From tim.bowden at gmail.com Sat Apr 2 14:35:56 2005 From: tim.bowden at gmail.com (Tim Bowden) Date: Sat Apr 2 14:36:25 2005 Subject: [Wizard] ubuntu on my wizard Message-ID: I have a problem with my wizard and would like some help please. I need a debian based distro on it. It needs to be less than 25 yrs old, so there goes woody. It needs to have timely security updates, so there goes sarge and sid. For better or worse, I have selected ubuntu. I put the hdd in a celeron based pc and loaded ubuntu. Rebooted and all was fine. I put the hdd back in the wizard and got the following: Uncompressing Linux... Ok, booting the kernel. /bin/sh: error while loading shared libraries: libc.so.6: cannot open shared objects file: No such file or directory Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0,0) I put the hdd back in the celeron system and all worked well again. Then, in a stroke of pure genius while swapping the hdd between the celeron and wizard boxes, I let the magic smoke out of the hdd. I purchased another hdd this morning, reloaded ubuntu and got the same result. Any ideas? Thanks, Tim Bowden From davidb-0624 at rcpt.to Sat Apr 2 16:15:13 2005 From: davidb-0624 at rcpt.to (David Basden) Date: Sat Apr 2 16:15:29 2005 Subject: [Wizard] ubuntu on my wizard In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <20050402081513.GF7920@chastity.shikita.com.au> On Sat, Apr 02, 2005 at 02:35:56PM +0800, Tim Bowden wrote: > I have a problem with my wizard and would like some help please. I > need a debian based distro on it. It needs to be less than 25 yrs > old, so there goes woody. It needs to have timely security updates, > so there goes sarge and sid. For better or worse, I have selected > ubuntu. I recently installed sarge on a p75 laptop with ~ 16M of memory. It was all ugly. Debian used to be so good at minimal installs :-(. > I put the hdd in a celeron based pc and loaded ubuntu. Rebooted and > all was fine. I put the hdd back in the wizard and got the following: > > Uncompressing Linux... Ok, booting the kernel. > /bin/sh: error while loading shared libraries: libc.so.6: cannot open > shared objects file: No such file or directory > Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0,0) > > I put the hdd back in the celeron system and all worked well again. I'm assuming it's printing out more than that, but is going to be a pain to type out. Check to see that the kernel is detecting the IDE drive geometries the same on both machines (if the boot is getting that far). This is the IDE messages from a working 2.6 kernel booting on Adrian's wizard: Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2 ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx CS5530: IDE controller at PCI slot 0000:00:12.2 CS5530: chipset revision 0 CS5530: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:12.0 to 64 ide0: BM-DMA at 0xf000-0xf007, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:pio ide1: BM-DMA at 0xf008-0xf00f, BIOS settings: hdc:pio, hdd:pio hda: IBM-DJSA-205, ATA DISK drive hda: cs5530_set_xfer_mode(UDMA 2) Using anticipatory io scheduler ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14 hda: max request size: 128KiB hda: 9767520 sectors (5000 MB) w/384KiB Cache, CHS=10336/15/63, UDMA(33) /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0: p1 p2 p3 Also see if it's running out of room creating ramdisks if it's using initrd. If that all looks right, try booting with init=/bin/sh or something to see if you can get a shell and look around to see if everything looks as it should. It's probably going to be a good idea to compile a custom kernel anyhow. I still have the .deb around for a (possibly insecure) 2.6.8 wizard kernel if it would help. > Then, in a stroke of pure genius while swapping the hdd between the > celeron and wizard boxes, I let the magic smoke out of the hdd. I > purchased another hdd this morning, reloaded ubuntu and got the same > result. *wince* HTH, David From tim.bowden at gmail.com Sun Apr 3 08:47:04 2005 From: tim.bowden at gmail.com (Tim Bowden) Date: Sun Apr 3 08:47:19 2005 Subject: [Wizard] ubuntu on my wizard In-Reply-To: <20050402081513.GF7920@chastity.shikita.com.au> References: <20050402081513.GF7920@chastity.shikita.com.au> Message-ID: On Apr 2, 2005 4:15 PM, David Basden wrote: > On Sat, Apr 02, 2005 at 02:35:56PM +0800, Tim Bowden wrote: > > I have a problem with my wizard and would like some help please. I > > need a debian based distro on it. It needs to be less than 