The SPARC64 minimal install CD (install-sparc64-minimal-20200508T063543Z.iso) fails to start as apparently the kernel does not support XZ-compressed SquashFS filesystems. According to dmesg: Filesystem uses "xz" compression. This is not supported Indeed: # zcat /proc/config.gz | grep SQUASHFS_XZ # CONFIG_SQUASHFS_XZ is not set
Ouch, you're right. This is because I switched from using mksquashfs (from sys-fs/squashfs-tools) which defaults to gzip compression to gensquashfs (from sys-fs/squashfs-tools-ng) which defaults to xz compression. I'll update the kconfig and build a new ISO.
The bug has been referenced in the following commit(s): https://gitweb.gentoo.org/proj/releng.git/commit/?id=4e6ebec966b511294877aa2f02540ccd71cf82ce commit 4e6ebec966b511294877aa2f02540ccd71cf82ce Author: Matt Turner <mattst88@gentoo.org> AuthorDate: 2020-08-24 20:41:17 +0000 Commit: Matt Turner <mattst88@gentoo.org> CommitDate: 2020-08-24 20:41:17 +0000 sparc: Update kernel config - Enable more squashfs options - Enable hwmon/i2c modules - Enable options necessary for systemd Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/735022 Signed-off-by: Matt Turner <mattst88@gentoo.org> releases/kconfig/sparc/installcd-5.4.48.config | 3841 ++++++++++++++++++++ .../sparc/sparc64/installcd-stage2-minimal.spec | 2 +- 2 files changed, 3842 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
Thanks for taking the time to file the bug! Should be fixed in builds starting with 20200824T200514Z.
Thanks for the fix! We're certainly further along but not entirely there yet. The last thing I get is "* Starting local ..." with no further progress. This is a Fire V100 so there's no video option, just serial. Previously a shell would spawn on both tty1 and ttyS0. Is this no longer the case?
This must be because we are not starting a terminal on the right serial port... The code to do this is here: https://gitweb.gentoo.org/proj/livecd-tools.git/tree/init.d/fixinittab?id=3c23b30aed805fb5f6b148f273c0c139eac8f6f3#n52 ... and I added support for /dev/ttyHV0 in https://gitweb.gentoo.org/proj/livecd-tools.git/commit/?id=6f0afe2a70bf7d8c5a9ef1e1e3fe3e83b6aece2b Do you have any idea what the name of the tty device is on your machine? Can you try passing different console=... options to the kernel in the grub menu and see if you can find one that works?
The bug has been closed via the following commit(s): https://gitweb.gentoo.org/proj/releng.git/commit/?id=54bfa5f2e030048da11c29371061fa0172be4ac5 commit 54bfa5f2e030048da11c29371061fa0172be4ac5 Author: Matt Turner <mattst88@gentoo.org> AuthorDate: 2022-02-16 02:59:15 +0000 Commit: Matt Turner <mattst88@gentoo.org> CommitDate: 2022-02-16 03:05:29 +0000 specs/sparc: Add console boot options Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/735022 Signed-off-by: Matt Turner <mattst88@gentoo.org> releases/specs/sparc/sparc64/installcd-stage2-minimal.spec | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
