initial console

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initial console

From: Xavier Grave <hidden>
Date: 2000-10-18 09:25:48

Hi,

I have the following message at boot :

Freeing unused kernel memory: 220k init 12k pmac 4k chrp 4k openfirmware
Warning: unable to open an initial console.
Kernel panic: No init found.  Try passing init= option to kernel.
Rebooting in 180 seconds..

if I give this argument init=/sbin/init it's the same.

Also hen I try to enable virtual terminual I have the following very early:

TCP: Hash tables configured (established 4096 bind 4096)
Starting kswapd v1.8
pc_keyb: controller jammed (0xFF).
pc_keyb: controller jammed (0xFF).
and so on...

Thanks in advance for anyhelp.

xavier
configuration: CPU 603e + Prep Board

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Re: initial console

From: Gabriel Paubert <hidden>
Date: 2000-10-18 10:20:31

	Hi,

On Wed, 18 Oct 2000, Xavier Grave wrote:
I have the following message at boot :

Freeing unused kernel memory: 220k init 12k pmac 4k chrp 4k openfirmware
Warning: unable to open an initial console.
Kernel panic: No init found.  Try passing init= option to kernel.
Rebooting in 180 seconds..

if I give this argument init=/sbin/init it's the same.
CONFIG_SERIAL_CONSOLE is missing ?
console=ttyS0 in the kernel boot args ?
Also hen I try to enable virtual terminual I have the following very early:

TCP: Hash tables configured (established 4096 bind 4096)
Starting kswapd v1.8
pc_keyb: controller jammed (0xFF).
pc_keyb: controller jammed (0xFF).
and so on...

Expected with an MVME2300.


	Gabriel

P.S:  I still don't understand why my bootloader would not properly
reconfigure the PCI resources to give you access to the SCSI board.
Do you have somewhere a printout of the bootlog, it should list all the
PCI resources before and after reorganization.


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Re: initial console

From: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Date: 2000-10-18 11:25:15

On Wed, 18 Oct 2000, Xavier Grave wrote:
I have the following message at boot :

Freeing unused kernel memory: 220k init 12k pmac 4k chrp 4k openfirmware
Warning: unable to open an initial console.
Kernel panic: No init found.  Try passing init= option to kernel.
Rebooting in 180 seconds..

if I give this argument init=/sbin/init it's the same.

Also hen I try to enable virtual terminual I have the following very early:

TCP: Hash tables configured (established 4096 bind 4096)
Starting kswapd v1.8
pc_keyb: controller jammed (0xFF).
pc_keyb: controller jammed (0xFF).
and so on...

Thanks in advance for anyhelp.

xavier
configuration: CPU 603e + Prep Board
What does /dev/console look like?

Did you enable any device that can provide a console functionality, like e.g.
CONFIG_VT, CONFIG_SERIAL_CONSOLE?

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

						Geert

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Re: initial console

From: Xavier Grave <hidden>
Date: 2000-10-18 11:46:38

On Wed, 18 Oct 2000, Gabriel Paubert wrote:
CONFIG_SERIAL_CONSOLE is missing ?
grep CONFIG_SERIAL_CONSOLE .config
CONFIG_SERIAL_CONSOLE=y
console=ttyS0
With or without the same result...
quoted
pc_keyb: controller jammed (0xFF).
pc_keyb: controller jammed (0xFF).
and so on...

Expected with an MVME2300.
The error message disappeared after a few hundred of message.
P.S:  I still don't understand why my bootloader would not properly
reconfigure the PCI resources to give you access to the SCSI board.
Do you have somewhere a printout of the bootlog, it should list all the
PCI resources before and after reorganization.
Sorry, I've lost the output of the kernel I have compiled with your patch.
Can I use your patch with the latest linuxppc_2_5 from fsmlab ?
If so I'll try it one more time. But the actual kernel (from
fsmlab) recognize and configure my SCSI board.

xavier

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Re: initial console

From: Gabriel Paubert <hidden>
Date: 2000-10-18 11:53:34

On Wed, 18 Oct 2000, Xavier Grave wrote:
On Wed, 18 Oct 2000, Gabriel Paubert wrote:
quoted
CONFIG_SERIAL_CONSOLE is missing ?
grep CONFIG_SERIAL_CONSOLE .config
CONFIG_SERIAL_CONSOLE=y
quoted
console=ttyS0
With or without the same result...
quoted
quoted
pc_keyb: controller jammed (0xFF).
pc_keyb: controller jammed (0xFF).
and so on...

Expected with an MVME2300.
The error message disappeared after a few hundred of message.
quoted
P.S:  I still don't understand why my bootloader would not properly
reconfigure the PCI resources to give you access to the SCSI board.
Do you have somewhere a printout of the bootlog, it should list all the
PCI resources before and after reorganization.
Sorry, I've lost the output of the kernel I have compiled with your patch.
Can I use your patch with the latest linuxppc_2_5 from fsmlab ?
If so I'll try it one more time. But the actual kernel (from
fsmlab) recognize and configure my SCSI board.
No, all my patches are relative to the official kernel tree. I have
2.4.0-test9 running on an MVME2600 right now (built in NCR53C825).
It might be a sym53c8xx driver problem too, I have only used ncr53c8xx.

	Regards,
	Gabriel.


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Re: initial console

From: Xavier Grave <hidden>
Date: 2000-10-19 07:22:11

First of all : thanks.
On Wed, 18 Oct 2000, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
What does /dev/console look like?
Under 2.2.17 kernel (which boot...)
[root@ipnpwpc3 /dev]>ls -la /dev/console
crw-r--r--    1 root     root       5,   1 oct 19 08:24 /dev/console
is this good or not ? Do you need more information ?
If so how can I get it ?
Did you enable any device that can provide a console functionality, like e.g.
CONFIG_VT, CONFIG_SERIAL_CONSOLE?
[xavier@ipnpcu5 linuxppc_2_5]>grep VT .config
CONFIG_VT=y
CONFIG_VT_CONSOLE=y
[xavier@ipnpcu5 linuxppc_2_5]>grep CONFIG_SERIAL_CONSOLE .config
CONFIG_SERIAL_CONSOLE=y

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Re: initial console

From: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Date: 2000-10-19 13:22:23

On Thu, 19 Oct 2000, Xavier Grave wrote:
First of all : thanks.
On Wed, 18 Oct 2000, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
quoted
What does /dev/console look like?
Under 2.2.17 kernel (which boot...)
[root@ipnpwpc3 /dev]>ls -la /dev/console
crw-r--r--    1 root     root       5,   1 oct 19 08:24 /dev/console
is this good or not ? Do you need more information ?
Major 5 minor 1 is correct.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

						Geert

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In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But
when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that.
							    -- Linus Torvalds


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