reboot problems, insane kernel or framebuffer?[SOLVED]

[ImAmMe]

Kernel Problems

this is my first kernel compile. I have ran other distros without any problems on this machine. I have done several clean installs, and none will boot on there own, I'm wanting to make this pc be a firewall/traffic monitor, but i worried more interested in just getting gentoo to run. I used this Gentoo Linux 2005.1 x86 Handbook
for the install guide, great guide. I followed the guide pretty close. except for I start sshd in first few steps, i have bad screen and like to remote in. I compiled many kernels, formatted and compiled. I have try genkernel it errors out after 10 hours compile time, i don't remember the error. I do manual configuration, I don't want the overhead of the genkernel. And i really just want the command line log in. I have a few questions.

System is
200 Pentium
ram 96m
hd 3 gig - no dma
two nics - I am using the 'Green' nic to run the remote on, the other nic i have messed with and is not connected lan


1. cpu ?
this is the output of cat /proc/cpuinfo

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processor       : 0
vendor_id       : GenuineIntel
cpu family      : 5
model           : 2
model name      : Pentium 75 - 200
stepping        : 12
cpu MHz         : 199.488
fdiv_bug        : no
hlt_bug         : no
f00f_bug        : yes
coma_bug        : no
fpu             : yes
fpu_exception   : yes
cpuid level     : 1
wp              : yes
flags           : fpu vme de pse tsc msr mce cx8
bogomips        : 384.00

makemenu
Device Drivers ->
Multimedia devices ->
[ ] Video for linux
Graphics Support ->
[ ] Support for frame buffer devices

saved changes

my /etc/make.conf

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CFLAGS="-O2 -mcpu=pentium-pro"
CHOST="i386-pc-linux-gnu"
CXXFLAGS="${CFLAGS}"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
USE="-X -gnome -kde"	

-mcpu flag I have tried i586,pentium,pentium-mmx,pentiumpro, and i have totaly removed the flag. Always get the same results,

USE var, dont want X. Is it nessary to supply the other -gnome and -kde, sence X is not being compiled?

compiles fine

my /etc/fstab

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/dev/hda1               /boot           ext2    default,noatime         1 2
/dev/hda2               none            swap    sw                      0 0
/dev/hda3               /               ext3    noatime                 0 1

none                    /proc           proc    defaults                0 0
none                    /dev/shm        tmpfs   nodev,nosuid,noexec     0 0

/dev/cdroms/cdrom0      /mnt/cdrom      auto    noauto,user             0 0

Second Question is
Configuring Kernel Modules
i'm leaving every thing default, is that right? I dont have any special hardware, it is all 8 or 9 years old. No scsi, no usb.

third question is
grub i'm loading the splash image do that mean the gentoo is wants use framebuffer?


installed grub
i did the

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# grub
>root (hd0,0)
>setup (hd0)
>quit

my menu.lst

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--no-floppy
default 0
timeout 5
splashimage=(hd0,0)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz

title=Gentoo Linux
        root (hd0,0)
        kernel /boot/linux-2.6.12-gentoo-r6-pentium-pro root=/dev/hda3

on reboot, grub loads, finds the splash image and reboots on enter or timeout

I have tried each of my compiled kernels and they all do the same. I have been thru several post deal with reboot and grub, and they didn't help much with this problem. I sure that the kernels got copied to the boot partition. I used grub auto complete feature, 'find' the kernel. I disabled framebuffer from menuconfig is there any where else that i need to set?

[spunx]

The whole set of things that will happen is (short version ):

a) power on
b) bios starts
c) grub picks up and reads your config
d) grub tries to start the kernel on the device you specified (with parameters if needed)

Doesn't your grub config (menu.lst?) need a:

initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.12-gentoo-r6-pentium-pro

[jomen]

your CFLAGS could/should be:

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CFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium"

- just mcpu makes no sense (thereby I mean you will not benefit from it in terms of speed).
Second Question

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lspci -v

tells you about your harware - check this against the default values...
and: you can't assume that going whith the defaults concerning your modules will work eighter...you will have to check
you should definately check if support for your chipset is compiled in (no module)
and that support for /boot and / filesystem is no module (does'nt matter for /boot actually...)

--no-floppy

This does not belong into menu.lst aka grub.conf and: the first file should be a link to the second.
Provided that the name in grub.conf is the same as your actual kernel-name - and the kernel is in /boot - it should work
Check that /boot is mounted before you copy the kernel to it - maybe thats why it is not found.

