On Sat, Dec 05, 2009 at 12:18:22PM +0000, Jurij Smakov wrote: > > Hm, OK, but that doesn't help explain why that exact image, a lenny > > backport, didn't work here... > > I've upgraded to the latest unstable on my box today, and this pulled in the > stock Debian 2.6.31 kernel, which, amusingly, boots just fine: > > jurij@debian:~$ uname -a > Linux debian 2.6.31-1-sparc64-smp #1 SMP Mon Nov 16 14:12:48 UTC 2009 sparc GNU/Linux > jurij@debian:~$ zcat /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.31-1-sparc64-smp | strings | grep gcc | head -1 > Linux version 2.6.31-1-sparc64-smp (Debian 2.6.31-2) (ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) (gcc version 4.3.4 (Debian 4.3.4-6) ) #1 SMP Mon Nov 16 14:12:48 UTC 2009 > > Can you try whether it works for you as well? I've tried that one right now, and this is what I got: boot: Linux Allocated 8 Megs of memory at 0x40000000 for kernel Uncompressing image... Loaded kernel version 2.6.31 Loading initial ramdisk (7069568 bytes at 0x1200000000 phys, 0x40C00000 virt)... / [ 0.000000] PROMLIB: Sun IEEE Boot Prom 'OBP 4.11.4 2003/07/23 08:04' [ 0.000000] PROMLIB: Root node compatible: [ 0.000000] Initializing cgroup subsys cpuset [ 0.000000] Initializing cgroup subsys cpu [ 0.000000] Linux version 2.6.31-1-sparc64-smp (Debian 2.6.31-2) (ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) (gcc version 4.3.4 (Debian 4.3.4-6) ) #1 SMP Mon Nov 16 14:12:48 UTC 2009 [ 0.000000] console [earlyprom0] enabled [ 0.000000] ARCH: SUN4U [ 0.000000] Ethernet address: 00:03:ba:5a:53:a5 [ 0.000000] Kernel: Using 2 locked TLB entries for main kernel image. [ 0.000000] Remapping the kernel... done. [ 0.000000] OF stdout device is: /pci@1e,600000/isa@7/serial@0,3f8 [ 0.000000] PROM: Built device tree with 85794 bytes of memory. [ 0.000000] Top of RAM: 0x123fedc000, Total RAM: 0xffed0000 [ 0.000000] Memory hole size: 70656MB [ 0.000000] [0000000200000000-fffff80000400000] page_structs=131072 node=0 entry=0/0 [ 0.000000] [0000000200000000-fffff80000800000] page_structs=131072 node=0 entry=1/0 [ 0.000000] [0000000204000000-fffff80000c00000] page_structs=131072 node=0 entry=16/0 [ 0.000000] [0000000204000000-fffff80001000000] page_structs=131072 node=0 entry=17/0 [ 0.000000] [0000000220000000-fffff80001400000] page_structs=131072 node=0 entry=128/0 [ 0.000000] [0000000220000000-fffff80001800000] page_structs=131072 node=0 entry=129/0 [ 0.000000] [0000000224000000-fffff80001c00000] page_structs=131072 node=0 entry=144/0 [ 0.000000] [0000000224000000-fffff80002000000] page_structs=131072 node=0 entry=145/0 [ 0.000000] Zone PFN ranges: [ 0.000000] Normal 0x00000000 -> 0x0091ff6e [ 0.000000] Movable zone start PFN for each node [ 0.000000] early_node_map[7] active PFN ranges [ 0.000000] 0: 0x00000000 -> 0x00020000 [ 0.000000] 0: 0x00100000 -> 0x00120000 [ 0.000000] 0: 0x00800000 -> 0x00820000 [ 0.000000] 0: 0x00900000 -> 0x0091f7ff [ 0.000000] 0: 0x0091f800 -> 0x0091fef3 [ 0.000000] 0: 0x0091fef5 -> 0x0091ff5e [ 0.000000] 0: 0x0091ff61 -> 0x0091ff6e [ 0.000000] Booting Linux... [ 0.000000] Built 1 zonelists in Zone order, mobility grouping on. Total pages: 449385 [ 0.000000] Kernel command line: root=/dev/md1 ro rootdelay=10 console=ttyS0,9600n1 [ 0.000000] PID hash table entries: 4096 (order: 12, 32768 bytes) [ 0.000000] Dentry cache hash table entries: 524288 (order: 9, 4194304 bytes)[ 0.000000] Inode-cache hash table entries: 262144 (order: 8, 2097152 bytes) [ 0.000000] Memory: 4140168k available (3440k kernel code, 1336k data, 216k init) [fffff80000000000,000000123fedc000] [ 0.000000] NR_IRQS:255 [ 0.000000] clocksource: mult[535555] shift[16] [ 0.000000] clockevent: mult[3126e97] shift[32] [ 40.900976] Console: colour dummy device 80x25 [ 41.039420] Calibrating delay using timer specific routine.. 24.01 BogoMIPS (lpj=48029) [ 41.144787] Security Framework initialized [ 41.198547] SELinux: Disabled at boot. [ 41.248905] Mount-cache hash table entries: 512 [ 41.308793] Initializing cgroup subsys ns [ 41.361476] Initializing cgroup subsys cpuacct [ 41.419802] Initializing cgroup subsys devices [ 41.478128] Initializing cgroup subsys freezer [ 41.536458] Initializing cgroup subsys net_cls [ 41.596728] CPU 0: synchronized TICK with master CPU (last diff 1 cycles, maxerr 6 cycles) [ 41.596742] Brought up 2 CPUs [ 41.744948] regulator: core version 0.5 [ 41.795563] NET: Registered protocol family 16 [ There it hung. Doesn't look much different from before. -- 2. That which causes joy or happiness. -- 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