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| Summary: | Installation "Start Rescue System" option not working on RS/6000 43P-140 | ||
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| Product: | [openSUSE] SUSE Linux 10.1 | Reporter: | Ricky Ng-Adam <rngadam> |
| Component: | Installation | Assignee: | Steffen Winterfeldt <snwint> |
| Status: | RESOLVED FIXED | QA Contact: | Klaus Kämpf <kkaempf> |
| Severity: | Normal | ||
| Priority: | P5 - None | ||
| Version: | Beta 2 | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | PowerPC | ||
| OS: | Other | ||
| Whiteboard: | |||
| Found By: | Other | Services Priority: | |
| Business Priority: | Blocker: | --- | |
| Marketing QA Status: | --- | IT Deployment: | --- |
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Description
Ricky Ng-Adam
2006-02-01 15:03:24 UTC
Not even on ttyS0? This is on ttyS0 (serial console). I've disconnected the monitor and the keyboard and I'm using another PC as a terminal for this RS/6000. I've just tried again and got a little bit farther: Sending DHCP request... Trying to mount the CD-ROM... Loading Rescue System (74270100% INIT: version 2.85 booting System Boot Control: Running /etc/init.d/boot Mounting /proc filesystem done Mounting sysfs on /s This is my first time trying to install anything on a PPC, so maybe I'm doing something wrong? I can't even figure out from what HTTP server to load the network install from.... I get "Loading Installation Sy100%" and get kicked back to the main menu without any error message. Please try booting with linuxrcstderr=/dev/ttyS0 it will print some more messages. Does it give some hint? The boot now looks like this:
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vmlinux buffer @ 0x00e00000
stdin '/pci@80000000/isa@b/serial@i3f8'
type 'serial'
stdout '/pci@80000000/isa@b/serial@i3f8'
zImage.prep starting
Open Firmware: 0x0021a0c0
stack at: 0x00daa480 0x00500030
loaded at: 0x00600400 0x00baa988
relocated to: 0x00800000 0x00daa588
zimage at: 0x00809945 0x009d318f
initrd at: 0x009d4000 0x00d95521
edit kernel cmdline within 10 seconds and press RETURN:
sysrq=1 nosshkey minmemory=0 MemYaSTText=0 quiet console=ttyS0 linuxrcstderr=/dev/ttyS0
uncompressing kernel done. (0x003fc86c bytes)
birecs @ 0x00500000
Now booting the kernel
You may not see any kernel console output,
use a serial console on COM1 in this case.
append 'console=ttyS0' to the kernel cmdline
PCI: Cannot allocate resource region 0 of device 0000:00:0b.0
PCI: Cannot allocate resource region 0 of device 0000:00:0c.0
PCI: Cannot allocate resource region 0 of device 0000:00:10.0
PCI: Cannot allocate resource region 0 of device 0000:00:12.0
Moving into tmpfs... done.
created /dev tree (14824 inodes)
>>> SUSE Linux installation program v1.9.16 (c) 1996-2005 SUSE Linux Products GmbH <<<
Remount of / ok
Console: /dev/ttyS0, serial line params "ttyS0"
Please supply a config file
error setting kbd mode: Invalid argument
CPU: 0, Memory: 488808
insmod /modules/nls_cp437.ko
insmod /modules/nls_iso8859-1.ko
insmod /modules/fat.ko
insmod /modules/vfat.ko
insmod /modules/cdrom.ko
insmod /modules/scsi_mod.ko
insmod /modules/sd_mod.ko
insmod /modules/sr_mod.ko
insmod /modules/sg.ko
insmod /modules/ide-cd.ko
insmod /modules/floppy.ko
insmod /modules/psmouse.ko
Beginning hardware probing...
Starting hardware detection...
Please supply a config file
Please supply a config file
Hardware probing finished.
There seems to be no floppy disk.
Searching for info file...
got info from cmdline
Please supply a config file
insmod /modules/scsi_transport_spi.ko
insmod /modules/sym53c8xx.ko
Ok, that seems to have worked. :-)
Looking for a SUSE Linux CD...
Ok, that didn't work; see if we can activate another storage device...
No further storage devices found; giving up.
Please supply a config file
Automatic setup not possible.
GG
*** Could not find the SUSE Linux Installation CD.
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I seem to be encountering a different problem! If I look at the kernel messages, I get:
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PCI: Enabling device 0000:00:10.0 (0010 -> 0013)
sym0: <825a> rev 0x13 at pci 0000:00:10.0 irq 23
sym0: No NVRAM, ID 7, Fast-10, SE, parity checking
CACHE TEST FAILED: timeout.
sym0: CACHE INCORRECTLY CONFIGURED.
sym0: giving up ...
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Perhaps the SCSI controller has hardware problem? Perhaps it would explain why it didn't complete the boot of the rescue system? I did ran the IBM standalone diagnostics and it passed just before I tried installing SuSE on this... I'll keep trying to see if I can get farther again.
The serial console login should work in beta4. (cf. bug 145357) |