[jomen]

@spunx

Doesn't your grub config (menu.lst?) need a:

no it doesn't - he is not using genkernel (rather does not want to just tried it...) it would be needed (?) only there

[ImAmMe]

thanks for the fast response guys

output of lspci -v

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0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 430VX - 82437VX TVX [Triton VX] (rev 02)
        Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 24

0000:00:07.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82371SB PIIX3 ISA [Natoma/Triton II] (rev 01)
        Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0

0000:00:07.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82371SB PIIX3 IDE [Natoma/Triton II] (prog-if 80 [Master])
        Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 16
        I/O ports at ffa0 [size=16]

0000:00:0e.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc 3D Rage I/II 215GT [Mach64 GT] (rev 41) (prog-if 00 [VGA])
        Subsystem: ATI Technologies Inc 3D Rage I/II 215GT [Mach64 GT]
        Flags: bus master, VGA palette snoop, stepping, medium devsel, latency 24
        Memory at fb000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
        I/O ports at fc00 [size=256]
        Memory at ffbef000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
        Expansion ROM at <unassigned> [disabled] [size=128K]

0000:00:0f.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8029(AS)
        Flags: medium devsel, IRQ 11
        I/O ports at ff80 [size=32]

I dont see find any chipset/bridging options in menuconfig?

I edited my /etc/make.conf

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CFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium"

recompiled

I removed my --no-floppy from grub.conf

i'm sure that the compiled kernel is being copied to /boot. I'm not getting any errors from grub that i know of, except for the reboot thing.

[jomen]

i'm sure that the compiled kernel is being copied to /boot.

Sorry - did not see that you already said this initially...
Processor family should be set to:
586/K5/5x86/6x86/6x86MX
or
Pentium-Classic
MTRR can be left out
and in
Device Drivers -> ATA/ATAPI/MFM/RLL support -> Intel PIIXn chipsets support should be set I think - was set by default on a freshly installed kernel here
and since I read something about ISA in your lspci - output you should check:
Device Drivers -> Plug and Play support -> ISA Plug and Play support and/or Plug and Play BIOS support (EXPERIMENTAL)
If it is not possible to start via grub-menu - can you boot via grub command-line?
"c" on splash-screen
root (hd0,0)
kernel /linux-2.6.12-gentoo-r6-pentium-pro
root=/dev/hda3
boot

[ImAmMe]

sorry i took forever to get a response back.

i did what you told me to do in the menuconfig. Compiled and booted into the kernel. I have few problem still, different set. My first problem is with root was not able to log locally. I figured it out after doing some searching, didn't change my root password while chroot-ed. So, i have few questions.

1. sshd is broken, because My green nic is not being detected, that is the nic that ran the install on. I'm not worried about my red card, yet. So added the two network modules (dummy and s2io on sepate line ) to /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6. s2io is failing on during the boot.

I set my hostname to 'blaze' in /etc/conf.d/hostname
I set my domainname to 'homenetwork' in /etc/conf.d/domainname. and ran command

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rc-update add /etc/conf.d/domainname default

/etc/conf.d/net.eth0

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config_eth0=( "192.168.1.6 netmask 255.255.255.0" )
routes_eth0=( "default gw 192.168.1.1" )

i'm running compiled kernel. I ran the following code to delete from startup and readd to startup.

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rc-update del net.eth0
rc-update add net.eth0 default

2. durring booting i get this error.

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mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superbock on /dev/hda1 or too many mount file systems
some local filesystem failed to mount

i have made any changes to /etc/fstab. The partition that it is having a problem with is my boot. And grub see it just fine, as ext2. My option are 'default,noatime'.

thank for you help, i realy appreciated it

[jomen]

for Nr.2:
since you can boot - probably some error in an init-script when (re)-mounting filesystems
Add
noauto,noatime
instead of
default,noatime
to /etc/fstab - so it does not get mounted on every boot
- you have to remember this! when copying a newly compiled kernel - you will have to mount /boot by hand first in that case.
Another hint: the name of the option is "defaults" not "default" - this is probably causing the error
for your NIC's:
I don't know what type they are - but you should - dmesg or the system-log or lsmod will tell you something about them (all on LiveCD since they where working there...)

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dmesg | less

lets you navigate the output instead of just seeing the end of it...
The module is failing (my guess) probably because you did not compile it / select it during kernel-config - this specific module was very likely not in the defaults that came with the kernel - same for your second NIC

[jomen]

I forgot the root password:
chroot into your system from LiveCD as you did during install and set it:

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passwd root

[ImAmMe]

my mounting error where fixed by changing /boot options to noauto,noatime in /etc/fstab. I fix root's logging in problem.

