Hi, Anyone succeeded in installing a Debian Woody distribution on a Cobalt Raq (4)? Pleasy help me out. Perhaps this is a more generic question, how to install a Debian kernel on an empty machine (only with debootstrap initialized), which is temporarly booted from the net with NFS.
I followed the fine instructions on http://cobalt.iceblink.org/debian/debian- cobalt-howto.txt and succeeded for most steps. When I got at step 9, to download a debian kernel, me as newbie, don't know where start from here. I tried to downloaded the kernel-image-2.4.18-k6 package and all its dependencies from the debian site and installed them on the system (dpkg). The installation of some packages gave some errors which i did not know how to resolve. I was chrooted to the new and mounted filesystem root. The dpkg with sysvinit gave some timeout errors: init: timeout opening/writing control channel /dev/initctl And dpkg with the kernel image gave: Failed to create initrd image. dpkg: error processing kernel-image-2.4.18-k6 (--install): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 29 Errors were encountered while processing: kernel-image-2.4.18-k6 I bzip2'ed the vmlinuz-2.4.18-k6 to /boot/vmlinux.bz2 (according the install instructions) but the bootup failed with various error messages. Anyone can help me with this? Following are the bootup messages: Sun Cobalt - Smaller, Bluer, Better, and Free Firmware version 2.10.3-ext3 Current date: Jun 24 14:41:22 UTC 2004 ROM build info: Thu Mar 11 08:51:36 MST 2004 . System serial number: invalid csum! System type: 3000 series system, Version 1 board Silicon serial number: 78000007d7f59c01 Monitor: 153536 bytes Memory: 256 MB CPU: 1 processor(s) detected CPU 0: AuthenticAMD 448MHz (4.5 x 100MHz host bus) [BSP] Initializing flash: done Flash Bank 0: AMD AM29F080B 1024KB (01:d5) Flash Bank 1: not installed. Mounting ROM fs: done Initializing PCI: done Initializing ethernet: 2 controller(s) found Initializing IDE: found ALI M5229 at 00:78 scanning ide0: master scanning ide1: master IDE: stabilizing spinup: 100% Checking Memory: done Press spacebar to enter ROM mode Booting default method - From disk First stage kernel (Linux): Decompressing - done ERROR: cannot relocate with filesize 0 Second stage kernel: Decompressing -Error bunzip2ing kernel. Trying gunzip. - done Linux version 2.2.16C28_III ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version egcs-2.91.66 1999 0314/Linux (egcs-1.1.2 release)) #1 Mon Jul 30 22:07:58 PDT 2001 Ignoring bogus EBDA pointer 3FF000 Detected 448220 kHz processor. Pending 0x00 Calibrating delay loop... 894.57 BogoMIPS Memory: 257572k/262144k available (1244k kernel code, 416k reserved, 2848k data, 64k init) Dentry hash table entries: 32768 (order 6, 256k) Buffer cache hash table entries: 262144 (order 8, 1024k) Page cache hash table entries: 65536 (order 6, 256k) VFS: Diskquotas version dquot_6.4.0 initialized CPU: L1 I Cache: 32K L1 D Cache: 32K CPU: L2 Cache: 128K CPU: AMD AMD-K6(tm)-III Processor stepping 04 Checking 386/387 coupling... OK, FPU using exception 16 error reporting. Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK. POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX PCI: Using configuration type 1 PCI: Probing PCI hardware 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 262144 bhash 65536) Initializing RT netlink socket Starting kswapd v 1.5 Cobalt watchdog v1.4 enabled Cobalt I2C bus initialized Cobalt temperature sensor v1.3 enabled Serial driver version 4.27 with<4>keyboard: Timeout - AT keyboard not present? keyboard: Timeout - AT keyboard not present? no serial options 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 lcd: Cobalt LCD Driver v3.12 serialnumber: Version 1.9 initialized. Serial number=78000007d7f59c01. Copyright (c)1994-2000 Axent Technologies, Inc. Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 6.30 ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx ALI15X3: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 78 ALI15X3: chipset revision 193 ALI15X3: 100% native mode on irq 14 ide0: BM-DMA at 0xfdd0-0xfdd7, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:DMA ide1: BM-DMA at 0xfdd8-0xfddf, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:DMA hda: ST320410A, ATA DISK drive ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx hdc: ST320410A, ATA DISK drive ide0 at 0xfdf8-0xfdff,0xfdf6 on irq 14 ide1 at 0xfde8-0xfdef,0xfde6 on irq 15 hda: ST320410A, 19092MB w/2048kB Cache, CHS=38792/16/63, UDMA(33) hdc: ST320410A, 19092MB w/2048kB Cache, CHS=38792/16/63, UDMA(33) md driver 0.90.0 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MAX_REAL=12 translucent personality registered linear personality registered raid0 personality registered raid1 personality registered raid5 personality registered raid5: measuring checksumming speed raid5: MMX detected, trying high-speed MMX checksum routines pII_mmx : 933.069 MB/sec p5_mmx : 862.584 MB/sec 8regs : 438.912 MB/sec 32regs : 281.178 MB/sec using fastest function: pII_mmx (933.069 MB/sec) sym53c8xx: at PCI bus 0, device 14, function 0 sym53c8xx: 53c875 detected sym53c875-0: rev 0x4 on pci bus 0 device 14 function 0 irq 12 sym53c875-0: ID 7, Fast-20, Parity Checking scsi0 : sym53c8xx-1.7.3a-20010304 scsi : 1 host. scsi : detected total. md.c: sizeof(mdp_super_t) = 4096 Partition check: hda: hda1 hda2 hda3 hdc: hdc1 hdc2 < hdc5 hdc6 > hdc3 hdc4 autodetecting RAID arrays (read) hdc1's sb offset: 768000 [events: 000000a7] (read) hdc3's sb offset: 205056 [events: 000000a7] (read) hdc4's sb offset: 18415552 [events: 000000a7] (read) hdc6's sb offset: 131456 [events: 000000a7] autorun ... considering hdc6 ... adding hdc6 ... created md6 bind<hdc6,1> running: <hdc6> now! hdc6's event counter: 000000a7 md6: max total readahead window set to 128k md6: 1 data-disks, max readahead per data-disk: 128k raid1: device hdc6 operational as mirror 1 raid1: md6, not all disks are operational -- trying to recover array raid1: raid set md6 active with 1 out of 2 mirrors md: updating md6 RAID superblock on device hdc6 [events: 000000a8](write) hdc6's sb offset: 131456 md: recovery thread got woken up ... md: recovery thread finished ... . considering hdc4 ... adding hdc4 ... created md4 bind<hdc4,1> running: <hdc4> now! hdc4's event counter: 000000a7 md4: max total readahead window set to 128k md4: 1 data-disks, max readahead per data-disk: 128k raid1: device hdc4 operational as mirror 1 raid1: md4, not all disks are operational -- trying to recover array raid1: raid set md4 active with 1 out of 2 mirrors md: updating md4 RAID superblock on device hdc4 [events: 000000a8](write) hdc4's sb offset: 18415552 md: recovery thread got woken up ... md: recovery thread finished ... . considering hdc3 ... adding hdc3 ... created md3 bind<hdc3,1> running: <hdc3> now! hdc3's event counter: 000000a7 md3: max total readahead window set to 128k md3: 1 data-disks, max readahead per data-disk: 128k raid1: device hdc3 operational as mirror 1 raid1: md3, not all disks are operational -- trying to recover array raid1: raid set md3 active with 1 out of 2 mirrors md: updating md3 RAID superblock on device hdc3 [events: 000000a8](write) hdc3's sb offset: 205056 md: recovery thread got woken up ... md: recovery thread finished ... . considering hdc1 ... adding hdc1 ... created md1 bind<hdc1,1> running: <hdc1> now! hdc1's event counter: 000000a7 md1: max total readahead window set to 128k md1: 1 data-disks, max readahead per data-disk: 128k raid1: device hdc1 operational as mirror 1 raid1: md1, not all disks are operational -- trying to recover array raid1: raid set md1 active with 1 out of 2 mirrors md: updating md1 