* Challange S question..
@ 1999-02-10 21:34 Chris Chiapusio
1999-02-10 21:58 ` Alex deVries
1999-02-11 1:12 ` Richard Hartensveld
0 siblings, 2 replies; 6+ messages in thread
From: Chris Chiapusio @ 1999-02-10 21:34 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: linux, Richard Hartensveld
This is my first time working witha net booting workstation and i'm
having a problem w/ the install kernel booting on a Challenge S.
I saw the mention in the mail archive and attempted to do as it instructs,
but alas, I have had no success.
the kernel says this on boot:
SGI Zilog8530 serial driver version 1.00
Keyboard timeout
Keyboard timeout
tty00 at 0xbfbd9838 (irq = 21) is a Zilog8530
tty01 at 0xbfbd9830 (irq = 21) is a Zilog8530
<snip>
VFS: Mounted root (nfs filesystem).
Adv: done running setup()
Freeing unused kernel memory: 44k freed
and freezes there.
now what i've done regarding the instructions on the web site are:
[root@outland dev]# pwd
/usr/src/sgi/installfs/dev
[root@outland dev]# ls -al tty* console*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 5 Feb 10 16:16 console -> ttyS0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 5 Feb 10 16:21 tty00 -> ttyS0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 5 Feb 10 16:21 tty01 -> ttyS1
crw------- 1 root root 4, 1 May 11 1998 tty1
crw------- 1 root root 4, 2 May 11 1998 tty2
crw------- 1 root root 4, 3 May 11 1998 tty3
crw------- 1 root root 4, 4 May 11 1998 tty4
crw------- 1 root root 4, 5 May 11 1998 tty5
crw-r--r-- 1 root root 4, 64 Feb 10 16:16 ttyS0
crw-r--r-- 1 root root 4, 65 Feb 10 16:13 ttyS1
Am I doing something obviously wrong?
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1999-02-10 21:34 Challange S question Chris Chiapusio
@ 1999-02-10 21:58 ` Alex deVries
1999-02-10 23:25 ` Thomas Bogendoerfer
1999-02-11 1:12 ` Richard Hartensveld
1 sibling, 1 reply; 6+ messages in thread
From: Alex deVries @ 1999-02-10 21:58 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Chris Chiapusio; +Cc: linux, Richard Hartensveld
On Wed, 10 Feb 1999, Chris Chiapusio wrote:
> Adv: done running setup()
> Freeing unused kernel memory: 44k freed
> and freezes there.
Yup. The thing is the machine's actually working well, but you don't have
the graphics console to show anything. That kernel doesn't have the
ability to handle serial consoles. :(
I really need to rebuild a kernel for installation that includes R4400
support and serial console. I just wish I could find a serial console
cable somewhere.
- Alex
--
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I know exactly what I want in life.
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* Re: Challange S question..
1999-02-10 21:58 ` Alex deVries
@ 1999-02-10 23:25 ` Thomas Bogendoerfer
1999-02-11 16:05 ` Chris Chiapusio
0 siblings, 1 reply; 6+ messages in thread
From: Thomas Bogendoerfer @ 1999-02-10 23:25 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Alex deVries, Chris Chiapusio; +Cc: linux, Richard Hartensveld
On Wed, Feb 10, 1999 at 04:58:25PM -0500, Alex deVries wrote:
> I really need to rebuild a kernel for installation that includes R4400
> support and serial console. I just wish I could find a serial console
> cable somewhere.
I've already done that last week (announced on this mailing list) and that
kernel boots fine on a Challenge S (tested on a real Challenge S, thanks to
Richard Hartensveld).
URL is:
ftp://ftp.linux.sgi.com/pub/linux/mips/test/vmlinux-indy-990205.gz
Thomas.
--
This device has completely bogus header. Compaq scores again :-|
It's a host bridge, but it should be called ghost bridge instead ;^)
[Martin `MJ' Mares on linux-kernel]
^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 6+ messages in thread* Re: Challange S question..
1999-02-10 23:25 ` Thomas Bogendoerfer
@ 1999-02-11 16:05 ` Chris Chiapusio
1999-02-11 23:29 ` Thomas Bogendoerfer
0 siblings, 1 reply; 6+ messages in thread
From: Chris Chiapusio @ 1999-02-11 16:05 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Thomas Bogendoerfer; +Cc: Alex deVries, linux
On Thu, 11 Feb 1999, Thomas Bogendoerfer wrote:
>On Wed, Feb 10, 1999 at 04:58:25PM -0500, Alex deVries wrote:
>> I really need to rebuild a kernel for installation that includes R4400
>> support and serial console. I just wish I could find a serial console
>> cable somewhere.
