C360 install fails

Im using the 0.9.2 CD. I have a C360 (512Meg RAM, 9 Gig hard drive) and I removed the Graphics card from it and hooked it to a serial console.

The machine boots just fine into the installer. I created that f0 partition, a small /boot, a swap partition and the remaining disk as /

After that it makes me select a distro (I select sid as the documentation says) then this hits:

+ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ+ Please Wait +ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ+
| |
| Installing Drivers from |
| /instmnt/debian/dists/sid/main/disks-hppa/current/64/drive |
| rs.tgz... |
| |

ioctl: LOOP_CLR_FD: No such device or address
YZrvWESTHLNXBCVMcbcbcbcbOGFRQPDI
PSW: 00000000000001001111111100001100

r0-3     00000000 101fc000 101a5134 2fe06b60                                    
r4-7     00000000 00000000 10337010 10318684m Installation                      
r8-11    10318010 10318010 1030c010 1030c468                                    
r12-15   10337010 ffffffff 000000fd f0100000                                    
r16-19   10300580 f0000154 f000014c 0000000e                                    
r20-23   0000001f 000003e7 101a5c14 00000000                                    
r24-27   00000000 00000005 ffd05805 1028a010
r28-31   10335810 00000592 10300a80 101213f8
sr0-3    00000000 00000065 00000000 00000000
sr4-7    00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000

IASQ: 00000000 00000000 IAOQ: 101fc2bc 101fc2c0
IIR: 0f40001c ISR: a607ffff IOR: 41505805
ORIG_R28: 00000000

Any hints ?

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One thing that's wrong there, you need to install the 32 bit kernel and modules for a C360. I don't imagine that is the cause of your problem though. Although a C360 will run 64 bit, that isn't completely supported under linux yet.

101fc2b8 T _gsc_readb
101fc2cc T _gsc_readw

101a5118 t serial_in
101a5134 t .L687
101a5160 t .L693
101a5160 t serial_out

So it looks like serial_in() called _gsc_readb(0xffd05805).

On booting, my C360 says

1. Raven U/L2 Dino RS-232 (10) at 0xf2003000, versions 0x6, 0x0, 0x8c, 0x0, 0x0
3. Raven+ w SE FWSCSI Core RS-232 (10) at 0xffd05000, versions 0x56, 0x0, 0x8c, 0x0, 0x0
...
ttyS00 at iomem 0xffd05800 (irq = 154) is a 16550A
...

So 0xffd05805 looks like a reasonable address for it to try and access.

Does it crash at the same place if you try again?

Richard

BTW, I just tried an install using a 2.4.9 kernel from about September 13th. And it failed while formatting a 2GB partition:

Superblock backups stored on blocks:

        32768, 98304, 163840, 229376, 294912

Writing inode tables: done
Writing superbKernel panic: ccio-dma.c: ccio_alloc_range() I/O MMU is out of mapping resources. In interrupt handler - not syncing
locks and filesystem accounting information:

Hopefully we'll get a fix for that committed before I roll the next ISO.

Richard

I didnt give up and I tried all kinds og combinations. I noticed when I was booting off the CD (for the tenth time I think) that the install kernel was 32 bit so I opted for that one a I got further. I actually got so far as it began installing packages, but crashed at random places in the package installation.

I then loopback mounted the ISO image and NFS exported it and did the install via NFS and then finally it worked.

Then when I had the system up and running I was adding extra packages (telnetd, openssl and openssh) when it crashed again.

I now have it in a pretty good state. Ive "apt-get upgrade" every package and installed all the development environment and compiled yesterdays kernel snapshot.

bofh:~# uname -a
Linux bofh 2.4.9-pa24 #2 Fri Sep 21 20:40:31 UTC 2001 parisc unknown
bofh:~# uptime
 16:29:35 up 19:10,  1 user,  load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00

Not a single crash since I booted the new kernel so Im very hopeful that Ive gained some stability.

Now to find an area I can contribute to :)

Rikki.         --  HP Technical Support, RHCE, RHCX, HP-UX Certified Admin.
               --  Solaris 7 Certified Systems and Network Administrator.
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