Hi Aidan & Rick,
Aiden: Regarding the Powermac G5 AGP (7.2) it seemed like the PMU
option was required for your machine. So we are making progress!
Unfortunately, it seems that i didn't include the windfarm_pm72 driver
in the kernel build.
I have corrected that in a new 4.4.0-rc7 rev2 test kernel deb package.
Rick: In the previous 4.4.0-rc7 kernel build, i had the MD RAID
driver was compiled as a module. However i have altered the kernel
config and built it in the kernel monolith. Doing it this way also
apparently enables the kernel to autodetect the raid array. Perhaps
before it didn't load the MD module automatically and thats why it
wouldn't mount your lvm2 root volume.... Just a guess. Hopefully i'm right?
I have changed the config in a new 4.4.0-rc7 rev2 test kernel deb
package. Fingers crossed!
Haven't played around with a Powermac G5 (7.2) or lvm on linux before.
Thanks for the feedback.
Same deal as before, google drive link below, in the 4.4.0-rc7 folder
the kernel has been rebuilt to rev2. Please provide full dmesg logs
(just a reminder, i know you guys already do that if possible) :)
Good luck & thanks for trying these test kernel deb packages out.
Best Regards,
Peter
On 03/01/16 14:28, Aidan Sciortino wrote:
Hello,
The kernel works for me. I'm emailing you from the computer now. The
fans unfortunately persist in their loudness, but the kernel is
booting. I've attached the output of dmesg with this email.
Thanks!
Aidan
On Sat, Jan 2, 2016 at 9:12 PM, Rick Thomas <rbtho...@pobox.com
<mailto:rbtho...@pobox.com>> wrote:
Hi Peter,
On Jan 1, 2016, at 4:35 PM, Peter Saisanas <psaisa...@gmail.com
<mailto:psaisa...@gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> I have also enabled the MD RAID option so hopefully sort out
Rick Thomas' issue.
>
> In the google drive link, try the 4.4.0-rc7 kernel and headers in the folder
named "linux 4.4.0-rc7
kernel".
>
> Let me know how you go.
>
> Regards,
> Peter
I tried the new 4.4.0-r7 kernel. Sadly, it failed to boot. Jpg
of screen attached. It’s a little blurry. Incase you have trouble
reading it, the last few lines of text say:
rtc-generic rtc-generic: setting system clock to 2016-01-03 …
List of all partitions:
No filesystem could mount root, tried:
Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on
unknown-block(0,0)
CPU: 1 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 4.4.0-rc7-powerpc64 #1
Call Trace:
…
Rebooting in 180 seconds..
In preparation, I did
dpkg -i linux-headers-4.4.0-rc5-powerpc64_1_powerpc.deb
dpkg -i linux-headers-4.3.0-powerpc64_1_powerpc.deb
update-initramfs -u
ybin -v
I already had made an entry in /etc/yaboot.conf that loads the
appropriate kernel and initramfs
The root filesystem is on an LVM2 partition on a RAID1 array
Here’s /etc/fstab:
# <file system> <mount point> <type>
<options> <dump> <pass>
/dev/mapper/bigal-root / ext4
errors=remount-ro 0 1
# /boot was on /dev/sda3 during installation
UUID=98edd1d7-bbc9-4b56-badb-fd1fbc7be549 /boot ext2
defaults 0 2
/dev/mapper/bigal-home /home ext4
defaults 0 2
# swap was on /dev/sda4 during installation
UUID=f27a5393-93c8-4acd-bccc-c20841d9dfe0 none swap sw
0 0
# swap was on /dev/sdb4 during installation
UUID=668affec-5c6c-44fb-aabf-24fbf2d77f42 none swap sw
0 0
tmpfs /tmp tmpfs
defaults,size=10G,nr_inodes=1M 0 0
/dev/sr0 /media/cdrom0
udf,iso9660 user,noauto 0 0
And:
root@bigal:~# lsblk
NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT
sda 8:0 0 931.5G 0 disk
|-sda1 8:1 0 31.5K 0 part
|-sda2 8:2 0 977K 0 part
|-sda3 8:3 0 244.1M 0 part /boot
|-sda4 8:4 0 10G 0 part [SWAP]
|-sda5 8:5 0 921.3G 0 part
| `-md0 9:0 0 921.2G 0 raid1
| |-bigal-root 253:0 0 18.6G 0 lvm /
| `-bigal-home 253:1 0 465.7G 0 lvm /home
`-sda6 8:6 0 24.5K 0 part
sdb 8:16 0 931.5G 0 disk
|-sdb1 8:17 0 31.5K 0 part
|-sdb2 8:18 0 977K 0 part
|-sdb3 8:19 0 244.1M 0 part
|-sdb4 8:20 0 10G 0 part [SWAP]
|-sdb5 8:21 0 921.3G 0 part
| `-md0 9:0 0 921.2G 0 raid1
| |-bigal-root 253:0 0 18.6G 0 lvm /
| `-bigal-home 253:1 0 465.7G 0 lvm /home
`-sdb6 8:22 0 24.5K 0 part
sr0 11:0 1 1024M 0 rom
And /etc/yaboot.conf:
boot="/dev/disk/by-id/ata-ST1000DX001-1CM162_Z1D8GBH7-part2"
device=/ht@0,f2000000/pci@9/k2-sata-root@c/k2-sata@0/disk@0
partition=3
root="/dev/mapper/bigal-root"
timeout=50
install=/usr/lib/yaboot/yaboot
magicboot=/usr/lib/yaboot/ofboot
enablecdboot
image=/vmlinux
label=Linux
read-only
initrd=/initrd.img
image=/vmlinux.old
label=old
read-only
initrd=/initrd.img.old
image=/vmlinux-4.4.0-rc7-powerpc64
label=new
read-only
initrd=/vmlinux-4.4.0-rc7-powerpc64
Have I missed something?
Thanks!
Rick
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Aidan Sciortino
Hacker, Inventor,
Dreamer, Engineer
