Mailing List Archive: Problem installing gentoo linux/genkernel environ on alpha platform

Problem installing gentoo linux/genkernel environ on alpha platform

Oct 8, 2004, 8:03 AM

Post #1 of 4 (2605 views)

I have been trying to install gentoo linux on a miata-class alpha platform and,
after following the instructions in the gentoo linux handbook, I still can't
seem to achieve a working system.
I am using a livecd burned from the gentoo-alpha-2004_2-20040730.iso download.
I used a stage1 tarball stage1-alpha-20040730.tbz2 to perform the installation,
and all seemed to go according to the gentoo handbook instructions. I chose the
genkernel option, and its creation/build also seemed to match the gentoo
handbook material.
The kernel version is kernel-2.4.21-alpha-r12. The step where the system disk
is made bootable and a bootloader is configured is where I seem to be failing.
I chose to configure/use the aboot bootloader; however, I can't seem to find
any directions, other than some minimal general material in the aboot, abootconf
and aboot.conf man pages, which describe how to set up abbot and boot the
kernel built during the installation.
Am I using the most recent, stable gentoo linux installation distribution for
the alpha platform?
Has anyone successfully built a genkernel from the above distribution and
booted it? If so, how did you set up the aboot environment?
The specific problem I am having is:

boot dkc0 -fl "i"

...stuff leading to the aboot scondary bootloader menu...
jumping to bootstrap code
aboot: Linux/Alpha SRM bootloader version 0.9bpre
aboot: switching to OSF/1 PALcode version 1.22
aboot: booting from device 'SCSI 0 1009 0 0 0 0 0'
aboot: valid disklabel found: 3 partitions.
Welcome to aboot 0.9bpre
Commands:
(the menu)

I give the command (wrapped for readability)

b /boot/kernel-2.4.21-alpha-r12 initrd=/boot/initrd-2.4.21-alpha-r12
root=/dev/ram0 real_root=/dev/sda2 init=/linuxrc

the boot begins with loading the kernel after a number of device/driver
configurations but hangs at the point

IP protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP, IGMP
IP: routing cache hash table of 1024 buckets, 8Kbytes
TCP: Hash table configured (established 16384 bind 16384)
NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0.
FAT: bogus logical sector size 0
You didn't specify the type of your ufs filesystem

<...a sample mount command...>

>>>WARNING<<< Wrong ufstype may corrupt your filesystem, default is ufstype=old
ufs_read_super: bad magic number
read_super_block: can't find a reiserfs filesystem on (dev 01:00,block 64, size 1024)
read_super_block: can't find a reiserfs filesystem on (dev 01:00,block 8, size 1024)
kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 01:00

The dkc0 disk label has 3 partitions:
a: the swap partition (starting at cylinder 3)
b: the root partition with filesystem type ext2
c: the whole disk partition

I have probably missed/misundertood an installation step or haven't guessed the
correct aboot command so, if someone could provide an example of a working
aboot environment for a working alpha gentoo linux installation, I would
appreciate it.

Thanks for your help
Bill Glessner - System programmer
Central Washington University

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Re: Problem installing gentoo linux/genkernel environ on alpha platform [ In reply to ]

fluff at fluff

Oct 8, 2004, 8:28 AM

Post #2 of 4 (2553 views)

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What are the contents of the /etc/fstab-file? Looks like the boot is looking for
a reiserfs-partition. Have you set the correct filesystems there?

/Fluff

Citerar Bill.Glessner@cwu.EDU:

