Moving from Debian to RH Enterprise WS

Rick Stevens rstevens at vitalstream.com
Fri Jan 13 01:01:53 UTC 2006 

On Thu, 2006-01-12 at 16:31 -0500, Jacques.Riopel at equant.com wrote:
>    On a "mature" HP Vectra dual P90 box with SCSI disk subsystem, I would
> like to move to RH Enterprise WS.  I am fairly newbie at this, and the
> person who installed Debian on it found it challenging because the CDROM is
> SCSI, as are the 2 internal HD. And it doesnt know how to boot from the CD.
>    Currently, it boots OK from the 1st HD.  It is a basic install, and the
> box can be reformatted, no data on it.  I can access the network from it,
> including a machine on which I am running ftp server and have copied the
> RedHat directory and release notes from the 4 CDs I downloaded.  I
> installed another more modern machine from these CDs and they work.

By "mature", you assume you really mean "friggin' ancient!" :-)

You're going to have issues.  If the BIOS can't boot from a SCSI CD,
I doubt it'll boot from a USB device either.  Unfortunately, any RHEL 4
product is based on the 2.6 kernel, and it's too big to fit on a floppy.
You have to be able to boot from CD, DVD or something like a USB jump
drive (something that's AT LEAST about 2.5MB in size).  You can do a
TFTP install, but you have to set up a bootp server to do it and that's
pretty involved if you've never done it.

