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Subject: [aclug-L] Re: Debian load help
From: Jeff Vian <jvian10@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2004 20:16:06 -0600
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Matt Pankratz wrote:

>Greetings,
>
>I'm trying to load Debian on a SUN Netra T1 200
>
>I get part way through the install and it blows off with:
>
>VFS: Cannot open root device "" or 00:00
>Please append a correct "root=" boot option
>
>
>I have tried several "linux boot=" options with no luck.
>
>I've included the entire boot text below and would sincerely appreciate
>any help.
>  
>
I had a similar problem (and same error message) this weekend when 
installing RH9 on a workstation with 2 drives.
No matter what I tried it gave the same error until I removed one of the 
drives and replaced it.
After that the install went smooth.

>TIA
>
>
>                 Welcome to Debian GNU/Linux sarge!
>
>This is a Debian installation CDROM, built on 20040316.
>Keep it once you have installed your system, as you can boot from it
>to repair the system on your hard disk if that ever becomes necessary.
>
>WARNING: You should completely back up all of your hard disks before
>  proceeding. The installation procedure can completely and irreversibly
>  erase them! If you haven't made backups yet, remove the rescue CD from
>  the drive and press L1-A to get back to the OpenBoot prompt.
>
>Debian GNU/Linux comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted
>by applicable law.
>
>[ ENTER - Boot install ]   [ Type "rescue" - Boot into rescue mode ]
>boot:
>Allocated 8 Megs of memory at 0x40000000 for kernel
>Loaded kernel version 2.4.24
>Loading initial ramdisk (1118772 bytes at 0x40C00000)...
>-
>Remapping the kernel... done.
>Booting Linux...
>PROMLIB: Sun IEEE Boot Prom 4.0.4 2001/03/22 15:42
>Linux version 2.4.24-sparc64 (root@zachery) (gcc version 3.3.3 20040125
>(prerele
>ase) (Debian)) #1 Fri Jan 30 18:32:22 EST 2004
>ARCH: SUN4U
>Ethernet address: 00:03:ba:11:fb:4d
>On node 0 totalpages: 97411
>zone(0): 163668 pages.
>zone(1): 0 pages.
>zone(2): 0 pages.
>Found CPU 0 (node=f0074854,mid=0)
>Found 1 CPU prom device tree node(s).
>Kernel command line: ro cdrom
>Calibrating delay loop... 996.14 BogoMIPS
>Memory: 763888k available (2504k kernel code, 584k data, 184k init)
>[fffff800000
>00000,000000004fea8000]
>Dentry cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 8, 2097152 bytes)
>Inode cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 7, 1048576 bytes)
>Mount cache hash table entries: 512 (order: 0, 8192 bytes)
>Buffer cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 524288 bytes)
>Page-cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 7, 1048576 bytes)
>POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
>PCI: Probing for controllers.
>PCI: Found SABRE, main regs at 000001fe00000000, wsync at 000001fe00001c20
>SABRE: Shared PCI config space at 000001fe01000000
>SABRE: DVMA at c0000000 [20000000]
>PCI-IRQ: Routing bus[ 2] slot[ 8] map[0] to INO[20]
>PCI-IRQ: Routing bus[ 2] slot[ 8] map[0] to INO[20]
>PCI0(PBMA): Bus running at 33MHz
>PCI-IRQ: Routing bus[ 1] slot[ 5] map[0] to INO[1c]
>PCI-IRQ: Routing bus[ 1] slot[ 5] map[0] to INO[26]
>PCI-IRQ: Routing bus[ 1] slot[ c] map[0] to INO[06]
>PCI-IRQ: Routing bus[ 1] slot[ c] map[0] to INO[24]
>PCI-IRQ: Routing bus[ 1] slot[ d] map[0] to INO[0c]
>PCI0(PBMB): Bus running at 33MHz
>isa0: [power] [serial] [serial]
>ebus0: [flashprom] [eeprom] [idprom] [SUNW,lomh]
>PCIO serial driver version 1.54
>su(serial) at 0x1fe020003f8 (tty 0 irq 12,7eb) is a 16550A
>su(serial) at 0x1fe020002e8 (tty 1 irq 12,7eb) is a 16550A
>Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.4
>Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039
>Initializing RT netlink socket
>Starting kswapd
>Journalled Block Device driver loaded
>devfs: v1.12c (20020818) Richard Gooch (rgooch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx)
>devfs: boot_options: 0x0
>pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured
>rtc_init: no PC rtc found
>RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 4096K size 1024 blocksize
>loop: loaded (max 8 devices)
>sungem.c:v0.97 3/20/02 David S. Miller (davem@xxxxxxxxxx)
>eth%d: MII PHY ID: 437420 Enable Semiconductor
>eth0: Sun GEM (PCI) 10/100/1000BaseT Ethernet 00:03:ba:11:fb:4e
>eth%d: MII PHY ID: 437420 Enable Semiconductor
>eth1: Sun GEM (PCI) 10/100/1000BaseT Ethernet 00:03:ba:11:fb:4d
>Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00beta4-2.4
>ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
>ALI15X3: IDE controller at PCI slot 01:0d.0
>ALI15X3: chipset revision 195
>ALI15X3: 100% native mode on irq 4,7cc
>    ide0: BM-DMA at 0x1fe02000420-0x1fe02000427, BIOS settings: hda:pio,
>hdb:pio
>
>    ide1: BM-DMA at 0x1fe02000428-0x1fe0200042f, BIOS settings: hdc:pio,
>hdd:pio
>
>hda: CD-224E, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
>ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
>ide0 at 0x1fe02000400-0x1fe02000407,0x1fe0200041a on irq 4,7cc
>SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00
>sym.2.8.0: setting PCI_COMMAND_INVALIDATE.