>
> I have been trying to install gentoo linux on a miata-class alpha platform
> and,
> after following the instructions in the gentoo linux handbook, I still can't
> seem to achieve a working system.
> I am using a livecd burned from the gentoo-alpha-2004_2-20040730.iso
> download.
> I used a stage1 tarball stage1-alpha-20040730.tbz2 to perform the
> installation,
> and all seemed to go according to the gentoo handbook instructions. I chose
> the
> genkernel option, and its creation/build also seemed to match the gentoo
> handbook material.
> The kernel version is kernel-2.4.21-alpha-r12. The step where the system disk
> is made bootable and a bootloader is configured is where I seem to be
> failing.
> I chose to configure/use the aboot bootloader; however, I can't seem to find
> any directions, other than some minimal general material in the aboot,
> abootconf
> and aboot.conf man pages, which describe how to set up abbot and boot the
> kernel built during the installation.
> Am I using the most recent, stable gentoo linux installation distribution for
> the alpha platform?
> Has anyone successfully built a genkernel from the above distribution and
> booted it? If so, how did you set up the aboot environment?
> The specific problem I am having is:
>
> boot dkc0 -fl "i"
>
> ...stuff leading to the aboot scondary bootloader menu...
> jumping to bootstrap code
> aboot: Linux/Alpha SRM bootloader version 0.9bpre
> aboot: switching to OSF/1 PALcode version 1.22
> aboot: booting from device 'SCSI 0 1009 0 0 0 0 0'
> aboot: valid disklabel found: 3 partitions.
> Welcome to aboot 0.9bpre
> Commands:
> (the menu)
>
> I give the command (wrapped for readability)
>
> b /boot/kernel-2.4.21-alpha-r12 initrd=/boot/initrd-2.4.21-alpha-r12
> root=/dev/ram0 real_root=/dev/sda2 init=/linuxrc
>
> the boot begins with loading the kernel after a number of device/driver
> configurations but hangs at the point
>
> IP protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP, IGMP
> IP: routing cache hash table of 1024 buckets, 8Kbytes
> TCP: Hash table configured (established 16384 bind 16384)
> NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0.
> FAT: bogus logical sector size 0
> You didn't specify the type of your ufs filesystem
>
> <...a sample mount command...>
>
> >>>WARNING<<< Wrong ufstype may corrupt your filesystem, default is
> ufstype=old
> ufs_read_super: bad magic number
> read_super_block: can't find a reiserfs filesystem on (dev 01:00,block 64,
> size 1024)
> read_super_block: can't find a reiserfs filesystem on (dev 01:00,block 8,
> size 1024)
> kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 01:00
>
> The dkc0 disk label has 3 partitions:
> a: the swap partition (starting at cylinder 3)
> b: the root partition with filesystem type ext2
> c: the whole disk partition
>
> I have probably missed/misundertood an installation step or haven't guessed
> the
> correct aboot command so, if someone could provide an example of a working
> aboot environment for a working alpha gentoo linux installation, I would
> appreciate it.
>
> Thanks for your help
> Bill Glessner - System programmer
> Central Washington University
>
> --
> gentoo-alpha@gentoo.org mailing list
>
>

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Re: Problem installing gentoo linux/genkernel environ on alpha platform [ In reply to ]

Bill.Glessner at cwu

Oct 8, 2004, 9:33 AM

Post #3 of 4 (2540 views)

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The contents of the /etc/fstab are

/dev/sda1 none swap sw 0 0
/dev/sda2 / ext3 noatime 0 1
/dev/sdb1 none swap sw 0 0
/dev/cdroms/cdrom0 /mnt/cdrom auto noauto,user,ro 0 0
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0

Bill

>Return-path: <fluff@fluff.se>
>Date: Fri, 08 Oct 2004 17:28:11 +0200
>From: Fluff <fluff@fluff.se>
>Subject: Re: [gentoo-alpha] Problem installing gentoo linux/genkernel environ
> on alpha platform
>To: Bill.Glessner@cwu.edu
>Cc: gentoo-alpha@lists.gentoo.org
>
>What are the contents of the /etc/fstab-file? Looks like the boot is looking for
>a reiserfs-partition. Have you set the correct filesystems there?
>
>/Fluff
>

>>Citerar Bill.Glessner@cwu.EDU:
>>
>>
>>I have been trying to install gentoo linux on a miata-class alpha platform and,
>>after following the instructions in the gentoo linux handbook, I still can't
>>seem to achieve a working system.
>>I am using a livecd burned from the gentoo-alpha-2004_2-20040730.iso
>>download.
>>I used a stage1 tarball stage1-alpha-20040730.tbz2 to perform the > installation,
>>and all seemed to go according to the gentoo handbook instructions. I chose the
>>genkernel option, and its creation/build also seemed to match the gentoo
>>handbook material.
>>The kernel version is kernel-2.4.21-alpha-r12. The step where the system disk
>>is made bootable and a bootloader is configured is where I seem to be failing.
>> I chose to configure/use the aboot bootloader; however, I can't seem to find
>> any directions, other than some minimal general material in the aboot,
>> abootconf
>> and aboot.conf man pages, which describe how to set up abbot and boot the
>> kernel built during the installation.
>> Am I using the most recent, stable gentoo linux installation distribution for
>> the alpha platform?
>> Has anyone successfully built a genkernel from the above distribution and
>> booted it? If so, how did you set up the aboot environment?
>> The specific problem I am having is:
>>
>> boot dkc0 -fl "i"
>>
>> ...stuff leading to the aboot scondary bootloader menu...
>> jumping to bootstrap code
>> aboot: Linux/Alpha SRM bootloader version 0.9bpre
>> aboot: switching to OSF/1 PALcode version 1.22
>> aboot: booting from device 'SCSI 0 1009 0 0 0 0 0'
>> aboot: valid disklabel found: 3 partitions.
>> Welcome to aboot 0.9bpre
>> Commands:
>> (the menu)
>>
>> I give the command (wrapped for readability)
>>
>> b /boot/kernel-2.4.21-alpha-r12 initrd=/boot/initrd-2.4.21-alpha-r12
>> root=/dev/ram0 real_root=/dev/sda2 init=/linuxrc
>>
>> the boot begins with loading the kernel after a number of device/driver
>> configurations but hangs at the point
>>
>> IP protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP, IGMP
> IP: routing cache hash table of 1024 buckets, 8Kbytes
> TCP: Hash table configured (established 16384 bind 16384)
> NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0.
> FAT: bogus logical sector size 0
> You didn't specify the type of your ufs filesystem
>
> <...a sample mount command...>
>
> >>>WARNING<<< Wrong ufstype may corrupt your filesystem, default is
> ufstype=old
> ufs_read_super: bad magic number
> read_super_block: can't find a reiserfs filesystem on (dev 01:00,block 64,
> size 1024)
> read_super_block: can't find a reiserfs filesystem on (dev 01:00,block 8,
> size 1024)
> kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 01:00
>
> The dkc0 disk label has 3 partitions:
> a: the swap partition (starting at cylinder 3)
> b: the root partition with filesystem type ext2
> c: the whole disk partition
>
> I have probably missed/misundertood an installation step or haven't guessed
> the
> correct aboot command so, if someone could provide an example of a working
> aboot environment for a working alpha gentoo linux installation, I would
> appreciate it.
>
> Thanks for your help
> Bill Glessner - System programmer
> Central Washington University
>
> --
> gentoo-alpha@gentoo.org mailing list
>
>

