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Re: redboot booting problem


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.

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