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Reply 20 of 36, by luckybob

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So I've "gotten around" to playing with this little box. I've noticed that it will fail to boot sometimes. ( about 1 in 4) So I start by removing the black goo from the original heatsink. turns out, I have a 450mhz k6-2+ installed! That means the bios knows how to properly address the on-die L2.

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Next up, I remove the original 40gb hard drives and I go to install two of these bad boys:

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I have several sata<>ide adapters. However I found out that they interfere with the mounting screws. I can either mod the case and lose the "tool less" aspect of the rails. (those big-ass screws) or use IDE drives. I went with the latter option, for two reasons. 1: I'm limited to 137gb anyway 2: if I can avoid any permanent modifications, I will. I happened to have 2x 250gb drives on the shelf that I recently retired from my file server. While not as low-power as the WD drives I have pictured, they are still use about 40% less than what was stock. Also, for the record, I did make a drive image of the 40gb drives, so I can always go back to that.

Sadly, the vast majority of the software for this machine might be lost to the null void. I sent an email to Sun politely asking for a restore CD, latest updates, etc. It took me about 3 emails before I even got someone to admit the damn thing exists, and I did get the "latest" restore Cd but nothing else. I'm aware someone made an aftermarket software and I MIGHT do that, but the one thing I want to keep on this little box is the appleshare server part. I was going to do this with a whole computer but this blue box makes everything pretty and low power. the low-power thing is nice, because I have this fixation with making EVERYTHING dual cpu.

I'm really starting to enjoy/hate playing with this box. It has made me get off my arse and make a null-modem cable. Instead of video, you connect up hyperterm and a serial cable and it works (mostly) just like any other process. I've found that the system actually boots initially from an onboard 1mb flash chip. I've also made the following observations:

- 'motherboard' L2 cache is 64kb and disabled with the use of a plus K6 processor. At least as far as I can tell.
- I'm probably going to recap this thing. It hangs often during the "probing pci devices" part of the boot process.
- There is a small program in the bios that you can access from terminal. (think grub) this means I can boot anything from anywhere, if I can finger out how to do it.

I got fed up with it for tonight, because I tried for an hour to get the restore CD to work. I spent a lot of time trying to use a VM, but the CD will only work with like 5 network cards, none of which my VM software will VM. I then had to toss together a whole machine with a 3com 905b and spent another hour before I had a RTFM moment and realized that you practically must use a cat-5 crossover cable, because the CD has its own DHCP and boot services. So when I couldn't find my cat5 cable crimper nor a spare 10/100 hub...

Things I want (need) to do:

- modify board to 5.5 multi instead of 4.5
- acquire K6-3+ one that will work with a 5.5 multi
- replace caps
- place CF cards into IDE ports
- install sata card and 2x large drives. (probably the 260gb drives I have pictured)
- mod an AT power supply in lieu of the black brick I have.

For the time being, I'm probably going to keep this thread updated.

It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes.

Reply 21 of 36, by luckybob

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         Sun Cobalt - Smaller, Bluer, Better, and Free
               Firmware version 2.10.3-ext3

Current date: Dec 31 15:41:02 UTC 2013
ROM build info: Thu Mar 11 08:51:36 MST 2004 .
System serial number: Uninitialized
System type: 3000 series system, Version 2 board
Silicon serial number: b8000008bcc84d01
Monitor: 153536 bytes
Memory: 384 MB
CPU: 1 processor(s) detected
  CPU 0: AuthenticAMD 448MHz (4.5 x 100MHz host bus) [BSP]
Initializing flash: done
  Flash Bank 0: AMD AM29F080B 1024KB (01:d5)
  Flash Bank 1: not installed.
Mounting ROM fs: done
Initializing PCI: done
  Host Bus: 0 (device 1f:07) [33MHz]
    Device: 00:00 10b9:1541 Acer Labs M1541 Aladdin V Host Bridge
    Device: 01:00 10b9:5243 Acer Labs M5243 AGP Controller
    Device: 02:00 10b9:5237 Acer Labs M5237 USB Controller (IRQ 6)
    Device: 03:00 10b9:7101 Acer Labs M7101 PMU
    Device: 07:00 10b9:1533 Acer Labs M1543 Aladdin V PCI-ISA Bridge
    Device: 0e:00 1000:000f Symbios Logic SYM53C875 SCSI Controller (IRQ 12)
    Device: 0f:00 10b9:5229 Acer Labs M5229 TXpro IDE Controller (IRQ 14)
    Device: 10:00 100b:0020 National DP83815 MacPhyter Ethernet (IRQ 11)
    Device: 12:00 100b:0020 National DP83815 MacPhyter Ethernet (IRQ 10)
  Bridged Bus: 1 (bridge: 00:01:00)
Initializing ethernet: 2 controller(s) found
  National Semiconductor DP83815 Found at port 0xfc00, MAC: 00:10:e0:03:ce:a0
  National Semiconductor DP83815 Found at port 0xfb00, MAC: 00:10:e0:03:c5:6c
Initializing IDE: found ALI M5229 at 00:78
  spinning up second channel: done
  scanning ide0: master
  scanning ide1:
IDE: stabilizing spinup: 100%
Checking Memory: done

