From owner-sgilinux11@oss.sgi.com Fri Jan 7 08:10:36 2000 Received: by oss.sgi.com id ; Fri, 7 Jan 2000 08:10:26 -0800 Received: from maes.esrin.esa.it ([192.106.252.50]:22525 "EHLO maes.esrin.esa.it") by oss.sgi.com with ESMTP id ; Fri, 7 Jan 2000 08:10:04 -0800 Received: from plod.esrin.esa.it (firewall-user@gatekeeper2 [192.106.252.70]) by maes.esrin.esa.it (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id RAA12652 for ; Fri, 7 Jan 2000 17:13:26 +0100 (MET) Received: from penelope.rsp.it by plod.esrin.esa.it (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id QAA12502; Fri, 7 Jan 2000 16:11:41 GMT Received: from esrin.esa.it (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by penelope.rsp.it (8.9.1b+Sun/8.9.1) with ESMTP id QAA15324 for ; Fri, 7 Jan 2000 16:11:02 GMT Message-ID: <38761015.28F5D9BA@esrin.esa.it> Date: Fri, 07 Jan 2000 16:11:01 +0000 From: Gabriele Brugnoni Organization: ESRIN X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; I; SunOS 5.7 sun4m) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: sgilinux Subject: boot! Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-sgilinux11@oss.sgi.com Precedence: bulk Return-Path: X-Orcpt: rfc822;sgilinux11-outgoing Hi *, I started to install Linux on the Visual Work 540 using Linux 2.2.10 + RedHat 6.0. I have follow step by step all the points that are in http://oss.sgi.com/www.linux.sgi.com/intel/visws/ Everything was fine till BOOT LINUX! ( see http://oss.sgi.com/www.linux.sgi.com/intel/visws/post.html point 11) The boot start with the nice blue window .. then the Kernel seems to start .. and then a bunch of vertical coloured lines apperar with something in the background !!! Why ? thank you for any advices Gabriele From owner-sgilinux11@oss.sgi.com Fri Jan 7 11:12:31 2000 Received: by oss.sgi.com id ; Fri, 7 Jan 2000 11:12:22 -0800 Received: from pneumatic-tube.sgi.com ([204.94.214.22]:42045 "EHLO pneumatic-tube.sgi.com") by oss.sgi.com with ESMTP id ; Fri, 7 Jan 2000 11:12:09 -0800 Received: from cthulhu.engr.sgi.com (cthulhu.engr.sgi.com [192.26.80.2]) by pneumatic-tube.sgi.com (980327.SGI.8.8.8-aspam/980310.SGI-aspam) via ESMTP id LAA02635 for ; Fri, 7 Jan 2000 11:15:15 -0800 (PST) mail_from (tduffy@cthulhu.engr.sgi.com) Received: from mtv-mven006e--n.engr.sgi.com (mtv-mven006e--n.engr.sgi.com [192.48.196.47]) by cthulhu.engr.sgi.com (980427.SGI.8.8.8/970903.SGI.AUTOCF) via ESMTP id LAA08731; Fri, 7 Jan 2000 11:13:01 -0800 (PST) mail_from (tduffy@engr.sgi.com) Received: from engr.sgi.com (sgigate.sgi.com [198.29.75.75]) by mtv-mven006e--n.engr.sgi.com with SMTP (Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail Service Version 5.5.2448.0) id Y0LAK00J; Fri, 7 Jan 2000 11:11:16 -0800 Message-ID: <387635AA.C5BC64A3@engr.sgi.com> Date: Fri, 07 Jan 2000 10:51:22 -0800 From: Thomas Duffy Reply-To: tduffy@sgi.com Organization: SGI X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.10-1SGI_17kdb06 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Gabriele Brugnoni CC: sgilinux Subject: Re: boot! References: <38761015.28F5D9BA@esrin.esa.it> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-sgilinux11@oss.sgi.com Precedence: bulk Return-Path: X-Orcpt: rfc822;sgilinux11-outgoing Gabriele Brugnoni wrote: > > Hi *, > > I started to install Linux on the Visual Work 540 using Linux 2.2.10 + RedHat 6.0. > > I have follow step by step all the points that are in > http://oss.sgi.com/www.linux.sgi.com/intel/visws/ > > Everything was fine till > BOOT LINUX! ( see http://oss.sgi.com/www.linux.sgi.com/intel/visws/post.html point 11) > > The boot start with the nice blue window .. then the Kernel seems to start .. and then a > bunch of vertical coloured lines apperar with something in the background !!! > > Why ? > > thank you for any advices > Gabriele Did you make sure to use the visual workstation patch? I assume you did because it would not have booted anything if not. Can you send a copy of the exact debug that you get in the window? Does it boot off the floppy (into Linux) ? -- _ Tom Duffy __ (_) ____ _/,-' __ / .__) / _ \ |_ | \__. \( (_) ) | | (____/ \ __/ | |_ //--, `--' ( <> ) Core Linux `--' From owner-sgilinux11@oss.sgi.com Mon Jan 10 03:11:49 2000 Received: by oss.sgi.com id ; Mon, 10 Jan 2000 03:11:39 -0800 Received: from maes.esrin.esa.it ([192.106.252.50]:30145 "EHLO maes.esrin.esa.it") by oss.sgi.com with ESMTP id ; Mon, 10 Jan 2000 03:11:24 -0800 Received: from plod.esrin.esa.it (firewall-user@gatekeeper2 [192.106.252.70]) by maes.esrin.esa.it (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id MAA02283; Mon, 10 Jan 2000 12:14:32 +0100 (MET) Received: from penelope.rsp.it by plod.esrin.esa.it (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id LAA28851; Mon, 10 Jan 2000 11:12:47 GMT Received: from esrin.esa.it (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by penelope.rsp.it (8.9.1b+Sun/8.9.1) with ESMTP id LAA16117; Mon, 10 Jan 2000 11:12:06 GMT Message-ID: <3879BE81.D402A1D9@esrin.esa.it> Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2000 11:12:01 +0000 From: Gabriele Brugnoni Organization: ESRIN X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; I; SunOS 5.7 sun4m) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: tduffy@sgi.com CC: sgilinux Subject: Re: boot! References: <38761015.28F5D9BA@esrin.esa.it> <387635AA.C5BC64A3@engr.sgi.