From mozes at biscuit.org.uk Thu Dec 28 20:04:25 2006 From: mozes at biscuit.org.uk (Stuart Winter) Date: Thu, 28 Dec 2006 20:04:25 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [armedslack] Re: RiscPC install instructions for ARMedslack ? Message-ID: On Mon, 25 Dec 2006, Mark Smith wrote: > I've used acorn-fdisk to create swap space and linux partition, then > I've run "setup" and had it add the swap space in (which it does > detect but doesn't actually do a mkswap or an addswap), then it jumps > to the target filesystem part of setup, where it does detect the > partition I created and asks all the questions about putting a > filesystem on it and adding fstab entries, then it asks about what > packages to install and procedes to try and install them... except > it's not mounted the linux filesystem and is writing to /dev/fd2 .. > which is fills up pretty quick! > > Have I missed a step out here ? Those steps sound normal. > I've just a standard StrongARM RiscPC with a 1.7Gb drive on the built > in IDE in it, 256Mb of RAM, 2Mb of VRAM, a NIC and that's about it. I don't think I've tried to install it on the motherboard IDE before! If you try again now, does it work? Also what happens if you use fdisk rather than acorn-fdisk? Make sure you backup your RISC OS partition first :) I've had it where I'll create partitions which then aren't shown in /proc/partitions, which is why I included 'partprobe' in the installer. Did you flick through the virtual consoles and see if there were any error messages? It's probably something simple. If you can't see anything, I'll do an install on the onboard IDE and see what happens. Cheers s. -- The Biscuit Appreciation Society : www.biscuit.org.uk Experimental ARM Linux distribution: www.armedslack.org | "Washing machines live longer with Calgon" From markinnz at gmail.com Thu Dec 28 20:23:20 2006 From: markinnz at gmail.com (Mark Smith) Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2006 09:23:20 +1300 Subject: [armedslack] Re: RiscPC install instructions for ARMedslack ? In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <60f2066f0612281223h211c5660u8854037726ed702d@mail.gmail.com> On 12/29/06, Stuart Winter wrote: > > > > > Have I missed a step out here ? > > Those steps sound normal. > > > I've just a standard StrongARM RiscPC with a 1.7Gb drive on the built > > in IDE in it, 256Mb of RAM, 2Mb of VRAM, a NIC and that's about it. > > I don't think I've tried to install it on the motherboard IDE before! > If you try again now, does it work? > Also what happens if you use fdisk rather than acorn-fdisk? Make sure you > backup your RISC OS partition first :) I used fdisk first go around with the same result which is why I then tried acorn-fdisk .. acorn-fdisk also recognises the RISC OS partition whereas fdisk does not. When I get home from work (it's friday at 9:20am here :-) I'll do an update of the files from your site and try the new ones. I've had it where I'll create partitions which then aren't shown in > /proc/partitions, which is why I included 'partprobe' in the installer. > > Did you flick through the virtual consoles and see if there were any error > messages? It's probably something simple. If you can't see anything, > I'll do an install on the onboard IDE and see what happens. I've not tried "partprobe" ... what will it show me ? And I thought about looking at error messages on the console last night while I was in bed .. stupid time to think of it but god knows how my brain works .. will look when I get home :-) If you do get a chance to see if the internal IDE is the issue that would help! Thanks! Mark PS . Did my message get through top the mailing list ? Not seen a copy come to me yet. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From markinnz at gmail.com Fri Dec 29 09:29:55 2006 From: markinnz at gmail.com (Mark Smith) Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2006 22:29:55 +1300 Subject: [armedslack] Re: RiscPC install instructions for ARMedslack ? In-Reply-To: <60f2066f0612281223h211c5660u8854037726ed702d@mail.gmail.com> References: <60f2066f0612281223h211c5660u8854037726ed702d@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <60f2066f0612290129u5c79b0c8i516821acf763cc85@mail.gmail.com> I think I have sussed it ... if I create the partitions (swap and main filesystem), then reboot the RiscPC, restart Linux setup then it all works .. something to do with re-reading the partition table perhaps ? There are also a few error messages appear in the messages log. When setup starts and looks at the CD I see : "daemon.notice modprobe: FATAL: Could not load /lib/modules/2.6.19.1/modules.dep: No such file or directory" And when the firlsystem has ben formated with ext2, after it finished it complains that the "ext3" filesystem has no journal ?!? At the mo it's still installing .. will see how thigs go :-) Thanks Mark On 12/29/06, Mark Smith wrote: > On 12/29/06, Stuart Winter wrote: > > > > > > > Have I missed a step out here ? > > > > Those steps sound normal. > > > > > I've just a standard StrongARM RiscPC with a 1.7Gb drive on the built > > > in IDE in it, 256Mb of RAM, 2Mb of VRAM, a NIC and that's about it. > > > > I don't think I've tried to install it on the motherboard IDE before! > > If you try again now, does it work? > > Also what happens if you use fdisk rather than acorn-fdisk? Make sure you > > backup your RISC OS partition first :) > > I used fdisk first go around with the same result which is why I then tried > acorn-fdisk .. acorn-fdisk also recognises the RISC OS partition whereas > fdisk does not. > > When I get home from work (it's friday at 9:20am here :-) I'll do an update > of the files from your site and try the new ones. > > > I've