SCSI host detected, but not the drive
Gabriel Paubert
paubert at iram.es
Mon Sep 6 19:24:01 EST 1999
Hi,
For MVME people, I have set up a few files on my server (vlab1.iram.es) a
couple of files which you might find useful:
zImage.nfsinstall-2.2.11
mini-nfsroot.tgz
(although the 'mini' prefix is optimistic). It gives you a minimal
filesystem from which you can boot and will find boot into a shell.
Then you can remount you root file system rw, and start installing all
the rpms your need from LinuxPPC release 5 (not R4 please)! On the server,
you first have to pull the RPMS from an R5 mirror into
/mini-nfsroot/usr/src/redhat/... for example
I know at least one person who has already used it so setup his system.
The image can also be copied verbatim with cp -a onto an already
partitioned SCSI disk (I forgot to add fdisk/cfdisk to the mini-nfsroot).
However, note that I'm right now upgrading the server to LinuxPPC-R5 so it
might not be permanently online during the next few days.
This is the list of rpms I have added to get a usable system (probably not
all are necessary):
rootfiles-5.2-5
etcskel-2.0-1
findutils-4.1-31
SysVinit-2.74-11
gzip-1.2.4-14
tcp_wrappers-7.6-7
netkit-base-0.10-29a
telnet-0.10-27
net-tools-1.52-1
slang-1.2.2-4
util-linux-2.9o-13b conficts with bash on a man page, use --force.
rmt-0.4b4-7
tar-1.12-9
MAKEDEV-2.5-1
less-340-1
bzip2-0.9.0c-1
ftp-0.10-22
libstdc++-2.9.0-12c }
gdbm-1.7.3-19 }
tcsh-6.08.00-5a } These 5 packages are needed by man !
perl-5.00503-2 }
groff-1.11a-9 }
man-1.5g-2
newt-0.40-9
timeconfig-2.7-1
tmpwatch-1.7-1
crontabs-1.7-6
utempter-0.5-1
pciutils-1.99.5-2
readline-2.2.1-5
python-1.5.1-10
pythonlib-1.22-5
glint-2.6.2-1a
gd-1.3-5
procinfo-16-3
psmisc-18-2
time-1.7-9
byacc-1.9-11
m4-1.4-12
autoconf-2.13-5
automake-1.4-4
binutils-2.9.1.0.990418-1c
bison-1.27-3
diffstat-1.25-7
diffutils-2.7-16
bash-doc-2.03-3a
man-pages-1.23-3
rhl-install-guide-en-6.0-2 To make installs easier next time ?
texinfo-3.12f-4
vim-common-5.3-7
vim-minimal-5.3-7 Because it runs from /bin.
kbdconfig-1.9.2-1a I have a Spanish keyboard !
passwd-0.58-1 Install this.
authconfig-1.8-1 Install and run to use shadow passwords.
getty_ps-2.0.7j-7 Needed for serial console.
ntsysv-1.0.6-1
timetool-2.5-5 Actually useless, clock is designed for PMACs
bind-utils-8.2-6
After this you'all at least have to change your initdefault to 3 in
/etc/fstab. You'll have other problems too but I forgot to write down
other steps while installing this system :-(.
Note that you can also edit files only from the server on nfsroot systems.
Actually I plan to build minimal nfsroot systemns for farms of VME crates
used for data acquisition in a radiotelescope. But it's still a few weeks
in the future.
Regards,
Gabriel.
On Fri, 3 Sep 1999, Hank De Gregorio wrote:
>
> i am installing linuxppc-r4 with the redhat installer.
>
> i get this message (and subsequently a frozen screen) *after* i have
> chosen my root password and clicked ok to reboot:
>
> VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.
> change_root: old root has d_count=2
> Trying to unmount old root ... <3>error -16
> Change root to /initrd: error -2
> Freeing unused kernel memory: 88k init 4k pmac 8k open firmware
> tty_io.c: process 1 (swapper) used obsolete /dev/cua1 - update software
> to use /
> dev/ttyS1
> tty_io.c: process 1 (init) used obsolete /dev/cua1 - update software to
> use /dev
> /ttyS1
> tty_io.c: process 1 (init) used obsolete /dev/cua1 - update software to
> use /dev
> /ttyS1
> tty_io.c: process 1 (init) used obsolete /dev/cua1 - update software to
> use /dev
> /ttyS1
> tty_io.c: process 1 (init) used obsolete /dev/cua1 - update software to
> use /dev
> /ttyS1
>
> does anyone have a clue what's going on with my system?
>
> hank
>
>
>
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