From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Dirk Van Hertem Subject: Re: [parisc-linux] Debian sarge netinstall hangs after first boot on b132l Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2005 02:45:23 +0200 Message-ID: <42D70723.7020104@ieee.org> References: <42BAE85600005DFE@mail-6-bnl.tiscali.it> <42D6FBB3.1030003@excelcia.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 To: parisc-linux@lists.parisc-linux.org Return-Path: In-Reply-To: <42D6FBB3.1030003@excelcia.org> 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 Hello Kurt, I didn't read this message before sending mine :), and sorry for sending this message first to you directly (this is a strange setting of the mailing list?) Kurt Fitzner wrote: >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. > so I'm glad I don't have such a screen :-) >>>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). > ok, this method seems a bit more "according to the book" than the one i used >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. > Indeed, i get some errors, but without doing anything (there was no mouse available) it booted, and i was already quite pleased and just ignored them for the time being :). >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) > I would be happy to use that package (or if the file is to big and you'd send me the .config file so that i would be able to compile it myself) Thanks, Dirk -- Dirk Van Hertem Dirk.VanHertem@esat.kuleuven.be Electrical Engineering Department http://www.esat.kuleuven.be/electa Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, ESAT-ELECTA tel: +32-16-32.18.95 10, Kasteelpark Arenberg, B-3001 Heverlee fax: +32-16-32.19.85 _______________________________________________ parisc-linux mailing list parisc-linux@lists.parisc-linux.org http://lists.parisc-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/parisc-linux