From: Patrick Finnegan <pat@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri, 27 Nov 2009 20:52:17 -0500 > On Friday 27 November 2009, David Miller wrote: >> From: Patrick Finnegan <pat@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> >> Date: Thu, 26 Nov 2009 22:02:45 -0500 >> >> > I seem to have a new/different problem with booting on a Sun V880. >> > I have tried Debian/sarge, etch, and lenny installers, each fails. >> > After reading through a bit of this list, I downloaded >> > sparc-next-2.6 via git, and compiled a kernel (based on >> > Debian/lenny's 2.6.26-2-sparc64 kernel config), and it still won't >> > boot. I also updated to the latest OpenBoot image, hoping that >> > would help, but I didn't see any difference. >> >> sparc-next-2.6 doesn't have the bug fix, sparc-2.6 does > > Ok, with sparc-2.6, I get farther. If I pull the RSC card, it actually > gets to a point where it tries to mount the root filesystem (and fails, > because I don't have one for it yet). With the RSC in, it hangs after > the following output. I have tried this with the OpenBoot console set > to both ttya and rsc-console, and passed a "console=ttyS0" each time. At > the point that the machine hangs, it locks up hard enough that sending a > break doesn't send me to an "ok" prompt. try booting with "initcall_debug=1 ignore_level" on the kernel command line And in the mean time you can install and test with the RSC card removed -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe sparclinux" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
