Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 24 Feb 2004 13:57:58 +0100 | From | Lucas Nussbaum <> | Subject | Re: Linux 2.6.3 still doesn't boot on UltraSparc I |
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On Mon, Feb 23, 2004 at 10:45:49AM -0500, Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org> wrote: > On Mon, Feb 23, 2004 at 04:06:10PM +0100, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > > On Mon, Feb 23, 2004 at 08:25:02AM -0500, Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org> wrote: > > > So backing down to silo < 1.4.0 works with the new head.S on UltraSPARC > > > I? I don't think the problem itself is in head.S. Changing that would > > > force silo 1.4.x to not keep the kernel in high memory (would copy it > > > back down to 0x4000 where the old silo would have put it). I am guessing > > > the problem is elsewhere. > > > > > > Try this, keep the new head.S and newer SILO, and edit head.S so that > > > "HdrS version" is 0x202 instead of 0x300. See if that boots for you > > > (would confirm my suspicion). > > > > It boots correctly this way. What can we do to help now ? > > Can you enable CONFIG_DEBUG_BOOTMEM and boot with "linux -p"?
Here is the output :
boot: linux -p Allocated 8 Megs of memory at 0x4000000 for kernel Kernel doesn't support loading to high memory, relocating done. Loaded kernel version 2.6.3
PROMLIB: Sun IEEE Boot Prom 3.2.4 1996/05/30 11:17 Linux version 2.6.3 (root@ensilinx8) (gcc version 3.3.3 20040125 (prerelease) (Debian)) #4 SMP [...] ARCH: SUN4U PROMLIB: Sun IEEE Boot Prom 3.2.4 1996/05/30 11:17 PROMLIB: Sun IEEE Boot Prom 3.2.4 1996/05/30 11:17 PROMLIB: Sun IEEE Boot Prom 3.2.4 1996/05/30 11:17 PROMLIB: Sun IEEE Boot Prom 3.2.4 1996/05/30 11:17 [...] Looping, had to stop it using Break+A.
The same kernel boots without -p.
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