Re: Cannot boot any cd/floppy/kernel on OF prep machine

[Jerome Walter]

Sven Luther wrote:

On Thu, Jun 03, 2004 at 03:09:53PM +0900, Jerome Walter wrote:

I am currently trying to install a Woody on an Bull Estrella 300 machine, running a Prep Motorola 604e Utah processor (/proc/cpuinfo) and OpenFirmware. Having also an Estrella 200 running fine with it (Estrella 200 is Blackhawk with PPCBug firmware).

How much memory have those boxes ?

128MB for the one i am installing, the same for the other 300 series, and 160MB for Estrella 200 one. Not a memory problem though. The box was running AIX fine. (Gosh, it seams like a post in debian archive dating back to popato, but the guy was having linux booting...

I tried any cd from woody to debian-installer tc1 passing by netboot and floppies. They all give the same result: nice black screen (except from d-i that gives "The attempt to load a boot image failed").

Please, don't use woody, but debian-installer and sarge. I would be glad
to help you out making sure sarge will install and work fine on your
hardware. debian-installer needs between 24 and 32 Mo of ram though,
which may be a problem on PReP boxes, not sure what is your case.

It is funny, on debien-devel ("Lost Trust"), people are saying that one should use Stable for prod systems ;) Ok, i am not here to troll, so i will test every single solution, even if i have to downgrade afterwards.

I have already a similar machine running a woody (2.2.12), from a previous installation i didn't do, so i think there is a way to get it working.

Ok, ... So, the first order of business is to understand what hardware
those boxes have. Please provide a lspci -n, lspci and dmesg output.
(possibly to me, or better yet to a debian-installer bug report). Also
the content of /proc/cpuinfo would be welcome.

Sorry, i won't snip dmesg ...

# lspci -n
00:0b.0 Class 0601: 10ad:0565 (rev 04)
00:0b.1 Class 0101: 10ad:0105 (rev 05)
00:0c.0 Class 0100: 1000:0003 (rev 11)
00:0e.0 Class 0200: 1011:0009 (rev 20)
00:11.0 Class 0200: 1011:0009 (rev 22)
00:12.0 Class 0300: 1013:00b8

# lspci
00:0b.0 ISA bridge: Symphony Labs W83C553 (rev 04)
00:0b.1 IDE interface: Symphony Labs SL82c105 (rev 05)

00:12.0 VGA compatible controller: Cirrus Logic GD 5446

# dmesg is funnier : pages of
Bogus interrupt from PC = c0008fec...

# cat /var/log/dmesg
PReP architecture
Total memory = 128MB; using 512kB for hash table (at c0200000)

Nov 11 16:02:41 MST 1999
Boot arguments: linux root=/dev/sda3
time_init: decrementer frequency = 3692688360/60 (58MHz)
Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
Calibrating delay loop... 1474.56 BogoMIPS

8000000]
POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
PCI: Probing PCI hardware
Setting PCI interrupts for a "Utah (Powerstack II Pro4000)"
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
Starting kswapd v 1.5
initialize_kbd: Keyboard reset failed, no ACK
Detected PS/2 Mouse Port.
Serial driver version 4.27 with MANY_PORTS 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 4096K 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
W82C105: dma_base is invalid (0x0000)
ide0: W82C105 Bus-Master DMA disabled (BIOS)
SL82C105 command word: 1
IDE control/status register: 00ff0091
Setting hda from 0x909 to PIO2 timing, 0x3e4
Setting hdb from 0x909 to PIO2 timing, 0x3e4
W82C105: dma_base is invalid (0x0000)
ide1: W82C105 Bus-Master DMA disabled (BIOS)
Setting hdc from 0x909 to PIO2 timing, 0x3e4
Setting hdd from 0x909 to PIO2 timing, 0x3e4
keyboard: Too many NACKs -- noisy kbd cable?
keyboard: Too many NACKs -- noisy kbd cable?
Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 2.88M
FDC 0 is a National Semiconductor PC87306
ncr53c8xx: at PCI bus 0, device 12, function 0
ncr53c8xx: attempting to force PCI_COMMAND_MASTER...succeeded.
ncr53c8xx: attempting to force PCI_COMMAND_IO...succeeded.
ncr53c8xx: attempting to force PCI_COMMAND_MEMORY...succeeded.
ncr53c8xx: PCI_LATENCY_TIMER=0, bursting should'nt be allowed.

