From: adrianho@barkley.berkeley.edu (Adrian J Ho) Subject: SLS+COMPAQ -- Unhappy To The Last? Date: 28 Apr 1993 09:41:11
CONFIGURATION:
Compaq Deskpro 486/33M w/ 4MB RAM & 340MB hard drive
Maynard 2000DAT 4mm tape drive w/ Maynard 16-bit SCSI controller card
(chipset unknown)
1 3.5" HD floppy drive
1 5.25" HD floppy drive
PROBLEM DESCRIPTION:
I FTP'd SLS 1.01 from sunsite.unc.edu last Friday (4/23). Boot up with the
a1 disk and get this:
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Console: colour EGA+ 80x50, 8 virtual consoles
Serial driver version 3.94 with no serial options enabled
tty00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
tty01 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
lp_init: lp0 exists (0), using polling driver
scsi : 0 hosts.
scsi : detected 0 SCSI disks 0 tapes 0 CD-ROM drives total.
Memory: 1484k/4096k available (460k kernel code, 384k reserved, 1768k data)
Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M, fd1 is 1.2M
floppy: FDC version 0x90
Loopback device init
8390.c:v0.86 4/8/93 for 0.99.6 Donald Becker (becker@super.org)
No ethernet device found.
Math coprocessor using exception 16 error reporting.
Partition check:
hda: hda1
Ram disk: 1474560 bytes, starting at 0x1b6a00
Loading 1474560 bytes into ram disk
.................
done
VFS: Mounted root (minix filesystem).
Linux version 0.99.pl8-3 (root@chitin) 04/10/93 20:17:25
INIT: version 2.0 booting
/proc on /proc type proc (defaults)
softland -> 192.0.2.129 (This IP address is for demo only.)
ioctl: Invalid argument
staring /etc/portmap
starting /etc/inetd
INIT: Entering runlevel: 4
Welcome to the SLS install/boot disk. You may login now as "root".
To begin an installation, first use "mke2fs -c /dev/XXX SIZE where XXX
is the partition you wish to install. Then type "doinstall /dev/XXX"
For example: to install to a 90 Meg partition /dev/hda2, you would type:
mke2fs -c /dev/hda2 90000
doinstall /dev/hda2
Type "install.info" for information on installation and partitioning.
softland login:
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Now, the tape drive was on all the while, so I figure that Linux couldn't
recognize it coz the controller card uses a different chipset. (Anyone uses
this tape drive/card combo? Any advice?)
So I log in as root and do:
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softland:/# fdisk
Using /dev/hda as default device!
Command (m for help): p
Disk /dev/hda: 16 heads, 63 sectors, 659 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 bytes
Device Boot Begin Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 1 658 331600+ 6 DOS 16-bit >=32M
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So I say to myself: Why not convert it all to Linux?
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Command (m for help): t
Partition number (1-4): 1
Hex code (type L to list codes): 83
Changed system type of partition 1 to 83 (Linux Ext)
Command (m for help): p
Disk /dev/hda: 16 heads, 63 sectors, 659 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 bytes
Device Boot Begin Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 1 658 331600+ 6 Linux Ext
Command (m for help): v
1070 unallocated sectors
Command (m for help): w
The partition table has been altered!
hda: hda1
Syncing disks
Reboot your system to ensure partition table is updated
softland:/#
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At this point, I have to power-cycle, since /etc/halt does not exist on the
a1 disk, and my Compaq doesn't have a reset button. 8-(
After getting the standard bootup display and logging in as root:
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softland:/# mke2fs -c /dev/hda1 331600
mke2fs 0.2d, 93/03/30 for EXT2 FS 0.2c, 93/03/06
Block Log Size = 0
Fragment Log Size = 0
82984 inodes
331600 blocks
16580 blocks reserved for root
First data block=1 (1)
Block size=1024
41 block groups
8192 blocks per group
8192 fragments per group
2024 inodes per group
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The HD light comes on, stays on for about a minute or so, and then goes off.
No prompt, can't type anything --> system frozen.
Did I do anything wrong, or is this a bug or incompatibility? (I know
Compaqs are queer beasts, but I didn't expect them to be *this* queer.)
HELP! Please. 8-)
Thks in advance for any assist. Email me your replies and I'll post a summary
at the appropriate juncture.