Gentoo Archives: gentoo-hppa

From: gwhiteside@××××××××××.com
To: gentoo-hppa@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-hppa] Gentoo live CD on HP D360
Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2006 11:43:35
Message-Id: 20060713114320.98301.qmail@web86708.mail.ird.yahoo.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-hppa] Gentoo live CD on HP D360 by Brett Johnson
1 Brett,
2
3 Thanks for your help. I have tried to battle with it
4 but I have given up! >:o( (for now anyway) It seems
5 to lock up completely after a while.
6
7 I'm also not having any joy in getting eth0 working -
8 not helped by whacky console! The install doc
9 suggests modprobe tulip, but this doesn't get eth0 to
10 appear if I do an ifconfig.
11
12 Very frustrating! Still, better than Debian - it
13 hangs while booting from CD!
14
15 Perhaps I'll look into swapping the D360 for a
16 proliant and try X86 gentoo! Either that or raise a
17 bug report and wait... :0/
18
19 Regards,
20
21 Graham.
22
23 --- Brett Johnson <brett@××××.com> wrote:
24
25 > On Tue, Jul 11, 2006 at 02:46:48PM +0100,
26 > gwhiteside@××××××××××.com wrote:
27 > > Folks,
28 > >
29 > > I'm trying to install 2.6.16.1-pa4-livecd32 on an
30 > HP
31 > > D360 box with a serial console.
32 > >
33 > > I first tried booting with all palo settings as
34 > > default. i.e.
35 > >
36 > > Information: No console specified on kernel
37 > command
38 > > line. This is normal.
39 > > PALO will choose the console currently used by
40 > > firmware (serial).Current command
41 > > line:
42 > > 0/vmlinux initrd=initrd TERM=linux root=/dev/ram0
43 > > init=/linuxrc cdroot looptype=
44 > > squashfs loop=/image.squashfs hda=scsi hdb=scsi
45 > > console=ttyB0
46 > > 0: 0/vmlinux
47 > > 1: initrd=initrd
48 > > 2: TERM=linux
49 > > 3: root=/dev/ram0
50 > > 4: init=/linuxrc
51 > > 5: cdroot
52 > > 6: looptype=squashfs
53 > > 7: loop=/image.squashfs
54 > > 8: hda=scsi
55 > > 9: hdb=scsi
56 > > 10: console=ttyB0
57 > >
58 > > <#> edit the numbered field
59 > > 'b' boot with this command line
60 > > 'r' restore command line
61 > > 'l' list dir
62 > > ? 0
63 > >
64 > > It boots OK, but then the console seems to get
65 > messed
66 > > up. (It's OK until login stage). Sometimes
67 > characters
68 > > don't echo, line feeds are all over the place, and
69 > the
70 > > prompts are really irratic - it's like a getty is
71 > > sharing the same console as a shell. :o/
72 > >
73 > > Example:
74 > >
75 >
76 =====================================================
77 > >
78 > > Please report any bugs you find to
79 > > http://bugs.gentoo.org. Be sure to include
80 > > detailed information about how to reproduce the
81 > bug
82 > > you are reporting.
83 > > Thank you for using Gentoo Linux!
84 > >
85 > > livecd root #
86 > >
87 > >
88 > > livecd root # ls
89 > > livecd root # Login incorrect
90 > >
91 > >
92 > > livecd login:
93 > > livecd root #
94 > > Password: pwd
95 > > /root
96 > > livecd root #
97 > > Login incorrect
98 > >
99 > > ls
100 > > livecd root #
101 > > livecd login:
102 > >
103 > >
104 >
105 =====================================================
106 > >
107 > > I then tried booting with palo option 10 deleted.
108 > (No
109 > > console option in boot command). This time I got
110 > a
111 > > stable console prompt, but it now wants a login
112 > and I
113 > > don't have the password. I see on a PC platform
114 > the
115 > > user has to ctrl-alt-F1 to another console and use
116 > > passwd to set the root password, but I can't do
117 > that
118 > > in this case.
119 > >
120 > >
121 > >
122 >
123 =====================================================
124 > > This is livecd.gentoo (Linux parisc
125 > > 2.6.15.1-pa4-livecd32) 13:23:49
126 > >
127 > > livecd login:
128 > >
129 > >
130 >
131 =====================================================
132 > >
133 > > Any ideas?
134 > >
135 > > Thanks,
136 > >
137 > > Graham.
138 > > --
139 > >
140 > I had the same problem when I installed on my K200.
141 > What I ended up
142 > doing was fighting with the console to get the root
143 > password changed and
144 > sshd started. Once I had that (took on average over
145 > 20 minutes of
146 > messing around), I just ssh'd in and did the install
147 > remotely. I never
148 > could figure out why the login prompt keept
149 > appearing. I did notice a
150 > pattern on when the login prompt appeared, and I
151 > just had to time my
152 > passwd command to work between the login prompt
153 > cycles. You have to
154 > trust the keyboard, and not the console ;-)
155 > --
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157 >
158 >
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