>   So how do I start an FTP install, where I want to basically reformat
> this whole machine and just have RH running on it?  For reference, here is
> my dmesg from the machine in question:
> 
> Linux version 2.4.29 (root at Debian) (gcc version 3.3.5 (Debian 1:3.3.5-13)) #57 SMP Mon Dec 12 10:22:12 GMT 2005
> BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
>  BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009f800 (usable)
>  BIOS-e820: 000000000009f800 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
>  BIOS-e820: 00000000000f0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
>  BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 0000000008000000 (usable)
>  BIOS-e820: 00000000fec00000 - 00000000fec01000 (reserved)
>  BIOS-e820: 00000000fee00000 - 00000000fee01000 (reserved)
>  BIOS-e820: 00000000ffff0000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
> 128MB LOWMEM available.
> found SMP MP-table at 000f9470
> hm, page 000f9000 reserved twice.
> hm, page 000fa000 reserved twice.
> On node 0 totalpages: 32768
> zone(0): 4096 pages.
> zone(1): 28672 pages.
> zone(2): 0 pages.
> DMI not present.
> ACPI: Unable to locate RSDP
> Intel MultiProcessor Specification v1.1
>     Virtual Wire compatibility mode.
> Default MP configuration #5
> Processor #0 Pentium(tm) APIC version 16
> Processor #1 Pentium(tm) APIC version 16
> I/O APIC #2 Version 16 at 0xFEC00000.
> ISA/PCI bus type with no IRQ information... falling back to ELCR
> Using ELCR to identify PCI interrupts
> Processors: 2
> Kernel command line: BOOT_IMAGE=Linux ro root=802
> Initializing CPU#0
> Detected 90.207 MHz processor.
> Console: mono EGA+ 80x25
> Calibrating delay loop... 179.81 BogoMIPS
> Memory: 125140k/131072k available (2690k kernel code, 5544k reserved, 771k data, 140k init, 0k highmem)
> Dentry cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
> Inode cache hash table entries: 8192 (order: 4, 65536 bytes)
> Mount cache hash table entries: 512 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
> Buffer cache hash table entries: 8192 (order: 3, 32768 bytes)
> Page-cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
> Intel Pentium with F0 0F bug - workaround enabled.
> CPU:     After generic, caps: 000007bf 00000000 00000000 00000000
> CPU:             Common caps: 000007bf 00000000 00000000 00000000
> Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
> POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
> CPU:     After generic, caps: 000007bf 00000000 00000000 00000000
> CPU:             Common caps: 000007bf 00000000 00000000 00000000
> CPU0: Intel Pentium 75 - 200 stepping 04
> per-CPU timeslice cutoff: 160.18 usecs.
> enabled ExtINT on CPU#0
> ESR value before enabling vector: 00000008
> ESR value after enabling vector: 00000000
> Booting processor 1/1 eip 2000
> Initializing CPU#1
> masked ExtINT on CPU#1
> ESR value before enabling vector: 00000000
> ESR value after enabling vector: 00000000
> Calibrating delay loop... 180.22 BogoMIPS
> CPU:     After generic, caps: 000007bf 00000000 00000000 00000000
> CPU:             Common caps: 000007bf 00000000 00000000 00000000
> CPU1: Intel Pentium 75 - 200 stepping 04
> Total of 2 processors activated (360.03 BogoMIPS).
> WARNING: SMP operation may be unreliable with B stepping processors.
> ENABLING IO-APIC IRQs
> Setting 2 in the phys_id_present_map
> ...changing IO-APIC physical APIC ID to 2 ... ok.
> init IO_APIC IRQs
>  IO-APIC (apicid-pin) 2-0 not connected.
> ..TIMER: vector=0x31 pin1=2 pin2=0
> number of MP IRQ sources: 16.
> number of IO-APIC #2 registers: 16.
> testing the IO APIC.......................
> 
> IO APIC #2......
> .... register #00: 02000000
> .......    : physical APIC id: 02
> .......    : Delivery Type: 0
> .......    : LTS          : 0
> .... register #01: 000F0011
> .......     : max redirection entries: 000F
> .......     : PRQ implemented: 0
> .......     : IO APIC version: 0011
> .... register #02: 00000000
> .......     : arbitration: 00
> .... IRQ redirection table:
>  NR Log Phy Mask Trig IRR Pol Stat Dest Deli Vect:
>  00 000 00  1    0    0   0   0    0    0    00
>  01 003 03  0    0    0   0   0    1    1    39
>  02 003 03  0    0    0   0   0    1    1    31
>  03 003 03  0    0    0   0   0    1    1    41
>  04 003 03  0    0    0   0   0    1    1    49
>  05 003 03  0    0    0   0   0    1    1    51
>  06 003 03  0    0    0   0   0    1    1    59
>  07 003 03  0    0    0   0   0    1    1    61
>  08 003 03  0    0    0   0   0    1    1    69
>  09 003 03  1    1    0   0   0    1    1    71
>  0a 003 03  1    1    0   0   0    1    1    79
>  0b 003 03  0    0    0   0   0    1    1    81
>  0c 003 03  0    0    0   0   0    1    1    89
>  0d 003 03  0    0    0   0   0    1    1    91
>  0e 003 03  0    0    0   0   0    1    1    99
>  0f 003 03  0    0    0   0   0    1    1    A1
> IRQ to pin mappings:
> IRQ0 -> 0:2
> IRQ1 -> 0:1
> IRQ3 -> 0:3
> IRQ4 -> 0:4
> IRQ5 -> 0:5
> IRQ6 -> 0:6
> IRQ7 -> 0:7
> IRQ8 -> 0:8
> IRQ9 -> 0:9
> IRQ10 -> 0:10
> IRQ11 -> 0:11
> IRQ12 -> 0:12
> IRQ13 -> 0:13
> IRQ14 -> 0:14
> IRQ15 -> 0:15
> .................................... done.
> Using local APIC timer interrupts.
> calibrating APIC timer ...
> ..... CPU clock speed is 90.2008 MHz.
> ..... host bus clock speed is 60.1336 MHz.
