Bugzilla – Bug 147262
Installation "Start Rescue System" option not working on RS/6000 43P-140
Last modified: 2006-02-07 15:13:47 UTC
Hardware is: IBM RISC System/6000 43P-140 TYPE 7043-140 S/N 10-31984 604e 233MHZ Booting installation CDROM with console (appending console=ttyS0) works - in constrast with trying to use the attached keyboard/video which doesn't. However, when selecting the rescue option no output appears either on the console or the attached video once the rescue system is loaded. ----- Kernel Messages Total memory = 512MB; using 1024kB for hash table (at c0500000) Linux version 2.6.13-15-default (geeko@buildhost) (gcc version 4.0.2 20050901 (p rerelease) (SUSE Linux)) #1 Tue Sep 13 14:56:15 UTC 2005 PReP architecture IBM planar ID: d5 MPIC at 0xfddc0000 (0x3ddc0000), length 0x00040000 mapped to 0xeffc0000 On node 0 totalpages: 131072 DMA zone: 131072 pages, LIFO batch:31 Normal zone: 0 pages, LIFO batch:1 HighMem zone: 0 pages, LIFO batch:1 Built 1 zonelists Kernel command line: sysrq=1 nosshkey minmemory=0 MemYaSTText=0 quiet console=tt yS0 OpenPIC Version 1.0 (4 CPUs and 16 IRQ sources) at effc0000 PID hash table entries: 4096 (order: 12, 65536 bytes) time_init: decrementer frequency = 16.618094 MHz Console: colour dummy device 80x25 Dentry cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 7, 524288 bytes) Inode-cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes) Memory: 509696k available (2828k kernel code, 1580k data, 188k init, 0k highmem) Calibrating delay loop... 463.87 BogoMIPS (lpj=231936) Security Framework v1.0.0 initialized SELinux: Disabled at boot. Mount-cache hash table entries: 512 checking if image is initramfs... it is Freeing initrd memory: 3845k freed NET: Registered protocol family 16 PCI: Probing PCI hardware Setting PCI interrupts for a "IBM 43P-140 (Tiger1)" 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 Registering openpic with sysfs... Linux Plug and Play Support v0.97 (c) Adam Belay usbcore: registered new driver usbfs usbcore: registered new driver hub TC classifier action (bugs to netdev@vger.kernel.org cc hadi@cyberus.ca) Thermal assist unit not available audit: initializing netlink socket (disabled) audit(1138748278.705:1): initialized VFS: Disk quotas dquot_6.5.1 Dquot-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order 0, 4096 bytes) Initializing Cryptographic API isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards... isapnp: No Plug & Play device found Generic RTC Driver v1.07 Macintosh non-volatile memory driver v1.1 serio: i8042 AUX port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12 serio: i8042 KBD port at 0x60,0x64 irq 1 Serial: 8250/16550 driver $Revision: 1.90 $ 4 ports, IRQ sharing disabled ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A ttyS1 at I/O 0x2f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A pmac_zilog: 0.6 (Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>) io scheduler noop registered io scheduler anticipatory registered io scheduler deadline registered io scheduler cfq registered RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 123456K size 1024 blocksize loop: loaded (max 8 devices) input: Macintosh mouse button emulation apm_emu: Requires a machine with a PMU. Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2 ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx Probing IDE interface ide0... Probing IDE interface ide1... Probing IDE interface ide2... Probing IDE interface ide3... ohci_hcd: 2005 April 22 USB 1.1 'Open' Host Controller (OHCI) Driver (PCI) usbcore: registered new driver hiddev usbcore: registered new driver usbhid drivers/usb/input/hid-core.c: v2.01:USB HID core driver mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice md: md driver 0.90.2 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MD_SB_DISKS=27 md: bitmap version 3.38 NET: Registered protocol family 2 IP route cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes) TCP established hash table entries: 131072 (order: 8, 1048576 bytes) TCP bind hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes) TCP: Hash tables configured (established 131072 bind 65536) TCP reno registered TCP westwood registered TCP htcp registered NET: Registered protocol family 1 NET: Registered protocol family 17 atkbd.c: keyboard reset failed on isa0060/serio1 Freeing unused kernel memory: 188k init 60k pmac 4k chrp 