ed.
ncr53c8xx: 53c825a detected
ncr53c825a-0: rev=0x11, base=0x3008000, io_port=0x1400, irq=15
ncr53c825a-0: ID 7, Fast-10, Parity Checking
ncr53c825a-0: on-chip RAM at 0x3009000
ncr53c825a-0: restart (scsi reset).
ncr53c825a-0: Downloading SCSI SCRIPTS.
scsi0 : ncr53c8xx - version 3.2a-2
scsi : 1 host.
  Vendor: SEAGATE   Model: ST34371W          Rev: 0558
  Type:   Direct-Access                      ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Detected scsi disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 1, lun 0
  Vendor: MATSHITA  Model: CD-ROM CR-506     Rev: 8S04
  Type:   CD-ROM                             ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Detected scsi CD-ROM sr0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 5, lun 0
ncr53c825a-0-<1,0>: tagged command queue depth set to 4
scsi : detected 1 SCSI cdrom 1 SCSI disk total.
ncr53c825a-0-<5,*>: FAST-5 SCSI 5.0 MB/s (200 ns, offset 8)
Uniform CDROM driver Revision: 2.55
ncr53c825a-0-<1,*>: FAST-5 WIDE SCSI 10.0 MB/s (200 ns, offset 8)
SCSI device sda: hdwr sector= 512 bytes. Sectors= 8496960 [4148 MB] [4.1 GB]
pcnet32.c: PCI bios is present, checking for devices...

      and requires IRQ11 (provided by PCI BIOS).
de4x5.c:V0.544 1999/5/8 [EMAIL PROTECTED]

      and requires IRQ11 (provided by PCI BIOS).
de4x5.c:V0.544 1999/5/8 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Partition check:
 sda: sda1 sda2 sda3
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.
Freeing unused kernel memory: 100k init 8k pmac 12k open firmware
Adding Swap: 249232k swap-space (priority -1)
eth0: media is 100Mb/s full duplex.

00:0c.0 SCSI storage controller: LSI Logic / Symbios Logic (formerly NCR) 53c825 (rev 11) 00:0e.0 Ethernet controller: Digital Equipment Corporation DECchip 21140 [FasterNet] (rev 20) 00:11.0 Ethernet controller: Digital Equipment Corporation DECchip 21140 [FasterNet] (rev 22) Linux version 2.2.12 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 2.95.1 19990816 (release)) #1 Thu Memory: 127600k available (1052k kernel code, 2320k data, 100k init) [c0000000,c ncr53c8xx: PCI_CACHE_LINE_SIZE not set, features based on CACHE LINE SIZE not us eth0: DC21140 at 0x1800 (PCI bus 0, device 14), h/w address 08:00:3e:25:c5:70, eth1: DC21140 at 0x1000 (PCI bus 0, device 17), h/w address 00:c0:95:fa:df:25,

Then, to test debian-installer, you need to boot the prep kernel, which
you find in install/powerpc/vmlinuz-prep.initrd. This may work out of
the box, but if not, we need to know the kernel config used in the
working kernel, and/or see for ourselves what is going wrong.

Still "The attempt to load boot file failed" and jumps to hard drive boot.

> Do you per

chance have a serial console setup or something such, for getting early
kernel log info ?

It would have been too easy with a serial console ;) I do have an async vt100 or similar console, but no way to plug it. Irritating, isn't it ?

BTW, this could be also considered as a boot failure for debian-installer-tc1 image ;)

What is tcl ?

http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/sarge_d-i/powerpc/tc1/sarge-powerpc-netinst.iso

TC-one. Test Candidate 1. The one that was advised to be more visible on debian-installer pages yesterday or the day before ;)

Please, keep me CCed on any response here.

Of course ;)

Friendly,

>

Sven Luther

Best Regards,

Jerome Walter

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