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-sgilinux11@oss.sgi.com Precedence: bulk Return-Path: X-Orcpt: rfc822;sgilinux11-outgoing Thomas Duffy wrote: > > Gabriele Brugnoni wrote: > > > > Hi *, > > > > I started to install Linux on the Visual Work 540 using Linux 2.2.10 + RedHat 6.0. > > > > I have follow step by step all the points that are in > > http://oss.sgi.com/www.linux.sgi.com/intel/visws/ > > > > Everything was fine till > > BOOT LINUX! ( see http://oss.sgi.com/www.linux.sgi.com/intel/visws/post.html point 11) > > > > The boot start with the nice blue window .. then the Kernel seems to start .. and then a > > bunch of vertical coloured lines apperar with something in the background !!! > > > > Why ? > > > > thank you for any advices > > Gabriele > > Did you make sure to use the visual workstation patch? I assume you did > because > it would not have booted anything if not. Can you send a copy of the > exact debug that you get in the window? > > Does it boot off the floppy (into Linux) ? > Hi Tom, probably my explanation was not clear. I have follow step by step all the points that are in http://oss.sgi.com/www.linux.sgi.com/intel/visws/ and in this descriptin there is no patch needed. The only patch (visws.2210.28jul99.patch) is a code patch so it will be needed as soon as I will start to build the Visual Workstation 540 kernel. But following the istruction http://oss.sgi.com/www.linux.sgi.com/intel/visws/flop.html http://oss.sgi.com/www.linux.sgi.com/intel/visws/rh60.html http://oss.sgi.com/www.linux.sgi.com/intel/visws/post.html in sequence I should be able to install a single CPU kernel and after that I should start to build the final VSW 540 kernel. But as soon as I reach point 11 in http://oss.sgi.com/www.linux.sgi.com/intel/visws/post.html (that is BOOT Linux from HD ) the blue box start showing following lines: - Loading program segment 1 at .. (etc etc) - EXT2FS reading 1107968 bytes at offset 4096 - Zeroing memory .. - Starting Kernel; .. (etc ) than the monitor is filled by unstable vertical coloured lines .. (i do not know how to explain exactly what I see ) instead of the expected login !!! On the other side, I also read all the instruction in the http://oss.sgi.com/projects/sgilinux11/ and before I start to run all the updates and the kernel patches I should be able to complete the previous single CPU kernel installation! I used Mandrake 6.0 instead of RedHat 6.0. Is this the problem? cheers Gabriele From owner-sgilinux11@oss.sgi.com Tue Jan 11 18:48:18 2000 Received: by oss.sgi.com id ; Tue, 11 Jan 2000 18:48:09 -0800 Received: from sgi.SGI.COM ([192.48.153.1]:23140 "EHLO sgi.com") by oss.sgi.com with ESMTP id ; Tue, 11 Jan 2000 18:47:47 -0800 Received: from cthulhu.engr.sgi.com (cthulhu.engr.sgi.com [192.26.80.2]) by sgi.com (980327.SGI.8.8.8-aspam/980304.SGI-aspam: SGI does not authorize the use of its proprietary systems or networks for unsolicited or bulk email from the Internet.) via ESMTP id SAA02303 for ; Tue, 11 Jan 2000 18:48:57 -0800 (PST) mail_from (tduffy@cthulhu.engr.sgi.com) Received: from mtv-mven006e--n.engr.sgi.com (mtv-mven006e--n.engr.sgi.com [192.48.196.47]) by cthulhu.engr.sgi.com (980427.SGI.8.8.8/970903.SGI.AUTOCF) via ESMTP id SAA05991; Tue, 11 Jan 2000 18:48:38 -0800 (PST) mail_from (tduffy@engr.sgi.com) Received: from engr.sgi.com (sgigate.sgi.com [198.29.75.75]) by mtv-mven006e--n.engr.sgi.com with SMTP (Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail Service Version 5.5.2448.0) id Y0LAL28M; Tue, 11 Jan 2000 18:46:49 -0800 Message-ID: <387BE676.DCCB9F23@engr.sgi.com> Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2000 18:27:02 -0800 From: Thomas Duffy Reply-To: tduffy@sgi.com Organization: SGI X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.10-1SGI_17kdb06 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Gabriele Brugnoni CC: sgilinux Subject: Re: boot! References: <38761015.28F5D9BA@esrin.esa.it> <387635AA.C5BC64A3@engr.sgi.com> <3879BE81.D402A1D9@esrin.esa.it> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-sgilinux11@oss.sgi.com Precedence: bulk Return-Path: X-Orcpt: rfc822;sgilinux11-outgoing Gabriele Brugnoni wrote: > Hi Tom, > probably my explanation was not clear. > > I have follow step by step all the points that are in > http://oss.sgi.com/www.linux.sgi.com/intel/visws/ > and in this descriptin there is no patch needed. > The only patch (visws.2210.28jul99.patch) is a code patch so it will be needed as soon as > I will start to build the Visual Workstation 540 kernel. > > But following the istruction > http://oss.sgi.com/www.linux.sgi.com/intel/visws/flop.html > http://oss.sgi.com/www.linux.sgi.com/intel/visws/rh60.html > http://oss.sgi.com/www.linux.sgi.com/intel/visws/post.html > in sequence I should be able to install a single CPU kernel and after that I should start > to build the final VSW 540 kernel. > > But as soon as I reach point 11 in > http://oss.sgi.com/www.linux.sgi.com/intel/visws/post.html (that is BOOT Linux from HD ) > the blue box start showing following lines: > - Loading program segment 1 at .. (etc etc) > - EXT2FS reading 1107968 bytes at offset 4096 > - Zeroing memory .. > - Starting Kernel; .. (etc ) > > than the monitor is filled by unstable vertical coloured lines .. (i do not know how to > explain exactly what I see ) instead of the expected login !!! > > On the other side, I also read all the instruction in the > http://oss.sgi.com/projects/sgilinux11/ > and before I start to run all the updates and the kernel patches I should be able to > complete the previous single CPU kernel installation! > > I used Mandrake 6.0 instead of RedHat 6.0. > Is this the problem? I can't see why, but I have only tested it on RedHat 6.0. I have asked some people who are 320/540 experts here at SGI and they told me that the newer PROMs on the 320/540 may break Linux. They were updated to support Windows 2000 and break some things in Windows 4.0. If the PROM is version 1.0xxx, then you should be OK. If it is 1.1xxx, they you may want to downgrade in order to user Linux. You can find the prom images off http://support.sgi.com/nt. Since SGI dropped Linux on VW's, the code has not been updated. Please feel free to hack on it if you wish and send the changes to Linus. Question: can you log in remotely (telnet in) after it boots up? Is it just the graphics? -- _ Tom Duffy __ (_) ____ _/,-' __ / .__) / _ \ |_ | \__. \( (_) ) | | (____/ \ __/ | |_ //--, `--' ( <> ) Core Linux `--' From owner-sgilinux11@oss.sgi.com Wed Jan 12 03:04:59 2000 Received: by oss.sgi.com id ; Wed, 12 Jan 2000 03:04:49 -0800 Received: from maes.esrin.esa.it ([192.106.252.50]:29079 "EHLO maes.esrin.esa.it") by oss.sgi.com with ESMTP id ; Wed, 12 Jan 2000 03:04:31 -0800 Received: from plod.esrin.esa.it (firewall-user@gatekeeper2 [192.106.252.70]) by maes.esrin.esa.it (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id MAA14637; Wed, 12 Jan 2000 12:07:33 +0100 (MET) Received: from penelope.rsp.it by plod.esrin.esa.it (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id LAA15323; Wed, 12 Jan 2000 11:05:51 GMT Received: from esrin.esa.it (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by penelope.rsp.it (8.9.1b+Sun/8.9.1) with ESMTP id LAA17575; Wed, 12 Jan 2000 11:05:05 GMT Message-ID: <387C5FE1.E5EEAA4D@esrin.esa.it> Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2000 11:05:05 +0000 From: Gabriele Brugnoni Organization: ESRIN X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; I; SunOS 5.7 sun4m) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: tduffy@sgi.com CC: sgilinux Subject: Re: boot! References: <38761015.28F5D9BA@esrin.esa.it> <387635AA.C5BC64A3@engr.sgi.com> <3879BE81.D402A1D9@esrin.esa.it> <387BE676.DCCB9F23@engr.sgi.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-sgilinux11@oss.sgi.com Precedence: bulk Return-Path: X-Orcpt: rfc822;sgilinux11-outgoing Thomas Duffy wrote: ... > > I used Mandrake 6.0 instead of RedHat 6.0. > > Is this the problem? > > I can't see why, but I have only tested it on RedHat 6.0. > > I have asked some people who are 320/540 experts here at SGI and they > told me that the newer PROMs on the 320/540 may break Linux. They were > updated to support Windows 2000 and break some things in Windows 4.0. What I get from Hw Inventory is Firmware 1.0006 > If the PROM is version 1.0xxx, then you should be OK. If it is 1.1xxx, > they you may want to downgrade in order to user Linux. You can find the > prom images off http://support.sgi.com/nt. > > Since SGI dropped Linux on VW's, the code has not been updated. Please > feel free to hack on it if you wish and send the changes to Linus. > Question: can you log in remotely (telnet in) after it boots up? Is it > just the graphics? No I cannot even ping .. so it means that it is not a graphic problem. Unfortunately I am not able to hack ... and this is really disappointing because we need that machine to be used to run parallel modelling Sw under Linux!!!! Can I check any other info, files .. oil level!?? thank you very much Gabriele From owner-sgilinux11@oss.sgi.com Wed Jan 12 11:01:09 2000 Received: by oss.sgi.com id ; Wed, 12 Jan 2000 11:01:00 -0800 Received: from deliverator.sgi.com ([204.94.214.10]:31299 "EHLO deliverator.sgi.com") by oss.sgi.com with ESMTP id ; Wed, 12 Jan 2000 11:00:44 -0800 Received: from cthulhu.engr.sgi.com (cthulhu.engr.sgi.com [192.26.80.2]) by deliverator.sgi.com (980309.SGI.8.8.8-aspam-6.2/980310.SGI-aspam) via ESMTP id KAA22137 for ; Wed, 12 Jan 2000 10:57:41 -0800 (PST) mail_from (tduffy@cthulhu.engr.sgi.com) Received: from mtv-mven006e--n.engr.sgi.com (mtv-mven006e--n.engr.sgi.com [192.48.196.47]) by cthulhu.engr.sgi.com (980427.SGI.8.8.8/970903.SGI.AUTOCF) via ESMTP id LAA72990 for ; Wed, 12 Jan 2000 11:01:49 -0800 (PST) mail_from (tduffy@engr.sgi.com) Received: from engr.sgi.com (sgigate.sgi.com [198.29.75.75]) by mtv-mven006e--n.engr.sgi.com with SMTP (Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail Service Version 5.5.2448.0) id Y0LALKPX; Wed, 12 Jan 2000 11:00:00 -0800 Message-ID: <387CCA8E.1D71859E@engr.sgi.com> Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2000 10:40:14 -0800 From: Thomas Duffy Reply-To: tduffy@sgi.com Organization: SGI X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.10-1SGI_17kdb06 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: sgilinux11@oss.sgi.com Subject: [Fwd: Re: [Fwd: Re: boot!]] