* Step by step of my experience
@ 1997-10-22 22:26 Emmanuel Mogenet
1997-10-23 0:10 ` Ariel Faigon
0 siblings, 1 reply; 14+ messages in thread
From: Emmanuel Mogenet @ 1997-10-22 22:26 UTC (permalink / raw
To: linux
Hi guys,
I've tried to boot Linux on my old clunky R5k this morning, and
I thought I'd share the step by step with the list.
Basically, I've tried to boot off an EFS filesystem (d4), and here's
how I went about it:
1. /d4 is my third scsi disk, with EFS (/dev/sdc under linux)
2. My irix kernel is in /unix on first disk (/dev/sda), which is XFS.
Which is OK, since only the kernel is on XFS and the loader can
handle it.
3. mkdir /d4/lsgi
4. Put ftp://ftp.linux.sgi.com/pub/test/vmlinux-970916-efs.gz in
/d4/lsgi
5. Put ftp://ftp.linux.sgi.com:/pub/mips-linux/root-be-0.00.cpio.gz in
/d4/lsgi
6. Extract root-be-0.00.cpio.gz in /d4:
cd /d4
gzip -dc lsgi/root-be-0.00.cpio.gz | cpio -icvd
7. Install kernel on /
cd /d4/lsgi
gzip -d vmlinux-970916-efs.gz
cp vmlinux-970916-efs /vmlinux
8. Reboot, go to maintenance mode, launch sash and type:
scsi(0)disk(1)rdisk(0)partition(0)/vmlinux root=/dev/sdc1
7. The kernel booted, said a great many (good) things and froze with the
following messages:
VFS: mounted root (efs filesystem) readonly
EFS: inode 0x30301 has >EFS_MAX_EXTENTS (43)
EFS: <6> attempt to access beyond end of device
08:21 rw=0 want=1190802192, limit=4191574
Conclusion: Wait for Ralf to finish the EFS driver !
This is the exact bug he was talking about.
Also: I read a few mails about typing, under sash, the following:
boot /vmlinux root=/dev/sdc1
Well, it doesn't work.
First, the syntax for the sash boot command in my PROM is: boot -f
<file> -n <args>
Second, when I did boot -f /vmlinux -n root=/dev/sdc1, it just loaded
the kernel,
but didn't jump into it. It just told me: the entry address is <some hex
number>.
When I did go <some hex number>, it ran linux, but tried to boot off
tftp.
Obviously it ignored the args.
I'm just wondering: is there many different versions of sash out there ?
I'm off trying to boot off tftpd.
I'll keep the list posted.
Ciao,
- Mgix
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* Re: Step by step of my experience
@ 1997-10-23 0:10 ` Ariel Faigon
0 siblings, 0 replies; 14+ messages in thread
From: Ariel Faigon @ 1997-10-23 0:10 UTC (permalink / raw
To: Emmanuel Mogenet; +Cc: linux
Emmanuel,
Thanks for the report.
:
: EFS: <6> attempt to access beyond end of device
: 08:21 rw=0 want=1190802192, limit=4191574
:
:Conclusion: Wait for Ralf to finish the EFS driver !
:This is the exact bug he was talking about.
:
Actually, it is Mike Shaver, we talked about this one pretty
recently, he is pretty busy but when he find some time to fix
this it would make things much simpler.
Hope someone would be able to answer the sash booting question.
--
Peace, Ariel
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* Re: Step by step of my experience
@ 1997-10-23 0:10 ` Ariel Faigon
0 siblings, 0 replies; 14+ messages in thread
From: Ariel Faigon @ 1997-10-23 0:10 UTC (permalink / raw
To: Emmanuel Mogenet; +Cc: linux
Emmanuel,
Thanks for the report.
:
: EFS: <6> attempt to access beyond end of device
: 08:21 rw=0 want=1190802192, limit=4191574
:
:Conclusion: Wait for Ralf to finish the EFS driver !
:This is the exact bug he was talking about.
:
Actually, it is Mike Shaver, we talked about this one pretty
recently, he is pretty busy but when he find some time to fix
this it would make things much simpler.
Hope someone would be able to answer the sash booting question.
--
Peace, Ariel
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* Re: Step by step of my experience
1997-10-23 0:10 ` Ariel Faigon
(?)
@ 1997-10-23 6:24 ` Mike Shaver
-1 siblings, 0 replies; 14+ messages in thread
From: Mike Shaver @ 1997-10-23 6:24 UTC (permalink / raw
To: ariel; +Cc: mgix, linux
Thus spake Ariel Faigon:
> Actually, it is Mike Shaver, we talked about this one pretty
> recently, he is pretty busy but when he find some time to fix
> this it would make things much simpler.
I've managed to procure a temporary Indy at work now, so I should be
able to start hacking on EFS again early next week. I actually have
better support already than that kernel would indicate, but I haven't
committed all of the changes yet (I don't think).
I'll clean up my current support tomorrow or Friday, and then I'll
check it in and coerce Miguel or Ralf into making a new test kernel
available.
