Hi,
I am trying to load kernel 2.6.6 on a Soekris net4521 from the network
using PXE. I built my initrd with mkinitrd. RedHat nash (while running
linuxrc) hangs after mounting /proc and says "Creating block devices".
I
am using the pxelinux.0 from the syslinux-2.10 distribution and the kernel
and initrd were built on redhat 9.0. I built my kernel with BLK_DEV_RAM,
RAMFS, TMPFS, DEVFS_FS, BLK_DEV_INITRD, EXT3_FS and EXT3_FS support.
Attached below are:
- linuxrc
- contents of initrd
- pxelinux.cfg/<Soekris-IP> and
- kernel boot messages on minicom and tftp/pxe server.
Looks like the problem lies either with the kernel options passed to my
net4521 or with the initrd image itself. What should I do to make the
initrd load properly?
Please advise.
Thanks
Prabha
linuxrc:
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#!/bin/nash
echo Mounting /proc filesystem
mount -t proc /proc /proc
echo Creating block devices
mkdevices /dev
echo Creating root device
mkrootdev /dev/root
echo 0x0100 > /proc/sys/kernel/real-root-dev
echo Mounting root filesystem
mount -o defaults --ro -t ext3 /dev/root /sysroot
pivot_root /sysroot /sysroot/initrd
umount /initrd/proc
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/tftpboot/pxelinux.cfg/C0A80102
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PROMPT 1
DEFAULT net4521
LABEL net4521
KERNEL vmlinuz-2.6.6-net4521 ip=:::::eth0:dhcp
APPEND console=ttyS0,19200n81 ramdisk_size=16384 root=/dev/ram0
init=/linuxrc rw initrd=initrd-net4521
IPAPPEND 1
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These are the boot messages I get on my minicom.
==========comBIOS ver. 1.15 20021013 Copyright (C) 2000-2002 Soekris
Engineering.
net45xx
0064 Mbyte Memory CPU 80486 133 Mhz
PXE-M00: BootManage UNDI, PXE-2.0 (build 082)
..ot Vend Dvv ClassRev Cmd Stat CL LT HT Base1 Base2 Int
6HLinux version 2.6.6-net4521 (root at localhost.localdomain) (gcc version
3.2.2 24BIOS-provided physical RAM map:2280 00 00 00 00000000 00000000 00
BIOS-e801: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009f000 (usable)0000A0 10
BIOS-e801: 0000000000100000 - 0000000004000000 (usable)0000A0 10
64MB LOWMEM available.000 0107 0290 00 3F 00 0000E101 A0002000 11
On node 0 totalpages: 16384107 0290 00 3F 00 0000E201 A0003000 05
DMA zone: 4096 pages, LIFO batch:1
Normal zone: 12288 pages, LIFO batch:3rl-P for entering Monitor.
HighMem zone: 0 pages, LIFO batch:1
DMI not present. Press ? for help.
ACPI: Unable to locate RSDP
Built 1 zonelists
Kernel command line: console=ttyS0,19200n81 ramdisk_size=16384
root=/dev/ram0 i
Initializing CPU#0XE-2.0 (build 082)
PID hash table entries: 512 (order 9: 4096 bytes)082 (OEM52)
Using pit for high-res timesourcechnology GbbH, D-41466 Neuss.
Memory: 62596k/65536k available (1034k kernel code, 2456k reserved, 361k
data, )Checking if this processor honours the WP bit even in supervisor
mode... Ok.
