From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Kurt Fitzner Subject: Re: [parisc-linux] Debian sarge netinstall hangs after first boot on b132l Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2005 17:56:35 -0600 Message-ID: <42D6FBB3.1030003@excelcia.org> References: <42BAE85600005DFE@mail-6-bnl.tiscali.it> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 To: Joel Soete , parisc-linux@lists.parisc-linux.org Return-Path: In-reply-to: <42BAE85600005DFE@mail-6-bnl.tiscali.it> List-Id: parisc-linux developers list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: parisc-linux-bounces@lists.parisc-linux.org Joel Soete wrote: >>I got an hp b132l to play with :) and decided to put debian sarge on it, >>downloaded the latest netinstall cd from the web (debian site) and >>installed using serial console. > > Just being curious: didn't you try from sti (i.e. builtin graphical interface)? Booting with the graphic console on a B132L is difficult. I just wrote about this in my post to the mailing list titled "Infinite error message from SDC driver on install". If you want to use the graphic console on a B132L, I found that if you manipulate the mouse continually (a nice even circular motion), that you are far less likely to get that infinite loop of SDC error messages. I believe that this is dur to the same reason why installing with a serial console works (extra overhead of the mouse/serial interrupts allows the SDC driver a chance to time out). Once you get the error message: "HP SDC: read timeout (999999ms)" you are safe to stop moving the mouse. >>The install went ok, after making the initial ramdisk larger (64k >>instead of 16), and gave no errors, but after the copying of the files >>and doing the first reboot. My system hung. I wasn't able to do anything The SMP kernels hang on a B132L. You need to install a non-smp one. In order to do this, you have to tell the installer not to make so many default decisions on its own. To do this, hit ESC when you are first asked about what language you want. You'll then be in the main installer menu. Cursor down to the entry "Change debconf priority". Set it to "low". After that, you will have to select each stage in the installation process manually, and you will be asked more questions at each stage, but you should be able to install a non-smp kernel now (it will ask you which kernel to install). However, after the install, you still aren't out of the water yet. The problem is the infinite SDC error will still be a problem because all the 32 bit kernels have the SDC and HIL drivers built in. When you reboot your machine, you will need to do the mouse trick to get past the SDC errors. Once your machine is booted up and you go through the secondary debian install process, you will need to download and compile your own kernel. There is a good tutorial on this online for newbies (like I was) to Debian at: http://newbiedoc.sourceforge.net/system/kernel-pkg.html Debian has some silliness with using an initrd ramdisk at boot time and making EVERYTHING into a module. I didn't do this with my kernel. I put the scsi drivers right into the kernel. You end up getting some error messages at boot time from discover and hotplug (why Debian installs and uses BOTH, I have no idea) because they both try and load the scsi modules and there aren't any. I ended up removing discover and configuring hotplug to ignore the SCSI subsystem (let me know if you want more info on that). I'd be very happy to offer you the debian package I compiled for my B132L. It's made of the most recent 2.6.12-pa2 kernel source. Hope this helps, Kurt (another B132L owner) _______________________________________________ parisc-linux mailing list parisc-linux@lists.parisc-linux.org http://lists.parisc-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/parisc-linux