[parisc-linux] Trouble booting a 710 (bushmaster)

[Jim Buttafuoco]

Ok,

I tried the uncompressed ramdisk, same results.  I am going to try to 
debug this issue first by putting some debug code in rd.c.  I will keep 
you posted...

ANY more suggestions????

Thanks again
Jim


> = Hi,
> = 
> = I have been trying to get my 2 9000/710's to boot for a couple of 
months
> = now.  Attached is the latest log file from my boot. 
> = 
> = The 2 problems that I see are the ramdisk is NOT seen and the BOOTP
> = fails.  I have used TCPDUMP to look at the packets coming and going 
from
> = the system.  All I see is the RBOOTP stuff.  The ramdisk is valid 
as far
> = as I can tell. (I mounted it via the loop fs).  Should it be 
compressed
> = with ZIP???.
> = 
> = The kernel/palo source is the latest as of 1/17/01.  
> 
> = Loading ramdisk 1544116 bytes @ 0051c000...
> = [...]
> 
> Looks like you're using a compressed ramdisk.  That should work, but
> it's worth trying an uncompressed one.
> 
> = RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 4096K size 1024 
blocksize
> = 82596.c: MAC of HP700 LAN blindely read from the prom!
> = eth0: Couldn't get consistent shared memory
> = eth0: 82596 at 0xf0826000, 08 00 09 25 DD 7B IRQ 87.
> = 82596.c $Revision: 1.14 $
> = RAMDISK: Couldn't find valid RAM disk image starting at 0.
> 
> Yeah, try an uncompressed ramdisk.  EXT2
> 
> = [...]
> = NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0
> = IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP
> = IP: routing cache hash table of 512 buckets, 4Kbytes
> = TCP: Hash tables configured (established 2048 bind 2048)
> = Sending BOOTP requests............. timed out!
> = IP-Config: Auto-configuration of network failed.
> = Trying to free nonexistent resource <f0826000-f082600b>
> = NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0.
> = kmem_create: Forcing size word alignment - nfs_fh
> = Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 01:00
> 
> No clue about your bootp problem...
> 
> 	-P
> 
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