RAID superblock on device hdc1 [events: 000000a8](write) hdc1's sb offset: 768000 md: recovery thread got woken up ... md: recovery thread finished ... . ... autorun DONE. VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly. Freeing unused kernel memory: 64k freed INIT: version 2.84 booting Activating swap. Adding Swap: 249976k swap-space (priority -1) Checking root file system... fsck 1.27 (8-Mar-2002) /dev/hda1: clean, 22160/1251712 files, 104827/2499958 blocks System time was Thu Jun 24 14:42:09 UTC 2004. Setting the System Clock using the Hardware Clock as reference... System Clock set. System local time is now Thu Jun 24 14:42:13 UTC 2004. Calculating module dependencies... depmod: Can't open /lib/modules/2.2.16C28_III /modules.dep for writing done. Loading modules: modprobe: Can't open dependencies file /lib/modules/2.2.16C28_III/modules.dep (N o such file or directory) Checking all file systems... fsck 1.27 (8-Mar-2002) /dev/hda3: clean, 11/1163264 files, 36517/2325330 blocks Setting kernel variables. Loading the saved-state of the serial devices... Mounting local filesystems... /dev/hda3 on /home type ext2 (rw) modprobe: modprobe: Can't open dependencies file /lib/modules/2.2.16C28_III/modu les.dep (No such file or directory) mount: fs type tmpfs not supported by kernel Running 0dns-down to make sure resolv.conf is ok...done. Setting up IP spoofing protection: rp_filter. Configuring network interfaces: done. Starting portmap daemon: portmap. modprobe: modprobe: Can't open dependencies file /lib/modules/2.2.16C28_III/modu les.dep (No such file or directory) Setting the System Clock using the Hardware Clock as reference... System Clock set. Local time: Thu Jun 24 16:42:17 CEST 2004 Cleaning: /tmp /var/lock /var/run. Initializing random number generator... done. Recovering nvi editor sessions... done. INIT: Entering runlevel: 2 Starting system log daemon: syslogd. Starting kernel log daemon: klogd. Starting NFS common utilities: statd lockdRPC: sendmsg returned error 101 RPC: sendmsg returned error 101 RPC: sendmsg returned error 101 RPC: sendmsg returned error 101 portmap: server localhost not responding, timed out RPC: sendmsg returned error 101 RPC: sendmsg returned error 101 RPC: sendmsg returned error 101 RPC: sendmsg returned error 101 portmap: server localhost not responding, timed out lockd_up: makesock failed, error=-5 RPC: sendmsg returned error 101 RPC: sendmsg returned error 101 RPC: sendmsg returned error 101 RPC: sendmsg returned error 101 portmap: server localhost not responding, timed out lockdsvc: Input/output error . Starting internet superserver: inetd. Starting printer spooler: lpd. Not starting NFS kernel daemon: No exports. Starting PCMCIA services: module directory /lib/modules/2.2.16C28_III/pcmcia not found. Starting OpenBSD Secure Shell server: sshd. Starting deferred execution scheduler: atd. Starting periodic command scheduler: cron. INIT: Id "1" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes INIT: Id "5" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes INIT: Id "2" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes INIT: Id "3" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes INIT: Id "4" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes INIT: Id "6" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes INIT: no more processes left in this runlevel INIT: Id "1" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes INIT: Id "2" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes INIT: Id "3" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes INIT: Id "4" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes INIT: Id "5" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes INIT: Id "6" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes ....... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
