Hi Szymon, On Thu, Jun 6, 2019 at 11:46 PM Szymon Bieganski <s.biegan...@chello.nl> wrote: > First of all thank you all for your efforts to revive the Debian ports > for m68k. I myself as a Debian fan, would love to make use of my > retro-rig with my favorite linux distro beside AmigaOS and NetBSD. > Unfortunately I am facing strange problem that might be related to some > specific hardware configuration, and therefore would like to consult > with the experienced users if my problems might be caused by either > software or hardware. Relevant hardware configuration comprises of a > stock 1D4 Amiga 1200 with Apollo 040 CPU card, recent Elbox FastATA IDE > controller with 40G IDE HDD and PCMCIA network card. All components > causes no problems with other OS'es and with neither KS 3.0, 3.1 nor > 3.1.4 (might be important during boot-off of partition beyond 4G boundary). > > Despite my multiple attempts to boot off the installation provided in > these ISO images, I was not able to we pass the kernel initialization. I > did succeed to boot and start the installation process using the old > images with kernel 2.4.27 (Debian 3.1) but since the PCMCIA network > causes null-pointer failure 1) and renders kernel 2.4 unusable on my > setup, even tough it manages to recognize 40G HDD connected to either > motherboard IDE or FastATA (primary IDE channel). With later kernel > revisions boot attempts finishes right at the moment when the partition > tables should be enlisted, and root partition should be mounted. But > nothing as such happens, instead a cryptic message is shown, and system > seems to hang, but power LED keeps blinking (heartbeat???). Full dmesg > can be found on PPA forum 2)
> >> [2] https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/ports/debian-installer/ | [ 32.470000] BUG: soft lockup - CPU#0 stuck for 23s! [systemd-udevd:49] Please note that soft lockups are (usually) not fatal. The system will continue, but it may take a while (doh, systemd; but that should work if you have 64 MiB of RAM). BTW, do these kernels have CONFIG_UEVENT_HELPER and/or CONFIG_UEVENT_HELPER_PATH set? Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- ge...@linux-m68k.org In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that. -- Linus Torvalds