Press spacebar to enter ROM mode
Booting default method - From disk

Enabling L2 cache: on-chip L2 is 128K -done
First stage kernel (Linux): Decompressing - done
ERROR: cannot relocate with filesize 0
command line: 'console=ttyS0,115200 debug mem=22M cobalt_boot_image=/boot/vmlinu x.bz2,/vmlinux.bz2,/boot/vmlinux.gz,/vmlinux.gz cobalt_boot_return=0x161f394 cob alt_boot_data=0x1634cc4 cobalt_boot_load=0x1700000 cobalt_ramcode_map=0x1600000, 0xa00000 ip=off '
booting kernel...
Linux version 2.4.25-ROM (duncan@atherton) (gcc version 3.3.3 (Debian 20040306))  #1 Thu Mar 11 08:47:53 MST 2004
BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
 BIOS-e801: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009f000 (usable)
 BIOS-e801: 0000000000100000 - 0000000018000000 (usable)
user-defined physical RAM map:
 user: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009f000 (usable)
 user: 0000000000100000 - 0000000001600000 (usable)
22MB LOWMEM available.
On node 0 totalpages: 5632
zone(0): 4096 pages.
zone(1): 1536 pages.
zone(2): 0 pages.
DMI not present.
Kernel command line: console=ttyS0,115200 debug mem=22M cobalt_boot_image=/boot/ vmlinux.bz2,/vmlinux.bz2,/boot/vmlinux.gz,/vmlinux.gz cobalt_boot_return=0x161f3 94 cobalt_boot_data=0x1634cc4 cobalt_boot_load=0x1700000 cobalt_ramcode_map=0x16 00000,0xa00000 ip=off
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Initializing CPU#0
Detected 448.220 MHz processor.
Calibrating delay loop... 894.56 BogoMIPS
Memory: 20208k/22528k available (1141k kernel code, 1932k reserved, 244k data, 1 00k init, 0k highmem)
Dentry cache hash table entries: 4096 (order: 3, 32768 bytes)
Inode cache hash table entries: 2048 (order: 2, 16384 bytes)
Mount cache hash table entries: 512 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
Buffer cache hash table entries: 1024 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
Page-cache hash table entries: 8192 (order: 3, 32768 bytes)
Enabling new style K6 write allocation for 22 Mb
CPU: L1 I Cache: 32K (32 bytes/line), D cache 32K (32 bytes/line)
CPU: L2 Cache: 128K (32 bytes/line)
CPU:     After generic, caps: 008021bf c08029bf 00000000 00000002
CPU:             Common caps: 008021bf c08029bf 00000000 00000002
CPU: AMD-K6(tm)-III Processor stepping 04
Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
mtrr: v1.40 (20010327) Richard Gooch (rgooch@atnf.csiro.au)
mtrr: detected mtrr type: AMD K6
PCI: Using configuration type 1
PCI: Probing PCI hardware
PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00)
Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.4
Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039
Initializing RT netlink socket
Starting kswapd
VFS: Disk quotas vdquot_6.5.1
Journalled Block Device driver loaded
pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured
Serial driver version 5.05c (2001-07-08) with MANY_PORTS SHARE_IRQ SERIAL_PCI en abled
ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
ttyS01 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
Real Time Clock Driver v1.10f
Non-volatile memory driver v1.2
loop: loaded (max 8 devices)
natsemi dp8381x driver, version 1.07+LK1.0.17, Sep 27, 2002
  originally by Donald Becker <becker@scyld.com>
  http://www.scyld.com/network/natsemi.html
  2.4.x kernel port by Jeff Garzik, Tjeerd Mulder
eth0: NatSemi DP8381[56] at 0xc2000000, 00:10:e0:03:ce:a0, IRQ 11.
eth1: NatSemi DP8381[56] at 0xc2002000, 00:10:e0:03:c5:6c, IRQ 10.
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00beta4-2.4
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
ALI15X3: IDE controller at PCI slot 00:0f.0
ALI15X3: chipset revision 193
ALI15X3: 100% native mode on irq 14
    ide0: BM-DMA at 0xfdd0-0xfdd7, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:DMA
    ide1: BM-DMA at 0xfdd8-0xfddf, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:DMA
hda: Maxtor 5A250J0, ATA DISK drive
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
blk: queue c0298fa0, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff)
hdc: Maxtor 5A250J0, ATA DISK drive
blk: queue c02993f4, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff)
ide0 at 0xfdf8-0xfdff,0xfdf6 on irq 14
ide1 at 0xfde8-0xfdef,0xfde6 on irq 15
hda: attached ide-disk driver.
hda: host protected area => 1
hda: cannot use LBA48 - capacity reset from 490234752 to 268435456
hda: 268435456 sectors (137439 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=30515/255/63, UDMA(33)
hdc: attached ide-disk driver.
hdc: host protected area => 1
hdc: cannot use LBA48 - capacity reset from 490234752 to 268435456
hdc: 268435456 sectors (137439 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=30515/255/63, UDMA(33)
Partition check:
 hda: hda1
 hdc: hdc1
md: linear personality registered as nr 1
md: raid0 personality registered as nr 2
md: raid1 personality registered as nr 3
md: raid5 personality registered as nr 4
raid5: measuring checksumming speed
   8regs     :   621.200 MB/sec
   32regs    :   367.200 MB/sec
   pII_mmx   :   849.600 MB/sec
   p5_mmx    :   825.600 MB/sec
raid5: using function: pII_mmx (849.600 MB/sec)
md: md driver 0.90.0 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MD_SB_DISKS=27
md: Autodetecting RAID arrays.
md: autorun ...
md: ... autorun DONE.
NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0
IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP
IP: routing cache hash table of 512 buckets, 4Kbytes
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 1024 bind 2048)
NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0.
Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 03:01

