9 Oct
2010
9 Oct
'10
10:51 a.m.
One more interesting fact. I got a Debian 5.06 install CD and tried that. It
could not detect the CD-ROM drive, but I let it drop to a shell. In there it
could see /dev/sda3, but not /dev/sdb3, in fact there were no /dev /sdb*
files at all. So it would appear not to recognise the drive at all.
Regards
Rob
[4194006.430792]
-----Original Message-----
From: cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org [mailto:cctalk-
bounces at classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Rob Jarratt
Sent: 09 October 2010 14:16
To: 'General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts'
Subject: RE: Repairing Debian on an Alpha 433au
I tried changing to DK0 to DK100 but it made no difference and to be
honest I
did not expect it to make a difference.
Clearly there is something wrong with recognising partitions on sdb
(DKA200). If I boot off DK100, which is running Debian 3.1 (Kernel 2.4 it
seems) it can see sdb3 just fine. I don't get all the boot logging that I
get
from
the corrupted disk though. It would be nice to see
what is going on during
a
good boot on the temporary disk, how do I turn on boot
logging? I tried
adding "debug loglevel=7" to the boot command but nothing extra was
printed.
I also thought I would try pointing the temporary disk's kernel at sdb3
like
this:
b vmlinuz ro initrd=/initrd.img root=/dev/sdb3
But the boot just appeared to hang. I am guessing that it does not help
that
the corrupted instance uses 2.6.26 kernel and the
temporary kernel is 2.4.
Sorry but I am not very expert on Linux. I am confused by the fact that it
seems to fail to mount sdb3 when booting off sdb3, but succeeds in booting
off sda and then reading sdb3.
Regards
Rob
to
-----Original Message-----
From: cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org [mailto:cctalk-
bounces at classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Rob Jarratt
Sent: 03 October 2010 21:04
To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts
Subject: Repairing Debian on an Alpha 433au
The 433au I have came with an instance of Debian which has DECnet
installed
on it, I am not sure what version of Debian it
is. After a power
outage
the
> superblock on DKA200 was corrupted. I managed to install another
> instance of Debian (3.1r0) on DK0 and run e2fsck -p on the DKA200 disk fix it.
pci:
However when I try to boot the original Debian
instance it says it
can't
find
/dev/sdb3. In the new instance of Debian I can
mount the sdb3 disk
without issue. Below is the output on the console when it fails to boot.
There is a message about the driver sd needing to be updated, but this
was
a
working system so I am not convinced that is the
problem. Can anyone
offer any insight as to why this will still not boot?
Thanks
Rob
aboot: loading uncompressed vmlinuz-2.6.26-1-alpha-generic...
aboot: loading compressed vmlinuz-2.6.26-1-alpha-generic...
aboot: zero-filling 854608 bytes at 0xfffffc000167c980
aboot: loading initrd (1421885 bytes/1388 blocks) at
0xfffffc0013d70000
aboot: starting kernel vmlinuz-2.6.26-1-alpha-generic with arguments
ro root=/d
ev/sdb3 console=ttyS0,9600n1
[ 0.000000] Initializing cgroup subsys cpu
[ 0.000000] Linux version 2.6.26-1-alpha-generic (Debian 2.6.26-13)
(waldi at de
bian.org) (gcc version 4.1.3 20080704 (prerelease) (Debian 4.1.2-24))
#1
Sat
Jan
10 17:21:47 UTC 2009
[ 0.000000] Booting GENERIC on Miata using machine vector Miata from
SRM
[ 0.000000] Major Options: MAGIC_SYSRQ
[ 0.000000] Command line: ro root=/dev/sdb3 console=ttyS0,9600n1
[ 0.000000] memcluster 0, usage 1, start 0, end 236
[ 0.000000] memcluster 1, usage 0, start 236, end 40959
[ 0.000000] memcluster 2, usage 1, start 40959, end 40960
[ 0.000000] freeing pages 236:2048
[ 0.000000] freeing pages 2985:40959
[ 0.000000] reserving pages 2985:2986
[ 0.000000] Initial ramdisk at: 0xfffffc0013d70000 (1421885 bytes)
[ 0.000000] pci: cia revision 1 (pyxis)
[ 0.000000] Built 1 zonelists in Zone order, mobility grouping on.
