Meelis Roos wrote: > I have a R4600PC Indy (32M RAM) and I'm trying the new installer on it, > booting from network via bootp/tftp using netboot-boot.img. > > The installer from sid (20040403) complains about umount but seems > continue somewhat before hanging: > > RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0 > Freeing initrd memory: 1804k freed > VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly. > Freeing unused kernel memory: 88k freed > Setting up filesystem, please wait ... > umount: /initrd: Invalid argument
Which is normal. Beyond that point it copies the ramdisk and chroots into the copy. > Then it waits for quite some seconds. Sometimes it doesn't proceed > anywhere, sometimes it proceeds with the install and hangs in different > places (before language chooser, 71% of hardware detection, after > setting the hostname). Probably you are just a bit impatient, my test machine is similiar to yours, and quite slow with the install. > The installer from sarge (20040308 - an older one so this is probably > uninportant) complains about missing console: > > RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0 > Freeing initrd memory: 1748k freed > VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly. > Freeing unused kernel memory: 88k freed > Warning: unable to open an initial console. > Kernel panic: Attempted to kill init! > > I switched it to the serial console via setenv console d, now it > complained the same it to the serial console, with or without > console=ttyS0,9600 parameter. For older images, you'll have to use bootp():<filename> append="devfs=mount" [snip] > About possible harware failures: IRIX 6.2 and Debian Woody run fine. But > when I have keyboard unplugged and using serial console, I get these 2 > lines on power-on: > > Data path test *FAILED* > RTC path test *FAILED* > > It probably means that the clock battery is dead (the clock is mostly > right, difference 9 minutes for a long time with no NTP) but maybe they > are somewhat important. I see this also, after longer downtimes the clock starts at 1970-01-01, and the file dates are then broken as a consequence. It doesn't matter for the installer. Thiemo
