ultrapenguin-1.0.9 on ultra30

ultrapenguin-1.0.9 on ultra30

[Svante Sormark]

hi!

i'm having a few problems with the new ultrapenguin stuff. 

1 - the install works flawlessly, but there seems to be something wrong
with initrd... when i reboot after installing i get:

initrd overwritten ([some address] > [some other address]) - disabling it

and after this it of course can't mount root. is there a way to tell silo
to load a module?

2 - tftprescue.img fails horribly: 

<paste>
2f9000 TILO
copy 31A000 1538F0 1726398
copy 260000 9A276 759418
Memory Address not Aligned
</paste>


any hints?

TIA
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Re: ultrapenguin-1.0.9 on ultra30

[Jakub Jelinek]

> 
> hi!
> 
> i'm having a few problems with the new ultrapenguin stuff. 
> 
> 1 - the install works flawlessly, but there seems to be something wrong
> with initrd... when i reboot after installing i get:
> 
> initrd overwritten ([some address] > [some other address]) - disabling it

Can you tell me those some addresses and some other addresses? How much
memory do you have? What size is your /boot/initrd*.img (provided you get
tftprescue.img working - see below).
> 
> and after this it of course can't mount root. is there a way to tell silo
> to load a module?

There is no way to do that, you have to get either initrd working, or
compile the required modules into the kernel.
> 
> 2 - tftprescue.img fails horribly: 
> 
> <paste>
> 2f9000 TILO
> copy 31A000 1538F0 1726398
> copy 260000 9A276 759418
> Memory Address not Aligned
> </paste>
> 
> 
> any hints?

Grab the most recent tftprescue.img, it should not fail horribly (I assume
you don't have it, as it should not print the copy messages).

Cheers,
    Jakub
___________________________________________________________________
Jakub Jelinek | jj@sunsite.mff.cuni.cz | http://sunsite.mff.cuni.cz
Administrator of SunSITE Czech Republic, MFF, Charles University
___________________________________________________________________
Ultralinux - first 64bit OS to take full power of the UltraSparc
Linux version 2.1.126 on a sparc64 machine (498.80 BogoMips).
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Re: ultrapenguin-1.0.9 on ultra30

[Jakub Jelinek]

> 
> hi!
> 
> i'm having a few problems with the new ultrapenguin stuff. 
> 
> 1 - the install works flawlessly, but there seems to be something wrong
> with initrd... when i reboot after installing i get:
> 
> initrd overwritten ([some address] > [some other address]) - disabling it
> 
> and after this it of course can't mount root. is there a way to tell silo
> to load a module?

Further question: can you on the SILO prompt do the following:
type

xxdebug ENTER

then

cd /virtual-memory
.properties
cd /memory
.properties

and tell me from virtual-memory's properties how does the last line of
translations look like (it should be something like 
00000000.00002000.00000000.XXXXXXXX.800000000.00002XXX or similar (the first
two numbers are virtual address and I'm interested in the lowest one - I
need to know the X numbers).
From memory's properties if you could type all the reg: numbers.

Thanks for your cooperation. If I get those info (and the one I asked in the
last mail), then I can fix SILO...

Cheers,
    Jakub
___________________________________________________________________
Jakub Jelinek | jj@sunsite.mff.cuni.cz | http://sunsite.mff.cuni.cz
Administrator of SunSITE Czech Republic, MFF, Charles University
___________________________________________________________________
Ultralinux - first 64bit OS to take full power of the UltraSparc
Linux version 2.1.126 on a sparc64 machine (498.80 BogoMips).
___________________________________________________________________

Re: ultrapenguin-1.0.9 on ultra30

[Svante Sormark]

On Thu, 5 Nov 1998, Jakub Jelinek wrote:

>Can you tell me those some addresses and some other addresses? How much
>memory do you have? What size is your /boot/initrd*.img (provided you get
>tftprescue.img working - see below).

initrd overwritten (0xfffff800509c4000 < 0xfffff8005162a000) - disabling
it.
Memory: 256296k available (1304k kernel code, 3688k data, 128k init)
[fffff80000000000,fffff80073f4c000]

initrd-2.1.126.img: 212428

is that enough?


>Grab the most recent tftprescue.img, it should not fail horribly (I assume
>you don't have it, as it should not print the copy messages).
>

you're right, it works great.

Re: ultrapenguin-1.0.9 on ultra30

[Svante Sormark]

On Fri, 6 Nov 1998, Jakub Jelinek wrote:

>Further question: can you on the SILO prompt do the following:
>type
>
>xxdebug ENTER
>
>then
>
>cd /virtual-memory
>.properties
>cd /memory
>.properties
>
>and tell me from virtual-memory's properties how does the last line of
>translations look like (it should be something like 
>00000000.00002000.00000000.XXXXXXXX.800000000.00002XXX or similar (the first
>two numbers are virtual address and I'm interested in the lowest one - I
>need to know the X numbers).

this is the last line from translations:
00000000 00002000 00000000 009fe000 80000000 50002036

>>From memory's properties if you could type all the reg: numbers.
>

reg                      00000000 50000000 00000000 08000000 
                         00000000 60000000 00000000 04000000 
                         00000000 70000000 00000000 04000000 


>Thanks for your cooperation. If I get those info (and the one I asked in the
>last mail), then I can fix SILO...
>

hope this helps, and thank you for the great work.

/svante

Re: ultrapenguin-1.0.9 on ultra30

[Svante Sormark]

On Mon, 16 Nov 1998, Jakub Jelinek wrote:

>Quick solution (requires a screwdriver): reposition your SIMMs to the other
>bank (check in the PROM then if the /memory reg property is something like
>
>	00000000.00000000.00000000.08000000
>	00000000.10000000.00000000.04000000
>	00000000.20000000.00000000.04000000
>
almost...

reg     00000000 50000000 00000000 08000000 
        00000000 60000000 00000000 04000000 
        00000000 70000000 00000000 04000000 

/svante

Re: ultrapenguin-1.0.9 on ultra30

[Jakub Jelinek]

> 
> 
> On Thu, 5 Nov 1998, Jakub Jelinek wrote:
> 
> >Can you tell me those some addresses and some other addresses? How much
> >memory do you have? What size is your /boot/initrd*.img (provided you get
> >tftprescue.img working - see below).
> 
> initrd overwritten (0xfffff800509c4000 < 0xfffff8005162a000) - disabling
> it.
> Memory: 256296k available (1304k kernel code, 3688k data, 128k init)
> [fffff80000000000,fffff80073f4c000]
> 
> initrd-2.1.126.img: 212428
> 
> is that enough?

Yep, thanks a lot for all the info.
Quick solution (requires a screwdriver): reposition your SIMMs to the other
bank (check in the PROM then if the /memory reg property is something like

	00000000.00000000.00000000.08000000
	00000000.10000000.00000000.04000000
	00000000.20000000.00000000.04000000

Slow solution: wait until I release SILO 0.8.3

Cheers,
    Jakub
___________________________________________________________________
Jakub Jelinek | jj@sunsite.mff.cuni.cz | http://sunsite.mff.cuni.cz
Administrator of SunSITE Czech Republic, MFF, Charles University
___________________________________________________________________
Ultralinux - first 64bit OS to take full power of the UltraSparc
Linux version 2.1.128 on a sparc64 machine (498.80 BogoMips).
___________________________________________________________________