[Voyage-linux] Trouble booting RLX blade

[Kim-man 'Punky' TSE]

Ben,

Looking at the console log, it seems that voyage is unable to locate hda 
device.  Try appending all_generic_ide to kernel parameter at grub prompt.

Regards,
Punky



Ben Kochie wrote:
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> In my continued effort to debug this booting issue, I rebuilt a new 
> initrd based on the default lenny kernel (2.6.26-1-486).
>
> My procedure was this:
> * gunzip and extract the voyage inird cpio file
> * delete /lib/modules/2.6.26-486-voyage
> * copy over the /lib/modules/2.6.26-1-486 from lenny
> * repack the cpio with find * | cpio -ov -H newc | gzip -c - > 
> /mnt/cf/boot/initrd.img-2.6.26-1-486
> * copy the vmlinuz-2.6.26-1-486 from lenny
> * add an entry to grub
> * copy the lib/moduels to the voyage real rootfs
>
> I then booted voyage Feb 18 nightly build, which failed to boot properly.
>
> I then booted with my test kernel/initrd which booted properly.
>
> You can see the logs of my attempts at http://ben.nerp.net/voyage/
>
> PS. It seems Punky Tse mail server is rejecting mail due to over 
> quota. :(
>
> - -ben
>
>  "UNIX is user-friendly, it's just picky about its friends."
>
> On Wed, 18 Feb 2009, Punky Tse wrote:
>
>> Hi Ben,
>>
>> Since you are using serial console, I would suggest you put the 
>> console output for us to investigate.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Punky
>>
>>
>> Ben Kochie wrote:
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>>> Sorry, I forgot to mention in my earlier mail.  These blade servers 
>>> do not have a console at all, they only support serial installs.
>>>
>>> I'm not sure exactly what the issue is yet, because after waiting a 
>>> long long time (10+min) it eventually gets past the serial driver 
>>> loading, but it never completes boot. It fails somewhere in the 
>>> initrd.  I will try and log a boot sequence.  Unfortunately, the 
>>> voyage kernel disables the kernel message timestamps so it will be 
>>> harder to debug the length of time it takes to boot.  Can those 
>>> timestamps be enabled via boot args?
>>>
>>> - -ben
>>>
>>>  "UNIX is user-friendly, it's just picky about its friends."
>>>
>>> On Wed, 18 Feb 2009, Punky Tse wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi Ben,
>>>>
>>>> I suggest you to use console terminal option when installing, or 
>>>> remove ttyS0 option at grub prompt.
>>>>
>>>> Regards,
>>>> Punky
>>>>
>>>> Ben Kochie wrote:
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>>>>> I'm trying to get voyage-current (as of yesterday) booted on a 
>>>>> fairly old Trasmeta based blade server by RLX.  I am able to boot 
>>>>> Ubuntu hardy, but the 2.6.26-486-voyage kernel will not boot.  It 
>>>>> gets stuck after trying to load the serial drivers.  I chose 
>>>>> Generic PC for install, and serial console at 38400. (deafult for 
>>>>> this system)  I also had no problem booting lenny.
>>>>>
>>>>> - -ben
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-- 
Regards,
Punky

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