Mike
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#>
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* RE: Step by step of my experience
@ 1997-10-24 17:07 Mike Hill
1997-10-24 21:12 ` Ralf Baechle
1997-10-24 21:53 ` Look what I found in a big cardboard box Alan Cox
0 siblings, 2 replies; 14+ messages in thread
From: Mike Hill @ 1997-10-24 17:07 UTC (permalink / raw
To: linux
Thus spake Mike Shaver:
> I'll clean up my current support tomorrow or Friday, and then
I'll
> check it in and coerce Miguel or Ralf into making a new test
kernel
> available.
Is it possible to download the latest development work on the kernel,
for instance what's in the CVS repository? Or, to quote the FAQ:
14. Where can I find up-to-the-second releases?
Regards,
Mike Hill
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* Re: Step by step of my experience
@ 1997-10-24 21:12 ` Ralf Baechle
0 siblings, 0 replies; 14+ messages in thread
From: Ralf Baechle @ 1997-10-24 21:12 UTC (permalink / raw
To: Mike Hill; +Cc: linux
Hi,
> Thus spake Mike Shaver:
> > I'll clean up my current support tomorrow or Friday, and then I'll
> > check it in and coerce Miguel or Ralf into making a new test
> > kernel available.
>
> Is it possible to download the latest development work on the kernel,
> for instance what's in the CVS repository? Or, to quote the FAQ:
>
> 14. Where can I find up-to-the-second releases?
We'll setup anonymous CVS access and a cronjob that will create diffs
between kernel releases such that people can stay uptodate. Right now
you should go for the testing kernels in /pub/src/kernel/testing/, they
are the newest and most reliable onces released. I've got tons of
bugfixes but I won't have the time to merge them in the near future ...
Ralf
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* Re: Step by step of my experience
@ 1997-10-24 21:12 ` Ralf Baechle
0 siblings, 0 replies; 14+ messages in thread
From: Ralf Baechle @ 1997-10-24 21:12 UTC (permalink / raw
To: Mike Hill; +Cc: linux
Hi,
> Thus spake Mike Shaver:
> > I'll clean up my current support tomorrow or Friday, and then I'll
> > check it in and coerce Miguel or Ralf into making a new test
> > kernel available.
>
> Is it possible to download the latest development work on the kernel,
> for instance what's in the CVS repository? Or, to quote the FAQ:
>
> 14. Where can I find up-to-the-second releases?
We'll setup anonymous CVS access and a cronjob that will create diffs
between kernel releases such that people can stay uptodate. Right now
you should go for the testing kernels in /pub/src/kernel/testing/, they
are the newest and most reliable onces released. I've got tons of
bugfixes but I won't have the time to merge them in the near future ...
Ralf
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* Look what I found in a big cardboard box
1997-10-24 17:07 Step by step of my experience Mike Hill
1997-10-24 21:12 ` Ralf Baechle
@ 1997-10-24 21:53 ` Alan Cox
1997-10-24 23:02 ` Ralf Baechle
1 sibling, 1 reply; 14+ messages in thread
From: Alan Cox @ 1997-10-24 21:53 UTC (permalink / raw
To: linux
And there was light (actually there was heavy..)
My SGI arrived today. Anyway after the required prelimiaries (Batallion,
making stupid indycam movies) I had a hack at the ext2fs utils and libs -
fixed them to compile and run properly under the Indy native cc. I can
successfully make and then fsck an ext2 partition.
What Im going to do next is chase the work from the Mac68K installer and
see if I can use that with the ext2fs lib to get the same arrangement working
(that is an application level toolset for installing tars and the like) from
Irix.
To that goal I'm going to be working on the tool stuff until I've successfully
bootstrapped Linux that way.
Alan
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* Re: Look what I found in a big cardboard box
@ 1997-10-24 23:02 ` Ralf Baechle
0 siblings, 0 replies; 14+ messages in thread
From: Ralf Baechle @ 1997-10-24 23:02 UTC (permalink / raw
To: Alan Cox; +Cc: linux
Hi,
> And there was light (actually there was heavy..)
*grin* And there was big - the box didn't fit into my car ...
> My SGI arrived today. Anyway after the required prelimiaries (Batallion,
> making stupid indycam movies) I had a hack at the ext2fs utils and libs -
> fixed them to compile and run properly under the Indy native cc. I can
> successfully make and then fsck an ext2 partition.
I'll work on a set of standalone utilities for the Indy's ARC (pronounce
arggghh ...) firmware. That will bring us closer to get the thing
independant from IRIX. In theory it should be pretty easy, but the
various ARC implementations I saw so far were beyond just completly broken,
at least the old onces which should be supported, too.
> What Im going to do next is chase the work from the Mac68K installer and
> see if I can use that with the ext2fs lib to get the same arrangement working
> (that is an application level toolset for installing tars and the like) from
> Irix.
>
> To that goal I'm going to be working on the tool stuff until I've successfully
> bootstrapped Linux that way.
Cool.
Ralf
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* Re: Look what I found in a big cardboard box
@ 1997-10-24 23:02 ` Ralf Baechle
0 siblings, 0 replies; 14+ messages in thread
From: Ralf Baechle @ 1997-10-24 23:02 UTC (permalink / raw
To: Alan Cox; +Cc: linux
Hi,
> And there was light (actually there was heavy..)
