Attempting to install gentoo 2004.0 on Sun Netra T1/105 from consoly port. While booting gentoo from SILO prompt, I get the error: INIT: Id "c1" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes for c1-c6. Have verified this to be true on other T1 servers (I have another 6 here) Included all relevant information in the URL: http://www.deberry.org/docs/gentoo/sparc64/respawn_error.html Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Insert LiveCD in Netra T1/105 2.Boot with no options (gentoo) 3. Actual Results: Same result Expected Results: Software would normally leave me at a boot prompt to start the gentoo installation
I can verify this as well but with a v100 connected via the LOM A serial port. Interestingly this ISO gentoo-sparc64-1.4_rc4-08Sep2003-cd1.iso works when using the silo boot command of "gentoo serial". This command fails and reproduces the respawning bug regardless of the silo boot command line arguments (tried video=sbus:off, video atyfb:off and serial) on the following cd's install-sparc64-minimal-2004.0.iso install-sparc64-universal-2004.0.iso I've got a spare v100 box I can use for testing so if any dev needs immediate access or verification please let me know
Could you please do "dmesg|grep Console" and paste the results in this bug? Thanks.
The problem is I cannot get to a prompt on the server... In other words.. boot: gentoo serial Remapping the kernel... done. ------------- Kernel Booting ------------- Gentoo Linux; http://www.gentoo.org/ Copyright 2001-2003 Gentoo Technologies, Inc.; Distributed under the GPL * Mounting proc at /proc... [ ok ] * Starting devfsd...Started device management daemon v1.3.25 for /dev [ ok ] * Activating (possible) swap... [ ok ] * Remounting root filesystem read/write... [ ok ] * Setting hostname to livecd... [ ok ] * Mounting local filesystems... [ ok ] * Mounting USB device filesystem (usbfs)... [ ok ] * Activating (possibly) more swap... [ ok ] * Updating inittab... [ ok ] * Caching service dependencies... [ ok ] * Setting system clock to hardware clock [UTC]... [ ok ] * Configuring kernel parameters... [ ok ] * Updating environment... [ ok ] * Cleaning /var/lock, /var/run... [ ok ] * Cleaning /tmp directory... [ ok ] * Bringing lo up... [ ok ] * Initializing random number generator... [ ok ] INIT: Entering runlevel: 3 * Starting metalog... [ ok ] * Starting local... [ ok ] INIT: Id "c1" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes INIT: Id "c2" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes INIT: Id "c3" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes INIT: Id "c4" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes INIT: Id "c5" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes INIT: Id "c6" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes INIT: no more processes left in this runlevel At this point, the server is either rebooted, or the messages respawn every 5 minutes. I cannot get a prompt on the server. Just to rule out any errors, I am able to make changes to the prom if necessary.. Also tried the mandrake 7.1 sparc cd; came out with the same error.
No console line in the dmesg, here is the dmesg itself since I figured that would be your next request. Oh lsmod returns nothing as well. PROMLIB: Sun IEEE Boot Prom 4.0.18 2002/05/23 18:22 Linux version 2.4.22-rc2-iso-up (root@excelsior.weeve.org) (gcc version egcs-2.9 2.11 19980921 (gcc2 ss-980609 experimental)) #2 Wed Aug 13 04:23:11 EDT 2003 ARCH: SUN4U Ethernet address: 00:03:ba:4e:58:d6 On node 0 totalpages: 31984 zone(0): 32604 pages. zone(1): 0 pages. zone(2): 0 pages. Found CPU 0 (node=f0072d50,mid=0) Found 1 CPU prom device tree node(s). Kernel command line: root=/dev/ram0 init=/linuxrc serial Calibrating delay loop... 1094.45 BogoMIPS Memory: 252784k available (2088k kernel code, 408k data, 160k init) [fffff800000 00000,00000000cfeb8000] Dentry cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 6, 524288 bytes) Inode cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 5, 262144 bytes) Mount cache hash table entries: 512 (order: 0, 8192 bytes) Buffer cache hash table entries: 8192 (order: 3, 65536 bytes) Page-cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 262144 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 60000000 [20000000] PCI: Address space collision on region 6 [000001ff00080000:000001ff000bffff] of device PCI device 1282:9102 PCI-IRQ: Routing bus[ 0] slot[ 5] map[0] to INO[1c] PCI-IRQ: Routing bus[ 0] slot[ a] map[0] to INO[24] PCI-IRQ: Routing bus[ 0] slot[ c] map[0] to INO[06] PCI-IRQ: Routing bus[ 0] slot[ d] map[0] to INO[0c] PCI0(PBMA): Bus running at 33MHz isa0: [dma] [rtc -> (todm5819)] [power] [SUNW,lomh] [serial] [serial] [flashprom ] ebus: No EBus's found. 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@atnf.csiro.au) devfs: boot_options: 0x1 pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured Real Time Clock Driver v1.10e RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 8192K size 1024 blocksize loop: loaded (max 8 devices) 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 00:0d.0 ALI15X3: chipset revision 195 ALI15X3: 100% native mode on irq 4,7cc ide0: BM-DMA at 0x1fe02010220-0x1fe02010227, BIOS settings: hda:pio, hdb:pio ide1: BM-DMA at 0x1fe02010228-0x1fe0201022f, BIOS settings: hdc:pio, hdd:pio hdc: ST340014A, ATA DISK drive hdd: CD-224E, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx ide1 at 0x1fe02010210-0x1fe02010217,0x1fe0201020a on irq 4,7cc hdc: attached ide-disk driver. hdc: host protected area => 1 hdc: 78165360 sectors (40021 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=4865/255/63, UDMA(66) hdd: attached ide-cdrom driver. hdd: ATAPI 24X CD-ROM drive, 128kB Cache, DMA Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.12 Partition check: /dev/ide/host0/bus1/target0/lun0: p1 p2 p3 p4 SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00 kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k scsi_hostadapter, errno = 2 kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k scsi_hostadapter, errno = 2 usb.c: registered new driver usbdevfs usb.c: registered new driver hub host/usb-uhci.c: $Revision: 1.275 $ time 04:24:06 Aug 13 2003 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 0x1ff01000000, IRQ 14,7e4 host/usb-ohci.c: usb-00:0a.0, PCI device 10b9:5237 usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1 hub.c: USB hub found hub.c: 2 ports detected usb.c: registered new driver hid hid-core.c: v1.8.1 Andreas Gal, Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@suse.cz> hid-core.c: USB HID support drivers mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0 IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP IP: routing cache hash table of 4096 buckets, 32Kbytes TCP: Hash tables configured (established 32768 bind 16384) NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0. RAMDISK: ext2 filesystem found at block 0 RAMDISK: Loading 1000 blocks [1 disk] into ram disk... done. Freeing initrd memory: 1000k freed VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly. Mounted devfs on /dev ISO 9660 Extensions: RRIP_1991A
Can you give the 2004.1 livecd a spin? I've done some console setup fixups that should hopefully solve your problem. Thanks.
Works perfectly... whatever you changed in 2004.1 fixed the problem. Thanks
