From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JVtx4-0006ha-VM for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 02 Mar 2008 19:34:27 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id CE8F7E059E; Sun, 2 Mar 2008 19:34:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: from server342-han.de-nserver.de (server342-han.de-nserver.de [85.158.176.233]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 669CBE059E for ; Sun, 2 Mar 2008 19:34:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 27574 invoked from network); 2 Mar 2008 20:34:11 +0100 Received: from p5798A50F.dip.t-dialin.net (HELO [192.168.0.1]) (87.152.165.15) (smtp-auth username karin@visti.de, mechanism plain) by server342-han.de-nserver.de (qpsmtpd/0.40) with ESMTPA; Sun, 02 Mar 2008 20:34:11 +0100 Subject: Re: [gentoo-mips] IP30: Gentoo installation without monitor & keyboard From: Karin Willers To: gentoo-mips@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <1204475637.5568.15.camel@ratlos> References: <1204472839.5568.11.camel@ratlos> <20080302161110.GA4380@Vereniki.lan> <1204475637.5568.15.camel@ratlos> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Sun, 02 Mar 2008 20:34:15 +0100 Message-Id: <1204486455.5568.26.camel@ratlos> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-mips@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-mips@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.12.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-User-Auth: Auth by karin@visti.de through 87.152.165.15 X-Archives-Salt: 3d11c0a1-5c29-42a5-8182-4746c080d778 X-Archives-Hash: 10b7e39550ae88a2634facee81becd66 Hello, it's me again ... things seem not to be so easy .... I ended up with a disk configuration as follows: / # fdisk /dev/sda Command (m for help): p Disk /dev/sda (SGI disk label): 64 heads, 32 sectors, 0 cylinders Units = cylinders of 2048 * 512 bytes ----- partitions ----- Pt# Device Info Start End Sectors Id System 1: /dev/sda1 boot 101 8682 17575936 83 Linux native 2: /dev/sda2 swap 2 100 202752 82 Linux swap 9: /dev/sda3 0 1 4096 0 SGI volhdr 11: /dev/sda4 0 8682 17781520 6 SGI volume ----- Bootinfo ----- Bootfile: /unix ----- Directory Entries ----- 0: sgilabel sector 2 size 512 1: sash sector 3 size 266240 2: ide sector 523 size 266240 3: IP30prom sector 1043 size 879104 Command (m for help): q Don't know, whether this is ok?? Then a mke2fs revealed the following: / # mke2fs -j /dev/sda1 mke2fs 1.38 (30-Jun-2005) Warning: could not erase sector 2: Attempt to write block from filesystem resulted in short write Filesystem label= OS type: Linux Block size=4096 (log=2) Fragment size=4096 (log=2) 1095584 inodes, 2189410 blocks 109470 blocks (5.00%) reserved for the super user First data block=0 67 block groups 32768 blocks per group, 32768 fragments per group 16352 inodes per group Superblock backups stored on blocks: 32768, 98304, 163840, 229376, 294912, 819200, 884736, 1605632 Warning: could not read block 0: Attempt to read block from filesystem resulted in short read Warning: could not erase sector 0: Attempt to write block from filesystem resulted in short write Writing inode tables: done Creating journal (32768 blocks): done Writing superblocks and filesystem accounting information: Warning, had trouble writing out superblocks.done This filesystem will be automatically checked every 24 mounts or 180 days, whichever comes first. Use tune2fs -c or -i to override. / # Any comments?? The Gentoo documentation seems not to be in sync with the actual fdisk command options ... Thanks, Karin =========== 2 at 17:33 +0100, Karin Willers wrote: > Hello All, > > bootp(): root=/dev/ram0 CONSOLE=/dev/ttyS0 > > did it - thanks for the speedy reply! > > Cheers, Karin > ----- > On Sun, 2008-03-02 at 18:11 +0200, Panagiotis Christopoulos wrote: > > On 16:47 Sun 02 Mar , Karin Willers wrote: > > > Hello All, > > > > > > I'm currently trying to install Gentoo MIPS on an IP30 without > > > monitor (and hence no keyboard connected). Connection to the > > > Octane is made serially from a laptop running minicom. > > > > > > I think, the machine (R12000 @ 400 MHz, 2 GByte RAM) boots the > > > ip30-r10k+-20050820.img image file correctly: > > > > > > >> bootp(): root=/dev/ram0 > > > Setting $netaddr to 192.168.0.70 (from server ) > > > Obtaining from server > > > 8520560+306368 entry: 0xa800000020799000 > > > > > > but there is no further output; probably there is no getty > > > running on the serial port. > > > > > > Question 1: Is there an image that has serial console enabled? > > I'm not sure, but you can try this: > > bootp(): root=/dev/ram0 CONSOLE=/dev/ttyS0 > > or > > bootp(): root=/dev/ram0 CONSOLE=/dev/ttyS1 > > > > > Question 2: What is the format of the .img file that is loaded > > > via tftp - maybe there's a chance to add an entry for the > > > serial port (what is the proper special file here?) in the > > > initrd? > > > > > > Thanks, Karin > > > > > I hope this works, > > > > Panagiotis Christopoulos(pchrist) > -- gentoo-mips@lists.gentoo.org mailing list