25 yrs > > old, so there goes woody. It needs to have timely security updates, > > so there goes sarge and sid. For better or worse, I have selected > > ubuntu. > > I recently installed sarge on a p75 laptop with ~ 16M of memory. It > was all ugly. Debian used to be so good at minimal installs :-(. > Maybe woody is the last 'big' distro to install on small spec pc's. Still I guess its vintage is about that of rh8 which still ran on my 486 without a problem (sans gui). I have two other wizards with woody that had no problem going on. sigh. Bigger footprint is the price of progress I suppose. > > I put the hdd in a celeron based pc and loaded ubuntu. Rebooted and > > all was fine. I put the hdd back in the wizard and got the following: > > > > Uncompressing Linux... Ok, booting the kernel. > > /bin/sh: error while loading shared libraries: libc.so.6: cannot open > > shared objects file: No such file or directory > > Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0,0) > > > > I put the hdd back in the celeron system and all worked well again. > > I'm assuming it's printing out more than that, but is going to be > a pain to type out. Only other output was the grub messages before it. Everything looked fine till the shell error. > > Check to see that the kernel is detecting the IDE drive geometries the > same on both machines (if the boot is getting that far). This is > the IDE messages from a working 2.6 kernel booting on Adrian's wizard: No, it's not getting that far. > Also see if it's running out of room creating ramdisks if it's using > initrd. I'll look into it. > > If that all looks right, try booting with init=/bin/sh or something to > see if you can get a shell and look around to see if everything looks > as it should. No luck. No shell. > > It's probably going to be a good idea to compile a custom kernel anyhow. > I still have the .deb around for a (possibly insecure) 2.6.8 wizard > kernel if it would help. That would be great if you could put it up somewhere. The poor old wizards need all the help they can get. > > > Then, in a stroke of pure genius while swapping the hdd between the > > celeron and wizard boxes, I let the magic smoke out of the hdd. I > > purchased another hdd this morning, reloaded ubuntu and got the same > > result. > > *wince* I did more than wince. > > HTH, > Yes, it has. Thankyou. Regards, Tim Bowden From davidb-0624 at rcpt.to Sun Apr 3 11:22:34 2005 From: davidb-0624 at rcpt.to (David Basden) Date: Sun Apr 3 11:22:42 2005 Subject: [Wizard] ubuntu on my wizard In-Reply-To: References: <20050402081513.GF7920@chastity.shikita.com.au> Message-ID: <20050403032234.GH7920@chastity.shikita.com.au> On Sun, Apr 03, 2005 at 08:47:04AM +0800, Tim Bowden wrote: > > I'm assuming it's printing out more than that, but is going to be > > a pain to type out. > > Only other output was the grub messages before it. Everything looked > fine till the shell error. Ahh. Try hitting F2 at the grub prompt to show the boot messages. > > It's probably going to be a good idea to compile a custom kernel anyhow. > > I still have the .deb around for a (possibly insecure) 2.6.8 wizard > > kernel if it would help. > > That would be great if you could put it up somewhere. The poor old > wizards need all the help they can get. http://davidb.ucc.asn.au/wizard/kernel-image-2.6.8-wizard_10.00.Custom_i386.deb Good luck :) David From cameron at patrick.wattle.id.au Sun Apr 3 11:59:33 2005 From: cameron at patrick.wattle.id.au (Cameron Patrick) Date: Sun Apr 3 11:59:53 2005 Subject: [Wizard] ubuntu on my wizard In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <20050403035933.GB17853@patrick.wattle.id.au> Tim Bowden wrote: > Uncompressing Linux... Ok, booting the kernel. > /bin/sh: error while loading shared libraries: libc.so.6: cannot open > shared objects file: No such file or directory > Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0,0) I wonder if Ubuntu requires a 686+ processor and so doesn't ship with the non-cmov variant of libc (which is required for processors that don't have the additional instructions introduced with the PPro). That would explain why libc couldn't be found on a Wizard but could on a Celeron. FWIW I installed Debian Sarge on a Wizard the other day. It works well, but be prepared for the installation itself to take a few hours, and booting the machine up to take a few minutes. Adding more RAM to the machine might be a worthwhile exercise if you're trying to run modern software on it. Cameron.