It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes.

Reply 22 of 36, by luckybob

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Been playing a bit more on this box. Turns out the memory stick I was using wasn't compatible or was bad or whatever. A different stick and now it never hands on "post". Re-capping this board went from #1 on the list to 1 below the last item. Moving along, The ide>sata adapters I have do not work at all in this system, so using cheap quiet low-power 320gb drives is out of the question. It seems to like the CF cards I have until this happened:

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         Sun Cobalt - Smaller, Bluer, Better, and Free
               Firmware version 2.10.3-ext3

Current date: Jan 07 23:55:08 UTC 2014
ROM build info: Thu Mar 11 08:51:36 MST 2004 .
System serial number: Uninitialized
System type: 3000 series system, Version 2 board
Silicon serial number: b8000008bcc84d01
Monitor: 153536 bytes
Memory: 512 MB
CPU: 1 processor(s) detected
  CPU 0: AuthenticAMD 448MHz (4.5 x 100MHz host bus) [BSP]
Initializing flash: done
  Flash Bank 0: AMD AM29F080B 1024KB (01:d5)
  Flash Bank 1: not installed.
Mounting ROM fs: done
Initializing PCI: done
  Host Bus: 0 (device 1b:07) [33MHz]
    Device: 00:00 10b9:1541 Acer Labs M1541 Aladdin V Host Bridge
    Device: 01:00 10b9:5243 Acer Labs M5243 AGP Controller
    Device: 02:00 10b9:5237 Acer Labs M5237 USB Controller (IRQ 6)
    Device: 03:00 10b9:7101 Acer Labs M7101 PMU
    Device: 07:00 10b9:1533 Acer Labs M1543 Aladdin V PCI-ISA Bridge
    Device: 0e:00 1000:000f Symbios Logic SYM53C875 SCSI Controller (IRQ 12)
    Device: 0f:00 10b9:5229 Acer Labs M5229 TXpro IDE Controller (IRQ 14)
    Device: 10:00 100b:0020 National DP83815 MacPhyter Ethernet (IRQ 11)
    Device: 12:00 100b:0020 National DP83815 MacPhyter Ethernet (IRQ 10)
  Bridged Bus: 1 (bridge: 00:01:00)
Initializing ethernet: 2 controller(s) found
  National Semiconductor DP83815 Found at port 0xfc00, MAC: 00:10:e0:03:ce:a0
  National Semiconductor DP83815 Found at port 0xfb00, MAC: 00:10:e0:03:c5:6c
Initializing IDE: found ALI M5229 at 00:78
  spinning up second channel: done
  scanning ide0: master slave
  scanning ide1:
IDE: stabilizing spinup: 100%
Checking Memory: done

