Everytime when I try to load the kernel on my Octane R12K I get this... prom write error on cacheline 0x1fcc0f00 at PC=8000000202729e0 But using bootp works fine. Reproducible: Always
Can you provide your kernel/mips-sources version and arcload version? This info is somewhat useful, yanno...
Oh, and additionally, the Prom version would also help. You can get this by typing "version" at the Prom command line. It's possibly an old Prom revision that may be the cause of this.
prom version reports... PROM Monitor SGI Version 6.5 Rev 4.16 IP30 May 22, 2003 - 64 Bit kernel is 2.6.17.10-mipsgit-20060618-ip30r10k+
(In reply to comment #3) > prom version reports... > > PROM Monitor SGI Version 6.5 Rev 4.16 IP30 May 22, 2003 - 64 Bit > > kernel is 2.6.17.10-mipsgit-20060618-ip30r10k+ > my prom monitor sgi version 6.5 rev 4.17 IP 30 jan 20, 2004 - 64 bit and i am perfectly able to boot 2.6.17.14
Are PROM updates available ??
prom updates are available as part of the IRIX install process, I believe. (Sorry it's taken so long for someone to answer your question) Since this bug is rather old, we have one user who reported it working with a newer prom version, and Octane support is dead in the Linux kernel, I'm going to close this bug as WONTFIX.
I am going to re-open and take this one myself, now that I have Octane booting Linux again. Putting arcload on my TODO to test again at some point, though it'll primarily be with an R14000 module instead of an R12000.
Apologies on taking so long to resolve this, but a test on an Octane w/ R12000 CPU indicates that arcload 0.5 does work after some fiddling: Running power-on diagnostics... System Maintenance Menu 1) Start System 2) Install System Software 3) Run Diagnostics 4) Recover System 5) Enter Command Monitor Option? 5 Command Monitor. Type "exit" to return to the menu. >> printenv [snip] OSLoadPartition=xio(0)pci(15)scsi(0)disk(1)rdisk(0)partition(8) OSLoader=arcload SystemPartition=xio(0)pci(15)scsi(0)disk(1)rdisk(0)partition(8) OSLoadFilename=ip30(serial,disk,54174) [snip] >> arcload list 1280+50992+944+4256+592 entry: 0xa80000005fff0000 ARCLoad version 0.5 (c) 2004-5 Stanislaw Skowronek GRUB Filesystem Error FILE_NOT_FOUND: 'ArcOpen failed' Available configurations: Global Options (not bootable): serial Serial Console/38400 baud single Single User Mode debug Debug Shell disk Local Disk ro Mount / Read-Only video Graphics Console Bootable Images & Options: ip30 SGI Octane 54174 5.4.174 Kernel >> boot 1280+50992+944+4256+592 entry: 0xa80000005fff0000 ARCLoad version 0.5 (c) 2004-5 Stanislaw Skowronek Loading configuration for 'ip30(serial,disk,54174)'... GRUB Filesystem Error FILE_NOT_FOUND: 'ArcOpen failed' Loading xio(0)pci(15)scsi(0)disk(1)rdisk(0)partition(8)/54174... Reading 9452704 bytes... OK. Entering kernel. [ 10.231126] printk: console [ttyS0] enabled [ 10.244011] printk: bootconsole [early_impact0] disabled [ 10.281375] 0000:00:02.0: ttyS1 at IOC3 0xf080120170 (irq = 0, base_baud = 458333) is a 16550A [ 10.307759] IOC3 Master Driver loaded for 0000:00:02.0 [ 10.323497] ip30-bridge: 0000:00:03.0 Bar 0 with size 0x00002000 at bus 0x00200000 vma 0x000000f080200000 is Direct 64-bit. [ 10.375932] PCI host bridge to bus 0001:00 [ 10.388381] pci_bus 0001:00: root bus resource [mem 0x1d200000-0x1d9fffff] [ 10.409151] pci_bus 0001:00: root bus resource [io 0x1da00000-0x1dbfffff] [ 10.429915] pci_bus 0001:00: root bus resource [bus 01-ff] [ 10.446550] pci 0001:00:02.0: [10a9:0009] type 00 class 0x020000 [ 10.464764] pci 0001:00:02.0: reg 0x10: [mem 0x00100000-0x00103fff] [ 10.474263] atkbd serio0: keyboard reset failed on ioc3/serio0kbd [ 10.484187] pci 0001:00:02.0: BAR 0: assigned [mem 0x1d200000-0x1d203fff] [ 10.522721] acenic.c: v0.92 08/05/2002 Jes Sorensen, linux-acenic@SunSITE.dk [ 10.522721] http://home.cern.ch/~jes/gige/acenic.html [ 10.566797] ip30-bridge: 0001:00:02.0 Bar 0 with size 0x00004000 at bus 0x00000000 vma 0x000000d080000000 is Direct 64-bit. [snip] Resolving as WORKSFORME. Please open a new bug if this issue is seen again (but do update the PROM first, as it is possibly related to an old PROM).