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-sgilinux11@oss.sgi.com Precedence: bulk Return-Path: X-Orcpt: rfc822;sgilinux11-outgoing This was suggested on an internal newsgroup as a possible solution to the 540 Linux boot problem. > I also got the vertical lines when I specified memory larger than what was > available on my first bank of DIMMS. Apparently, we use some strange sort > of memory mapping that confuses Linux. So, the question to the guy should > be if he specified memory size in PROM OSLoadOptions. If so, this is > probably the cause of his trouble. If he removes the part that says > "mem=512M" (or whatever), it will default to using 128 MB. If his first > bank is 256 MB, then he can use that... - tduffy From owner-sgilinux11@oss.sgi.com Mon Jan 17 11:13:54 2000 Received: by oss.sgi.com id ; Mon, 17 Jan 2000 11:13:34 -0800 Received: from maes.esrin.esa.it ([192.106.252.50]:56569 "EHLO maes.esrin.esa.it") by oss.sgi.com with ESMTP id ; Mon, 17 Jan 2000 11:13:11 -0800 Received: from plod.esrin.esa.it (firewall-user@gatekeeper2 [192.106.252.70]) by maes.esrin.esa.it (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id UAA25401; Mon, 17 Jan 2000 20:17:18 +0100 (MET) Received: from penelope.rsp.it by plod.esrin.esa.it (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id TAA19908; Mon, 17 Jan 2000 19:15:38 GMT Received: from esrin.esa.it (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by penelope.rsp.it (8.9.1b+Sun/8.9.1) with ESMTP id TAA20254; Mon, 17 Jan 2000 19:14:47 GMT Message-ID: <38836A27.8A798C4@esrin.esa.it> Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2000 19:14:47 +0000 From: Gabriele Brugnoni Organization: ESRIN X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; I; SunOS 5.7 sun4m) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: sgilinux CC: tduffy@sgi.com Subject: boot .. but! References: <38761015.28F5D9BA@esrin.esa.it> <387635AA.C5BC64A3@engr.sgi.com> <3879BE81.D402A1D9@esrin.esa.it> <387BE676.DCCB9F23@engr.sgi.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-sgilinux11@oss.sgi.com Precedence: bulk Return-Path: X-Orcpt: rfc822;sgilinux11-outgoing Hi Thomas I finally did a step ahead! The machine did non want to boot because it/she does not like in the OSLoadOptions a 512MB of RAM that is: root=/dev/sda1 mem=512M => fails root=/dev/sda1 or root=/dev/sda1 mem=256M => works. So it is not a matter of RedHat or Mandrake or 6.0 (I have installed Mandrake 6.1) After the boot I get some errors as follow: - Finding module dependencies Can't open /lib/modules/2.2.10/modules.dep [FAILED] - checking file system fsck.ext2: Bad magic number in super-block while trying to open /dev/sda11 (null ... etc .. etc (sda11 is the 20MB partition used to install the bootloader ) - /dev/sda5 : clean, 11/1923072 files, 271385/7687071 blocks [FAILED] *** An error occurred during the file system check *** Dropping you to a shell; the system will reboot *** when you leave the shell sda5 is the partition where I want to install all the users data .. Anyway I log on typing the root pwd and everything is fine. After that I follow all the needed steps to stratX .. but when i run startx I get the following: xauth: creating new authority file /root/.Xauthority execve failed for /etc/X11/X (errno 2) /etc/X11/X is linked to XF86_FBDev I copied XF86Config.vw in XF86Config /dev/hidbp-mse-0 are ok Why is now X that does not want to work ? thank you very much Gabriele From owner-sgilinux11@oss.sgi.com Mon Jan 17 12:40:13 2000 Received: by oss.sgi.com id ; Mon, 17 Jan 2000 12:39:53 -0800 Received: from sgi.SGI.COM ([192.48.153.1]:45164 "EHLO sgi.com") by oss.sgi.com with ESMTP id ; Mon, 17 Jan 2000 12:39:30 -0800 Received: from cthulhu.engr.sgi.com (cthulhu.engr.sgi.com [192.26.80.2]) by sgi.com (980327.SGI.8.8.8-aspam/980304.SGI-aspam: SGI does not authorize the use of its proprietary systems or networks for unsolicited or bulk email from the Internet.) via ESMTP id MAA09885 for ; Mon, 17 Jan 2000 12:41:12 -0800 (PST) mail_from (tduffy@cthulhu.engr.sgi.com) Received: from mtv-mven006e--n.engr.sgi.com (mtv-mven006e--n.engr.sgi.com [192.48.196.47]) by cthulhu.engr.sgi.com (980427.SGI.8.8.8/970903.SGI.AUTOCF) via ESMTP id MAA42589; Mon, 17 Jan 2000 12:40:51 -0800 (PST) mail_from (tduffy@engr.sgi.com) Received: from engr.sgi.com (sgigate.sgi.com [198.29.75.75]) by mtv-mven006e--n.engr.sgi.com with SMTP (Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail Service Version 5.5.2448.0) id Y0LAL4S1; Mon, 17 Jan 2000 12:38:59 -0800 Message-ID: <38837E4E.B455BFE7@engr.sgi.com> Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2000 12:40:46 -0800 From: Thomas Duffy Reply-To: tduffy@sgi.com Organization: SGI X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.10-1SGI_17kdb06 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Gabriele Brugnoni CC: sgilinux , tduffy@sgi.com Subject: Re: boot .. but! References: <38761015.28F5D9BA@esrin.esa.it> <387635AA.C5BC64A3@engr.sgi.com> <3879BE81.D402A1D9@esrin.esa.it> <387BE676.DCCB9F23@engr.sgi.com> <38836A27.8A798C4@esrin.esa.it> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-sgilinux11@oss.sgi.com Precedence: bulk Return-Path: X-Orcpt: rfc822;sgilinux11-outgoing Gabriele Brugnoni wrote: > > Hi Thomas > I finally did a step ahead! > > The machine did non want to boot because it/she does not like in the OSLoadOptions a 512MB > of RAM that is: > > root=/dev/sda1 mem=512M => fails > > root=/dev/sda1 or root=/dev/sda1 mem=256M => works. ok...so it was the memory problem...cool! (well not so cool that you cannot use your total memory, but cool that you can boot in) > So it is not a matter of RedHat or Mandrake or 6.0 > (I have installed Mandrake 6.1) I didn't think so. > After the boot I get some errors as follow: > > - Finding module dependencies > Can't open /lib/modules/2.2.10/modules.dep [FAILED] this should be built at boot time...is that file present if you do an ls? > - checking file system > fsck.ext2: Bad magic number in super-block while trying to open /dev/sda11 (null ... > etc .. etc > > (sda11 is the 20MB partition used to install the bootloader ) so, this is a FAT partition...maybe your /etc/fstab has it labeled as an ext2 because it is trying to use fsck.ext2 to check it. I guess it worked having the PROM access it, but sda11 is on a Linux extended partition...so that is strange. > - /dev/sda5 : clean, 11/1923072 files, 271385/7687071 blocks [FAILED] > > *** An error occurred during the file system check > *** Dropping you to a shell; the system will reboot > *** when you leave the shell > > sda5 is the partition where I want to install all the users data .. > > Anyway I log on typing the root pwd and everything is fine. but you are in single user mode...you should make sure you can boot into multiuser mode...edit your /etc/fstab to reflect the correct filesystem types and boot into runlevel 3. > After that I follow all the needed steps to stratX .. but when i run startx I get the > following: > > xauth: creating new authority file /root/.Xauthority that is fine > execve failed for /etc/X11/X (errno 2) don't know what is going on here... > /etc/X11/X is linked to XF86_FBDev > I copied XF86Config.vw in XF86Config > /dev/hidbp-mse-0 are ok my only guess is that you are not in multiuser mode...if you cannot get it to boot the "right" way, you may be able to type "init 3" at the root prompt and have it come up to runlevel 3. > > Why is now X that does not want to work ? > > thank you very much > Gabriele -- _ Tom Duffy __ (_) ____ _/,-' __ / .__) / _ \ |_ | \__. \( (_) ) | | (____/ \ __/ | |_ //--, `--' ( <> ) Core Linux `--' From owner-sgilinux11@oss.sgi.com Tue Jan 18 08:00:20 2000 Received: by oss.sgi.com id ; Tue, 18 Jan 2000 08:00:10 -0800 Received: from maes.esrin.esa.it ([192.106.252.50]:33446 "EHLO maes.esrin.esa.it") by oss.sgi.com with ESMTP id ; Tue, 18 Jan 2000 08:00:07 -0800 Received: from plod.esrin.esa.it (firewall-user@gatekeeper2 [192.106.252.70]) by maes.esrin.esa.it (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id RAA08545; Tue, 18 Jan 2000 17:03:39 +0100 (MET) Received: from penelope.rsp.it by plod.esrin.esa.it (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id QAA25723; Tue, 18 Jan 2000 16:01:59 GMT Received: from esrin.esa.it (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by penelope.rsp.it (8.9.1b+Sun/8.9.1) with ESMTP id QAA20945; Tue, 18 Jan 2000 16:01:07 GMT Message-ID: <38848E43.BE008BC3@esrin.esa.it> Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2000 16:01:07 +0000 From: Gabriele Brugnoni Organization: ESRIN X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; I; SunOS 5.7 sun4m) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: tduffy@sgi.com CC: sgilinux Subject: next Step References: <38761015.28F5D9BA@esrin.esa.it> <387635AA.C5BC64A3@engr.sgi.com> <3879BE81.D402A1D9@esrin.esa.it> <387BE676.DCCB9F23@engr.sgi.com> <38836A27.8A798C4@esrin.esa.it> <38837E4E.B455BFE7@engr.sgi.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-sgilinux11@oss.sgi.com Precedence: bulk Return-Path: X-Orcpt: rfc822;sgilinux11-outgoing Thomas Duffy wrote: > .. > > After the boot I get some errors as follow: > > > > - Finding module dependencies > > Can't open /lib/modules/2.2.10/modules.dep [FAILED] > > this should be built at boot time...is that file present if you do an > ls? No the file was not there. I have /lib/modules/2.2.13-7mdk/ .. etc > > After that I follow all the needed steps to stratX .. but when i run startx I get the > > following: > > > > xauth: creating new authority file /root/.Xauthority > > that is fine > > > execve failed for /etc/X11/X (errno 2) > > don't know what is going on here... > > > /etc/X11/X is linked to XF86_FBDev > > I copied XF86Config.vw in XF86Config > > /dev/hidbp-mse-0 are ok > > my only guess is that you are not in multiuser mode...if you cannot get > it to boot the "right" way, you may be able to type "init 3" at the root > prompt and have it come up to runlevel 3. OK .. init 3 was a