Re: [cobalt-developers] Installing other operating systems on a Qube3

[Javi Lavandeira <ag0ny@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Francisco,

On Wed, 25 Jun 2003 08:20:42 +0200 "Francisco Jorge" <franjorge@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> some time ago I posted a procedure to install RedHat 8.0 on a Cobalt Raq3 to 
> this newsgroup .
> 
> Maybe you can try it on one of your Qubes. Please, let me know if it works.
> 
> If you cannot find the post, I can send it again.

Found it, thanks a lot (http://list.cobalt.com/pipermail/cobalt-developers/2003-April/039215.html).

I will study the firmware and do some testing.

By the way, I don't have the original Qubes. I extracted the ROM of one of them. Could anyone with an original Qube 3 verify the MD5 sum? Just to know if they have a different ROM. If you're curious, I have some pics of the machines here: http://www.ag0ny.com/misc/qube3

This is what I can see on my machines:

merry:/home/users/ag0ny/romutils# cat /etc/issue
 
Cobalt Linux release 6.0 (MMQube2)
Kernel 2.2.16C7 on an i586
 
merry:/home/users/ag0ny/romutils# uname -a
Linux merry.ag0ny.com 2.2.16C7 #1 Fri Sep 8 15:58:03 PDT 2000 i586 unknown
merry:/home/users/ag0ny/romutils# ./flashtool -r > flash.rom
merry:/home/users/ag0ny/romutils# md5sum flash.rom
74c8b50156958ac14ded0b537edb4c84  flash.rom

And this is a dmesg:

Linux version 2.2.16C7 (root@freakshow) (gcc version egcs-2.91.66 19990314/Linux (egcs-1.1.2 release)) #1 Fri Sep 8 15:58:03 PDT 2000
Ignoring bogus EBDA pointer 37CA000
Detected 448210 kHz processor.
Pending 0x00
Calibrating delay loop... 894.57 BogoMIPS
Memory: 62948k/65536k available (1220k kernel code, 412k reserved, 896k data, 60k init)
Dentry hash table entries: 8192 (order 4, 64k)
Buffer cache hash table entries: 65536 (order 6, 256k)
Page cache hash table entries: 16384 (order 4, 64k)
VFS: Diskquotas version dquot_6.4.0 initialized
CPU: L1 I Cache: 32K  L1 D Cache: 32K
CPU: L2 Cache: 128K
CPU: AMD AMD-K6(tm)-III Processor stepping 04
Checking 386/387 coupling... OK, FPU using exception 16 error reporting.
Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
PCI: Using configuration type 1
PCI: Probing PCI hardware
Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.2
Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039
NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0 for Linux NET4.0.
NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0
IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP, IGMP
TCP: Hash tables configured (ehash 65536 bhash 65536)
Initializing RT netlink socket
Starting kswapd v 1.5
Cobalt watchdog v1.3 enabled
Cobalt temperature sensor v1.2 enabled
Serial driver version 4.27 with no serial options enabled
ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
ttyS01 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured
Real Time Clock Driver v1.09
lcd: Cobalt LCD Driver v3.10
serialnumber: read of address 0x6d returned 0x0
serialnumber: read of address 0x7d returned 0xf0
serialnumber: read of address 0x7e returned 0xe0
keyboard: Timeout - AT keyboard not present?
keyboard: Timeout - AT keyboard not present?
serialnumber: Version 1.5 initialized. Serial number=21000007e5734b01. Copyright (c) 1994-2000 Axent Technologies, Inc
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 6.30
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
ALI15X3: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 78
ALI15X3: 100% native mode on irq 14
    ide0: BM-DMA at 0xf000-0xf007, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:DMA
    ide1: BM-DMA at 0xf008-0xf00f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:DMA
hda: ST320413A, ATA DISK drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
hda: ST320413A, 19092MB w/1024kB Cache, CHS=38792/16/63, UDMA(33)
md driver 0.90.0 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MAX_REAL=12
translucent personality registered
linear personality registered
raid0 personality registered
raid1 personality registered
raid5 personality registered
raid5: measuring checksumming speed
raid5: MMX detected, trying high-speed MMX checksum routines
   pII_mmx   :   830.961 MB/sec
   p5_mmx    :   733.044 MB/sec
   8regs     :   437.769 MB/sec
   32regs    :   254.889 MB/sec
using fastest function: pII_mmx (830.961 MB/sec)
sym53c8xx: at PCI bus 0, device 14, function 0
sym53c8xx: 53c875 detected
sym53c875-0: rev=0x04, base=0xa0001000, io_port=0x6100, irq=12
sym53c875-0: ID 7, Fast-20, Parity Checking
sym53c875-0: on-chip RAM at 0xa0002000
sym53c875-0: restart (scsi reset).
sym53c875-0: Downloading SCSI SCRIPTS.
scsi0 : sym53c8xx - version 1.3g
scsi : 1 host.
scsi : detected total.
eth0: National Semiconductor MacPhyter (dp83815)
eth0:   bus=0 func=128 io=0x6200 irq=11 ver=3.2
eth0:   ethernet addr=00:10:e0:04:ae:87
eth1: National Semiconductor MacPhyter (dp83815)
eth1:   bus=0 func=144 io=0x6300 irq=10 ver=3.2
eth1:   ethernet addr=00:10:e0:04:ae:8a
md.c: sizeof(mdp_super_t) = 4096
Partition check:
 hda: hda1 hda2 < hda5 hda6 > hda3 hda4
autodetecting RAID arrays
autorun ...
... autorun DONE.
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.
Freeing unused kernel memory: 60k freed
Warning: unable to open an initial console.
Adding Swap: 131532k swap-space (priority -1)
eth0: speed=100 duplex=full link=up
MOXA Smartio family driver version 1.1
Tty devices major number = 30, callout devices major number = 35
Found MOXA C104H/PCI series board(BusNo=0,DevNo=20)

Regards,

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Javi Lavandeira - http://www.ag0ny.com -- http://www.aamsx.org