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Re: redboot booting problem
- From: Jonathan Larmour <jifl at eCosCentric dot com>
- To: Sivakamesh Thota <thota at cosmic dot utah dot edu>
- Cc: ecos-discuss at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Wed, 02 Jul 2003 05:42:26 +0100
- Subject: Re: [ECOS] redboot booting problem
- References: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0306271249490.18373-100000@bessie.cosmic.utah.edu>
Sivakamesh Thota wrote:
Sorry I did not mention that my board has vme bus as well. But the
ethernet devices are pci bus controlled. I guess the bus does not matter
since I tried booting different linux versions obviosly which does not
have vme bus drivers and they booted perfectly ok. VME is like another
bus that comes along with the board apart from PCI. So I am afraid the
problem is not regardint the bus interface. Since I tried the vmware
floppies on this board and the board is booted up, but ofcourse without
any ethernet support. I think the problem lies in the ethernet driver
package which I modified and added the lance amd driver, since min
confi file in /packages/hal/i386/xycom/v2_0b1/misc/redboot_FLOPPY.ecm
does use the ethernet support pacakge. So this might be the only
possibility, as far as I know. So any debugging suggestions where my
redboot is failing???? I mean how can I know till which point the
redboot is booting?? apart from the standard way like changint the
ethernet driver till I get the bootig prompt without knowing what
happens in between?? Any help would be apprciated.
Nick already suggested disabling redboot networking, although in fact it
would be wise not just to do that but remove the ethernet packages from
your configuration entirely (disabling the redboot option just disables
redboot's support for networking - it doesn't remove the drivers).
If that doesn't work, then given the VME bus and slightly non-standard
hardware, then if you follow the binary chop approach Nick suggested, I
would suggest focussing around the PCI bus detection.
Jifl
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