Total
pag
es: 40679
[ 0.000000] Kernel command line: ro root=/dev/sdb3
console=ttyS0,9600n1
[ 0.000000] PID hash table entries: 2048
(order: 11, 16384 bytes)
[ 0.000000] HWRPB cycle frequency bogus. Estimated 433127999 Hz
[ 0.000000] Using epoch = 2000
[4194001.855599] Console: colour VGA+ 80x25 [4194001.855599] console
[ttyS0] enabled [4194003.204231] Dentry cache hash table entries:
65536
(order: 6, 524288
bytes)
[4194003.294075] Inode-cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5,
262144
bytes)
[4194003.414192] Memory: 313552k/327672k available (2158k kernel code,
11952k re served, 3313k data, 304k init) [4194003.551887] Security
Framework
initialized [4194003.603645] Capability LSM
initialized
[4194003.650520] Mount-cache hash table entries: 512 [4194003.707161]
Initializing cgroup subsys ns [4194003.757942] Initializing cgroup
subsys cpuacct [4194003.813606] Initializing cgroup subsys devices
[4194003.877082]
net_namespace: 1208 bytes [4194003.924934] NET: Registered protocol
family 16 [4194003.983528] EISA bus registered [4194004.024543] pci:
passed
tb register update test [4194004.081184] pci:
passed sg loopback i/o
read
test
[4194004.139778] pci: passed pte write cache
snoop test
[4194004.199348]
pci: failed valid tag invalid pte reload test (mcheck; workarou nd
available)
> [4194004.298957] pci: passed pci machine check test [4194004.353645] tbia
workaround enabled [4194004.403449] pci: enabling save/restore of
SRM state [4194004.468879] PCI: Bridge: 0000:00:14.0
[4194004.515754] IO window: 8000-8fff
[4194004.557746] MEM window: 0x09000000-0x090fffff
[4194004.614387] PREFETCH window: 0x0000000009100000-
0x00000000091fffff
[4194004.701301] Linux Plug and Play Support v0.97 (c) Adam Belay
[4194004.785285] NET: Registered protocol family 2 [4194004.850715] IP
route
cache hash table entries: 4096 (order: 2, 32768
bytes)
[4194004.937629] TCP established hash table entries: 16384 (order: 5,
262144
byt
es)
[4194005.027473] TCP bind hash table entries: 16384 (order: 4, 131072
bytes)
[4194005.109504] TCP: Hash tables configured
(established 16384 bind
16384)
> [4194005.190558] TCP reno registered [4194005.233527] NET: Registered
> protocol family 1 [4194005.289191] checking if image is initramfs...
> it is [4194006.371222] Freeing initrd memory: 1388k freed VFS:
Disk quotas dquot_6.5.1 [4194006.479620]
Dquot-cache hash table entries:
1024 (order 0, 8192 bytes) [4194006.560675] msgmni has been set to 615
[4194006.608526] Block layer SCSI generic (bsg) driver version 0.4
loaded (major
253)
[4194006.699347] io scheduler noop registered [4194006.748175] io
scheduler
anticipatory registered [4194006.805792] io
scheduler deadline
registered [4194006.859503] io scheduler cfq registered (default)
[4194006.918097]
isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards...
