Bug 50256 – 2004.1 Sparc 64 Live CD Panics on some Ultra 5/10 and UltraAXe systems

• Product: Gentoo Release Media
• Status: RESOLVED FIXED

[Description jason wohlgemuth 2004-05-06 09:50:37 UTC]

Issuing boot cdrom and selecting the normal single processor kernel yields a normal looking boot but fails with:

Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 01:00
Press L1-A to return to the boot prom

(A full Dmesg for an Ultra AXe and Ultra 5 is available at the above web address)

[Comment 1 steve strigle 2004-05-07 21:56:31 UTC]

I'm seeing the exact same thing on an ultra10 using both the universal and minimal sparc64 2000.1 livecd's.

[Comment 2 javier augusto 2004-05-10 17:25:02 UTC]

Also, on a Sun Blade100 issuing boot cdrom hangs like the other one we know and "sometimes" it fails with an Interrupt error...
Unfortunately there

[Comment 3 javier augusto 2004-05-10 17:25:02 UTC]

Also, on a Sun Blade100 issuing boot cdrom hangs like the other one we know and "sometimes" it fails with an Interrupt error...
Unfortunately there´s not even a dmesg *g*

2004.1 LiveCD

[Comment 4 Gustavo Zacarias (RETIRED) 2004-05-11 06:37:59 UTC]

Can you try the ISO at http://dev.gentoo.org/~gustavoz/sparc/ ?
It's basically the same as 2004.1 just with a downgraded silo that seems to be the problem.
Thanks.

[Comment 5 Gustavo Zacarias (RETIRED) 2004-05-12 19:13:42 UTC]

I've uploaded a fixed universal ISO also.
Please post comments in this bug about success/failure with the new ISOs.
Thanks.

[Comment 6 Gustavo Zacarias (RETIRED) 2004-05-12 19:18:41 UTC]

*** Bug 49807 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Comment 7 Gustavo Zacarias (RETIRED) 2004-05-12 19:19:07 UTC]

*** Bug 50818 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Comment 8 Travis Geiselbrecht 2004-05-12 23:36:12 UTC]

The ISOs at http://dev.gentoo.org/~gustavoz/sparc/ seem to boot fine on a blade 100.

[Comment 9 Eric Olinger 2004-05-13 12:09:49 UTC]

The new ISO fixed the kernel panic on my Ultra 5.

[Comment 10 Jonas Feller 2004-05-14 11:11:11 UTC]

The new ISO fixed the kernel panic on my Ultra 10 too

[Comment 11 Jeff Hampton 2004-05-18 07:56:26 UTC]

New iso working on my Ultra 10...thanks!

[Comment 12 jason wohlgemuth 2004-05-18 09:42:05 UTC]

I think it is working on my Ultra AXe but I think my CDRW drive made me a coaster. It does get past the kernel and starts to load the init scripts and then fails with a seek error on HDC. So I can't confirm 100% that it was fixed but I will confirm 99% that I believe it was fixed. :)

[Comment 13 Nicola 2004-05-31 15:38:01 UTC]

new iso doesn't work... my ultra5 freeze when attempt to mount the cd 

[Comment 14 Gustavo Zacarias (RETIRED) 2004-06-22 13:34:19 UTC]

*** Bug 54800 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Comment 15 Gustavo Zacarias (RETIRED) 2004-08-03 14:53:57 UTC]

Ok, 2004.2 is out for a couple of weeks now and uses the old silo that doesn't have this behaviour.
Closing.