Press spacebar to enter ROM mode

Cobalt:Main Menu> bfn
Enabling L2 cache: on-chip L2 is 128K -done
First stage kernel (Linux): Decompressing - done
ERROR: cannot relocate with filesize 0
command line: 'console=ttyS0,115200 debug ip=on root=/dev/nfs nfsroot=/nfsroot-x86,rsize=8192 '
booting kernel...
Linux version 2.4.25-ROM (duncan@atherton) (gcc version 3.3.3 (Debian 20040306)) #1 Thu Mar 11 08:47:53 MST 2004
BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
 BIOS-e801: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009f000 (usable)
 BIOS-e801: 0000000000100000 - 0000000020000000 (usable)
512MB LOWMEM available.
On node 0 totalpages: 131072
zone(0): 4096 pages.
zone(1): 126976 pages.
zone(2): 0 pages.
DMI not present.
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Kernel command line: console=ttyS0,115200 debug ip=on root=/dev/nfs nfsroot=/nfsroot-x86,rsize=8192
Initializing CPU#0
Detected 448.219 MHz processor.
Calibrating delay loop... 894.56 BogoMIPS
Memory: 516556k/524288k available (1141k kernel code, 7344k reserved, 244k data, 100k init, 0k highmem)
Dentry cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 7, 524288 bytes)
Inode cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
Mount cache hash table entries: 512 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
Buffer cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
Page-cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 7, 524288 bytes)
Enabling new style K6 write allocation for 512 Mb
CPU: L1 I Cache: 32K (32 bytes/line), D cache 32K (32 bytes/line)
CPU: L2 Cache: 128K (32 bytes/line)
CPU:     After generic, caps: 008021bf c08029bf 00000000 00000002
CPU:             Common caps: 008021bf c08029bf 00000000 00000002
CPU: AMD-K6(tm)-III Processor stepping 04
Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
mtrr: v1.40 (20010327) Richard Gooch (rgooch@atnf.csiro.au)
mtrr: detected mtrr type: AMD K6
PCI: Using configuration type 1
PCI: Probing PCI hardware
PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00)
Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.4
Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039
Initializing RT netlink socket
Starting kswapd
VFS: Disk quotas vdquot_6.5.1
Journalled Block Device driver loaded
pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured
Serial driver version 5.05c (2001-07-08) with MANY_PORTS SHARE_IRQ SERIAL_PCI enabled
ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
ttyS01 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
Real Time Clock Driver v1.10f
Non-volatile memory driver v1.2
loop: loaded (max 8 devices)
natsemi dp8381x driver, version 1.07+LK1.0.17, Sep 27, 2002
  originally by Donald Becker <becker@scyld.com>
  http://www.scyld.com/network/natsemi.html
  2.4.x kernel port by Jeff Garzik, Tjeerd Mulder
eth0: NatSemi DP8381[56] at 0xe0800000, 00:10:e0:03:ce:a0, IRQ 11.
eth1: NatSemi DP8381[56] at 0xe0802000, 00:10:e0:03:c5:6c, IRQ 10.
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00beta4-2.4
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
ALI15X3: IDE controller at PCI slot 00:0f.0
ALI15X3: chipset revision 193
ALI15X3: 100% native mode on irq 14
    ide0: BM-DMA at 0xfdd0-0xfdd7, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:DMA
    ide1: BM-DMA at 0xfdd8-0xfddf, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:DMA
hda: Flash Module, ATA DISK drive
hdb: Flash Module, ATA DISK drive
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
blk: queue c0298fa0, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff)
blk: queue c02990dc, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff)
ide0 at 0xfdf8-0xfdff,0xfdf6 on irq 14
hda: attached ide-disk driver.
hda: task_no_data_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
hda: task_no_data_intr: error=0x04 { DriveStatusError }
hda: 3940272 sectors (2017 MB) w/1KiB Cache, CHS=3909/16/63, UDMA(33)
hdb: attached ide-disk driver.
hdb: task_no_data_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
hdb: task_no_data_intr: error=0x04 { DriveStatusError }
hdb: 3940272 sectors (2017 MB) w/1KiB Cache, CHS=3909/16/63, UDMA(33)
Partition check:
 hda:hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
hda: dma_intr: error=0x84 { DriveStatusError BadCRC }
 [PTBL] [977/64/63] hda1
 hdb:hdb: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
hdb: dma_intr: error=0x84 { DriveStatusError BadCRC }
hdb: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
hdb: dma_intr: error=0x84 { DriveStatusError BadCRC }
hdb: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
hdb: dma_intr: error=0x84 { DriveStatusError BadCRC }
hdb: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
hdb: dma_intr: error=0x84 { DriveStatusError BadCRC }
blk: queue c0298fa0, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff)
