[parisc-linux] More Install on C110: Kernel doesn't load...

[parisc-linux] More Install on C110: Kernel doesn't load...

[Daniel Williams]

OK, I did a quick and dirty port of palo to MacOS X/Darwin and was able 
to run it on the ISO image and modify the boot blocks correctly.

I've got it to boot from the CD, turned out I was burning the CD wrong, 
needed to burn with Track-At-Once with Close CD, rather than simply 
Disc-At-Once in EasyCD Creator on Win2k.

However, when attempting to boot the kernel, I get this:

Entry 00100000 first 00100000 n 4
Segment 0 load 00100000 size 160694 mediaptr 0x1000
Segment 1 load 0028a000 size 468472 mediaptr 0x18a000
Segment 2 load 00300000 size 8192 mediaptr 0x1fd000
Segment 3 load 0034bea8 size 80688 mediaptr 0x1ffea8

Error: read from boot device failed (status = -4)
byteio_read: seekread() returned -1 expected 2048
Error:  segment 0 read() failed

Any thoughts?

Thanks,
Dan

Re: [parisc-linux] More Install on C110: Kernel doesn't load...

[Grant Grundler]

Daniel Williams wrote:
> Error: read from boot device failed (status = -4)
> byteio_read: seekread() returned -1 expected 2048
> Error:  segment 0 read() failed
> 
> Any thoughts?

When burning the IA64 boot CD, i was warned to use the 2x (vs 4x) burn
speed. This sounded like hogwash to me but the person was told the disk
burned at 4x may not work well with older/slower CD drives. If someone
could confirm this I'd appreciate it...anyway, the ia64 CD worked fine.

grant

[parisc-linux] Re: More Install on C110: Kernel doesn't load...

[Daniel Williams]

OK, burned the straight download ISO the way that works with EasyCD 
Creator, but it still gives me the same message as last time, in the 
same place as last time.

<snip of seg 0-3 loads>
Error: read from boot device failed( status = -4)
byteio_read: seekread() returned -1 expected 2048
error:  segment 0 read() failed

The CD was burned at 2x and the discs are 4x certified (PNY).  The CD is 
external on the 50 pin narrow bus (core.SCSI.2.0)  However, it does not 
have termination on the external bus.  The internal narrow SCSI devices 
*do* have termination (ie the DDS2 tape drive).  I have switched the CD 
with the DDS2 drive before, but not this time with the new correct 
burn.  Could termination be an issue here and should I try putting the 
CD drive internally with termination?

C110
64Mb x 2
2.1GB FW differential SCSI
DDS2 narrow tape drive
External narrow CD drive
Standard blah blah graphics

Thanks in advance,
Dan


On Friday, November 2, 2001, at 04:21 PM, Grant Grundler wrote:

> Daniel Williams wrote:
>> Error: read from boot device failed (status = -4)
>> byteio_read: seekread() returned -1 expected 2048
>> Error:  segment 0 read() failed
>>
>> Any thoughts?
>
> When burning the IA64 boot CD, i was warned to use the 2x (vs 4x) burn
> speed. This sounded like hogwash to me but the person was told the disk
> burned at 4x may not work well with older/slower CD drives. If someone
> could confirm this I'd appreciate it...anyway, the ia64 CD worked fine.
>
> grant
>
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Re: [parisc-linux] Re: More Install on C110: Kernel doesn't load...

[Jurriaan on Alpha]

On Sun, Nov 04, 2001 at 08:56:40PM -0600, Daniel Williams wrote:
> OK, burned the straight download ISO the way that works with EasyCD 
> Creator, but it still gives me the same message as last time, in the 
> same place as last time.
> 
> <snip of seg 0-3 loads>
> Error: read from boot device failed( status = -4)
> byteio_read: seekread() returned -1 expected 2048
> error:  segment 0 read() failed
> 
> The CD was burned at 2x and the discs are 4x certified (PNY).  The CD is 
> external on the 50 pin narrow bus (core.SCSI.2.0)  However, it does not 
> have termination on the external bus.  The internal narrow SCSI devices 
> *do* have termination (ie the DDS2 tape drive).  I have switched the CD 
> with the DDS2 drive before, but not this time with the new correct 
> burn.  Could termination be an issue here and should I try putting the 
> CD drive internally with termination?

If your external chain is unterminated, then yes, termination could be
an issue. It's not certain, but it's certainly easier to try than
testing another CDROM, right?

Good luck,
Jurriaan
-- 
Put it this way, when people slip in what dogs have left in the streets,
they do tend to say, 'Oops, I've trod in an Edmund'.
	Blackadder II
GNU/Linux 2.4.13-ac6 on Debian/Alpha 64-bits 990 bogomips load:0.06 0.04 0.03

Re: Betr.: [parisc-linux] More Install on C110: Kernel doesn't load...

[Paul Bame]

= >Entry 00100000 first 00100000 n 4
= >Segment 0 load 00100000 size 160694 mediaptr 0x1000
= >Segment 1 load 0028a000 size 468472 mediaptr 0x18a000
= >Segment 2 load 00300000 size 8192 mediaptr 0x1fd000
= >Segment 3 load 0034bea8 size 80688 mediaptr 0x1ffea8
= >
= >Error: read from boot device failed (status = -4)
= >byteio_read: seekread() returned -1 expected 2048
= >Error:  segment 0 read() failed

palo has read thee ELF header by then, but fails to read the first
program segment (0).  It's unusual for things to die here.  The
firmware docs say error -4 is "unrecoverable hardware error".
Perhaps the ISO image got truncated or is shorter than it should be?

