Hello everybody.
Did anyone manage to successfully boot Linux on an RS/6000 43p 140 ?
I tried using ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/ppc/7.1/unsorted/prep/43p_140/zImage.140.chrp
and followed the instructions in the German SuSE manual (ie copied the image to an MS-DOS
formatted floppy disk, renaming the image to "zimage" there).
At the OpenFirmware prompt I typed
boot floppy:,zimage root=/dev/fd0 load_ramdisk=1 fake_initrd
I also tried using ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/ppc/kernel/BETA/deflt/zImage.prep
and followed the instructions on http://sdb.suse.de/de/sdb/html/olh_ppc_43p140.html
(ie copied the image as a raw disk image using dd).
At the OpenFirmware prompt I typed
boot floppy:,\zImage
In BOTH cases, the symptoms are identical:
The floppy is read (takes half a minute or so).
The OpenFirmware cursor moves to the next line or the line after that.
The system freezes (or reboots after a long time).
(None of the IPL or memory messages ever appear.)
So obviously, none of these approaches works for me.
What is the difference between the images copied as raw disk images and those copied
as files on an MS-DOS disk?
Which approach is *supposed* to work? Both are declared as solutions for 140 43p.
BTW: The firmware version of the machine I tried this on is TIG97251.
Thanks in advance for any hints or solutions.
Alexander Achenbach
Hallo!
I configured my modem and PPP through YaST and wvdial.conf in Suse
7.3 on my Powerbook Firewire. What I haven't been able to solve so
far is an authentication dialog failure between the modem and the
provider (my university). University modem pool support could only
confirm my settings but otherwise does not support Linux. Thus, maybe
somebody here would have an idea what I am still missing to get the
modem running.
I tried to take over the settings from my MacOS partition for which
the modem is connecting fine. Those are:
Remote Access: registered user, username, password, phone number
Options: redial off, allow error correction and compression in modem,
use TCP header compression
Modem: 56k, sound on, dialing tone, do not ignore dialing tone
TCP/IP: Connect via PPP, Configure: using PPP server (there is a
nameserver IP, but university support said that that is bogus)
In linux the provider part in wvdial.conf looks like this:
[Dialer UofC]
Ask Password = 0
Auto DNS = 1
Auto Reconnect = 0
DNS1 =
DNS2 =
Demand = no
Idle Seconds = 180
Inherits = Dialer modem0
Password = [password]
Phone = [number]
Provider = UofCModem
Username =[username]
YaST2 Record = provider
I am connecting using Kinternet and the log gives me the following messages:
...
Entering PPP mode
Async interface address is unnumbered (Loop back 1)
Your IP address [number]. MTU is 1500 bytes
Header compression will match your system.
-> Looks like a welcome message
-> Starting pppd at [date]
-> pid of pppd: 7356
-> PPP was killed (signal 11)
-> Disconnecting
We are disconnected.
-> PPP daemon has died. Peer didn't authenticate itself (exit code 11).
Any ideas?
Thanks!
Jutta
Hello there,
i'm trying to install suse 7.1 ppc on an IBM RS/6000 B50 server.
i tried installing it accordingly to the instructions on the manual but
was faced with serious problems.
after booting from the CD 2 ( CHRP Based computers ) the boot process
freezes at:
ramdisk loaded at 0x1900000, size 753253 bytes
instantiating rtas at 00600000 ... done
copying OF device tree... done
returning 01400000 from prom_init
we have looked all around for help, including Suse's knowledge database,
google and other places with no success.
the server is installed with AIX and functioning perfectly. it does not
look like a hardware problem.
please help, i have never seen anything like it before and it is not
mentioned anywhere.
thank you
-- Alex
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Hi,
Is anyone running freeswan on SuSE 7.3/PPC with kernel 2.4.16? Mine did not
work because the module ipsec.o is missing. Rolling my own did not work
because the freeswan kernel patches did not apply.
Maybe anyone has already an spm for freeswan 1.95?
Uwe
Hi,
I had the chance to spend a few hours installing plain 7.3 on a Motorola
PowerStack Series E with 64MB RAM and a 604 CPU.
Not a whole lot of time, but I noticed a few things up to now that may be of
interest as I couldn't find comments anywhere on these topics.
- While I could boot the first CD, the machine froze after the message
"Uncompressing" when trying to set up the RAMDISK. Couldn't find a way
to get around this. Is the PReP CD boot kernel known to be broken?
- I used some very old (6.4?) install disks I still had somewhere to boot a kernel
far enough to get to the 7.3 CDs. Didn't have much success putting the kernel image
available with 7.3 onto floppy disks. They are apparently larger than 1.44MB.
Oh well.
- The PowerStack in question was AIX formatted. The install process will not
allow partitioning and will not(!) issue an error message. I used a separate
virtual console to manually pre-partition the disk to a DOS empty state to
be able to install the system. Took me a while to figure that out.
- Debian documents a "bootargs" PPCBUG variable which apparently the SuSE
kernel doesn't support. I hacked the kernel content for the root partition name.
Would be nice though if it supported bootargs.
- /usr/X11R6/bin/sax doesn't exist. Well, sax.sh does, but that's not what sax2
tells me. Anyway, XF86 V3/4 apparently isn't set up to support the Cirrus chipset
as both sax and sax2 freeze the machine with a black screen eventually.
Interesting enough, X itself starts up in 640*480with FBDev on top of CLgen,cfb8
but sax/sax2 won't ever. X freezes up the machine *very* easily on just a few
mouse clicks. I guess for now I have to avoid X.
- "halt" doesn't. The machine will reboot and doesn't stop. Actually, no PPC
kernel ever halted on the PowerStacks that I tried. Wonder why.