Calibrating delay loop... 65.53 BogoMIPS
Dentry cache hash table entries: 8192 (order: 3, 32768 bytes)
Inode-cache hash table entries: 4096 (order: 2, 16384 bytes)8.1.1
Mount-cache hash table entries: 512 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
CPU: AMD 486 DX/4-WB stepping 041HI3;01HN3;01HU3;01HX3;01H
3;01H23;01H.3;01H13;MChecking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
checking if image is initramfs...
it isn't (no cpio magic); looks like an initrd
Freeing initrd memory: 220k freed
NET: Registered protocol family 16
PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.00 entry at 0xf00e1, last bus=2
PCI: Using configuration type 1
PCI: Probing PCI hardware
PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00)
devfs: 2004-01-31 Richard Gooch (rgooch at atnf.csiro.au)
devfs: boot_options: 0x0
Initializing Cryptographic API
Real Time Clock Driver v1.12
Non-volatile memory driver v1.2
Serial: 8250/16550 driver $Revision: 1.90 $ 8 ports, IRQ sharing disabled
ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
ttyS1 at I/O 0x2f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 16384K size 1024 blocksize
loop: loaded (max 8 devices)
9HLinux version 2.6.6-net4521 (root at localhost.localdomain) (gcc version
3.2.2 24BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
BIOS-e801: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009f000 (usable)
BIOS-e801: 0000000000100000 - 0000000004000000 (usable)
64MB LOWMEM available. CPU 80486 133 Mhz
On node 0 totalpages: 16384
DMA zone: 4096 pages, LIFO batch:1
Normal zone: 12288 pages, LIFO batch:3 082)
HighMem zone: 0 pages, LIFO batch:1
DMI not present. ClassRev Cmd Stat CL LT HT Base1 Base2 Int
ACPI: Unable to locate RSDP----------------------------------------
Built 1 zonelists06000000 0006 2280 00 00 00 00000000 00000000 00
Kernel command line: console=ttyS0,19200n81 ramdisk_size=16384
root=/dev/ram0 i
Initializing CPU#06070000 0107 0210 10 3F 82 A0001000 020000A0 10
PID hash table entries: 512 (order 9: 4096 bytes)E101 A0002000 11
Using pit for high-res timesource90 00 3F 00 0000E201 A0003000 05
Memory: 62608k/65536k available (1034k kernel code, 2452k reserved, 361k
data, )Checking if this processor honours the WP bit even in supervisor
mode... Ok.
Calibrating delay loop... 65.79 BogoMIPS
Dentry cache hash table entries: 8192 (order: 3, 32768 bytes)
Inode-cache hash table entries: 4096 (order: 2, 16384 bytes)
Mount-cache hash table entries: 512 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
CPU: AMD 486 DX/4-WB stepping 04
Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.82)
POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX 1.0, SDK 3.0/082 (OEM52)
checking if image is initramfs...it isn't (no cpio magic); looks like an
initrd
Freeing initrd memory: 219k freed1998, 1999, 2000 Intel Corporation.
NET: Registered protocol family 16
PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.00 entry at 0xf00e1, last bus=2
PCI: Using configuration type 1 64
PCI: Probing PCI hardwareASK: 255.255.255.0 DHCP IP: 192.168.1.1
PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00)
devfs: 2004-01-31 Richard Gooch (rgooch at atnf.csiro.au);01H
3;01H23;01H.3;01H13;Mdevfs: boot_options: 0x0
Initializing Cryptographic API
Real Time Clock Driver v1.12
Non-volatile memory driver v1.2
Serial: 8250/16550 driver $Revision: 1.90 $ 8 ports, IRQ sharing disabled
ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
ttyS1 at I/O 0x2f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 16384K size 1024 blocksize
loop: loaded (max 8 devices)
Using anticipatory io scheduler
nbd: registered device at major 43
natsemi dp8381x driver, version 1.07+LK1.0.17, Sep 27, 2002
originally by Donald Becker <becker at scyld.com>
http://www.scyld.com/network/natsemi.html
2.4.x kernel port by Jeff Garzik, Tjeerd Mulder
eth0: NatSemi DP8381[56] at 0xc4800000, 00:00:24:c0:e7:64, IRQ 11.
eth1: NatSemi DP8381[56] at 0xc4802000, 00:00:24:c0:e7:65, IRQ 5.
