On Mon, 2005-11-07 at 23:19 -0300, Eduardo Trápani wrote: > >>Has anybody succesfully booted that kernel? I get lots of "format errors" > >>while trying to load modules. And then, at the end it just blocks, it says > >>something like "waiting for /dev/sda to come up" and that's it. > > > > > > Have you built a 64 bits kernel ? > > I used apt-get form unstable, yes the powerpc-64 flavour. That is the > one that gives me the "format errors". > > Then I built it and it boots alright, but after a couple of minutes it > hangs. If I let it there long enough (console, without using X) I get a > timeout error on /dev/sda. Nothing works afterwards, not even a ping > from another machine. > > Same thing with the -rc5 Sven posted.
That is strange... looks like you are having an issue with interrupts or with the disk. Are you using CONFIG_PREEMPT ? If yes, try disabling it. > > Also, you'll probably want all my patches for adding thermal control to > > the iMac G5. They'll be in 2.6.15, in the meantime, they have been > > posted on the list. > > I patched the kernel and tried it. Same problem as the non-patched > kernel. It just hangs and I don't know how to get more information on > why it hangs. > > By the way, I lose the date and time every other boot with those new > kernels. There is an "invalid date" error and then it gets set to > 1/1/2001 :(. Sometimes it doesn't even boot at all, I have to turn it > off, unplug it (I don't know if that necessary, but it works) and then > turn it on again. > > Any ideas on something I could try? How can I debug the kernel to see > what the problem is? It just hangs, there is nothing in the logs. Hrm... What excact model of iMac G5 is this (what video card, what is in /proc/device-tree/model) ? Does the kernel have my latest SMU driver ? Ben. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