blk: queue c02990dc, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff)
ide0: reset: success
hdb: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
hdb: dma_intr: error=0x84 { DriveStatusError BadCRC }
hdb: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
hdb: dma_intr: error=0x84 { DriveStatusError BadCRC }
hdb: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
hdb: dma_intr: error=0x84 { DriveStatusError BadCRC }
hdb: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
hdb: dma_intr: error=0x84 { DriveStatusError BadCRC }
hda: DMA disabled
ide0: reset: success
hdb: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
hdb: dma_intr: error=0x84 { DriveStatusError BadCRC }
end_request: I/O error, dev 03:40 (hdb), sector 0
hdb: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
hdb: dma_intr: error=0x84 { DriveStatusError BadCRC }
hdb: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
hdb: dma_intr: error=0x84 { DriveStatusError BadCRC }
hdb: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
hdb: dma_intr: error=0x84 { DriveStatusError BadCRC }
hdb: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
hdb: dma_intr: error=0x84 { DriveStatusError BadCRC }
ide0: reset: success
 unable to read partition table
md: linear personality registered as nr 1
md: raid0 personality registered as nr 2
md: raid1 personality registered as nr 3
md: raid5 personality registered as nr 4
raid5: measuring checksumming speed
   8regs     :   621.200 MB/sec
   32regs    :   367.200 MB/sec
   pII_mmx   :   849.600 MB/sec
   p5_mmx    :   825.200 MB/sec
raid5: using function: pII_mmx (849.600 MB/sec)
md: md driver 0.90.0 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MD_SB_DISKS=27
md: Autodetecting RAID arrays.
md: autorun ...
md: ... autorun DONE.
NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0
IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP
IP: routing cache hash table of 4096 buckets, 32Kbytes
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 131072 bind 65536)
eth0: link up.
eth0: Setting full-duplex based on negotiated link capability.
eth1: autonegotiation did not complete in 4000 usec.
Sending DHCP and RARP requests .,. OK
IP-Config: Got DHCP answer from 10.0.0.254, my address is 10.0.0.150
eth1: remaining active for wake-on-lan
IP-Config: Complete:
      device=eth0, addr=10.0.0.150, mask=255.0.0.0, gw=255.255.255.255,
     host=10.0.0.150, domain=mfg.cobaltmicro.com, nis-domain=(none),
     bootserver=10.0.0.254, rootserver=10.0.0.254, rootpath=
NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0.
Looking up port of RPC 100003/2 on 10.0.0.254
Looking up port of RPC 100005/1 on 10.0.0.254
VFS: Mounted root (nfs filesystem).
Freeing unused kernel memory: 100k freed
INIT: version 2.82 booting
Mounting /proc: done
Bringing up lo: ifconfig  lo  127.0.0.1 netmask 255.0.0.0 broadcast 127.255.255.255
done
Starting portmap: done
Configured network: eth0
My MAC is: 00:10:E0:03:CE:A0
Mounting tester:/test_dir/tmp/03CEA0 as /tmp
Hardware generation is: III
getting build...
Build: 4100WG_1.12
Updates:
  01_Qube3-en-Mfg-0.0.2-9690.pkg
  02_Qube3-en-Update-1.0.3BTO.pkg
  03_Qube3-en-Update-2.0.8-cache-raid.pkg
  04_Qube3-All-System-1.0.1-9819.pkg
  05_Qube3-All-Security-2.0.1-8061.pkg
  06_Qube3-ml-Update-4.0.pkg
  07_Qube3-en-Manual-1.2.pkg
  08_Qube3-fr-Manual-1.2.pkg
  09_Qube3-es-Manual-1.2.pkg
  10_Qube3-de-Manual-1.2.pkg
  11_Qube3-ja-Manual-1.2.pkg
  12_Qube3-zh_CN-Manual-1.2.pkg
  13_Qube3-zh_TW-Manual-1.2.pkg
CTO Packages:
You currently have ROM: 2.10.3 installed
ROM version ok
Building product 4100WG_1.12
 with updates: 01_Qube3-en-Mfg-0.0.2-9690.pkg,02_Qube3-en-Update-1.0.3BTO.pkg,03_Qube3-en-Update-2.0.8-cache-raid.pkg,04_Qube3-All-System-1.0.1-9819.pkg,05_Qube3-All-Security-2.0.1-8061.pkg,06_Qube3-ml-Update-4.0.pkg,07_Qube3-en-Manual-1.2.pkg,08_Qube3-fr-Manual-1.2.pkg,09_Qube3-es-Manual-1.2.pkg,10_Qube3-de-Manual-1.2.pkg,11_Qube3-ja-Manual-1.2.pkg,12_Qube3-zh_CN-Manual-1.2.pkg,13_Qube3-zh_TW-Manual-1.2.pkg
      and CTO:
Prod field is 4100WG
Building Cobalt Linux Release 6.0 (Carmel) build 1.12 for a 4100WG in en_US
Verifying release_spec
Found 0 script(s) to execute prior to drive partitioning.
Found 0 script(s) to execute prior to installation.
Found 461 rpm(s) for the 4100WG.
Found 14 script(s) to execute after installation.
Found 0 packages(s) to install at end of build.
Building system with RAID support
WARNING: disk-to-disk builds will not work
Destination device: /dev/md
Destination / partition: 1
Destination swap partition: 6
Destination /var partition: 3
Destination /home partition: 4
Partitioning disk
/dev/md1: No such device
/dev/md6: No such device
/dev/md3: No such device
/dev/md4: No such device
/dev/md5: No such device
Checking that no hda:-one is using this disk right no hda1w ...

