[parisc-linux] Install CD causes reboot on 712/80

[parisc-linux] Install CD causes reboot on 712/80

[James FitzGibbon]

I'm new to PARISC-Linux.  I've had a 712/80 sitting around for a few years
and thought I'd give it a go.  Using the palinux-0.6.1-32STI.iso image, I
burned a CD and attempted to install.

The boot process in and of itself went fine.  The kernel came up, reported
all of the devices that are shown for this model in the hardware database. 
After init entered runlevel 2, the message "Setting up /tmp and /var/log
ramdisks" was displayed.  About 5 seconds after that, the system rebooted.

I've tried futzing around with the SCSI ids with no luck.  Does anyone have
an idea or procedure I can try to get around this or find out more
information as to why it's happening?

I'm going to try the 0.6 image as well as the serial console one in the
meantime (I have firmware 2.3, so I should be OK to go back and forth).

Thanks.

-- 
j.

Re: [parisc-linux] Install CD causes reboot on 712/80

[James FitzGibbon]

* Jonathan Crockett (jcrockett@midco.net) [010526 10:04]:

> I have a 715/80 with both the on board graphic and a expansion graphic card,
> that had very similar symptoms.  I disconnected the addon graphics card and
> the STI image then worked.  Hope that gives you some insight...

Using the 0.6 serial image worked for me (the 0.61 image died the same as
the STI).  I did try removing what is the only addon card in the box, but it
looks more like cache than video.  It didn't help the 0.61 image.

The output regarding ramdisks is different on 0.6:

INIT: Entering runlevel: 2
Setting up /tmp ramdisk4096+0 records in
4096+0 records out

Then it gives me the login prompt.  On 0.61, it would go:

INIT: Entering runlevel: 2
Setting up /tmp and /var/log ramdisks

and reboot.  So something is different regarding ramdisks (or perhaps mkfs)
on 0.61 vs 0.60.

Thanks for the help.

-- 
j.