCSI 40.0 MB/s (50 ns , offset 16) ..<6>sym53c875-0-<5,*>: FAST-20 WIDE SCSI 40.0 MB/s (50 ns, offset 16) .<6>sym53c875-0-<5,*>: FAST-20 WIDE SCSI 40.0 MB/s (50 ns, offset 16) .<6>sym53c875-0-<5,*>: FAST-20 WIDE SCSI 40.0 MB/s (50 ns, offset 16) .<6>sym53c875-0-<5,*>: FAST-20 WIDE SCSI 40.0 MB/s (50 ns, offset 16) .<6>sym53c875-0-<5,*>: FAST-20 WIDE SCSI 40.0 MB/s (50 ns, offset 16) .<6>sym53c875-0-<5,*>: FAST-20 WIDE SCSI 40.0 MB/s (50 ns, offset 16) .<6>sym53c875-0-<5,*>: FAST-20 WIDE SCSI 40.0 MB/s (50 ns, offset 16) .<6>sym53c875-0-<5,*>: FAST-20 WIDE SCSI 40.0 MB/s (50 ns, offset 16) .<6>sym53c875-0-<5,*>: FAST-20 WIDE SCSI 40.0 MB/s (50 ns, offset 16) ready SCSI device sdb: hdwr sector= 512 bytes. Sectors= 71687340 [35003 MB] [35.0 GB] PPP: version 2.3.7 (demand dialling) TCP compression code copyright 1989 Regents of the University of California PPP line discipline registered. pcnet32.c: PCI bios is present, checking for devices... PCI Master Bit has not been set. Setting... Found PCnet/PCI at 0xbff800, irq 22. eth0: PCnet/FAST 79C971 at 0xbff800, 00 04 ac 97 35 90 tx_start_pt(0x0400): 64 bytes, BCR18(6821):BurstWrEn NoUFlow SRAMSIZE=0x7f00, SRAM_BND=0x4000, assigned IRQ 22. pcnet32.c:v1.25kf 26.9.1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Partition check: sda: unknown partition table sdb: unknown partition table VFS: Insert root floppy disk to be loaded into RAM disk and press ENTER (BBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBB) end. Please responde to [EMAIL PROTECTED]