As for Nic i have changed the /etc/fstab

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none                    /proc           proc    default                0 0

/etc/conf.d/net.eth0

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config_eth0=( "192.168.1.6 netmask 255.255.255.0" )
routes_eth0=( "default gw 192.168.1.1" )

# dmesg

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Linux version 2.6.12-gentoo-r6 (root@poseidon) (gcc version 3.3.5-20050130 (Gentoo 3.3.5.20050130-r1, ssp-3.3.5.20050130-1, pie-8.7.7.1)) #1 SMP Wed Aug 3 20:26:57 UTC 2005
BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
 BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009fc00 (usable)
 BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 0000000006000000 (usable)
 BIOS-e820: 00000000fffc0000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
0MB HIGHMEM available.
96MB LOWMEM available.
On node 0 totalpages: 24576
  DMA zone: 4096 pages, LIFO batch:1
  Normal zone: 20480 pages, LIFO batch:7
  HighMem zone: 0 pages, LIFO batch:1
DMI 2.0 present.
ACPI: Unable to locate RSDP
Allocating PCI resources starting at 06000000 (gap: 06000000:f9fc0000)
Built 1 zonelists
Kernel command line: initrd=gentoo.igz root=/dev/ram0 init=/linuxrc looptype=squashfs loop=/livecd.squashfs dokeymap cdroot vga=791 splash=silent,theme:livecd-2005.1 CONSOLE=/dev/tty1 quiet BOOT_IMAGE=gentoo
No local APIC present or hardware disabled
mapped APIC to ffffd000 (01101000)
Initializing CPU#0
CPU 0 irqstacks, hard=c0409000 soft=c0401000
PID hash table entries: 512 (order: 9, 8192 bytes)
Detected 199.462 MHz processor.
Using tsc for high-res timesource
Speakup v-2.00 CVS: Wed Mar 2 20:22:02 EST 2005 : initialized
Console: colour dummy device 80x25
Dentry cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 4, 65536 bytes)
Inode-cache hash table entries: 8192 (order: 3, 32768 bytes)
Memory: 76852k/98304k available (2263k kernel code, 20944k reserved, 596k data, 192k init, 0k highmem)
Checking if this processor honours the WP bit even in supervisor mode... Ok.
Calibrating delay loop... 385.02 BogoMIPS (lpj=192512)
Mount-cache hash table entries: 512
Couldn't initialize miscdevice /dev/synth.
CPU: After generic identify, caps: 000001bf 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU: After vendor identify, caps: 000001bf 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
Intel Pentium with F0 0F bug - workaround enabled.
CPU: After all inits, caps: 000001bf 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
CPU0: Intel Pentium 75 - 200 stepping 0c
SMP motherboard not detected.
Local APIC not detected. Using dummy APIC emulation.
Brought up 1 CPUs
CPU0 attaching sched-domain:
 domain 0: span 01
  groups: 01
  domain 1: span 01
   groups: 01
checking if image is initramfs... it is
Freeing initrd memory: 16420k freed
NET: Registered protocol family 16
EISA bus registered
PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfd1f1, last bus=0
PCI: Using configuration type 1
mtrr: v2.0 (20020519)
ACPI: Subsystem revision 20050309
ACPI: Interpreter disabled.
Linux Plug and Play Support v0.97 (c) Adam Belay
pnp: PnP ACPI: disabled
SCSI subsystem initialized
PCI: Probing PCI hardware
PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00)
Boot video device is 0000:00:0e.0
inotify device minor=63
Squashfs 2.1 (released 2004/12/10) (C) 2002-2004 Phillip Lougher
SGI XFS with ACLs, security attributes, realtime, large block numbers, no debug enabled
SGI XFS Quota Management subsystem
Initializing Cryptographic API
Limiting direct PCI/PCI transfers.
Activating ISA DMA hang workarounds.
vesafb: framebuffer at 0xfb000000, mapped to 0xc6880000, using 2048k, total 2048k
vesafb: mode is 1024x768x16, linelength=2048, pages=0
vesafb: protected mode interface info at c000:4790
vesafb: scrolling: redraw
vesafb: Truecolor: size=0:5:6:5, shift=0:11:5:0
Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 128x48
fbsplash: console 0 using theme 'livecd-2005.1'
fbsplash: switched splash state to 'on' on console 0
fb0: VESA VGA frame buffer device
isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards...
isapnp: No Plug & Play device found
PNP: No PS/2 controller found. Probing ports directly.
serio: i8042 AUX port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12
serio: i8042 KBD port at 0x60,0x64 irq 1
Serial: 8250/16550 driver $Revision: 1.90 $ 48 ports, IRQ sharing enabled
ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
io scheduler noop registered
io scheduler deadline registered
RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 8192K size 1024 blocksize
loop: loaded (max 8 devices)
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
PIIX3: IDE controller at PCI slot 0000:00:07.1