had it where I'll create partitions which then aren't shown in > > /proc/partitions, which is why I included 'partprobe' in the installer. > > > > Did you flick through the virtual consoles and see if there were any error > > messages? It's probably something simple. If you can't see anything, > > I'll do an install on the onboard IDE and see what happens. > > I've not tried "partprobe" ... what will it show me ? > > And I thought about looking at error messages on the console last night > while I was in bed .. stupid time to think of it but god knows how my brain > works .. will look when I get home :-) > > If you do get a chance to see if the internal IDE is the issue that would > help! > > Thanks! > > Mark > > PS . Did my message get through top the mailing list ? Not seen a copy > come to me yet. > > > From m-lists at biscuit.org.uk Sat Dec 30 15:56:39 2006 From: m-lists at biscuit.org.uk (Stuart Winter) Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2006 15:56:39 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [armedslack] Re: RiscPC install instructions for ARMedslack ? In-Reply-To: <60f2066f0612290129u5c79b0c8i516821acf763cc85@mail.gmail.com> References: <60f2066f0612281223h211c5660u8854037726ed702d@mail.gmail.com> <60f2066f0612290129u5c79b0c8i516821acf763cc85@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: Hi On Fri, 29 Dec 2006, Mark Smith wrote: > I think I have sussed it ... if I create the partitions (swap and main > filesystem), then reboot the RiscPC, restart Linux setup then it all > works .. something to do with re-reading the partition table perhaps ? Yeah - I have seen this when I'd use HDs that had been used in a PC. I included 'partprobe' (from 'parted') which is supposed to tell the Kernel to update partition table changes. I have patched /sbin/probe to run partprobe if it's running on a RiscPC. However, after testing today I found that /proc/partitions wasn't updated. Rebooting is probably the best way. > "daemon.notice modprobe: FATAL: Could not load > /lib/modules/2.6.19.1/modules.dep: No such file or directory" That's OK - I don't include Kernel modules in the initrd; all of the relevant stuff is compiled into the Kernels provided. > And when the firlsystem has ben formated with ext2, after it finished > it complains that the "ext3" filesystem has no journal ?!? Yeah that's weird. I see that with qemu and the RiscPC -- it doesn't seem to cause a problem though, and if you do dumpe2fs /dev/hdX | less you can see that the filesystem does not have the journal feature. I have uploaded some new changes to the color.gz installer image -- now the sizes of the identified partitions are correct on the RiscPC (it was just a vanity thing). How did the install go? Has it finished? :-) s. From markinnz at gmail.com Sun Dec 31 02:16:27 2006 From: markinnz at gmail.com (Mark Smith) Date: Sun, 31 Dec 2006 15:16:27 +1300 Subject: [armedslack] Re: RiscPC install instructions for ARMedslack ? In-Reply-To: References: <60f2066f0612281223h211c5660u8854037726ed702d@mail.gmail.com> <60f2066f0612290129u5c79b0c8i516821acf763cc85@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <60f2066f0612301816i56fed819qbd2846ce3302b5eb@mail.gmail.com> Hi Stuart, Well I'm 95% done .. got to go get a proper hard disk on wednesday since the 1.7Gb one is a pain to squeeze onto :-) I've a basic install done and it boots nicely (I was very proud of myself when I managed to install via NFS from the Mac :-) Only thing I'm having trouble with is X ... it's been to long since I've done anything the hard way (any chance of Armed-Knoppix ? :-) running "startx" does nothing except give me an "X" cursor and then back to console, xdm does give me a graphic login but then it to does an "X" cursor and then back to the xdm login again. Fairly certain I've a few window managers installed, but like I said , been to long on the easy road! Once I get a new disk (80Gb one or something) I'll do a full install and see if that's better. Oh yes one other thing ... when the RiscOS boot Linux app starts, is there a way for it to do it cleanly ? Risc OS always complains that the machine was not shutdown nicely the next time it starts. Thanks! Mark On 12/31/06, Stuart Winter wrote: > > > Hi > > On Fri, 29 Dec 2006, Mark Smith wrote: > > > I think I have sussed it ... if I create the partitions (swap and main > > filesystem), then reboot the RiscPC, restart Linux setup then it all > > works .. something to do with re-reading the partition table perhaps ? > > Yeah - I have seen this when I'd use HDs that had been used in a PC. > I included 'partprobe' (from 'parted') which is supposed to tell the > Kernel to update partition table changes. > I have patched /sbin/probe to run partprobe if it's running on a RiscPC. > However, after testing today I found that /proc/partitions wasn't updated. > > Rebooting is probably the best way. > > > "daemon.notice modprobe: FATAL: Could not load > > /lib/modules/2.6.19.1/modules.dep: No such file or directory" > > That's OK - I don't include Kernel modules in the initrd; all of the > relevant stuff is compiled into the Kernels provided. > > > And when the firlsystem has ben formated with ext2, after it finished > > it complains that the "ext3" filesystem has no journal ?!? > > Yeah that's weird. I see that with qemu and the RiscPC -- it doesn't seem > to cause a problem though, and if you do > > dumpe2fs /dev/hdX | less > > you can see that the filesystem does not have the journal feature. > > I have uploaded some new changes to the color.gz installer image -- now > the sizes of the identified partitions are correct on the RiscPC (it was > just a vanity thing). > > How did the install go? Has it finished? :-) > s. > >