Re: Re: I made a bol***cks of it!

Hi Tim,

The 'improvisation' came in after I started getting really p****d off.
I have just tried loading again using your script and the original
RedHat CD and everything seemed to go fine until it came to reboot at
the end - then I got the following error message and a locked machine:-

Partition check:
hda [PTBL] [528/32/63] hda1
hdb hdb1 hdb2 <hdb5 hdb6>
attempt to access beyond end of device
03:05: rw = 0, want 2, limit 0
Ext2fs: unable to read superblock
attempt to access beyond end of device
03:05: rw = 0, want 1, limit 0
FAT bread failed
Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 03:05

Any ideas? I can get linux up and running as a workstation easy, its
just this patching lark that doesn't seem to want to play. For info hda
only contains DOS (Windows) and is 504Mb set as Master (boot), hdb is
where the linux stuff is going and is 4Gb and set as slave.

Ian

Tim Goldstein wrote:

>
> From: "Tim Goldstein" <timg@...>
>
> Ian,
>
> DO NOT USE THE KERNEL HEADERS AND SOURCES DOWNLOADED FROM THE REDHAT SITE!!!
>
> If you look at the build number they are older that what is now on the CD
> and they have to match your other kernel packages exactly. My CD contains
> version 2.0.36-7 of all the packages and the one on their site is 2.0.36-3
>
> If you load parts from different build numbers you will get the results you
> are seeing and things will not work. If you want to do it with the script
> follow the instructions EXACTLY and do not improvise or add any steps. The
> script and the files with it do EVERYTHING that is required to get a Pentium
> running a workstation installation done from the Official RedHat 5.2 CD with
> X set to 800 x 600 or better running on the RT kernel all set for EMC.
>
> Tim
> [Denver, CO]
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Ian W. Wright <Ian@...>
> To: <CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO@onelist.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, July 21, 1999 11:22 AM
> Subject: Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Re: I made a bol***cks of it!
>
> > From: "Ian W. Wright" <Ian@...>
> >
> > Thanks Tim,
> >
> > I tried it using your script but it still didn't work and just gave a
> > load of errors and no zImage file. After several hours again today I'm
> > still no further on. I cleaned the disk drive as well as I could by
> > deleting all the partitions that Disk Druid on the boot floppy would let
> > me delete and then reinstalled RedHat LINUX 5.2 from an original
> > distribution CD. That seemed to go OK and I have a working linux and
> > xwindows set up. I downloaded a fresh copy of release9J.tgz and the
> > kernel-source and kernel-headers files. I then installed the kernel
> > packages from the RedHat disk and also these kernel upgrades. I got one
> > error message on the kernel-headers update which was the 'unable to
> > execute script file' you refer to in your documentation. As far as 'make
> > xconfig' everything seemed to go well but when I came out of the config
> > window the shell window had the messages relating to 'config.in' which I
> > couldn't find saying that 'm was not declared' and two messages saying
> > that there were problems with CONFIG_ALPHA_BOOK1 and CONFIG_ARM. I tried
> > to track these down unsuccessfully so ignored them. When I got into
> > 'make zImage' it got about 3/4 of the way through with no problem but
> > then came up with about a screenfull of errors all saying
> > 'Standard Input:3470 (all had different numbers
> > here):Warning:warning:missing '*' in absolute indirect address: maybe
> > missassembled'. The programme didn't stop though and did create a zImage
> > file but, when I eventually rebooted into rtLinux it started and gave
> > about 6 or 7 lines of text before it came up with three lines:
> > memory 0(nought)K/0K (kernel 0K, swap 0K etc),
> > Kernel panic: Failed to allocate buffer hash table
> > In swapper task - not syncing
> >
> > Then it locked up. This was the seventh attempt to get rtLinux working
> > again and I don't know where to go from here. Ordinary Linux seems to be
> > working OK and Windows 95 which is also on the machine is behaving, it
> > just seems to be a problem with RT.
> > Any help you or anyone can give would be most welcome as it's so
> > frustrating having had it working OK before these problems.
> >
> > Oh, the workstation install almost certainly does wipe the drives as it
> > definitely changed me workstation identity - there may, of course, be a
> > difference between Install and Update on the Redhat disk.
> >
> > Ian
> >
> > Tim Goldstein wrote:
> > >
> > > From: "Tim Goldstein" <timg@...>
> > >
> > > Ian,
> > >
> > > if you are setting this up on a Pentium system just do a workstation
> install
> > > , set X for 800 x 600 or greater and then run the script on my web site
> at
> > > ( http://206.19.206.56/installemc.htm ) from a floppy. On my Pentium 200
> MMX
> > > the whole process from beginning to booting RT Linux takes about 35 - 40
> > > minutes.
> > >
> > > >From what I can tell, the workstation install does repartition and
> format
> > > your drive, but it seems to read some config files from your old install
> > > first. I have done the Workstation install numerous times on one system
> and
> > > it will keep the machine host name through the install.
> > >
> > > Tim
> > > Denver, CO
> >
> > Best wishes
> >
> > Ian
>
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Ian

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