OK, i give the pc164 specific kernel a try. Will report here if it worked or not the next days ... At least i am not alone with the issue :-) Cheers, Juergen Am 2. März 2016 09:09:52 MEZ, schrieb Michael Cree <mcree@xxxxxxxxxxxx>: >On Tue, Mar 01, 2016 at 08:08:28PM +0100, JB wrote: >> i compiled the latest 3.14.62 kernel for my PC164 EV56 alpha system. >This works without any failures since kernel 3.6.4 and above. >> Unfortunately i cannot get the linux kernel 3.18 and above to boot >(the latest try today was a 4.4.3 Kernel). >> >> The last entries on the screen are: >> >> ############################################### >> aboot: Linux/Alpha SRM bootloader version 1.0_pre20040408 >> aboot: switching to OSF/1 PALcode version 1.23 >> aboot: booting from device 'IDE 0 11 0 1 1 0 0' >> aboot: valid disklabel found: 4 partitions. >> aboot: loading compressed vmlinux-4.4.3.gz... >> aboot: PHDR 0 vaddr 0xfffffc0001010000 offset 0x2000 size 0xebe3b8 >> aboot: bss at 0xfffffc0001ece3b8, size 0x179540 >> aboot: zero-filling 1545536 bytes at 0xfffffc0001ece3b8 >> aboot: starting kernel vmlinux-4.4.3.gz with arguments ro >root=/dev/sda4 >> >> halted CPU 0 >> >> halt code = 6 >> double error halt >> PC = fffffc00010324e4 >> boot failure >> ############################################### >> >> Did i miss a new mandatory kernel config option for alpha or am i the >only one with this behaviour ? >> Hope you can help me a bit ... > >This has also been noted for the debian-ports built generic kernel, >for kernel versions 4.3 and above. They fail to boot with symptoms >exactly as shown above. > >There is some speculation on the debian-alpha mail list that only >a kernel built for generic system is failing to boot. I have not >been able to confirm that. > >I managed to build a 4.3 dp264 variant kernel which boots okay on an >XP1000, but my attempts to build a 4.3 or 4.4 titan variant kernel >is failing with relocation errors such as: > >arch/alpha/kernel/built-in.o: In function `osf_filldir': >arch/alpha/kernel/osf_sys.o:(.text+0x278c): relocation truncated to >fit: BRSGP against symbol `__copy_user' defined in .text section in >arch/alpha/lib/lib.a(ev6-copy_user.o) > >so I have not got very far with exploring the problem. > >Cheers >Michael. >-- >To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-alpha" >in >the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html -- Diese Nachricht wurde von meinem Android-Mobiltelefon mit K-9 Mail gesendet. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-alpha" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