> cpu: 0, clocks: 601336, slice: 200445
> CPU0<T0:601328,T1:400880,D:3,S:200445,C:601336>
> cpu: 1, clocks: 601336, slice: 200445
> CPU1<T0:601328,T1:200432,D:6,S:200445,C:601336>
> checking TSC synchronization across CPUs: passed.
> Waiting on wait_init_idle (map = 0x2)
> All processors have done init_idle
> PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.00 entry at 0xfdcf0, last bus=0
> PCI: Using configuration type 1
> PCI: Probing PCI hardware
> PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00)
> PCI BIOS passed nonexistent PCI bus 0!
> PCI BIOS passed nonexistent PCI bus 0!
> PCI BIOS passed nonexistent PCI bus 0!
> isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards...
> isapnp: SB audio device quirk - increasing port range
> isapnp: Card 'Creative ViBRA16C PnP'
> isapnp: 1 Plug & Play card detected total
> Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.4
> Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039
> Initializing RT netlink socket
> Starting kswapd
> Journalled Block Device driver loaded
> Installing knfsd (copyright (C) 1996 okir at monad.swb.de).
> udf: registering filesystem
> SGI XFS with no debug enabled
> i2c-core.o: i2c core module version 2.6.1 (20010830)
> i2c-algo-bit.o: i2c bit algorithm module
> tridentfb: Trident framebuffer 0.7.5 initializing
> vga16fb: initializing
> vga16fb: mapped to 0xc00a0000
> Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 80x30
> fb0: VGA16 VGA frame buffer device
> pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured
> Serial driver version 5.05c (2001-07-08) with MANY_PORTS SHARE_IRQ SERIAL_PCI ISAPNP enabled
> ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
> Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
> FDC 0 is a National Semiconductor PC87306
> RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 4096K size 1024 blocksize
> loop: loaded (max 8 devices)
> pcnet32.c:v1.30h 06.24.2004 tsbogend at alpha.franken.de
> PCI: Setting latency timer of device 00:03.0 to 64
> pcnet32: PCnet/PCI 79C970 at 0xffe0, 08 00 09 4f 18 fe assigned IRQ 9.
> eth0: registered as PCnet/PCI 79C970
> pcnet32: 1 cards_found.
> Linux agpgart interface v0.99 (c) Jeff Hartmann
> agpgart: Maximum main memory to use for agp memory: 96M
> agpgart: no supported devices found.
> [drm] Initialized tdfx 1.0.0 20010216 on minor 0
> [drm] Initialized radeon 1.7.0 20020828 on minor 1
> [drm:drm_init] *ERROR* Cannot initialize the agpgart module.
> SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00
> Red Hat/Adaptec aacraid driver (1.1-3 Dec 12 2005 09:19:25)
> DC390_init: No EEPROM found! Trying default settings ...
> DC390: Used defaults: AdaptID=7, SpeedIdx=0 (10.0 MHz), DevMode=0x1f, AdaptMode=0x2f, TaggedCmnds=3 (16), DelayReset=1s
> PCI: Setting latency timer of device 00:04.0 to 64
> DC390: 1 adapters found
> scsi1 : Tekram DC390/AM53C974 V2.0f 2000-12-20
>   Vendor: SEAGATE   Model: ST39140N          Rev: 1487
>   Type:   Direct-Access                      ANSI SCSI revision: 02
>   Vendor: SEAGATE   Model: ST52160N          Rev: 0285
>   Type:   Direct-Access                      ANSI SCSI revision: 02
>   Vendor: SONY      Model: CD-ROM CDU-55S    Rev: 1.0q
>   Type:   CD-ROM                             ANSI SCSI revision: 02
> Attached scsi disk sda at scsi1, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
> Attached scsi disk sdb at scsi1, channel 0, id 1, lun 0
> DC390: Target 0: Sync transfer 10.0 MHz, Offset 15
> SCSI device sda: 17783240 512-byte hdwr sectors (9105 MB)
> Partition check:
>  sda: sda1 sda2 sda3 sda4 < sda5 >
> DC390: Target 1: Sync transfer 10.0 MHz, Offset 15
> SCSI device sdb: 4238282 512-byte hdwr sectors (2170 MB)
>  sdb: sdb1
> Attached scsi CD-ROM sr0 at scsi1, channel 0, id 2, lun 0
> DC390: Target 2: Sync transfer 4.0 MHz, Offset 15
> sr0: scsi-1 drive
> Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.12
> Linux Kernel Card Services 3.1.22
>   options:  [pci] [cardbus]
> Linux video capture interface: v1.00
> mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
> I2O Core - (C) Copyright 1999 Red Hat Software
> I2O: Event thread created as pid 17
> I2O configuration manager v 0.04.
>   (C) Copyright 1999 Red Hat Software
> NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0
> IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP, IGMP
> IP: routing cache hash table of 1024 buckets, 8Kbytes
> TCP: Hash tables configured (established 8192 bind 8192)
> NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0.
> ds: no socket drivers loaded!
> kjournald starting.  Commit interval 5 seconds
> EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
> VFS: Mounted root (ext3 filesystem) readonly.
> Freeing unused kernel memory: 140k freed
> Adding Swap: 401616k swap-space (priority -1)
> EXT3 FS 2.4-0.9.19, 19 August 2002 on sd(8,2), internal journal
> ttyS1: LSR safety check engaged!
> ttyS1: LSR safety check engaged!
> kjournald starting.  Commit interval 5 seconds
> EXT3 FS 2.4-0.9.19, 19 August 2002 on sd(8,3), internal journal
> EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
> kjournald starting.  Commit interval 5 seconds
> EXT3 FS 2.4-0.9.19, 19 August 2002 on sd(8,5), internal journal
> EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
> 
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