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w.hill Tux's lil' helper
Joined: 23 Jan 2005 Posts: 133 Location: Perth, Western Australia
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Posted: Thu Apr 14, 2005 11:52 pm Post subject: [Solved] Also Having Trouble Installing on an Ultra 5 |
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Hi,
This is my second effort installing Gentoo. The previous was on a Sun Blade 100.
Using the minimal CD 2005.0. I've installed a basic system. When I reboot the box for the first time I get a kernel panic. I selected sparc-sources and have compiled and installed 2.4.30-sparcsources.
The panic happens thus:
NET4: Unix domain sockets
VFS: Mounted root (ext 2 filesystem readonly)
Unable to handle kernel paging request in mma handler <1> at virtual address.
Followed by the kernel panic.
I also tried vanilla-sources 2.6.7.
Which results in Remapping the Kernel... Fast Instruction Acces MMU Miss.
In desperation I copied the 2.4.29 kernel off the installation CD.
It gets as far as:
Uniform CD-ROM driver version 3.12
TRAPLOG...
The Ultra 5 is running OpenBoot 3.25
The Ultra 5 boot and runs fine from the Installation CD.
Any Suggestions?
TIA
Last edited by w.hill on Thu Apr 21, 2005 9:52 am; edited 1 time in total |
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oldan Tux's lil' helper
Joined: 11 Dec 2003 Posts: 137 Location: Atlanta, Georgia, USA
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Posted: Fri Apr 15, 2005 6:43 pm Post subject: Re: Also Having Trouble Installing on an Ultra 5 |
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w.hill wrote: | When I reboot the box for the first time I get a kernel panic. I selected sparc-sources and have compiled and installed 2.4.30-sparcsources.
The panic happens thus:
NET4: Unix domain sockets
VFS: Mounted root (ext 2 filesystem readonly)
Unable to handle kernel paging request in mma handler <1> at virtual address.
Followed by the kernel panic.
Any Suggestions? |
I'm going to hazard a guess that your main disk (where you tucked the root file sysetm) isn't online. I'm saying this out of sheer experience! You know by default (if I'm not mistaken) the driver for the Ultra5 IDE system (CMD64x or something er other) is compiled in as a module. Of course, if you don't know this and don't load the module... PANIC ensues!
rather than booting up with another kernel or something (especially the nifty Live CD which has all kinds of things it's doing during boot time), try looking at this on your config (using make menuconfig) and determine if it's even selected (mine wasn't in an attempt to keep the kernel small like it says in the install doc!).
--Oldan |
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w.hill Tux's lil' helper
Joined: 23 Jan 2005 Posts: 133 Location: Perth, Western Australia
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Posted: Sat Apr 16, 2005 12:40 am Post subject: |
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I was beginning to get worried about not receiving a reply
I re-ran make-menuconfig on the 2.4 kernel.
I added the following two items which were not selected at all.
x x[*] CMD640 chipset bugfix/support x x
x x[*] CMD640 enhanced support x x
Interestingly the chipset was already selected for compiling into the kernel.
x x<*> CMD64{3|6|8|9} chipset support x x
You hint about the CMD revealed other people having the same problem. I haven't had to compile in SCSI boot device support before and the IDE in the Sun Blade is much better behaved so I hadn't previously struck such a problem.
I'll recompile the kernel and see what happens. The only problem is that the computer doesn't reboot I'll be locked out until Monday. The computer's at work & I'm at home.
I'll post the results. |
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w.hill Tux's lil' helper
Joined: 23 Jan 2005 Posts: 133 Location: Perth, Western Australia
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Posted: Sat Apr 16, 2005 9:57 am Post subject: |
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Looks like I'm locked out.
Bring on Monday:evil:
EDIT ::
Well that solved the problem. However when the SPARC rebooted the networking didn't enable. The section in the installation manual isn't quite right as the configuration for networking has changed since but not been incorporated.
The keymapping was wrong too but I fixed that once I worked out what was required.
"Number 5 Is Alive" |
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oldan Tux's lil' helper
Joined: 11 Dec 2003 Posts: 137 Location: Atlanta, Georgia, USA
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Posted: Mon Apr 18, 2005 5:24 pm Post subject: |
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w.hill wrote: | "Number 5 Is Alive" |
time to par-teeee! Whoo-Hoo!
--Oldan |
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