>sym.2.8.1: setting PCI_COMMAND_INVALIDATE.
>sym0: <896> rev 0x7 on pci bus 2 device 8 function 0 irq 4,7e0
>sym0: No NVRAM, ID 7, Fast-40, LVD, parity checking
>sym0: SCSI BUS has been reset.
>sym1: <896> rev 0x7 on pci bus 2 device 8 function 1 irq 4,7e0
>sym1: No NVRAM, ID 7, Fast-40, LVD, parity checking
>sym1: SCSI BUS has been reset.
>scsi0 : sym-2.1.17a
>scsi1 : sym-2.1.17a
>  Vendor: SEAGATE   Model: ST318305LSUN18G   Rev: 0340
>  Type:   Direct-Access                      ANSI SCSI revision: 03
>  Vendor: SEAGATE   Model: ST318305LSUN18G   Rev: 0340
>  Type:   Direct-Access                      ANSI SCSI revision: 03
>sym0:0:0: tagged command queuing enabled, command queue depth 16.
>sym0:1:0: tagged command queuing enabled, command queue depth 16.
>Attached scsi disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
>Attached scsi disk sdb at scsi0, channel 0, id 1, lun 0
>sym0:0: FAST-40 WIDE SCSI 80.0 MB/s ST (25.0 ns, offset 31)
>SCSI device sda: 35378533 512-byte hdwr sectors (18114 MB)
>Partition check:
> /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0: p1 p2 p3 p6 p7
>sym0:1: FAST-40 WIDE SCSI 80.0 MB/s ST (25.0 ns, offset 31)
>SCSI device sdb: 35378533 512-byte hdwr sectors (18114 MB)
> /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target1/lun0: p1 p3 p8
>usb.c: registered new driver usbdevfs
>usb.c: registered new driver hub
>host/usb-uhci.c: $Revision: 1.275 $ time 18:40:15 Jan 30 2004
>host/usb-uhci.c: High bandwidth mode enabled
>host/usb-uhci.c: v1.275:USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver
>host/usb-ohci.c: USB OHCI at membase 0x1ffe5000000, IRQ 9,7e6
>host/usb-ohci.c: usb-01:05.3, PCI device 108e:1103
>usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
>hub.c: USB hub found
>hub.c: 4 ports detected
>host/usb-ohci.c: USB OHCI at membase 0x1ffe2000000, IRQ 9,7e4
>host/usb-ohci.c: usb-01:0c.3, PCI device 108e:1103
>usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2
>hub.c: USB hub found
>hub.c: 4 ports detected
>usb.c: registered new driver usbmouse
>usbmouse.c: v1.6:USB HID Boot Protocol mouse driver
>usb.c: registered new driver usbkbd
>usbkbd.c: :USB HID Boot Protocol keyboard driver
>mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
>Initializing Cryptographic API
>NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0
>IP: routing cache hash table of 16384 buckets, 128Kbytes
>TCP: Hash tables configured (established 131072 bind 65536)
>NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0.
>RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
>Freeing initrd memory: 1092k freed
>VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).
>VFS: Cannot open root device "" or 00:00
>Please append a correct "root=" boot option
>Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 00:00
> Press L1-A to return to the boot prom
>
>
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