Bug 267084

Summary:	Cannot boot into Install CD on QS22
Product:	Gentoo Release Media	Reporter:	Alexander Bezrukov <phmagic>
Component:	InstallCD	Assignee:	Gentoo Release Team <releng>
Status:	RESOLVED NEEDINFO
Severity:	normal	CC:	ppc64
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	PPC64
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Alexander Bezrukov 2009-04-22 12:43:14 UTC

Hello,

I am trying to boot into any of (that is, minimal or universal) Gentoo Install CD 2008.0 on a T-Platforms' 1U cell server which is essentially the same as IBM QS22 blade plus some additional peripherals. I am watching on both a SOL session and a serial console on ttyS1.

I am successfully getting into yaboot prompt. Then I tried many choices, including the default and including passing the console=... to the kernel command line. In all cases boot doesn't go any farther than

boot:
Please wait, loading kernel...
   Elf64 kernel loaded...
Loading ramdisk...
ramdisk loaded at 01f00000, size: 3550 Kbytes
OF stdout device is: /axon@10000000000/plb5/plb4/opb/serial@40000200
command line: root=/dev/ram root=/dev/ram0 init=/linuxrc  looptype=squashfs loop=/image.squashfs  cdroot
memory layout at init:
  alloc_bottom : 0000000002278000
  alloc_top    : 0000000030000000
  alloc_top_hi : 0000000800000000
  rmo_top      : 0000000030000000
  ram_top      : 0000000800000000
Looking for displays
found display   : /axon@10000000000/plb5/pciex@a00000a000000000/pci@0/display@0,1, opening ... done
instantiating rtas at 0x000000002fff3000 ... done
0000000000000000 : boot cpu     0000000000000000
0000000000000002 : starting cpu hw idx 0000000000000002... done
copying OF device tree ...
Building dt strings...
Building dt structure...
Device tree strings 0x0000000002379000 -> 0x0000000002379928
Device tree struct  0x000000000237a000 -> 0x0000000002383000

I would be glad to participate in any testing related to this issue.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1 Mark Loeser (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2010-10-29 19:50:14 UTC

Are you still running into this problem?

Please try one of the new autobuilds and reopen if its still an issue:

http://gentoo.osuosl.org/releases/ppc/autobuilds/

Comment 2 Alexander Bezrukov 2010-10-30 20:56:22 UTC

Mark, sorry, I lost free access to the hardware. Sometimes I access systems of our customers but these are production systems which obviously cannot be easily rebooted.
Since opening this bug I didn't look into the problem further for I have a bootable CD which gives me shell access.