I found that my L1000 fails to boot wiath any new kernel (anything 2.6.26+ I tried). In my case, it stops after tulip initialization and other people have seen it too: http://www.mail-archive.com/debian-hppa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/msg06301.html The last lines are tulip 0000:18:00.0: enabling device (0000 -> 0003) tulip 0000:18:00.0: enabling SERR and PARITY (0003 -> 0143) In some other cases, people see similar errors from sym53c8xx: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=519984 sym53c8xx 0000:d0:00.0: enabling device (0000 -> 0003) sym53c8xx 0000:d0:00.0: enabling SERR and PARITY (0003 -> 0143) In my case, Debians 2.6.26 UP kernel sometimes boots, I think I have also seen 2.6.30-rc2 booting once. Debian 2.6.26 SMP, 2.6.29 SMP and handcompiled newer kernels have failed the same. It does not fail on sym53c8xx for me. I have only tried 64-bit kernels. Full dmesg from my L1000: Main Menu: Enter command or menu > bo Interact with IPL (Y, N, or Cancel)?> n Booting... Boot IO Dependent Code (IODC) revision 1 HARD Booted. palo ipl 1.14 root@penalosa Wed Oct 8 15:04:37 UTC 2008 Skipping extended partition 6 - beyond reach of IPL Partition Start(MB) End(MB) Id Type 1 1 31 f0 Palo 2 32 156 83 ext2 5 157 33408 83 ext2 PALO(F0) partition contains: 0/vmlinux64 6240197 bytes @ 0x48000 Information: No console specified on kernel command line. This is normal. PALO will choose the console currently used by firmware (serial). Command line for kernel: 'root=/dev/sda5 HOME=/ console=ttyS0 TERM=vt102 palo_kernel=2/vmlinux' Selected kernel: /vmlinux from partition 2 Selected ramdisk: /initrd.img from partition 2 ELF64 executable Entry 00100000 first 00100000 n 3 Segment 0 load 00100000 size 4784128 mediaptr 0x1000 Segment 1 load 00628000 size 403984 mediaptr 0x491000 Segment 2 load 0068c000 size 317824 mediaptr 0x4f4000 Loading ramdisk 7887983 bytes @ 3f868000... Branching to kernel entry point 0x00100000. If this is the last message you see, you may need to switch your console. This is a common symptom -- search the FAQ and mailing list at parisc-linux.org [ 0.000000] Initializing cgroup subsys cpuset [ 0.000000] Initializing cgroup subsys cpu [ 0.000000] Linux version 2.6.29-2-parisc64-smp (Debian 2.6.29-5) (waldi@xxxxxxxxxx) (gcc version 4.3.3 (GCC) ) #1 SMP Mon May 18 14:55:30 UTC 2009 [ 0.000000] unwind_init: start = 0x404bf0a4, end = 0x404eb424, entries = 11320 [ 0.000000] WARNING: Out of order unwind entry! 00000000404c0fb4 and 00000000404c0fc4 [ 0.000000] WARNING: Out of order unwind entry! 00000000404c0fc4 and 00000000404c0fd4 [ 0.000000] FP[0] enabled: Rev 1 Model 16 [ 0.000000] The 64-bit Kernel has started... [ 0.000000] console [ttyB0] enabled [ 0.000000] Initialized PDC Console for debugging. [ 0.000000] Determining PDC firmware type: 64 bit PAT. [ 0.000000] model 00005c90 00000491 00000000 00000002 2353fbcb 100000f0 00000008 000000b2 000000b2 [ 0.000000] vers 00000203 [ 0.000000] CPUID vers 17 rev 8 (0x00000228) [ 0.000000] capabilities 0x1 [ 0.000000] model 9000/800/L1000-44 [ 0.000000] Total Memory: 3072 MB [ 0.000000] initrd: 7f868000-7ffedc6f [ 0.000000] initrd: reserving 3f868000-3ffedc6f (mem_max c0000000) [ 0.000000] SMP: bootstrap CPU ID is 0 [ 0.000000] Built 1 zonelists in Zone order, mobility grouping on. Total pages: 775680 [ 0.000000] Kernel command line: root=/dev/sda5 HOME=/ console=ttyS0 TERM=vt102 palo_kernel=2/vmlinux [ 0.000000] PID hash table entries: 4096 (order: 12, 32768 bytes) [17179569.184000] Console: colour dummy device 160x64 [17179569.204000] Dentry cache hash table entries: 524288 (order: 10, 4194304 bytes) [17179569.244000] Inode-cache hash table entries: 262144 (order: 9, 2097152 bytes) [17179569.764000] Memory: 3075708k/3145728k available (3164k kernel code, 69364k reserved, 1459k data, 312k init) [17179569.772000] virtual kernel memory layout: [17179569.772000] vmalloc : 0x0000000000008000 - 0x000000003f000000 (1007 MB) [17179569.772000] memory : 0x0000000040000000 - 0x0000000100000000 (3072 MB) [17179569.772000] .init : 0x000000004068c000 - 0x00000000406da000 ( 312 kB) [17179569.772000] .data : 0x00000000404173d0 - 0x0000000040584000 (1459 kB) [17179569.772000] .text : 0x0000000040100000 - 0x00000000404173d0 (3164 kB) [17179569.848000] Calibrating delay loop... 876.54 BogoMIPS (lpj=1753088) [17179569.944000] Security Framework initialized [17179569.952000] SELinux: Disabled at boot. [17179569.964000] Mount-cache hash table entries: 256 [17179570.064000] Initializing cgroup subsys ns [17179570.072000] Initializing cgroup subsys cpuacct [17179570.080000] Initializing cgroup subsys devices [17179570.084000] Initializing cgroup subsys freezer [17179570.092000] Initializing cgroup subsys net_cls [17179570.104000] Brought up 1 CPUs [17179570.348000] net_namespace: 1880 bytes [17179570.356000] regulator: core version 0.5 [17179570.484000] NET: Registered protocol family 16 [17179570.496000] EISA bus registered [17179570.504000] Searching for devices... [17179571.080000] Found devices: [17179571.084000] 1. Rhapsody DC- 440 at 0xfffffffffffa0000 [160] { 0, 0x0, 0x5c9, 0x00004 } [17179571.096000] 2. Rhapsody DC- 440 at 0xfffffffffffa6000 [166] { 0, 0x0, 0x5c9, 0x00004 } [17179571.104000] 3. Memory at 0xfffffffffed08000 [8] { 1, 0x0, 0x095, 0x00009 } [17179571.108000] 4. Astro BC Runway Port at 0xfffffffffed00000 [0] { 12, 0x0, 0x582, 0x0000b } [17179571.116000] 5. Elroy PCI Bridge at 0xfffffffffed30000 [0/0] { 13, 0x0, 0x782, 0x0000a } [17179571.192000] 6. Elroy PCI Bridge at 0xfffffffffed32000 [0/1] { 13, 0x0, 0x782, 0x0000a } [17179571.200000] 7. Elroy PCI Bridge at 0xfffffffffed34000 [0/2] { 13, 0x0, 0x782, 0x0000a } [17179571.208000] 8. Elroy PCI Bridge at 0xfffffffffed36000 [0/3] { 13, 0x0, 0x782, 0x0000a } [17179571.216000] 9. Elroy PCI Bridge at 0xfffffffffed38000 [0/4] { 13, 0x0, 0x782, 0x0000a } [17179571.224000] 10. Elroy PCI Bridge at 0xfffffffffed3a000 [0/5] { ********** VIRTUAL FRONT PANEL ********** System Boot detected ***************************************** LEDs: RUN ATTENTION FAULT REMOTE POWER FLASH FLASH FLASH ON ON LED State: Unexpected Reboot. Running non-OS code. Non-critical error detected. Check Chassis and Console Logs for error messages. processor system initialization 1C00 ***************************************** ************ EARLY BOOT VFP ************* End of early boot detected ***************************************** [17179572.328000] powersw: Soft power switch support not available. [17179572.344000] bio: create slab <bio-0> at 0 [17179572.480000] NET: Registered protocol family 2 [17179572.540000] IP route cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 8, 1048576 bytes) [17179572.548000] TCP established hash table entries: 262144 (order: 10, 4194304 bytes) [17179572.624000] TCP bind hash table entries: 65536 (order: 8, 1048576 bytes) [17179572.748000] TCP: Hash tables configured (established 262144 bind 65536) [17179572.756000] TCP reno registered [17179572.896000] NET: Registered protocol family 1 [17179572.900000] checking if image is initramfs... it is [17179576.384000] Freeing initrd memory: 7703k freed [17179576.396000] Chassis warnings not supported. [17179576.404000] Performance monitoring counters enabled for Rhapsody DC- 440 [17179576.416000] audit: initializing netlink socket (disabled) [17179576.428000] type=2000 audit(1245059087.144:1): initialized [17179576.440000] VFS: Disk quotas dquot_6.5.2 [17179576.448000] Dquot-cache hash table entries: 512 (order 0, 4096 bytes) [17179576.472000] msgmni has been set to 6023 [17179576.484000] alg: No test for stdrng (krng) [17179576.492000] Block layer SCSI generic (bsg) driver version 0.4 loaded (major 253) [17179576.504000] io scheduler noop registered [17179576.508000] io scheduler