[parisc-linux] Failed boot on D310

[djweis at sjdjweis.com]

On Mon, 4 Jun 2001, Richard Hirst wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 03, 2001 at 05:44:33PM -0500, djweis at sjdjweis.com wrote:
> > On Sun, 3 Jun 2001, Richard Hirst wrote:
> > > On Sun, Jun 03, 2001 at 12:41:46PM -0500, djweis at sjdjweis.com wrote:
> > > > On Sun, 3 Jun 2001, Richard Hirst wrote:
> > > > > On Sun, Jun 03, 2001 at 08:33:23AM -0500, djweis at sjdjweis.com wrote:
> > > > > > I've got a D310 with a 100mhz processor and 128 megs of RAM. I tried to
> > > > > > boot the ISO version 0.9 last night, but it crashed on boot. I can get the
> > > > > > exact error messages, it looked like a register dump. 
> > > Ah, I'd assumed it got as far as starting the kernel and then the
> > > kernel crashed.  In this case I think it has failed reading the
> > > CD.  Can you read the CD on some other system to check it burned
> > > ok?  Are you confident that the CD drive is P5 and is working?
> > 
> > Okay, I managed to get bootp and tftp set up enough to get an image over
> > the wire. It did get into the kernel after a while and here are the boot
> > messages:
> 
> I've untangled the formatting to make them more readable:
> 
> RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
> Serial driver version 5.02 (2000-08-09) with MANY_PORTS SHARE_IRQ SERIAL_PCI end
> ttyS00 at iomem 0xffe02800 (irq = 121) is a 16550A

Good news, I noticed after a few boots that the hd access lights were
sequentially lighting up. It does make it into userspace because...

> I wonder whether the serial driver has done something which killed
> the serial port.  My approach would be to set up a cross-compile
> environment to build kernels with printk debugging to see where
> it actually stops.  Don't know if you fancy doing that though...

Already have it going. I grabbed nfsroot-small from the ftp server and it
does mount successfully. It kind of looks like it may be a mismatch
between my console= line for palo and the actual /dev tree. There was
another message to the list on the same thing earlier this AM. I'll try to
play with it tonite again.

Thanks for the help

dave


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