Hi Jurij e.a., Thanks for your quick reply!
Op Wed 3 Feb 2010 om 07:36:50 +0000 schreef Jurij Smakov: > On Wed, Feb 03, 2010 at 06:23:03PM +0100, Joost van Baal wrote: > > > > I'm installing Debian lenny on a SunBlade 2000 sparc for demo-ing at the > > FOSDEM > > conference debian booth. ql2200_fw.bin is not found by my kernel, while it > > _is_ included in the initrd. Booting the system from a Debian installer CD, > > and supplying ql2200_fw.bin via an USB-stick works just fine: I've installed > > the complete OS on the system's disks this way. > > > > The kernel on disk is vmlinuz-2.6.26-2-sparc64 from > > linux-image-2.6.26-2-sparc64 package, version 2.6.26-21. > > /usr/sbin/update-initramfs is from initramfs-tools (0.92o). > > > > Any clues on how to get this system to find it's disks is very much > > appreciated. Unfortunately little time is left for me: the conference is > > gonna > > happen in 3 days, while the system is scheduled to get shipped there even > > earlier.... > > Can you check that the firmware file actually makes it to the initrd? > It's just a gzipped cpio archive, you can extract it like that (in a > temp directory): > > cp /boot/initrd-<version> initrd.gz > gzip -d initrd.gz > cpio -i < initrd Yes, it is included in the initrd: ~ # mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt ~ # for i in proc sys dev dev/pts; do mount --bind /$i /mnt/$i ;done ~ # chroot /mnt sh-3.2# mount /usr sh-3.2# mount /tmp sh-3.2# cd /tmp sh-3.2# zcat /boot/initrd.img | cpio -i 18477 blocks sh-3.2# ls -l lib/firmware/ql2* -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 76802 Feb 3 21:19 lib/firmware/ql2100_fw.bin -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 84566 Feb 3 21:19 lib/firmware/ql2200_fw.bin <- the right one -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 123170 Feb 3 21:19 lib/firmware/ql2300_fw.bin -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 132978 Feb 3 21:19 lib/firmware/ql2322_fw.bin -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 227884 Feb 3 21:19 lib/firmware/ql2400_fw.bin -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 198044 Feb 3 21:19 lib/firmware/ql2500_fw.bin I'll reboot once more and will record the exact kernel error messages. Perhaps that'll help... Bye, Joost -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