>
>I've already done that last week (announced on this mailing list) and that
>kernel boots fine on a Challenge S (tested on a real Challenge S, thanks to
>Richard Hartensveld).
>
>URL is:
>
>ftp://ftp.linux.sgi.com/pub/linux/mips/test/vmlinux-indy-990205.gz
>
>Thomas.
>
where can i find info on what the kernel is doing at each stage of the
boot process for a 'install' kernel like this so i can try to debug this
without buggin you guys for each problem?
in the mean time, this is with Thomas' kernel.. I got farther along
Red Hat install init version 1.1 starting
mounting /proc filesystem... done
opening /proc/cmdline... done
checking command line arguments... done
checking for NFS root filesystem...yes
mke2fs 1.10, 24-Apr-97 for EXT2 FS 0.5b, 95/08/09
/dev/ram: Operation not supported by device while setting up superblock
creating 100k of ramdisk space... done
mounting /tmp from ramdisk... failed.
I can't recover from this.
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^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 6+ messages in thread* Re: Challange S question..
1999-02-11 16:05 ` Chris Chiapusio
@ 1999-02-11 23:29 ` Thomas Bogendoerfer
0 siblings, 0 replies; 6+ messages in thread
From: Thomas Bogendoerfer @ 1999-02-11 23:29 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Chris Chiapusio; +Cc: Alex deVries, linux
On Thu, Feb 11, 1999 at 11:05:23AM -0500, Chris Chiapusio wrote:
> where can i find info on what the kernel is doing at each stage of the
> boot process for a 'install' kernel like this so i can try to debug this
> without buggin you guys for each problem?
the kernel has already booted. The HardHat kernel isn't able to work
with a serial console, and in mine is /dev/ram missing.
> mke2fs 1.10, 24-Apr-97 for EXT2 FS 0.5b, 95/08/09
> /dev/ram: Operation not supported by device while setting up superblock
> creating 100k of ramdisk space... done
> mounting /tmp from ramdisk... failed.
ok, I didn't include the ramdisk driver in the kernel. Please try:
ftp://ftp.linux.sgi.com/pub/linux/mips/test/vmlinux-indy-990212.gz
This kernel boots with the Rough Cut CD I have here.
Thomas.
--
This device has completely bogus header. Compaq scores again :-|
It's a host bridge, but it should be called ghost bridge instead ;^)
[Martin `MJ' Mares on linux-kernel]
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* Re: Challange S question..
1999-02-10 21:34 Challange S question Chris Chiapusio
1999-02-10 21:58 ` Alex deVries
@ 1999-02-11 1:12 ` Richard Hartensveld
1 sibling, 0 replies; 6+ messages in thread
From: Richard Hartensveld @ 1999-02-11 1:12 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Chris Chiapusio; +Cc: linux
Chris Chiapusio wrote:
> This is my first time working witha net booting workstation and i'm
> having a problem w/ the install kernel booting on a Challenge S.
>
> I saw the mention in the mail archive and attempted to do as it instructs,
> but alas, I have had no success.
>
> the kernel says this on boot:
> SGI Zilog8530 serial driver version 1.00
> Keyboard timeout
> Keyboard timeout
> tty00 at 0xbfbd9838 (irq = 21) is a Zilog8530
> tty01 at 0xbfbd9830 (irq = 21) is a Zilog8530
> <snip>
> VFS: Mounted root (nfs filesystem).
> Adv: done running setup()
> Freeing unused kernel memory: 44k freed
>
> and freezes there.
>
> now what i've done regarding the instructions on the web site are:
> [root@outland dev]# pwd
> /usr/src/sgi/installfs/dev
> [root@outland dev]# ls -al tty* console*
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 5 Feb 10 16:16 console -> ttyS0
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 5 Feb 10 16:21 tty00 -> ttyS0
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 5 Feb 10 16:21 tty01 -> ttyS1
> crw------- 1 root root 4, 1 May 11 1998 tty1
> crw------- 1 root root 4, 2 May 11 1998 tty2
> crw------- 1 root root 4, 3 May 11 1998 tty3
> crw------- 1 root root 4, 4 May 11 1998 tty4
> crw------- 1 root root 4, 5 May 11 1998 tty5
> crw-r--r-- 1 root root 4, 64 Feb 10 16:16 ttyS0
> crw-r--r-- 1 root root 4, 65 Feb 10 16:13 ttyS1
>
You should link /dev/ttyS1 to /dev/console and all will be fine.
Richard
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