i cant say ive ever seen that error from the firmeware/palo ...
perhaps another parisc guy will recognize it
-mike
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Subject: RE: Hp c3600 Gentoo Installation troubles
Date: Tuesday 04 January 2005 10:02 am
From: "Ben Fisher" <bfisher@intech-intl.com>
To: "Mike Frysinger" <vapier@gentoo.org>
Mike -
The c3600 is a great machine - perfect for the compiling work I'm doing for
my graduate degree in Computational Engineering.
Well, I found out that the 2004.3 CD is the problem by advice from Guy
Martin - I booted fine off of the 2004.2 Universal Live CD. I have an IDE
cdrom, so that must have been the problem. I've now finished off everything
on the gentoo installation except rebooting, but palo is (yet again) giving
me problems. After configuring the /etc/palo.conf file with directions to
my bootloader, freshly compiled kernel (using genkernel) and initialized HD,
I ran palo at the prompt. The result was a list of my partitions and
addresses to IPL, and a few other things. Everything looked normal, so I
rebooted. When trying to boot on to the HD, I was greeted by:
Booting......
IPL error
Bad LIF Magic
I'm really not sure what "bad LIF magic" is, and the palo docs don't have
any troubleshooting in them. Is there another command required to send palo
to the firmware? What am I missing? I've verified that the boot partition
is set to type f0.
Another thing - I tried to verify and tweak palo after this by booting from
the cd and mounting my /dev/sda7 to /mnt/gentoo and /dev/sda5 to
/mnt/gentoo/boot, and then following the chroot proceedure to get back into
the system. I was able to run palo a few more times with different
parameters, but with no better results. My boot partition "forgot" it was
formatted ext2 a few times, so I had to remake the fs and copy over the
vmlinux file in /usr/src/linux. Do I need anything else in there? Do I
need to start over instead of "hacking" into the system?
Thanks for your help!
Regards,
Ben
Benjamin D. Fisher
Design Engineer
Intech, INC.
2802 Belle Arbor Ave.
Chattanooga, TN 37406
Phone: 423.622.3700 ext 144
Fax: 423.648.2807
-----Original Message-----
From: Mike Frysinger [mailto:vapier@gentoo.org]
Sent: Thursday, December 30, 2004 6:15 AM
To: Ben Fisher
Cc: gentoo-hppa@gentoo.org
Subject: Re: Hp c3600 Gentoo Installation troubles
On Wednesday 29 December 2004 10:00 am, Ben Fisher wrote:
> Hi! I'm a relatively new Linux user, and I've been trying to get Gentoo
on
> my HP c3600 workstation.
i installed onto one of these in the recent past ... nice machines :)
> My main problem at this point seems to be the
> palo boot loading sequence. After the machine boots into the cd, I'm
given
> a list of palo options. According to the manual, all I'm adding is
cdcache
> and then trying to boot. It detects most everything on the system and
then
> returns an error saying it can't find the root boot device.
we're just talking the livecd right ? i tried an early 2004.3 beta livecd
on
the C3600 and didnt have any issue :/
-mike
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perhaps another parisc guy will recognize it
-mike
---------- Forwarded Message ----------
Subject: RE: Hp c3600 Gentoo Installation troubles
Date: Tuesday 04 January 2005 10:02 am
From: "Ben Fisher" <bfisher@intech-intl.com>
To: "Mike Frysinger" <vapier@gentoo.org>
Mike -
The c3600 is a great machine - perfect for the compiling work I'm doing for
my graduate degree in Computational Engineering.
Well, I found out that the 2004.3 CD is the problem by advice from Guy
Martin - I booted fine off of the 2004.2 Universal Live CD. I have an IDE
cdrom, so that must have been the problem. I've now finished off everything
on the gentoo installation except rebooting, but palo is (yet again) giving
me problems. After configuring the /etc/palo.conf file with directions to
my bootloader, freshly compiled kernel (using genkernel) and initialized HD,
I ran palo at the prompt. The result was a list of my partitions and
addresses to IPL, and a few other things. Everything looked normal, so I
rebooted. When trying to boot on to the HD, I was greeted by:
Booting......
IPL error
Bad LIF Magic
I'm really not sure what "bad LIF magic" is, and the palo docs don't have
any troubleshooting in them. Is there another command required to send palo
to the firmware? What am I missing? I've verified that the boot partition
is set to type f0.
Another thing - I tried to verify and tweak palo after this by booting from
the cd and mounting my /dev/sda7 to /mnt/gentoo and /dev/sda5 to
/mnt/gentoo/boot, and then following the chroot proceedure to get back into
the system. I was able to run palo a few more times with different
parameters, but with no better results. My boot partition "forgot" it was
formatted ext2 a few times, so I had to remake the fs and copy over the
vmlinux file in /usr/src/linux. Do I need anything else in there? Do I
need to start over instead of "hacking" into the system?
Thanks for your help!
Regards,
Ben
Benjamin D. Fisher
Design Engineer
Intech, INC.
2802 Belle Arbor Ave.
Chattanooga, TN 37406
Phone: 423.622.3700 ext 144
Fax: 423.648.2807
-----Original Message-----
From: Mike Frysinger [mailto:vapier@gentoo.org]
Sent: Thursday, December 30, 2004 6:15 AM
To: Ben Fisher
Cc: gentoo-hppa@gentoo.org
Subject: Re: Hp c3600 Gentoo Installation troubles
On Wednesday 29 December 2004 10:00 am, Ben Fisher wrote:
> Hi! I'm a relatively new Linux user, and I've been trying to get Gentoo
on
> my HP c3600 workstation.
i installed onto one of these in the recent past ... nice machines :)
> My main problem at this point seems to be the
> palo boot loading sequence. After the machine boots into the cd, I'm
given
> a list of palo options. According to the manual, all I'm adding is
cdcache
> and then trying to boot. It detects most everything on the system and
then
> returns an error saying it can't find the root boot device.
we're just talking the livecd right ? i tried an early 2004.3 beta livecd
on
the C3600 and didnt have any issue :/
-mike
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