On Thu, 13 May 2004, Joshua Kwan wrote: > [ Sorry for the huge crosspost, but this is a pretty big deal. ] > > On Thu, May 13, 2004 at 04:21:46PM -0400, Ben Collins wrote: > > Some people have reported problems with initrd on sparc64. I'm trying to > > trace that problem (hard, because I can't reproduce it). If you've had > > the problem where silo reports loading the initrd into memory, but the > > kernel fails to detect and use it, please try the second.b in the url > > below, and recompile a kernel using one of the two patches there aswell > > (2.4 and 2.6). > > > > The new second.b will show the phys address that the initrd was loaded > > to, in addition to the virtual address. > > I've built debian-installer images for sparc based on kernels with this > patch (for 2.4) and the new second.b. > > You probably want the CDROM image since it's the one most commonly > reported as not being able to boot. (cdrom-mini.iso) I am personally not > able to try these out until I receive a sparc64 machine, which should > happen sometime in the near future. > > http://june.voxel.net/~joshk/d-i/images/2004-05-14/
I tried http://june.voxel.net/~joshk/d-i/images/2004-05-14/drom-mini.iso on two machines, an Ultra1 and an Ultra10; both failed, though differently. Ultra1: On this one, I got (modulo any typos) Loading initial ramdisk (1477684 bytes at 0x01x phys 022340800 virt) ... [spinning \/] Remapping the kernel ... FP Disabled ok and I was back to the OpenBoot 'ok' prompt. Ultra10: On this one, I got much further. The kernel was loading, but failed near the end. The last messages were RAMDISK: couldn't find valid ramdisk image starting at 0. Freeing initrd memory 1443k freed cramfs: wrong magic sh-2021: reiserfs_read_super: can not find reiserfs on ramdisk (1,0) Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 00:00 I hope this means something to somebody. -- Andy Dougherty [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
