I'm using a boot disc burned from the image at http://cvs.gentoo.org/~jmorgan/iso/gentoo-sparc64-1.4_rc4A.iso.bz2 I can boot the disc, and get the silo prompt as well as the banner. When I pass the kernel option 'gentoo serial' to the boot prompt, the kernel panics and I have to send a break to get back to the openboot prompt. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. at openboot prompt, type "boot cdrom" 2. at boot prompt, type "gentoo serial" Actual Results: {0} ok boot cdrom Resetting ... Sun Ultra 2 UPA/SBus (2 X UltraSPARC 168MHz), No Keyboard OpenBoot 3.25, 1152 MB memory installed, Serial #13014983. Ethernet address 8:0:20:c6:97:c7, Host ID: 80c697c7. Rebooting with command: boot cdrom Boot device: /sbus/SUNW,fas@e,8800000/sd@6,0:f File and args: SILO -- Welcome to Gentoo SPARC Linux -- -- Version 1.4 -- Boot options: gentoo and gentoo-smp If you are using a serial console, please append serial to the end of your boot option (e.g. "gentoo serial") for proper serial console support. Please report any bugs you find to http://bugs.gentoo.org and assign them to the Sparc team. Thank you for using Gentoo Linux! boot: gentoo serial Loading initial ramdisk.... Remapping the kernel... done. Booting Linux... PROMLIB: Sun IEEE Boot Prom 3.25.0 1999/12/03 11:35 Linux version 2.4.20-sparc-r8-up (root@asama) (gcc version egcs-2.92.11 19980921 (gcc2 ss-980609 experimental)) #1 Tue May 20 19:33:30 PDT 2003 ARCH: SUN4U Ethernet address: 08:00:20:c6:97:c7 On node 0 totalpages: 146696 zone(0): 262051 pages. zone(1): 0 pages. zone(2): 0 pages. Found CPU 0 (node=f0065b90,mid=0) Found CPU 1 (node=f0065efc,mid=1) Found 2 CPU prom device tree node(s). Kernel command line: root=/dev/ram0 init=/linuxrc serial Calibrating delay loop... 335.05 BogoMIPS Memory: 1148928k available (2296k kernel code, 416k data, 200k init) [fffff80000000000,000000007ff46000] Dentry cache hash table entries: 262144 (order: 9, 4194304 bytes) Inode cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 8, 2097152 bytes) Mount-cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 6, 524288 bytes) Buffer-cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 524288 bytes) Page-cache hash table entries: 262144 (order: 8, 2097152 bytes) POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX PCI: Probing for controllers. SYSIO: UPA portID 1f, at 000001fe00000000 sbus0: Clock 25.0 MHz dma0: HME DVMA gate array Sparc Zilog8530 serial driver version 1.68.2.2 Sun Mouse-Systems mouse driver version 1.00 tty00 at 0xf1100004 (irq = 12,7e8) is a Zilog8530 tty01 at 0xf1100000 (irq = 12,7e8) is a Zilog8530 tty02 at 0xf1000004 (irq = 12,7e8) is a Zilog8530 tty03 at 0xf1000000 (irq = 12,7e8) is a Zilog8530 keyboard: not present Console: ttyS0 (Zilog8530) Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.4 Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039 Initializing RT netlink socket Starting kswapd Journalled Block Device driver loaded devfs: v1.12c (20020818) Richard Gooch (rgooch@atnf.csiro.au) devfs: boot_options: 0x1 pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured rtc_init: no PC rtc found Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 6.31 ide: Assuming 50MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 8192K size 1024 blocksize loop: loaded (max 8 devices) sunhme.c:v2.01 26/Mar/2002 David S. Miller (davem@redhat.com) eth0: HAPPY MEAL (SBUS) 10/100baseT Ethernet 08:00:20:c6:97:c7 dmfe: Davicom DM9xxx net driver, version 1.36.4 (2002-01-17) SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00 esp0: IRQ 4,7e0 SCSI ID 7 Clk 40MHz CCYC=25000 CCF=8 TOut 167 NCR53C9XF(espfast) ESP: Total of 1 ESP hosts found, 1 actually in use. scsi0 : Sparc ESP366-HME Vendor: IBM Model: DPSS-318350M Rev: S96H Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 03 Vendor: TOSHIBA Model: XM-5401TASUN4XCD Rev: 1036 Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02 