OK

Disk /dev/hda: 977 cylinders, 64 heads, 63 sectors/track
Old situation:
Units = megabytes of 1048576 bytes, blocks of 1024 bytes, counting from 0

   Device Boot Start   End     MB   #blocks   Id  System
/dev/hda1         0+  1921-  1922-  1967584+   6  FAT16
/dev/hda2         0      -      0         0    0  Empty
/dev/hda3         0      -      0         0    0  Empty
/dev/hda4         0      -      0         0    0  Empty
Warning: given size (501) exceeds max allowable size (263)
New situation:
Units = megabytes of 1048576 bytes, blocks of 1024 bytes, counting from 0

   Device Boot Start   End     MB   #blocks   Id  System
/dev/hda1         0+  1500-  1501-  1536191+  fd  Linux raid autodetect
/dev/hda2      1500+  1659-   160-   163296    5  Extended
/dev/hda3      1659+  2159-   501-   512064   fd  Linux raid autodetect
/dev/hda4         0      -      0         0   fd  Linux raid autodetect
/dev/hda5      1500+  1531-    32-    32255+  fd  Linux raid autodetect
/dev/hda6      1531+  1659-   128-   131039+  fd  Linux raid autodetect
Warning: partition 4 has size 0 but is not marked Empty
Warning: partition 3 extends past end of disk
Successfully wrote the new partition table

Re-reading the partition table ...
 hda: hda1 hda2 < hda5 hda6 > hda3

If you created or changed a DOS partition, /dev/foo7, say, then use dd(1)
to zero the first 512 bytes:  dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/foo7 bs=512 count=1
(See fdisk(8).)
Checking that no hdb:-one is using th hdb1is disk right no hdb2w ...
 hdb3 hdb4
OK

Disk /dev/hdb: 3909 cylinders, 16 heads, 63 sectors/track
Old situation:
Warning: The first partition looks like it was made
  for C/H/S=*/33/45 (instead of 3909/16/63).
For this listing I'll assume that geometry.
Units = megabytes of 1048576 bytes, blocks of 1024 bytes, counting from 0

   Device Boot Start   End     MB   #blocks   Id  System
/dev/hdb1   ? 379949+ 937326- 557378- 570754815+  72  Unknown
                start: (c,h,s) expected (1023,32,45) found (357,116,40)
                end: (c,h,s) expected (1023,32,45) found (357,32,45)
/dev/hdb2   ? 82367+ 1027694- 945327- 968014120   65  Novell Netware 386
                start: (c,h,s) expected (1023,32,45) found (288,115,43)
                end: (c,h,s) expected (1023,32,45) found (367,114,50)
/dev/hdb3   ? 913028+ 1858354- 945327- 968014096   79  Unknown
                start: (c,h,s) expected (1023,32,45) found (366,32,33)
                end: (c,h,s) expected (1023,32,45) found (357,32,43)
/dev/hdb4   ?     0  1775989- 1775990- 1818613248    d  Unknown
                start: (c,h,s) expected (0,0,1) found (372,97,50)
                end: (c,h,s) expected (1023,32,45) found (0,10,0)
Warning: given size (501) exceeds max allowable size (265)
New situation:
Units = megabytes of 1048576 bytes, blocks of 1024 bytes, counting from 0

   Device Boot Start   End     MB   #blocks   Id  System
/dev/hdb1         0+  1500-  1501-  1536191+  fd  Linux raid autodetect
/dev/hdb2      1500+  1658-   159-   162288    5  Extended
/dev/hdb3      1658+  2158-   501-   512064   fd  Linux raid autodetect
/dev/hdb4         0      -      0         0   fd  Linux raid autodetect
/dev/hdb5      1500+  1530-    31-    30743+  fd  Linux raid autodetect
/dev/hdb6      1530+  1658-   129-   131543+  fd  Linux raid autodetect
Warning: partition 4 has size 0 but is not marked Empty
Warning: partition 3 extends past end of disk
Successfully wrote the new partition table