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Re: Problem installing gentoo linux/genkernel environ on alpha platform [ In reply to ]

hammonda at cae

Oct 9, 2004, 3:57 PM

Post #4 of 4 (2555 views)

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Hi,

From the output below, it appears that aboot is working fine given that
the kernel has loaded. This looks like a problem with your ramdisk image
to me. I agree, check your fstab, but on the ramdisk image.

> >>>WARNING<<< Wrong ufstype may corrupt your filesystem, default is ufstype=old
> ufs_read_super: bad magic number
> read_super_block: can't find a reiserfs filesystem on (dev 01:00,block 64, size 1024)
> read_super_block: can't find a reiserfs filesystem on (dev 01:00,block 8, size 1024)
> kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 01:00

The device file with major:minor number 01:00 is /dev/ram0 or /dev/rd/0
depending on whether you are using devfs.

-Tony

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On Fri, 8 Oct 2004 Bill.Glessner@cwu.EDU wrote:

>
> I have been trying to install gentoo linux on a miata-class alpha platform and,
> after following the instructions in the gentoo linux handbook, I still can't
> seem to achieve a working system.
> I am using a livecd burned from the gentoo-alpha-2004_2-20040730.iso download.
> I used a stage1 tarball stage1-alpha-20040730.tbz2 to perform the installation,
> and all seemed to go according to the gentoo handbook instructions. I chose the
> genkernel option, and its creation/build also seemed to match the gentoo
> handbook material.
> The kernel version is kernel-2.4.21-alpha-r12. The step where the system disk
> is made bootable and a bootloader is configured is where I seem to be failing.
> I chose to configure/use the aboot bootloader; however, I can't seem to find
> any directions, other than some minimal general material in the aboot, abootconf
> and aboot.conf man pages, which describe how to set up abbot and boot the
> kernel built during the installation.
> Am I using the most recent, stable gentoo linux installation distribution for
> the alpha platform?
> Has anyone successfully built a genkernel from the above distribution and
> booted it? If so, how did you set up the aboot environment?
> The specific problem I am having is:
>
> boot dkc0 -fl "i"
>
> ...stuff leading to the aboot scondary bootloader menu...
> jumping to bootstrap code
> aboot: Linux/Alpha SRM bootloader version 0.9bpre
> aboot: switching to OSF/1 PALcode version 1.22
> aboot: booting from device 'SCSI 0 1009 0 0 0 0 0'
> aboot: valid disklabel found: 3 partitions.
> Welcome to aboot 0.9bpre
> Commands:
> (the menu)
>
> I give the command (wrapped for readability)
>
> b /boot/kernel-2.4.21-alpha-r12 initrd=/boot/initrd-2.4.21-alpha-r12
> root=/dev/ram0 real_root=/dev/sda2 init=/linuxrc
>
> the boot begins with loading the kernel after a number of device/driver
> configurations but hangs at the point
>
> IP protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP, IGMP
> IP: routing cache hash table of 1024 buckets, 8Kbytes
> TCP: Hash table configured (established 16384 bind 16384)
> NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0.
> FAT: bogus logical sector size 0
> You didn't specify the type of your ufs filesystem
>
> <...a sample mount command...>
>
> >>>WARNING<<< Wrong ufstype may corrupt your filesystem, default is ufstype=old
> ufs_read_super: bad magic number
> read_super_block: can't find a reiserfs filesystem on (dev 01:00,block 64, size 1024)
> read_super_block: can't find a reiserfs filesystem on (dev 01:00,block 8, size 1024)
> kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 01:00
>
> The dkc0 disk label has 3 partitions:
> a: the swap partition (starting at cylinder 3)
> b: the root partition with filesystem type ext2
> c: the whole disk partition
>
> I have probably missed/misundertood an installation step or haven't guessed the
> correct aboot command so, if someone could provide an example of a working
> aboot environment for a working alpha gentoo linux installation, I would
> appreciate it.
>
> Thanks for your help
> Bill Glessner - System programmer
> Central Washington University
>
> --
> gentoo-alpha@gentoo.org mailing list
>

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