[4194007.324346] isapnp: No Plug & Play device found [4194007.417120]
Serial: 8250/16550 driver $Revision: 1.90 $ 4 ports, IRQ sharin g
enabled [4194007.512823] serial8250: ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a
16550A [4194007.588018] serial8250: ttyS1 at I/O 0x2f8 (irq = 3) is a
16550A [4194007.684698] brd: module loaded [4194007.731573] serio:
i8042 KBD port at 0x60,0x64 irq 1 [4194007.793096] serio: i8042 AUX
port at 0x60,0x64 irq
12
[4194007.858526] mice: PS/2 mouse device common
for all mice
[4194007.924932] EISA: Probing bus 0 at eisa.0 [4194007.974737] atkbd.c:
keyboard reset failed on isa0060/serio0 [4194008.047979] TCP cubic
registered [4194008.088994] NET: Registered protocol family 17
[4194008.145635] registered taskstats version 1 [4194008.197393]
drivers/rtc/hctosys.c: unable to open rtc device (rtc0)
[4194008.275518] Freeing unused kernel memory: 304k freed
[4194008.352666]
atkbd.c:
keyboard reset failed on isa0060/serio1
[4194008.698369] SCSI
subsystem initialized [4194008.765752] qla1280: QLA1040 found on PCI
bus 1, dev 9 [4194009.400517] scsi(0:0): Resetting SCSI BUS
[4194012.454227] scsi0
:
QLogic
QLA1040 PCI to SCSI Host Adapter
[4194012.454227] Firmware version: 7.65.06, Driver version 3.26
[4194012.625125] Driver 'sd' needs updating - please use bus_type
methods
[4194012.704226] scsi 0:0:0:0: Direct-Access
COMPAQ ST32550W
6415
PQ: 0 ANSI: 2
/bin/cat: [4194012.818484] scsi(0:0:0:0): Sync: period 10, offset 12,
Wide, Tagg
ed queuing: depth 31
/sys/block/sdb/dev: No such file or directory Waiting 1 seconds for
/sys/block/sdb/dev to show up
/bin/cat: /sys/block/sdb/dev: No such file or directory Waiting 2
seconds
for
/sys/block/sdb/dev to show up
/bin/cat: /sys/block/sdb/dev: No such file or directory Waiting 4
seconds
for
/sys/block/sdb/dev to show up [4194018.073364] sd
0:0:0:0: [sda]
4110000 512-byte hardware sectors (2104
MB)
[4194018.160278] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off
[4194018.223755]
sd
0:0:0:0: [sda] Write cache: disabled, read
cache:
enabled, s
upports DPO and FUA
[4194018.332153] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] 4110000 512-byte hardware sectors
(2104
MB)
[4194018.419067] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off
[4194018.482544]
sd
0:0:0:0: [sda] Write cache: disabled, read
cache:
enabled, s
upports DPO and FUA
[4194018.588012] sda: sda1 sda2 sda3 sda4 [4194018.657348] sd 0:0:0:0:
[sda]
Attached SCSI disk
/bin/cat: /sys/block/sdb/dev: No such file or directory Waiting 8
seconds
for
/sys/block/sdb/dev to show up
/bin/cat: /sys/block/sdb/dev: No such file or directory Waiting 16
seconds
for
/sys/block/sdb/dev to show up
/bin/cat: /sys/block/sdb/dev: No such file or directory Device
/sys/block/sdb/dev seems to be down.
/bin/mknod: missing operand after `b'
Special files require major and minor device numbers.
Try `/bin/mknod --help' for more information.
/bin/cat: /sys/block/sdb/sdb3/dev: No such file or directory Waiting 1
seconds for /sys/block/sdb/sdb3/dev to show up
/bin/cat: /sys/block/sdb/sdb3/dev: No such file or directory Waiting 2
seconds for /sys/block/sdb/sdb3/dev to show up
/bin/cat: /sys/block/sdb/sdb3/dev: No such file or directory Waiting 4
seconds for /sys/block/sdb/sdb3/dev to show up
/bin/cat: /sys/block/sdb/sdb3/dev: No such file or directory Waiting 8
seconds for /sys/block/sdb/sdb3/dev to show up
/bin/cat: /sys/block/sdb/sdb3/dev: No such file or directory Waiting
16 seconds for /sys/block/sdb/sdb3/dev to show up
/bin/cat: /sys/block/sdb/sdb3/dev: No such file or directory Device
/sys/block/sdb/sdb3/dev seems to be down.
/bin/mknod[4194075.827241] Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to
kill init!
: missing operand after `b'
Special files require major and minor device numbers.
Try `/bin/mknod --help' for more information.
mount: special device /dev/sdb3 does not exist Switching root ...
/usr/lib/yaird/exec/run_init: current directory on the same filesystem
as
the
> ro
> ot: Success