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Nostalos n00b
Joined: 07 Sep 2004 Posts: 9
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Posted: Sun Jan 23, 2005 3:46 pm Post subject: E250 Install Issues |
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Ok, been through the forums and tried various suggested issues to the Serial Port install problems for E250's. The Boot CD works properly on my Ultra 5's. However when trying to do an install on my E250 (all via serial console) it always gives me the following and im stuck.
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* Starting input hotplugging... [ ok ]
* Starting pci hotplugging... [ ok ]
* Starting usb hotplugging... [ ok ]
* Network device eth0 detected, DHCP broadcasting for IP.... [ ok ]
* Auto-scrambling root password for security... [ ok ]
* Starting local... [ ok ]
INIT: Id "s0" respawning too fast: dis
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it accepts no more input other than BRK. Anybody have any suggestions? |
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squash Tux's lil' helper
Joined: 22 Jun 2002 Posts: 79
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Posted: Sun Jan 23, 2005 6:40 pm Post subject: |
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First thing to check.. In OBP, make sure that both input-device and output-device are set to ttya. You may also try booting with "console=prom".
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Nostalos n00b
Joined: 07 Sep 2004 Posts: 9
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Posted: Sun Jan 23, 2005 8:16 pm Post subject: |
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Thanks for the tip, but no go. Knew about input/output device settings.
Now it just gets to Inittab
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Started device management daemon v1.3.25 for /dev
* Activating (possible) swap... [ ok ]
* Remounting root filesystem read/write... [ ok ]
* Setting hostname to livecd... [ ok ]
* Mounting local filesystems... [ ok ]
* Mounting USB device filesystem (usbfs)... [ ok ]
* Activating (possibly) more swap... [ ok ]
* Updating inittab... [ ok ]
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And now im locked out of console. *sigh* Time for a power reset. and try again =) |
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squash Tux's lil' helper
Joined: 22 Jun 2002 Posts: 79
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Posted: Mon Jan 24, 2005 8:33 pm Post subject: |
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Are you running the latest OBP? I have a couple E250s and have not had any issues with them (of course, I installed them back in the 1.4 days, maybe try a 1.4 cd) |
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Nostalos n00b
Joined: 07 Sep 2004 Posts: 9
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Posted: Tue Jan 25, 2005 4:02 am Post subject: |
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May try the 1.4 route if no luck. Been wanting to update OBP but cant get sunsolve access anymore. Sun is mad at me at the moment
Found 3.26 OBP on the web, gonna try and upgrade OBP first.
Will let you know how that goes. Thanks for the responses |
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Nostalos n00b
Joined: 07 Sep 2004 Posts: 9
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Posted: Wed Jan 26, 2005 8:30 pm Post subject: |
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GAH! Found the damn problem. Nimrods that set up my serial port only attached the TX/RX pairs. No DTR/DSR..... |
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Johno n00b
Joined: 26 Oct 2004 Posts: 13
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Posted: Thu Jan 27, 2005 10:21 am Post subject: |
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I am also setting up an E250 with Gentoo for the first time. I was getting freezing when it was booting the cd but rebooting a couple of times seemed to fix it
Let me know how you get on with your build. |
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Nostalos n00b
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Posted: Mon Jan 31, 2005 8:16 pm Post subject: |
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E250 is up and running great on 2.4.28 Kernel with RAID 1 disks. (boot partiion not RAID'd) |
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ichoes n00b
Joined: 18 Oct 2004 Posts: 5
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Posted: Tue Feb 01, 2005 3:15 pm Post subject: patitions deleted after making filesystem |
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Nostalos wrote: | E250 is up and running great on 2.4.28 Kernel with RAID 1 disks. (boot partiion not RAID'd) |
How did you manage to set your disks in raid1,
everytime i create the partitions, and then create the filesystem as ext3 my partitions are deleted except on one of the disksive got
/dev/sda booting
/dev/sdb -> /dev/sdf as raid
but from /dev/sdc -> /dev/sdf all partitions are deleted when i build the file system, /dev/sdb is left ok |
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Nostalos n00b
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Posted: Tue Feb 01, 2005 10:06 pm Post subject: |
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I pretty much followed Spam's advice from this post
https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=160585&highlight=raid
Boot Live CD
modprobe md
fdisk your drives accordingly (Use raidautodect partition instead of Linux Native)
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Command (m for help): pr
Disk /dev/sda (Sun disk label): 27 heads, 133 sectors, 4924 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 3591 * 512 bytes
Device Flag Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 0 4841 8692015+ fd Linux raid autodetect
/dev/sda2 4841 4924 149026+ fd Linux raid autodetect
/dev/sda3 u 0 4924 8841042 5 Whole disk
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vi /etc/raidtab to as following
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raiddev /dev/md0
raid-level 1
nr-raid-disks 2
persistent-superblock 1
chunk-size 8
device /dev/sda1
raid-disk 0
device /dev/sdb1
raid-disk 1
raiddev /dev/md1
raid-level 1
nr-raid-disks 2
persistent-superblock 1
chunk-size 8
device /dev/sda2
raid-disk 0
device /dev/sdb2
raid-disk 1
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then "mkraid /dev/md0" & "mkraid /dev/md1"
Then follow Standard Gentoo install, mke2fs -j /dev/md0 stage portage etc etc.
I did copy /etc/raidtab to /etc of md0, not sure if this was a requirement, but did just to cover my backside.
I use initrd anyway, but went ahead and compiled Raid into the kernel instead of modules.
I did a little searching on getting this to boot from the raid as well and now boot from the Raid Partition. I was missing "append="md=0,/dev/sda1,/dev/sdb1""
my /etc/silo.conf looks like this
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partition = 1
append="md=0,/dev/sda1,/dev/sdb1"
root = /dev/md0
timeout = 150
default="gentoo"
message="/boot/boot.msg"
image="/boot/kernel-2.4.28-sparc-r6"
label="gentoo"
append="initrd=/boot/initrd-2.4.28-sparc-r6 root=/dev/ram0 real_root=/dev/md0 init=/linuxrc"
image="cat /boot/silo.conf"
label="config"
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Hope this helps.
P.S. if you fail and want to remount md0 from LiveCD again. Keep a copy of /etc/raidtab laying around. you will need it to restart the devices again when booting from live CD.
vi /etc/raidtab again and input settings
raidstart /dev/md0
/raidstart /dev/md1
should make devices usable again when booting from LiveCD |
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