PIIX3: chipset revision 0
PIIX3: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
    ide0: BM-DMA at 0xffa0-0xffa7, BIOS settings: hda:pio, hdb:pio
    ide1: BM-DMA at 0xffa8-0xffaf, BIOS settings: hdc:pio, hdd:pio
Probing IDE interface ide0...
input: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard on isa0060/serio0
hda: WDC AC33100H, ATA DISK drive
hdb: WDC AC21000H, ATA DISK drive
hda: Disabling (U)DMA for WDC AC33100H (blacklisted)
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
Probing IDE interface ide1...
hdc: HL-DT-ST GCE-8483B, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
Probing IDE interface ide2...
Probing IDE interface ide3...
Probing IDE interface ide4...
Probing IDE interface ide5...
hda: max request size: 128KiB
hda: 6185088 sectors (3166 MB) w/128KiB Cache, CHS=6136/16/63
hda: cache flushes not supported
 hda: hda1 hda2 hda3
hdb: max request size: 128KiB
hdb: 2116800 sectors (1083 MB) w/128KiB Cache, CHS=2100/16/63, DMA
hdb: cache flushes not supported
 hdb: hdb1 hdb2 hdb3 hdb4
hdc: ATAPI 48X CD-ROM CD-R/RW drive, 2048kB Cache, (U)DMA
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20
EISA: Probing bus 0 at eisa.0
EISA: Detected 0 cards.
NET: Registered protocol family 2
IP: routing cache hash table of 256 buckets, 4Kbytes
TCP established hash table entries: 4096 (order: 4, 65536 bytes)
TCP bind hash table entries: 4096 (order: 3, 49152 bytes)
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 4096 bind 4096)
NET: Registered protocol family 1
NET: Registered protocol family 17
Freeing unused kernel memory: 192k freed
usbcore: registered new driver usbfs
usbcore: registered new driver hub
usbcore: registered new driver hiddev
usbcore: registered new driver usbhid
drivers/usb/input/hid-core.c: v2.01:USB HID core driver
Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...
usbcore: registered new driver usb-storage
USB Mass Storage support registered.
USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver v2.2
ohci_hcd: 2004 Nov 08 USB 1.1 'Open' Host Controller (OHCI) Driver (PCI)
sl811: driver sl811-hcd, 19 May 2005
ieee1394: Initialized config rom entry `ip1394'
sbp2: $Rev: 1219 $ Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org>
libata version 1.11 loaded.
device-mapper: 4.4.0-ioctl (2005-01-12) initialised: dm-devel@redhat.com
ReiserFS: hdc: warning: sh-2021: reiserfs_fill_super: can not find reiserfs on hdc
VFS: Can't find ext3 filesystem on dev hdc.
VFS: Can't find an ext2 filesystem on dev hdc.
SQUASHFS error: Can't find a SQUASHFS superblock on hdc
FAT: bogus number of reserved sectors
VFS: Can't find a valid FAT filesystem on dev hdc.
ISO 9660 Extensions: Microsoft Joliet Level 3
ISO 9660 Extensions: RRIP_1991A
parport0: PC-style at 0x378 [PCSPP,EPP]
ne2k-pci.c:v1.03 9/22/2003 D. Becker/P. Gortmaker
  http://www.scyld.com/network/ne2k-pci.html
eth0: RealTek RTL-8029 found at 0xff80, IRQ 11, XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX.
hda: Disabling (U)DMA for WDC AC33100H (blacklisted)
hda: Disabling (U)DMA for WDC AC33100H (blacklisted)
NET: Registered protocol family 10
Disabled Privacy Extensions on device c03b6720(lo)
IPv6 over IPv4 tunneling driver
eth0: no IPv6 routers present

#/sbin/ifconfig eth0

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eth0: error fetching interface information:  Device not found

[jomen]

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none                    /proc           proc    default                0 0

again - the options name is "defaults" not "default" - this is wrong!

From the output of dmesg you posted here there is no telling which NIC you have.
This is due to the fact that there are no modules loaded and no drivers compiled into the kernel - messages here would only appear during initialisation of a driver for the card.

from your output of lspci -v earlier:

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0000:00:0f.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8029(AS)
        Flags: medium devsel, IRQ 11
        I/O ports at ff80 [size=32] 

this is one of your NIC's and you need to build a driver for it - be it module or in kernel

Device Drivers -> Network device support -> Ethernet (10 or 100Mbit) -> PCI NE2000 and clones support (see help)

because My green nic is not being detected, that is the nic that ran the install on

I don't know what kind this is (wireless ?)
- you can find out by booting the LiveCD and do all the checking of the system-logs there - there you should find all the info you need because it was correctly detected and used as you said.
Keep going...!

[ImAmMe]

compiled the with PCI NE2000 and clones support, and it is up and going thanks for your help