magic phrase! KDE went up and now seems working fine. Now next step will be to build the Kernel. I will let you know .. I hope I do not have to bore you anymore with problems. Anyway, as soon as I will have everything working I will reinstall everything following the right and now clear steps and workarounds. One question. I want to have 2 big partition 1 for Linux and 1 for NT 4.0. Is it better that I start from scratch doing the installation of NT and later Linux. Or is it enough that I run mkfs on the partition that I reserver for NT and than I try to install NT on that ? cheers Gabriele From owner-sgilinux11@oss.sgi.com Wed Jan 19 10:00:58 2000 Received: by oss.sgi.com id ; Wed, 19 Jan 2000 10:00:48 -0800 Received: from maes.esrin.esa.it ([192.106.252.50]:64725 "EHLO maes.esrin.esa.it") by oss.sgi.com with ESMTP id ; Wed, 19 Jan 2000 10:00:32 -0800 Received: from plod.esrin.esa.it (firewall-user@gatekeeper2 [192.106.252.70]) by maes.esrin.esa.it (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id TAA25083; Wed, 19 Jan 2000 19:04:43 +0100 (MET) Received: from penelope.rsp.it by plod.esrin.esa.it (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id SAA02968; Wed, 19 Jan 2000 18:03:06 GMT Received: from esrin.esa.it (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by penelope.rsp.it (8.9.1b+Sun/8.9.1) with ESMTP id SAA21657; Wed, 19 Jan 2000 18:02:13 GMT Message-ID: <3885FC24.60C6ABFB@esrin.esa.it> Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2000 18:02:12 +0000 From: Gabriele Brugnoni Organization: ESRIN X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; I; SunOS 5.7 sun4m) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: sgilinux CC: tduffy@sgi.com Subject: Kernel! References: <38761015.28F5D9BA@esrin.esa.it> <387635AA.C5BC64A3@engr.sgi.com> <3879BE81.D402A1D9@esrin.esa.it> <387BE676.DCCB9F23@engr.sgi.com> <38836A27.8A798C4@esrin.esa.it> <38837E4E.B455BFE7@engr.sgi.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-sgilinux11@oss.sgi.com Precedence: bulk Return-Path: X-Orcpt: rfc822;sgilinux11-outgoing Hi Tom, Kernel building was ok. I was not able to build ARC boot loader. When I run make I get this error .. .. io.c .. ext2fs/ext2fs.h file do not exist .. (something like this!) Anyway, after I have copy vmlinux in /vmlinux what is next? I rebooted and then changed the option OSLoadFilename to multi(0)disk.....tion(2)/vmlinux and then start System .. the Kernel start, four Linux appears on left top .. and then after .. a log list of normal messages .. ... eth0: .... etc .. Partition check: VFS Cannot open root device 08:01 Kernel Panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 08:01 and of course the machine blocks .. ciao Gabriele From owner-sgilinux11@oss.sgi.com Wed Jan 19 11:20:31 2000 Received: by oss.sgi.com id ; Wed, 19 Jan 2000 11:20:21 -0800 Received: from sgi.SGI.COM ([192.48.153.1]:36137 "EHLO sgi.com") by oss.sgi.com with ESMTP id ; Wed, 19 Jan 2000 11:19:57 -0800 Received: from cthulhu.engr.sgi.com (cthulhu.engr.sgi.com [192.26.80.2]) by sgi.com (980327.SGI.8.8.8-aspam/980304.SGI-aspam: SGI does not authorize the use of its proprietary systems or networks for unsolicited or bulk email from the Internet.) via ESMTP id LAA00920 for ; Wed, 19 Jan 2000 11:21:08 -0800 (PST) mail_from (tduffy@cthulhu.engr.sgi.com) Received: from mtv-mven006e--n.engr.sgi.com (mtv-mven006e--n.engr.sgi.com [192.48.196.47]) by cthulhu.engr.sgi.com (980427.SGI.8.8.8/970903.SGI.AUTOCF) via ESMTP id LAA09910; Wed, 19 Jan 2000 11:20:18 -0800 (PST) mail_from (tduffy@engr.sgi.com) Received: from engr.sgi.com (sgigate.sgi.com [198.29.75.75]) by mtv-mven006e--n.engr.sgi.com with SMTP (Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail Service Version 5.5.2448.0) id Y0LAL51K; Wed, 19 Jan 2000 11:18:24 -0800 Message-ID: <38860E1F.D63293D8@engr.sgi.com> Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2000 11:18:55 -0800 From: Thomas Duffy Reply-To: tduffy@sgi.com Organization: SGI X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.13-2SGI_12smp i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Gabriele Brugnoni CC: sgilinux , tduffy@sgi.com Subject: Re: Kernel! References: <38761015.28F5D9BA@esrin.esa.it> <387635AA.C5BC64A3@engr.sgi.com> <3879BE81.D402A1D9@esrin.esa.it> <387BE676.DCCB9F23@engr.sgi.com> <38836A27.8A798C4@esrin.esa.it> <38837E4E.B455BFE7@engr.sgi.com> <3885FC24.60C6ABFB@esrin.esa.it> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-sgilinux11@oss.sgi.com Precedence: bulk Return-Path: X-Orcpt: rfc822;sgilinux11-outgoing Gabriele Brugnoni wrote: > > Hi Tom, > > Kernel building was ok. > > I was not able to build ARC boot loader. > When I run make I get this error .. > .. io.c .. ext2fs/ext2fs.h file do not exist .. > (something like this!) the question is, did you install the kernel headers...that might be what it is looking for. > Anyway, after I have copy vmlinux in /vmlinux what is next? > I rebooted and then changed the option OSLoadFilename to > multi(0)disk.....tion(2)/vmlinux > > and then start System .. > > the Kernel start, > four Linux appears on left top .. > and then after .. a log list of normal messages .. > > ... > eth0: .... etc .. > Partition check: > VFS Cannot open root device 08:01 > Kernel Panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 08:01 > > and of course the machine blocks .. Major 08 refers to scsi and 01 is the first disk. Most likely, you did not compile in the scsi driver for the 540. -- _ Tom Duffy __ (_) ____ _/,-' __ / .