anticipatory registered [17179576.512000] io scheduler deadline registered [17179576.516000] io scheduler cfq registered (default) [17179576.616000] PDC Stable Storage facility v0.30 [17179577.436000] STI GSC/PCI core graphics driver Version 0.9a [17179577.464000] Serial: 8250/16550 driver, 4 ports, IRQ sharing enabled [17179577.476000] serial 0000:00:04.0: enabling device (0146 -> 0147) [17179577.488000] 0000:00:04.0: ttyS0 at MMIO 0xfffffffff8000000 (irq = 70) is a 16550A [17179577.496000] console handover: boot [ttyB0] -> real [ttyS0] [17179577.512000] 0000:00:04.0: ttyS1 at MMIO 0xfffffffff8000008 (irq = 70) is a 16550A [17179577.536000] 0000:00:04.0: ttyS2 at MMIO 0xfffffffff8000010 (irq = 70) is a 16550A [17179577.552000] serial 0000:00:05.0: enabling device (0000 -> 0003) [17179577.564000] serial 0000:00:05.0: enabling SERR and PARITY (0003 -> 0143) [17179577.576000] 0000:00:05.0: ttyS3 at MMIO 0xfffffffff8005000 (irq = 71) is a 16550A [17179577.588000] Couldn't register serial port 0000:00:05.0: -28 [17179577.688000] brd: module loaded [17179577.816000] mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice [17179577.824000] rtc-parisc rtc-parisc: rtc core: registered rtc-parisc as rtc0 [17179577.840000] TCP cubic registered [17179577.956000] NET: Registered protocol family 17 [17179577.960000] registered taskstats version 1 [17179578.100000] rtc-parisc rtc-parisc: setting system clock to 2009-06-15 09:44:48 UTC (1245059088) [17179578.112000] Freeing unused kernel memory: <0>------------[ cut here ]------------ [17179578.248000] Badness at /build/buildd/linux-2.6-2.6.29/debian/build/source_hppa_none/kernel/smp.c:329 [17179578.256000] [17179578.256000] YZrvWESTHLNXBCVMcbcbcbcbOGFRQPDI [17179578.260000] PSW: 00001000000001100000000000001110 Not tainted [17179578.268000] r00-03 000000000806000e 00000000406829c0 0000000040181194 0000000040590020 [17179578.272000] r04-07 00000000406791c0 000000004065e6a0 0000000000000000 [17179578.808000] r08-11 000000004065e6a0 0000000000000000 00000000406841c0 0000000000000001 [17179578.820000] r12-15 000000004067a9c0 0000000000000000 00000000406791c0 00000000000000ff [17179578.828000] r16-19 00000000406809c0 00000000406879c0 00000000ff83a268 00000000406da000 [17179578.836000] r20-23 0000000000000000 00000000406da000 fffffffffffffffe 0000000000000001 [17179578.844000] r24-27 0000000000000000 000000004065e6a0 00000000404fdfa0 0000000049.236000] r28-31 000000000800000e 00000000ff8404a0 00000000ff840590 0000000000000000 [17179579.376000] sr00-03 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 [17179579.392000] sr04-07 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 [17179579.400000] [17179579.400000] IASQ: 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 IAOQ: 0000000040180e34 0000000040180e38 [17179579.408000] IIR: 03ffe01f ISR: 0000000010340000 IOR: 000002fe10040510 [17179579.416000] CPU: 0 CR30: 00000000ff840000 CR31: 0000000009.812000] ORIG_R28: 000000000800000e [17179579.940000] IAOQ[0]: smp_call_function_many+0x44/0x368 [17179579.948000] IAOQ[1]: smp_call_function_many+0x48/0x368 [17179579.956000] RP(r2): smp_call_function+0x3c/0x50 [17179579.960000] Backtrace: [17179579.960000] [<0000000040181194>] smp_call_function+0x3c/0x50 [17179579.964000] [<00000000401a1504>] call_rcu+0x44/0x58 [17179580.216000] [17179580.348000] ------------[ cut here ]------------ [17179580.356000] Badness at /build/buildd/linux-2.6-2.6.29/debian/build/source_hppa_none/kernel/smp.c:226 [17179580.364000] [17179580.364000] YZrvWESTHLNXBCVMcbcbcbcbOGFRQPDI [17179580.372000] PSW: 00001000000001101111111000001110 Tainted: G W [17179580.376000] r00-03 000000ff0806fe0e 000000004067e1c0 0000000040180f1c 0000000000000000 [17179580.384000] r04-07 00000000406791c0 0000000005e6a0 0000000000000000 [17179580.924000] r08-11 000000004065e6a0 0000000000000000 00000000406841c0 0000000000000001 [17179580.936000] r12-15 