	-P

	-P

Re: [parisc-linux] More Install on C110: Kernel doesn't load...

[Daniel Williams]

The ISO image burned is 137,854,976 bytes in length...  at some point 
here I'll cat /dev/cdrom > /dev/null to check the media and make sure 
there's not a problem, but I'd be inclined to think its something with 
the format on CD...  Here's the file I fed into my port of palo:

-c0/vmlinux root=/dev/ram initrd=0/ramdisk
-k/Volumes/palinux-0.9.1/debian/dists/sid/main/disks-
hppa/current/32/vmlinux
-b/Volumes/palinux-0.9.1/iplboot
-r/Volumes/palinux-0.9.1/debian/dists/sid/main/disks-
hppa/current/root.bin
-C./palinux-0.9.2.iso

When mounted, the 0.9.2 ISO's name is palinux-0.9.1, because it was 
mastered like that?  Anyway, I assume the kernels on the ISO image are 
OK to use?  I can't of course compile them myself because I don't have 
an hppa cross compiler (no x86 box).

Dan

On Friday, November 2, 2001, at 10:18 AM, Paul Bame wrote:

> = >Entry 00100000 first 00100000 n 4
> = >Segment 0 load 00100000 size 160694 mediaptr 0x1000
> = >Segment 1 load 0028a000 size 468472 mediaptr 0x18a000
> = >Segment 2 load 00300000 size 8192 mediaptr 0x1fd000
> = >Segment 3 load 0034bea8 size 80688 mediaptr 0x1ffea8
> = >
> = >Error: read from boot device failed (status = -4)
> = >byteio_read: seekread() returned -1 expected 2048
> = >Error:  segment 0 read() failed
>
> palo has read thee ELF header by then, but fails to read the first
> program segment (0).  It's unusual for things to die here.  The
> firmware docs say error -4 is "unrecoverable hardware error".
> Perhaps the ISO image got truncated or is shorter than it should be?
>
> 	-P
>
> 	-P

Re: [parisc-linux] More Install on C110: Kernel doesn't load...

[Daniel Williams]

I was under the impression, from reading the READMEs on the CD that I'd 
need to make it bootable, that the downloaded ISO isn't bootable in the 
first place...  This is probably wrong now that you bring it up :)  But 
I haven't tried to burn a CD from the virgin downloaded ISO that wasn't 
changed by my palo.  I'll try that.

Dan

On Friday, November 2, 2001, at 11:05 AM, Paul Bame wrote:

>
> I'm missing some information -- something doesn't feel right.
>
> Your downloaded ISO didn't work at first but now you've discovered
> the magic for how to burn CDs.  I would try the 0.92
> downloaded ISO again in that case.  If it fails, the ISO is probably
> corrupt, and neither it, nor any magic you might do upon it by porting
> palo yourself, is a reliable repair.
>
> Basically if you can burn your home-grown ISO and get as far as you
> have, you should be able to burn the downloaded one too the same
> way.  Check the md5 signature to see if the download is OK.
>
> Why run palo unless you need a different kernel than is on the 
> downloaded
> ISO?
>
> = The ISO image burned is 137,854,976 bytes in length...  at some point
> = here I'll cat /dev/cdrom > /dev/null to check the media and make sure
> = there's not a problem, but I'd be inclined to think its something with
> = the format on CD...  Here's the file I fed into my port of palo:
> =
> = -c0/vmlinux root=/dev/ram initrd=0/ramdisk
> = -k/Volumes/palinux-0.9.1/debian/dists/sid/main/disks-
> = hppa/current/32/vmlinux
> = -b/Volumes/palinux-0.9.1/iplboot
> = -r/Volumes/palinux-0.9.1/debian/dists/sid/main/disks-
> = hppa/current/root.bin
> = -C./palinux-0.9.2.iso
> =
> = When mounted, the 0.9.2 ISO's name is palinux-0.9.1, because it was
> = mastered like that?  Anyway, I assume the kernels on the ISO image are
> = OK to use?  I can't of course compile them myself because I don't have
> = an hppa cross compiler (no x86 box).
> =
> = Dan
> =
> = On Friday, November 2, 2001, at 10:18 AM, Paul Bame wrote:
> =
> = > = >Entry 00100000 first 00100000 n 4
> = > = >Segment 0 load 00100000 size 160694 mediaptr 0x1000
> = > = >Segment 1 load 0028a000 size 468472 mediaptr 0x18a000
> = > = >Segment 2 load 00300000 size 8192 mediaptr 0x1fd000
> = > = >Segment 3 load 0034bea8 size 80688 mediaptr 0x1ffea8
> = > = >
> = > = >Error: read from boot device failed (status = -4)
> = > = >byteio_read: seekread() returned -1 expected 2048
> = > = >Error:  segment 0 read() failed
> = >
> = > palo has read thee ELF header by then, but fails to read the first
> = > program segment (0).  It's unusual for things to die here.  The
> = > firmware docs say error -4 is "unrecoverable hardware error".
> = > Perhaps the ISO image got truncated or is shorter than it should be?
> = >
> = > 	-P
> = >
> = > 	-P
> =
> =
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