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From: Bill.Glessner@×××.EDU
To: Fluff <fluff@×××××.se>
Cc: gentoo-alpha@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-alpha] Problem installing gentoo linux/genkernel environ on alpha platform
Date: Fri, 08 Oct 2004 16:33:34
Message-Id: 01LFS8KJ7SF68WWK3W@cluster.cwu.edu
1 The contents of the /etc/fstab are
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3 /dev/sda1 none swap sw 0 0
4 /dev/sda2 / ext3 noatime 0 1
5 /dev/sdb1 none swap sw 0 0
6 /dev/cdroms/cdrom0 /mnt/cdrom auto noauto,user,ro 0 0
7 none /proc proc defaults 0 0
8 none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
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10 Bill
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12 >Return-path: <fluff@×××××.se>
13 >Date: Fri, 08 Oct 2004 17:28:11 +0200
14 >From: Fluff <fluff@×××××.se>
15 >Subject: Re: [gentoo-alpha] Problem installing gentoo linux/genkernel environ
16 > on alpha platform
17 >To: Bill.Glessner@×××.edu
18 >Cc: gentoo-alpha@l.g.o
19 >
20 >What are the contents of the /etc/fstab-file? Looks like the boot is looking for
21 >a reiserfs-partition. Have you set the correct filesystems there?
22 >
23 >/Fluff
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34 >>Citerar Bill.Glessner@×××.EDU:
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37 >>I have been trying to install gentoo linux on a miata-class alpha platform and,
38 >>after following the instructions in the gentoo linux handbook, I still can't
39 >>seem to achieve a working system.
40 >>I am using a livecd burned from the gentoo-alpha-2004_2-20040730.iso
41 >>download.
42 >>I used a stage1 tarball stage1-alpha-20040730.tbz2 to perform the > installation,
43 >>and all seemed to go according to the gentoo handbook instructions. I chose the
44 >>genkernel option, and its creation/build also seemed to match the gentoo
45 >>handbook material.
46 >>The kernel version is kernel-2.4.21-alpha-r12. The step where the system disk
47 >>is made bootable and a bootloader is configured is where I seem to be failing.
48 >> I chose to configure/use the aboot bootloader; however, I can't seem to find
49 >> any directions, other than some minimal general material in the aboot,
50 >> abootconf
51 >> and aboot.conf man pages, which describe how to set up abbot and boot the
52 >> kernel built during the installation.
53 >> Am I using the most recent, stable gentoo linux installation distribution for
54 >> the alpha platform?
55 >> Has anyone successfully built a genkernel from the above distribution and
56 >> booted it? If so, how did you set up the aboot environment?
57 >> The specific problem I am having is:
58 >>
59 >> boot dkc0 -fl "i"
60 >>
61 >> ...stuff leading to the aboot scondary bootloader menu...
62 >> jumping to bootstrap code
63 >> aboot: Linux/Alpha SRM bootloader version 0.9bpre
64 >> aboot: switching to OSF/1 PALcode version 1.22
65 >> aboot: booting from device 'SCSI 0 1009 0 0 0 0 0'
66 >> aboot: valid disklabel found: 3 partitions.
67 >> Welcome to aboot 0.9bpre
68 >> Commands:
69 >> (the menu)
70 >>
71 >> I give the command (wrapped for readability)
72 >>
73 >> b /boot/kernel-2.4.21-alpha-r12 initrd=/boot/initrd-2.4.21-alpha-r12
74 >> root=/dev/ram0 real_root=/dev/sda2 init=/linuxrc
75 >>
76 >> the boot begins with loading the kernel after a number of device/driver
77 >> configurations but hangs at the point
78 >>
79 >> IP protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP, IGMP
80 > IP: routing cache hash table of 1024 buckets, 8Kbytes
81 > TCP: Hash table configured (established 16384 bind 16384)
82 > NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0.
83 > FAT: bogus logical sector size 0
84 > You didn't specify the type of your ufs filesystem
85 >
86 > <...a sample mount command...>
87 >
88 > >>>WARNING<<< Wrong ufstype may corrupt your filesystem, default is
89 > ufstype=old
90 > ufs_read_super: bad magic number
91 > read_super_block: can't find a reiserfs filesystem on (dev 01:00,block 64,
92 > size 1024)
93 > read_super_block: can't find a reiserfs filesystem on (dev 01:00,block 8,
94 > size 1024)
95 > kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 01:00
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97 > The dkc0 disk label has 3 partitions:
98 > a: the swap partition (starting at cylinder 3)
99 > b: the root partition with filesystem type ext2
100 > c: the whole disk partition
101 >
102 > I have probably missed/misundertood an installation step or haven't guessed
103 > the
104 > correct aboot command so, if someone could provide an example of a working
105 > aboot environment for a working alpha gentoo linux installation, I would
106 > appreciate it.
107 >
108 > Thanks for your help
109 > Bill Glessner - System programmer
110 > Central Washington University
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