Re-reading the partition table ...
 hdb: hdb1 hdb2 < hdb5 hdb6 > hdb3

If you created or changed a DOS partition, /dev/foo7, say, then use dd(1)
to zero the first 512 bytes:  dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/foo7 bs=512 count=1
(See fdisk(8).)
Formatting /dev/md1
handling MD device /dev/md1
analyzing super-block
disk 0: /dev/hda1, 1536191kB, raid superblock at 1536064kB
couldn't open device /dev/hdc1 -- Device not configured
mkraid: aborted, see the syslog and /proc/mdstat for potential clues.
Personalities : [linear] [raid0] [raid1] [raid5]
read_ahead not set
unused devices: <none>
mke2fs 1.14, 9-Jan-1999 for EXT2 FS 0.5b, 95/08/09
/dev/md1: Invalid argument passed to ext2 library while setting up superblock
Personalities : [linear] [raid0] [raid1] [raid5]
read_ahead not set
unused devices: <none>
Formatting /dev/md3
handling MD device /dev/md3
analyzing super-block
disk 0: /dev/hda3, 512064kB, raid superblock at 512000kB
couldn't open device /dev/hdc3 -- Device not configured
mkraid: aborted, see the syslog and /proc/mdstat for potential clues.
Personalities : [linear] [raid0] [raid1] [raid5]
read_ahead not set
unused devices: <none>
mke2fs 1.14, 9-Jan-1999 for EXT2 FS 0.5b, 95/08/09
/dev/md3: Invalid argument passed to ext2 library while setting up superblock
Personalities : [linear] [raid0] [raid1] [raid5]
read_ahead not set
unused devices: <none>
Formatting /dev/md4
handling MD device /dev/md4
analyzing super-block
/dev/hda4: device too small (0kB)
mkraid: aborted, see the syslog and /proc/mdstat for potential clues.
Personalities : [linear] [raid0] [raid1] [raid5]
read_ahead not set
unused devices: <none>
mke2fs 1.14, 9-Jan-1999 for EXT2 FS 0.5b, 95/08/09
/dev/md4: Invalid argument passed to ext2 library while setting up superblock
Personalities : [linear] [raid0] [raid1] [raid5]
read_ahead not set
unused devices: <none>
Creating swap
/dev/md6: No such device
handling MD device /dev/md6
analyzing super-block
disk 0: /dev/hda6, 131039kB, raid superblock at 130944kB
couldn't open device /dev/hdc6 -- Device not configured
mkraid: aborted, see the syslog and /proc/mdstat for potential clues.
mkswap: error: swap area needs to be at least 40kB
Usage: mkswap [-c] [-v0|-v1] [-pPAGESZ] /dev/name [blocks]
swapon: /dev/md6: No such device
Mounting /dev/md1 on /mntdir/
/dev/md1: Invalid argument
EXT3-fs: unable to read superblock
mount: you must specify the filesystem type
./cobalt_install: mount /dev/md1 /mntdir/ failed. Terminating.
build_release: /bin/sh - ./cobalt_install failed. Terminating.
/dev/md1: InvaliEXT3-fs: unable to read superblock
d argument
mount: you must specify the filesystem type
Loading MFG hook
sh: /mntdir/etc/rc.d/rc3.d/S98zzzDELETE_MEzzz: No such file or directory
/bin/chmod: /mntdir/etc/rc.d/rc3.d/S98zzzDELETE_MEzzz: No such file or directory
Creating .master files if needed
eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:10:E0:03:CE:A0
          inet addr:10.0.0.150  Bcast:10.255.255.255  Mask:255.0.0.0
Found Broadcast(10.255.255.255) and Netmask(255.0.0.0)!
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:6113 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:3929 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          Interrupt:11

Kernel IP routing table
Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags Metric Ref    Use Iface
10.0.0.0        0.0.0.0         255.0.0.0       U     0      0        0 eth0
Found Network(10.0.0.0)!
127.0.0.0       0.0.0.0         255.0.0.0       U     0      0        0 lo
cp: cannot create regular file `/mntdir/etc/resolv.conf': No such file or directory

Contents of /mntdir/etc/resolv.conf:
cat: /mntdir/etc/resolv.conf: No such file or directory

Contents of /mntdir/etc/sysconfig/network:
cat: /mntdir/etc/sysconfig/network: No such file or directory
sh: /mntdir/etc/HOSTNAME: No such file or directory

Contents of /mntdir/etc/HOSTNAME:
cat: /mntdir/etc/HOSTNAME: No such file or directory
sh: /mntdir/etc/NET-CONFIG: No such file or directory

Contents of /mntdir/etc/NET-CONFIG:
cat: /mntdir/etc/NET-CONFIG: No such file or directory

Contents of /mntdir/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0:
cat: /mntdir/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0: No such file or directory
Writing Updates to the disk:
  01_Qube3-en-Mfg-0.0.2-9690.pkg
  02_Qube3-en-Update-1.0.3BTO.pkg
  03_Qube3-en-Update-2.0.8-cache-raid.pkg
  04_Qube3-All-System-1.0.1-9819.pkg
  05_Qube3-All-Security-2.0.1-8061.pkg
  06_Qube3-ml-Update-4.0.pkg
  07_Qube3-en-Manual-1.2.pkg
  08_Qube3-fr-Manual-1.2.pkg
  09_Qube3-es-Manual-1.2.pkg
  10_Qube3-de-Manual-1.2.pkg
  11_Qube3-ja-Manual-1.2.pkg
  12_Qube3-zh_CN-Manual-1.2.pkg
  13_Qube3-zh_TW-Manual-1.2.pkg
Writing Bundles to the disk:
/bin/cp: cannot create regular file `/mntdir/etc': Read-only file system
umount: /mntdir: not mounted
INIT: Switching to runlevel: 6
INIT: Sending processes the TERMSending all processes the TERM signal...
INIT: no more processes left in this runlevel
Sending all procmd: recovery thread got woken up ...
esses the KILL smd: recovery thread finished ...
ignal..
Unmounting file systems
Remounting remaining filesystems (if any) readonly
SYSTEM REBOOTING
md: stopping all md devices.
flushing ide devices: hda hdb
Restarting system.
waiting for devices to flush..........done

I posted about it on linux.org, but i'm expecting to get slammed for even wanting to use old hardware at all. So I'm posting here, hoping someone knows linux enough to tell me whats wrong.

It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes.

Reply 23 of 36, by Skyscraper

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I do not know much about these things...
The one thing I do know is that newer Linux kernels will not work with K6-2 because they do need a real "6th generation CPU"
Kernel 2.4 must be old so that can not be the issue.

I found an old thread on another forum.
I am not sure if the information is useful.
There is a dead link to patch for K6-2 Cobalt systems running Linux with the 2.4 kernel.
http://web.archiveorange.com/archive/v/OaDWV5YhAPKc7FGiWs0g

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Reply 24 of 36, by Geoman

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I like the Qubes - especially the design (it's so SGI Octane-like)!