Ok, maybe some of this helps others, maybe you also have some input that could
help me.
Heinz Wrobel
Hello!
I have an old PPC 9500 with a built-in scsi-bus (2 actually) and an
Acard PCI-IDE-Card (AEC6260R). I have SuSE 7.3 on the old scsi-drive
sda. The program does recognize the IDE-card and the drive attached to
it, but I get boot-messages like hde: lost interrupt, lost irq func
only, dma_chipset ???, and the drive is being probed for ages. I tried
to install Macos under MOL on it, but I gave up, because it takes ages.
It will probably run all night for an installation.
Has anyone solved these problems?
Marianne
hi
I'm new to the list so hopefully this isn't already covered in the archives.
I've looked, but can't find much on this topic...
installed suse 7.1 via ftp on a PowerComputing PowerTower
Hardware config:
Sonnet Cresendo G3 upgrade card (195Mhz Linux/300Mhz MacOS)
Sonnet Tempo Ultra ATA 66 PCI card with an ATA drive attached (Seagate
Barracuda 18 Gig)
Internal SCSI drive 2Gig (Quantum Fireball)
Internal SCSI CDROM reader
Internal ZIP100MB also on internal SCSI bus
224mb ram
IMS TwinTurbo 4Mb video card
installation was successful, but the only drive that's mountable is the
internal SCSI drive. this is the drive with Linux.
the MacOS is installed on the ATA drive. I've partitioned the ATA drive with
pdisk and know that it is partitioned to my satisfaction. the mac os has
about 600Mb partition, the rest is supposed to be the /home and some swap
space. in order to get pdisk to see the drive --> /dev/scsi1.2 had to be
specified. i guess that the PCI card is an IDE/SCSI bridge; so its on a
separate bus from the internal one.
The MacOS boots fine from the ATA drive.
I can't mount the ATA drive in Linux. lspci --vv sees the PCI card. by all
accounts, I should be able to mount the drive.
has anyone had a similar problem? any suggestions would be appreciated.
thanks
-andy
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Subject: Kernel Panic with SuSE-PPC 7.3
Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2002 09:51:13 +0100
From: Alain Barthelemy <abarthelemy(a)sbb.ihe.be>
To: suse-ppc(a)suse.com
Hello,
Small problem
On a PBG3 I have MacOS9.2, MacOSX, SuSE7.3
I had to work on Mac partitions and I changed often Start Disk LinuxBoot <=>
MacOS9 <=> MacOSX
Then I want to reboot Linux (press space bar OK thus yaboot OK)
And it crashes with following message:
read_super_block: can't find a reiserfs filesystem on (dev 03.09, block 64,
size 1024)
Kernel panic: VFS: unable to mount fs on 03:0d
I mention that I didn't install reiserfs file system (I stayed with ext2)
Thus why is the sustem looking at reiserfs files?
BTW I have no problem to boot installed system with CD1 but it is longer.
All the partitions are in order.
The problem lies only at the boot partition I suppose.
Any way to solve the problem or did anybody have the same problem?
Thanks
--
Alain Barthélemy
Section de Biosécurité et Biotechnologie
Institut de Santé Publique
R. Juliette Wytsman, 14
B-1050 Bruxelles
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I have suse linux PPC 7.1 with kernel version 2.4.3.
my IP addresses appear to be hopping interface assignemnts
for example
I set up the network adapters as such
192.50.1.21 = eth0
192.50.1.22 = eth1
192.50.1.23 = eth2
this should mean that any incoming connections to these ip adresses connect
with only these interfaces, right?
well, i am finding that incoming connections to these adresses are hopping
interface assigments
possible outcomes are (but not limited to):
192.50.1.21 => eth2
192.50.1.22 => eth0
192.50.1.23 => eth1
does anyone have any any ideas why this would happen?
I am using iptables v1.2, and was able to collect my info on these
misconnections via it's logging feature.
any help is appreciated.
thanks in advance
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Hi,
I had the chance to spend a few hours installing plain 7.3 on a Motorola
PowerStack Series E with 64MB RAM and a 604 CPU.
Not a whole lot of time, but I noticed a few things up to now that may be of
interest as I couldn't find comments anywhere on these topics.
- While I could boot the first CD, the machine froze after the message
"Uncompressing" when trying to set up the RAMDISK. Couldn't find a way
to get around this. Is the PReP CD boot kernel known to be broken?
- I used some very old (6.4?) install disks I still had somewhere to boot a kernel
far enough to get to the 7.3 CDs. Didn't have much success putting the kernel image
available with 7.3 onto floppy disks. They are apparently larger than 1.44MB.
Oh well.
- The PowerStack in question was AIX formatted. The install process will not
allow partitioning and will not(!) issue an error message. I used a separate
virtual console to manually pre-partition the disk to a DOS empty state to
be able to install the system. Took me a while to figure that out.
- Debian documents a "bootargs" PPCBUG variable which apparently the SuSE
kernel doesn't support. I hacked the kernel content for the root partition name.
Would be nice though if it supported bootargs.
- /usr/X11R6/bin/sax doesn't exist. Well, sax.sh does, but that's not what sax2
tells me. Anyway, XF86 V3/4 apparently isn't set up to support the Cirrus chipset
as both sax and sax2 freeze the machine with a black screen eventually.
Interesting enough, X itself starts up in 640*480with FBDev on top of CLgen,cfb8
but sax/sax2 won't ever. X freezes up the machine *very* easily on just a few
mouse clicks. I guess for now I have to avoid X.
- "halt" doesn't. The machine will reboot and doesn't stop. Actually, no PPC
kernel ever halted on the PowerStacks that I tried. Wonder why.
Ok, maybe some of this helps others, maybe you also have some input that could
help me.
Heinz Wrobel
