Bug 73895

Summary:	Tadpole Sparcle 650 and Viper fail to boot live CD
Product:	Gentoo Release Media	Reporter:	Edward Gent <edward.gent>
Component:	Everything	Assignee:	Gentoo LiveCD Package Maintainers <livecd>
Status:	RESOLVED UPSTREAM
Severity:	major	CC:	sparc
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	Sparc
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Edward Gent 2004-12-09 04:28:45 UTC

Tried with 2004-2 and 2004-3 ISO
Tried with uni processor and SMP images

Failed to boot as follows:

Tadpole Sparcle 650SX (UltraSPARC-IIe 650MHz) PMU version 1.42
OpenBoot 4.03 Tadpole 1.05, 2048 MB Memory

boot cdrom
enters SILO -> Welcome banner
boot: help -> works
boot: gentoo-2.4
Loading initial ramdisk....

Remapping the kernel... done.
Booting Linux...
clock_probe: Cannot find timer chip
Program terminated


Viper

SILO loads correctly
boot: gentoo-2.4

PCI: Bogus PROM assignment. BUS[00] DEVFN[18]
PCI: phys[82001810:00000000:0010200] size[00000000:00002000]
PCI: res[0000000000200000->000000000020ffff:(204)

Please note: both these boxes are available to me for experimentation.

ted


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. boot cdrom
2. at SILO boot prompt boot gentoo-2.4
3.

Actual Results:  
As in details

Expected Results:  
Boot to LiveCD Linux

Comment 1 Ciaran McCreesh 2004-12-10 06:42:52 UTC

Yeah, we kinda know about this... Unfortunately Tadpole won't lend us a box so we can't really get the kernel fixed up to play nice with them...

Comment 2 Gustavo Zacarias (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2005-08-03 07:10:44 UTC

Since we lack hardware and/or information to fix this we can't do anything about it.
Closing as UPSTREAM since it's very likely the kernel maintainers would be able
to fix this - if they had the hardware or needed information (blame tadpole).