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can it function as a NAS?

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Not really. At least not in the traditional sense. I'm going to try an aftermarket OS. Maybe that might help.

It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes.

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Hello.
I use my qube3 as a NAS DLNA server .It is a dream to use under davesword's kernels / strongblot updated centos to 4.9 as samba server using webmin.I will tell you my upgrades.AMDk6-3+ sta 600mhz , 2 x 512mb =1gig ram ,16gb CF for OS and i have used from 0.75terra sata to ide adapter ,please note to use the adapter with the Jmicron chip, i have tested others with no success .I will post pics in 2 minutes.you can upgrade your qube3 more to my specs.

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amijim wrote:

AMDk6-3+ sta 600mhz .

Ooh, I detected some Greek here! 😜

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300gb working,breaking the 137gb burden.Vive Qube3.In that free pci i am testing some gigabit ethrnets as the onboard nics are the burden.

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GeorgeMan wrote:
amijim wrote:

AMDk6-3+ sta 600mhz .

Ooh, I detected some Greek here! 😜

Hahaha 🤣

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Sadly I think my little Qube is going to sit on the shelf for a long time. It works perfectly fine, its just a lack of storage. i just setup a 16x320gb sata array (eventually will be upgraded to 16x500g). There is just no way the qube can compete with that. It makes no sense to run 2 computers when one can do it all, better.

that said, this wonderful server of mine cannot share files to old macs. So there might be hope for this box as an Appleshare server. But thats a project for another day. And for the record, I'm still going to look for a 550mhz capable k6-3+ and so forth. Its just kinda low on the pecking order for now.

It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes.

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You might try a USB to Parallel controller vs the PCI card; it looks to have a USB port (and you should be able to use a hub if it needs >1), and it'd leave the PCI slot free for whatever (SATA, faster Ethernet, WiFi, etc). I will add that I've had mixed luck with such adapters in the past though - not sure what the actual cause is but they don't seem to work as universally as boards with onboard LPT ports. Cool looking little box too.

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obobskivich wrote:

You might try a USB to Parallel controller vs the PCI card; it looks to have a USB port (and you should be able to use a hub if it needs >1), and it'd leave the PCI slot free for whatever (SATA, faster Ethernet, WiFi, etc). I will add that I've had mixed luck with such adapters in the past though - not sure what the actual cause is but they don't seem to work as universally as boards with onboard LPT ports. Cool looking little box too.

well the problem mostly lies with the hardware. It doesn't have a bios as you would think of one, It has a modified redhat 2.2 kernel loaded directly into a flash chip. the problem is, there is not enough room for an updated kernel. At least not without hacking major parts out of it. Also, because there is only one pci slot. you have to decide between a hard disk controller (for hard drives >137gb) OR gigabit ethernet. At least I have never seen gigabit ethernet and sata on the same pci card. Let alone getting it to work with a 2.2 kernel.

It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes.

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well the problem mostly lies with the hardware. It doesn't have a bios as you would think of one, It has a modified redhat 2.2 kernel loaded directly into a flash chip. the problem is, there is not enough room for an updated kernel. At least not without hacking major parts out of it. Also, because there is only one pci slot. you have to decide between a hard disk controller (for hard drives >137gb) OR gigabit ethernet. At least I have never seen gigabit ethernet and sata on the same pci card. Let alone getting it to work with a 2.2 kernel.

Hrm, that's kind of a kludge. What about FireWire? It would support both networking and connection to bigger hard-drives (external though). (Note that I have never actually tried a TCP/IP-over-Firewire network; but for external storage or multimedia devices I've never had complaints).

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You might try a USB to Parallel controller vs the PCI card; it looks to have a USB port (and you should be able to use a hub if it needs >1), and it'd leave the PCI slot free for whatever (SATA, faster Ethernet, WiFi, etc). I will add that I've had mixed luck with such adapters in the past though - not sure what the actual cause is but they don't seem to work as universally as boards with onboard LPT ports. Cool looking little box too.

obobskivich, I know the answer to this, but it's a bit off-topic. I went into it a bit here but I'm not sure that there's a dedicated topic for it.
Re: DOSBOX Command.com issue OR Low Memory issue

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Stiletto wrote:
obobskivich wrote:

You might try a USB to Parallel controller vs the PCI card; it looks to have a USB port (and you should be able to use a hub if it needs >1), and it'd leave the PCI slot free for whatever (SATA, faster Ethernet, WiFi, etc). I will add that I've had mixed luck with such adapters in the past though - not sure what the actual cause is but they don't seem to work as universally as boards with onboard LPT ports. Cool looking little box too.

obobskivich, I know the answer to this, but it's a bit off-topic. I went into it a bit here but I'm not sure that there's a dedicated topic for it.
Re: DOSBOX Command.com issue OR Low Memory issue

You're a legend. Thanks for that. 😀

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