000000004067a9c0 0000000000000000 00000000406791c0 00000000000000ff [17179580.944000] r16-19 00000000406809c0 00000000406879c0 00000000ff83a268 0000000000000008 [17179580.952000] r20-23 00000000404fdfa0 0000000000000002 fffffffffffffffe 0000000000000001 [17179580.956000] r24-27 0000000000000000 000000004065e6a0 0000000000000001 000000004[17179581.340000] r28-31 000000000800000e 00000000ff840560 00000000ff840660 0000000000000008 [17179581.348000] sr00-03 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 [17179581.356000] sr04-07 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 [17179581.364000] [17179581.368000] IASQ: 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 IAOQ: 0000000040180cd0 0000000040180cd4 [17179581.376000] IIR: 03ffe01f ISR: 000: 000002fe100405e0 [17179581.908000] CPU: 0 ********** VIRTUAL FRONT PANEL ********** System Boot detected ***************************************** LEDs: RUN ATTENTION FAULT REMOTE POWER ON FLASH OFF ON ON LED State: There was a system interruption that did not take the system down. Check Chassis and Console Logs for error messages. processor system initialization 1C00 ***************************************** ************ EARLY BOOT VFP ************* End of early boot detected ***************************************** Begin: Loading essential drivers ... WARNING: All config files need .conf: /etc/modprobe.d/pnp-hotplug, it will be ignored in a future release. WARNING: All config files need .conf: /etc/modprobe.d/display_class, it will be ignored in a future release. WARNING: All config files need .conf: /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist, it will be ignored in a future release. [17179582.992000] SCSI subsystem initialized WARNING: All config files need .conf: /etc/modprobe.d/pnp-hotplug, it will be ignored in a future release. WARNING: All config files need .conf: /etc/modprobe.d/display_class, it will be ignored in a future release. WARNING: All config files need .conf: /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist, it will be ignored in a future release. WARNING: All config files need .conf: /etc/modprobe.d/pnp-hotplug, it will be ignored in a future release. WARNING: All config files need .conf: /etc/modprobe.d/display_class, it will be ignored in a future release. WARNING: All config files need .conf: /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist, it will be ignored in a future release. done. Begin: Running /scripts/init-premount ... [17179583.808000] Linux Tulip driver version 1.1.15-NAPI (Feb 27, 2007) [17179583.876000] tulip 0000:00:00.0: enabling device (0140 -> 0143) [17179583.896000] tulip0: no phy info, aborting mtable build [17179584.016000] tulip0: MII transceiver #1 config 1000 status 782d advertising 0061. [17179584.040000] eth0: Digital DS21142/43 Tulip rev 65 at MMIO 0xfffffffff8006000, 00:10:83:fe:9c:b0, IRQ 66. [17179584.300000] tulip 0000:18:00.0: enabling device (0000 -> 0003) [17179584.308000] tulip 0000:18:00.0: enabling SERR and PARITY (0003 -> 0143) ************* SYSTEM ALERT ************** SYSTEM NAME: scaspdb24 DATE: 06/15/2009 TIME: 09:44:55 ALERT LEVEL: 7 = reserved REASON FOR ALERT SOURCE: 0 = unknown, no source stated SOURCE DETAIL: 0 = unknown, no source stated SOURCE ID: FF PROBLEM DETAIL: 0 = no problem detail LEDs: RUN ATTENTION FAULT REMOTE POWER OFF FLASH FLASH ON ON LED State: Unrecognized state - Refer to LED Decoder on your Support CD. 0x0000007000FF6292 000000F0 F0000000 - type 0 = Data Field Unused 0x5800087000FF6292 00006D05 0F092C37 - type 11 = Timestamp 06/15/2009 09:44:55 A: ack read of this entry - X: Disable all future alert messages Anything else skip redisplay the log entry ->Choice:a ***************************************** -- Meelis Roos (mroos@xxxxxxxx) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-parisc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html