__) / _ \ |_ | \__. \( (_) ) | | (____/ \ __/ | |_ //--, `--' ( <> ) Core Linux `--' From owner-sgilinux11@oss.sgi.com Thu Jan 20 11:44:45 2000 Received: by oss.sgi.com id ; Thu, 20 Jan 2000 11:44:36 -0800 Received: from sgi.SGI.COM ([192.48.153.1]:16762 "EHLO sgi.com") by oss.sgi.com with ESMTP id ; Thu, 20 Jan 2000 11:44:15 -0800 Received: from cthulhu.engr.sgi.com (cthulhu.engr.sgi.com [192.26.80.2]) by sgi.com (980327.SGI.8.8.8-aspam/980304.SGI-aspam: SGI does not authorize the use of its proprietary systems or networks for unsolicited or bulk email from the Internet.) via ESMTP id LAA05321 for ; Thu, 20 Jan 2000 11:45:59 -0800 (PST) mail_from (tduffy@cthulhu.engr.sgi.com) Received: from mtv-mven006e--n.engr.sgi.com (mtv-mven006e--n.engr.sgi.com [192.48.196.47]) by cthulhu.engr.sgi.com (980427.SGI.8.8.8/970903.SGI.AUTOCF) via ESMTP id LAA65357; Thu, 20 Jan 2000 11:45:33 -0800 (PST) mail_from (tduffy@engr.sgi.com) Received: from engr.sgi.com (sgigate.sgi.com [198.29.75.75]) by mtv-mven006e--n.engr.sgi.com with SMTP (Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail Service Version 5.5.2448.0) id Y0LAL0RZ; Thu, 20 Jan 2000 11:43:38 -0800 Message-ID: <3887658B.EF5538B4@engr.sgi.com> Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2000 11:44:11 -0800 From: Thomas Duffy Reply-To: tduffy@sgi.com Organization: SGI X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.13-2SGI_12smp i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Gabriele CC: tduffy@sgi.com, sgilinux11@oss.sgi.com Subject: Re: Kernel .. build. References: <38875B9C.98D79BEA@esrin.esa.it> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-sgilinux11@oss.sgi.com Precedence: bulk Return-Path: X-Orcpt: rfc822;sgilinux11-outgoing Gabriele wrote: > > Hi Tom, > here again .. with the Kernel. > > Probably is my fault but all the information on the Web are a bit mixed > .. I try to resume what I did: > > consider that I used instruction from: > A = http://oss.sgi.com/sgilinu11/faq.html > B = http://oss.sgi.com/www.linux.sgi.com/intel/visws/kern.html > > - Installation of Mandrake 6.1-1 > > - Download Kernel 2.2.13 [from B] > - Download SGI patch for 2.2.13 (sgi-linux1.1-2.2.13.patch) [ from B] > - Download SGI RPMS (from A] > - Installation of all the SGI SPMS with rmp -U .. (here I got some > problems see attached file) it looks like mandrake ships with a newer version of curses. You could try a --force when rpm -U, but this may break things...The ncurses changes we provide only give winterm compatibility which should not be a problem unless you are running curses based programs from IRIX winterms. > - patch -p1 < sgi-linux1.1-2.2.13.patch > > - make menuconfig using configuration advices from B > > - make dep [ from B] > - make modules [ from B ] and here I have the erors that you ca see in > attach. > > Is this right ? yes... > Why I get that errors ? dunno...I will forward the error to our NFS team and see what they have to say. > Why I still get the the > > I was not able to build ARC boot loader. > > When I run make I get this error .. > > .. io.c .. ext2fs/ext2fs.h file do not exist .. > > (something like this!) > even if I installed the *header*.rpm ? do you need to rebuild the arc loader? are you doing this from windows? > > PS: I think that if I succeed to install this SGI machine you will > deserve a Pizza in Rome, the city where I live. Rome is a great city. I visited Italy this summer, rented a car, and drove around Tuscana for two weeks. Went wine tasting and went to the beach. I had the best pizza ever in a small restaurant in the heart of Rome near the Via Del Banchi Nuovi but I cannot remember the name... Can you please send me the .config file you used. I will attempt to build it myself. We build a kernel rpm with our distribution...maybe you should use the: oss.sgi.com/projects/sgilinux11/download/SOURCES/kernel-2.2-i686-smp-vw.config as your config file. The error looked like a compiler error...hmm. You may be better off using the 2.2.10 kernel for the time being seeing that the 2.2.13 kernel has not been 100% tested...I will try it out here and see what I can find. -- _ Tom Duffy __ (_) ____ _/,-' __ / .