Hi all, The PC164 specific 4.4.3 kernel is booting now :-) The network interface is not present but this is secondary for now. Thanks for the tip. I try to find out which kernel patch introduced the error with the generic kernel configuration. This will take some time as every kernel build takes ~10 hours on this legacy machine ... Best regards, Juergen Am 2. März 2016 10:27:21 MEZ, schrieb JB <juergen-alpha@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: >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. -- 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