qpti0: IRQ 7,7d3 SCSI ID 7 (Firmware v1.31.32)(Firmware 1.21 95/05/18) [Fast Wide, using single ended interface] QPTI: Total of 1 PTI Qlogic/ISP hosts found, 1 actually in use. scsi1 : PTI Qlogic,ISP SBUS SCSI irq 7,7d3 regs at 1ff20010000 Attached scsi disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 esp0: target 0 [period 100ns offset 15 20.00MHz FAST-WIDE SCSI-II] SCSI device sda: 35843670 512-byte hdwr sectors (18352 MB) Partition check: /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0: p1 p2 p3 p5 p6 p7 p8 Attached scsi CD-ROM sr0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 6, lun 0 esp0: target 6 asynchronous sr0: scsi-1 drive Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.12 OBP Flash: RD 1fff0000000[80000] WR 1fff1380000[80000] usb.c: registered new driver usbdevfs usb.c: registered new driver hub uhci.c: USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver v1.1 usb.c: registered new driver hiddev usb.c: registered new driver hid hid-core.c: v1.8.1 Andreas Gal, Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@suse.cz> hid-core.c: USB HID support drivers mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice LVM version 1.0.5+(22/07/2002) NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0 IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP, IGMP IP: routing cache hash table of 32768 buckets, 256Kbytes TCP: Hash tables configured (established 524288 bind 65536) Linux IP multicast router 0.06 plus PIM-SM NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0. RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0 crc errorFreeing initrd memory: 1584k freed VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly. Mounted devfs on /dev EXT2-fs error (device ramdisk(1,0)): ext2_check_page: bad entry in directory #1298: directory entry across blocks - offset =0, inode=2290157584, rec_len=4112, name_len=16 EXT2-fs error (device ramdisk(1,0)): ext2_check_page: bad entry in directory #35: unaligned directory entry - offset=0, in ode=1769234802, rec_len=28271, name_len=32 EXT2-fs error (device ramdisk(1,0)): ext2_check_page: bad entry in directory #1294: unaligned directory entry - offset=0, inode=4043259667, rec_len=47, name_len=32 Kernel panic: No init found. Try passing init= option to kernel. Press L1-A to return to the boot prom Expected Results: should have loaded a kernel and started PCI autodetection this is actually different from the error I got the first time I tried to boot this kernel, but I don't have that output anymore. it involved vfs not being readable, or something of the sort. I mentioned it to jmorgan in #gentoo-sparc.
this is another error I get, still from entering 'gentoo serial' at the boot prompt: {0} ok boot cdrom Resetting ... Sun Ultra 2 UPA/SBus (2 X UltraSPARC 168MHz), No Keyboard OpenBoot 3.25, 1152 MB memory installed, Serial #13014983. Ethernet address 8:0:20:c6:97:c7, Host ID: 80c697c7. Rebooting with command: boot cdrom Boot device: /sbus/SUNW,fas@e,8800000/sd@6,0:f File and args: SILO -- Welcome to Gentoo SPARC Linux -- -- Version 1.4 -- Boot options: gentoo and gentoo-smp If you are using a serial console, please append serial to the end of your boot option (e.g. "gentoo serial") for proper serial console support. Please report any bugs you find to http://bugs.gentoo.org and assign them to the Sparc team. Thank you for using Gentoo Linux! boot: gentoo serial Read error on block 2599 (tried 3088384, got -1) Error loading /boot/sparc64/vmlinux-up Image not found.... try again boot:
Thanks for filing a bug. Please try the latest installation document at: http://cvs.gentoo.org/~blademan/sparc-install-doc.html Newer CD images are available as listed in the doc. At this time only the "gentoo" boot option is operable. If you find bugs with the above images/doc, please query/file another bug. Thanks!
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