*grin* And there was big - the box didn't fit into my car ...
> My SGI arrived today. Anyway after the required prelimiaries (Batallion,
> making stupid indycam movies) I had a hack at the ext2fs utils and libs -
> fixed them to compile and run properly under the Indy native cc. I can
> successfully make and then fsck an ext2 partition.
I'll work on a set of standalone utilities for the Indy's ARC (pronounce
arggghh ...) firmware. That will bring us closer to get the thing
independant from IRIX. In theory it should be pretty easy, but the
various ARC implementations I saw so far were beyond just completly broken,
at least the old onces which should be supported, too.
> What Im going to do next is chase the work from the Mac68K installer and
> see if I can use that with the ext2fs lib to get the same arrangement working
> (that is an application level toolset for installing tars and the like) from
> Irix.
>
> To that goal I'm going to be working on the tool stuff until I've successfully
> bootstrapped Linux that way.
Cool.
Ralf
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* Re: Step by step of my experience
1997-10-23 0:10 ` Ariel Faigon
(?)
(?)
@ 1997-10-29 18:14 ` Alan Cox
1997-10-29 21:50 ` Miguel de Icaza
-1 siblings, 1 reply; 14+ messages in thread
From: Alan Cox @ 1997-10-29 18:14 UTC (permalink / raw
To: ariel; +Cc: mgix, linux
> Actually, it is Mike Shaver, we talked about this one pretty
> recently, he is pretty busy but when he find some time to fix
> this it would make things much simpler.
>
Also the EFS code panics if its given an FS that isnt EFS it should just
say "Nope". That confused me for a while
Anyway I've made a fair bit of progress by the time honoured technique of
gluing other peoples code together in a new shape
I now have working SGI ext2fs tools that checkout v Linux ok. Ted has
the patches.
I have a hacked up MacLinux installer which doesnt know tar/du/df/cp
this time but does know how to unpack cpio files (only I broke /dev files
and need to fix that)
With that installer and a bit of tweaking with mknod by hnd to fix
the cpio device file bug I've got Linux/SGI up and running and all the
base redhat bits on
Im being bitten by a couple of kernel bugs tho
1. vmalloc keeps failing on the unix GC (annoying noise)
2. SIGCLD isnt getting given to init for some reason
when scripts terminate (breaks redhat init scripting)
[ note init isnt ignoring the signal... ]
Oh and does anyone happen to have a working ldconfig binary for
Linux/SGI ?
Alan
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* Re: Step by step of my experience
1997-10-29 18:14 ` Alan Cox
@ 1997-10-29 21:50 ` Miguel de Icaza
1997-10-29 22:42 ` Alan Cox
0 siblings, 1 reply; 14+ messages in thread
From: Miguel de Icaza @ 1997-10-29 21:50 UTC (permalink / raw
To: alan; +Cc: ariel, mgix, linux
> Im being bitten by a couple of kernel bugs tho
>
> 1. vmalloc keeps failing on the unix GC (annoying noise)
The fix for this is commited in the cvs tree.
> 2. SIGCLD isnt getting given to init for some reason
> when scripts terminate (breaks redhat init scripting)
> [ note init isnt ignoring the signal... ]
The latest SysV init works around this problem. Or at least fixes all
the problems for me.
Cheers,
Miguel.
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* Re: Step by step of my experience
@ 1997-10-29 22:42 ` Alan Cox
0 siblings, 0 replies; 14+ messages in thread
From: Alan Cox @ 1997-10-29 22:42 UTC (permalink / raw
To: Miguel de Icaza; +Cc: alan, ariel, mgix, linux
> The latest SysV init works around this problem. Or at least fixes all
> the problems for me.
Ok I'll upgrade that when I build it as an rpm.
2.1.55 was fairly stable although rebuilding 3 rpms one of which is the
howto's one (spends most of its time copying and compressing 200Mb of data)
did finally get me a disk read from beyond the end of the disk.
A pile of rpms are on ftp.uk.linux.org:/pub/linux/incoming/SGI. I'll start
playing collect the RedHat 4.9.1 rpms with other folks I guess now.
Alan
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* Re: Step by step of my experience
@ 1997-10-29 22:42 ` Alan Cox
0 siblings, 0 replies; 14+ messages in thread
From: Alan Cox @ 1997-10-29 22:42 UTC (permalink / raw
To: Miguel de Icaza; +Cc: alan, ariel, mgix, linux
> The latest SysV init works around this problem. Or at least fixes all
> the problems for me.
Ok I'll upgrade that when I build it as an rpm.
2.1.55 was fairly stable although rebuilding 3 rpms one of which is the
howto's one (spends most of its time copying and compressing 200Mb of data)
did finally get me a disk read from beyond the end of the disk.
A pile of rpms are on ftp.uk.linux.org:/pub/linux/incoming/SGI. I'll start
playing collect the RedHat 4.9.1 rpms with other folks I guess now.
Alan
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