From: Ulrich Strelow <ulrich_strelow@yahoo.com>
To: Grant Grundler <grundler@cup.hp.com>
Cc: parisc-linux@thepuffingroup.com
Subject: Re: [parisc-linux] Booting from tape
Date: Wed, 29 Sep 1999 07:58:15 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <19990929145815.16475.rocketmail@web505.yahoomail.com> (raw)
Hi all,
thanks for all the tips. dd-ing with bs=2k made the
difference. The kernel now also boots from a SCSI DDS
tape drive (HP35480A). My first thought was to choose
the disk sector size 512 but this was wrong.
Ulrich
--- Grant Grundler <grundler@cup.hp.com> wrote:
> Ulrich Strelow wrote:
> > I know that this is extremely low priority but...
> >
> > I have tried to boot the linux kernel from a SCSI
> DDS
> > tape (copied via dd if=Image of=/dev/rmt/0m
> bs=512).
> > The same kernel (cvs tree from today) boots
> > sucessfully via rbootd on my 715/33. Here is the
> > console log:
> ...
> > Select from menu: b p2
> >
> > Trying scsi.0.0
> > Boot path initialized.
> > Attempting to load IPL.
> >
> > Failed I/O operation with scsi.0.0
> > ENTRY_IO status = -10
> >
> > 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
> 00000000
> > 00000000 00000000
> > 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
> 00000000
> > 00000000 00000000
> > 00004F04 000000FF FF0009BF 00000000 800100DC
> 00000000
> > 0025F000 00000400
> > 98080000 00000000 00008C60 00000000 000000FF
> 00000000
> > 00000000 00000000
>
> I believe this is a problem with either how the tape
> was created
> or talking to the tape drive. Does anyone know where
> to find what
> the -10 status means?
>
> Another difference when booting from tape (vs disk),
> is how the
> tape is "made". One *must* specify 2k block size. It
> doesn't matter
> for disk devices. Eg:
>
> dd if=Image of=/dev/rmt/0m bs=2k
>
> I don't know if Image is intentionally padded to a
> 2k block size.
> One might check that too.
>
> grant
>
>
> Grant Grundler
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>
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next reply other threads:[~1999-09-29 14:58 UTC|newest]
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1999-09-29 14:58 Ulrich Strelow [this message]
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1999-09-28 14:48 [parisc-linux] Booting from tape Ulrich Strelow
1999-09-28 15:39 ` Helge Deller
1999-09-28 16:19 ` Grant Grundler
1999-09-28 17:28 ` Kirk Bresniker
1999-09-28 20:37 ` Frank Rowand
1999-09-28 18:07 ` Tom Javen
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