NET: Registered protocol family 2
IP: routing cache hash table of 512 buckets, 4Kbytes
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 4096 bind 8192)
NET: Registered protocol family 1
NET: Registered protocol family 17
Bridge firewalling registered
RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).
Freeing unused kernel memory: 112k freed
Red Hat nash version 3.4.42 starting
Mounting /proc filesystem
Creating block devices
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/var/log/messages
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Jun 30 15:11:32 localhost dhcpd: DHCPDISCOVER from 00:00:24:c0:e7:64 via eth0
Jun 30 15:11:32 localhost dhcpd: DHCPOFFER on 192.168.1.2 to
00:00:24:c0:e7:64 via eth0
Jun 30 15:11:34 localhost dhcpd: DHCPREQUEST for 192.168.1.2 (192.168.1.1)
from
00:00:24:c0:e7:64 via eth0
Jun 30 15:11:34 localhost dhcpd: DHCPACK on 192.168.1.2 to
00:00:24:c0:e7:64 via eth0
Jun 30 19:11:34 localhost in.tftpd[3321]: RRQ from 192.168.1.2 filename
pxelinux.0
Jun 30 19:11:34 localhost in.tftpd[3321]: tftp: client does not accept
options
Jun 30 19:11:34 localhost in.tftpd[3322]: RRQ from 192.168.1.2 filename
pxelinux.0
Jun 30 19:11:38 localhost in.tftpd[3323]: RRQ from 192.168.1.2 filename
pxelinux.cfg/01-00-00-24-c0-e7-64
Jun 30 19:11:38 localhost in.tftpd[3323]: sending NAK (1, File not found)
to 192.168.1.2
Jun 30 19:11:39 localhost in.tftpd[3324]: RRQ from 192.168.1.2 filename
pxelinux.cfg/C0A80102
Jun 30 19:12:03 localhost in.tftpd[3325]: RRQ from 192.168.1.2 filename
vmlinuz-2.6.6-net4521
Jun 30 19:12:04 localhost in.tftpd[3326]: RRQ from 192.168.1.2 filename
initrd-net4521
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Contents of the initrd-net4521:
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-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 340 Jun 30 15:10 linuxrc
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 Jun 30 15:10 sbin -> bin
bin:
total 470
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1024 Jun 30 15:10 .
drwxr-xr-x 9 root root 1024 Jun 30 15:10 ..
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 443704 Jun 30 15:10 insmod
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Jun 30 15:10 modprobe ->
/sbin/nash
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 30132 Jun 30 15:10 nash
dev:
total 2
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1024 Jun 30 15:10 .
drwxr-xr-x 9 root root 1024 Jun 30 15:10 ..
crw-r--r-- 1 root root 5, 1 Jun 30 15:10 console
crw-r--r-- 1 root root 1, 3 Jun 30 15:10 null
brw-r--r-- 1 root root 1, 1 Jun 30 15:10 ram
crw-r--r-- 1 root root 4, 0 Jun 30 15:10 systty
crw-r--r-- 1 root root 4, 1 Jun 30 15:10 tty1
crw-r--r-- 1 root root 4, 2 Jun 30 15:10 tty2
crw-r--r-- 1 root root 4, 3 Jun 30 15:10 tty3
crw-r--r-- 1 root root 4, 4 Jun 30 15:10 tty4
etc:
total 2
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1024 Jun 30 15:10 .
drwxr-xr-x 9 root root 1024 Jun 30 15:10 ..
lib:
total 2
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1024 Jun 30 15:10 .
drwxr-xr-x 9 root root 1024 Jun 30 15:10 ..
loopfs:
total 2
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1024 Jun 30 15:10 .
drwxr-xr-x 9 root root 1024 Jun 30 15:10 ..
proc:
total 2
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1024 Jun 30 15:10 .
drwxr-xr-x 9 root root 1024 Jun 30 15:10 ..
sysroot:
total 2
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1024 Jun 30 15:10 .
drwxr-xr-x 9 root root 1024 Jun 30 15:10 ..
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