On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 03:59:56PM -0400, David Miller wrote: > > There is a non-trivial problem with the device tree reported by your > firmware, several PCI device nodes are reported multiple times. > > If you'll look 'isa' appears twice, and so does 'pmu'. > > This is a very serious issue. > > And that's what is causing all of these boot failures. > > I have two theories, either the Tulip card makes the firmware corrupt > the device tree like this. Or, alternatively, there is some bug in > the version of OBP installed on this machine. > > This really isn't a kernel bug. And if it worked in the past, it worked > entirely by accident. Thanks so much for the info! I finally have 3.0.3 booting normally. First thing I did was update to the latest firmware, 4.17.1, which can be found at http://ftp.sunet.se (the readme is here: http://ftp.sunet.se/pub/security/vendor/sun/patches/all_unsigned/119235-01.README). This was a bit of a chore because neither the SILO nor the Solaris loader wanted to boot the firmware update. I had to setup a tftp netboot server in order to patch the firmware. But, that didn't fix the problem. Next, I yanked the tulip card. That didn't fix the problem either. Finally, I reset nvram by typing this at openprom's "ok" prompt: set-defaults A reset-all and... it works! I can boot 3.0.3! Thanks for your patience in helping me get this machine going w/ Linux. I'll add this info to the bugzilla report and close the bug. thanks again, Jim Faulkner -- 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