__) / _ \ |_ | \__. \( (_) ) | | (____/ \ __/ | |_ //--, `--' ( <> ) Core Linux `--' From owner-sgilinux11@oss.sgi.com Fri Jan 21 00:05:10 2000 Received: by oss.sgi.com id ; Fri, 21 Jan 2000 00:05:01 -0800 Received: from sgi.SGI.COM ([192.48.153.1]:10599 "EHLO sgi.com") by oss.sgi.com with ESMTP id ; Fri, 21 Jan 2000 00:04:43 -0800 Received: from cthulhu.engr.sgi.com (cthulhu.engr.sgi.com [192.26.80.2]) by sgi.com (980327.SGI.8.8.8-aspam/980304.SGI-aspam: SGI does not authorize the use of its proprietary systems or networks for unsolicited or bulk email from the Internet.) via ESMTP id AAA06241 for ; Fri, 21 Jan 2000 00:06:21 -0800 (PST) mail_from (tduffy@cthulhu.engr.sgi.com) Received: from mtv-mven006e--n.engr.sgi.com (mtv-mven006e--n.engr.sgi.com [192.48.196.47]) by cthulhu.engr.sgi.com (980427.SGI.8.8.8/970903.SGI.AUTOCF) via ESMTP id AAA05717 for ; Fri, 21 Jan 2000 00:06:05 -0800 (PST) mail_from (tduffy@engr.sgi.com) Received: from engr.sgi.com (sgigate.sgi.com [198.29.75.75]) by mtv-mven006e--n.engr.sgi.com with SMTP (Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail Service Version 5.5.2448.0) id Y0LAMBPX; Fri, 21 Jan 2000 00:04:10 -0800 Message-ID: <38881324.4671672F@engr.sgi.com> Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2000 00:04:52 -0800 From: Thomas Duffy Reply-To: tduffy@sgi.com Organization: SGI X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.6 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.2.13-2SGI_12smp-bigmem i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: sgilinux11@oss.sgi.com Subject: SGI Linux 1.2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-sgilinux11@oss.sgi.com Precedence: bulk Return-Path: X-Orcpt: rfc822;sgilinux11-outgoing All, As many of you may already know, we are in the final engineering days of SGI Linux 1.2 (now officially named SGI ProPack 1.2 for Linux). This release differs from previous releases in that it will not include a base distribution. We have engineered an overlay product that runs on top of RedHat Linux 6.1 or SuSe Linux 6.3. We will have all of the features of SGI Linux 1.1 plus some exciting new ones: we will be updating to kernel 2.2.14; we will have DEVFS 99.10; kdb 0.6; major NFS v3 fixes; crash dump updates; pretty new artwork :); and a slew of bug fixes and other interesting tidbits that I am not remembering right now. The reason I am spamming this group is to ask if any one would be interested in testing Alpha or Beta versions of this product. If you already have SGI Linux 1.1, you will need to upgrade to RedHat 6.1 before running our overlay product. Please email me directly if you are interested and I will send you the information. The pieces that need the most testing are NFS v3, Async I/O, SCSI drivers, and the overlay installer itself. Please understand that this will not be officially supported and that if you choose to participate, you do so at your own risk. All of the changes will be open sourced and uploaded to oss.sgi.com. In fact, most of the individual patches are already on oss.sgi.com. Thanks a lot, Tom Duffy Core Linux, SGI From owner-sgilinux11@oss.sgi.com Fri Jan 28 06:53:54 2000 Received: by oss.sgi.com id ; Fri, 28 Jan 2000 06:53:44 -0800 Received: from smtp1.libero.it ([193.70.192.51]:16594 "EHLO smtp1.libero.it") by oss.sgi.com with ESMTP id ; Fri, 28 Jan 2000 06:53:26 -0800 Received: from dada (151.20.136.22) by smtp1.libero.it; 28 Jan 2000 15:56:00 +0100 Message-ID: <000501bf6997$e72e1b80$0200a8c0@casa.it> Reply-To: "Daniele Medri" From: "Daniele Medri" To: Subject: Visual Workstation 320 (first type) Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2000 14:59:17 +0100 Organization: ErLug (Emilia Romagna Linux User Group) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.6600 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6600 Sender: owner-sgilinux11@oss.sgi.com Precedence: bulk Return-Path: X-Orcpt: rfc822;sgilinux11-outgoing Hi, I try to compile latest linux kernel 2.3.40 with sgi support but i receive errors for io_APIC and compilation fails. --- I just try to install kernel-smp-vw-2.2.13-2SGI_15.i686.rpm but i found that is an x86 boot sector, nor an ELF file compiled with "make vmlinux" than "make bzImage". I'collaborating with Sgi Italy; reference: Cristiano Beretta. Let's me know about. ps: i'm testing a first type of vw p2 450Mhz, 1Gb ram with red hat 6.1. Daniele Medri Presidente ErLug (Emilia Romagna Linux User Group) web: http://erlug.linux.it - news: mail.erlug.linux.it email: madrid@linux.it - madrid@mail.erlug.linux.it From owner-sgilinux11@oss.sgi.com Fri Jan 28 07:18:54 2000 Received: by oss.sgi.com id ; Fri, 28 Jan 2000 07:18:44 -0800 Received: from smtp1.libero.it ([193.70.192.51]:8586 "EHLO smtp1.libero.it") by oss.sgi.com with ESMTP id ; Fri, 28 Jan 2000 07:18:28 -0800 Received: from dada (151.20.136.22) by smtp1.libero.it; 28 Jan 2000 16:20:58 +0100 Message-ID: <000501bf699b$636b7fa0$0200a8c0@casa.it> Reply-To: "Daniele Medri" From: "Daniele Medri" To: Subject: OS loader... Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2000 15:24:24 +0100 Organization: ErLug (Emilia Romagna Linux User Group) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.6600 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6600 Sender: owner-sgilinux11@oss.sgi.com Precedence: bulk Return-Path: X-Orcpt: rfc822;sgilinux11-outgoing I think that Sgi firmware for vw 320 is a nice tool... but could be usefull don't leave old fashioned solutions for booting cd-rom linux distribution directly like RH 6.0/6.1. Is needed simplify the installation fase, not hard for power users.. but newbie will make karakiri. Daniele Medri Presidente ErLug (Emilia Romagna Linux User Group) web: http://erlug.linux.it - news: mail.erlug.linux.it email: madrid@linux.it - madrid@mail.erlug.linux.it