8k openfirmware atkbd.c: keyboard reset failed on isa0060/serio0 SCSI subsystem initialized Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 2.88M FDC 0 is a National Semiconductor PC87306 end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0 end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0 end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0 end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0 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 sym0: SCSI BUS has been reset. scsi0 : sym-2.2.1 Vendor: IBM Model: CDRM00203 !K Rev: 1.00 Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02 target0:0:3: Beginning Domain Validation target0:0:3: asynchronous. target0:0:3: Domain Validation skipping write tests target0:0:3: FAST-10 SCSI 10.0 MB/s ST (100 ns, offset 8) target0:0:3: Ending Domain Validation sr0: scsi-1 drive Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20 Attached scsi CD-ROM sr0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 3, lun 0 Attached scsi generic sg0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 3, lun 0, type 5 target0:0:4: FAST-10 WIDE SCSI 20.0 MB/s ST (100 ns, offset 8) Vendor: IBM Model: DCHS04U Rev: 6363 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 target0:0:4: tagged command queuing enabled, command queue depth 16. target0:0:4: Beginning Domain Validation target0:0:4: FAST-10 SCSI 10.0 MB/s ST (100 ns, offset 8) target0:0:4: FAST-10 WIDE SCSI 20.0 MB/s ST (100 ns, offset 8) target0:0:4: Domain Validation skipping write tests target0:0:4: Ending Domain Validation SCSI device sda: 8813870 512-byte hdwr sectors (4513 MB) SCSI device sda: drive cache: write through SCSI device sda: 8813870 512-byte hdwr sectors (4513 MB) SCSI device sda: drive cache: write through sda: unknown partition table Attached scsi disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 4, lun 0 Attached scsi generic sg1 at scsi0, channel 0, id 4, lun 0, type 0 target0:0:5: FAST-10 WIDE SCSI 20.0 MB/s ST (100 ns, offset 8) Vendor: IBM Model: DCHS04U Rev: 6363 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 target0:0:5: tagged command queuing enabled, command queue depth 16. target0:0:5: Beginning Domain Validation target0:0:5: FAST-10 SCSI 10.0 MB/s ST (100 ns, offset 8) target0:0:5: FAST-10 WIDE SCSI 20.0 MB/s ST (100 ns, offset 8) target0:0:5: Domain Validation skipping write tests target0:0:5: Ending Domain Validation SCSI device sdb: 8813870 512-byte hdwr sectors (4513 MB) SCSI device sdb: drive cache: write through SCSI device sdb: 8813870 512-byte hdwr sectors (4513 MB) SCSI device sdb: drive cache: write through sdb: unknown partition table Attached scsi disk sdb at scsi0, channel 0, id 5, lun 0 Attached scsi generic sg2 at scsi0, channel 0, id 5, lun 0, type 0 ISO 9660 Extensions: RRIP_1991A ISO 9660 Extensions: RRIP_1991A System Information 1) Kernel Messages 2) Hard Disks or CD-ROMs 3) Modules 4) Processor 5) Memory 6) I/O Ports 7) Interrupts 8) Devices 9) Network Cards 10) DMA > Main Menu 1) Settings 2) System Information 3) Kernel Modules (Hardware Drivers) 4) Start Installation or System 5) Verify Installation CD-ROM/DVD 6) Eject CD 7) Exit or Reboot 8) Power off > 1 Settings 1) Language 2) Display 3) Keymap 4) Debug (expert) > 2 Select the display type. 1) Color display 2) Monochrome display > >>> Linuxrc v1.9.16 (Kernel 2.6.13-15-default) <<< >>> Linuxrc v1.9.16 (Kernel 2.6.13-15-default) <<< Main Menu 1) Settings 2) System Information 3) Kernel Modules (Hardware Drivers) 4) Start Installation or System 5) Verify Installation CD-ROM/DVD 6) Eject CD 7) Exit or Reboot 8) Power off > 4 Start Installation or System 1) Start Installation or Update 2) Boot Installed System 3) Start Rescue System > 3 Choose the source medium. 1) CD-ROM 2) Network 3) Hard Disk 4) Floppy > 1 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 -----
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: ------------------------------------------------------ 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. ------------------------------------------------------ I seem to be encountering a different problem! If I look at the kernel messages, I get: ------------------------------------------------------ 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 ... ------------------------------------------------------ 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)