Re: No SRM console on reboot?
ON my multia it started happening after I was trying to install sarge
(with a 2.4.27-3 kernel) by debootstrap on my internal drive from etch
with a 2.6.18-4 kernel installed on my external drive. It started after
trying to boot the new sarge install, which fails, but now continues to
do the same thing even tho booting the etch install.
Right now I'm trying a etch install on the internal drive by netboot,
we'll see if that changes anything.
Jay Estabrook wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 08, 2007 at 04:54:09PM +0100, Jan-Benedict Glaw wrote:
>> On Thu, 2007-03-08 10:43:51 -0500, Jay Estabrook <Jay.Estabrook@hp.com> wrote:
>>> On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 01:47:40PM -0600, Harmon Seaver wrote:
>>>> Lately when I shutdown or reboot my etch installation on my multia, it
>>>> doesn't take me back to the SRM console like it used to. Instead, I get
>>>> this:
>> [...]
>>>> And I have to power down and totally restart the system. I don't
>>>> recall changing anything in SRM that would do this, although I did
>>>> remove the monitor and am using only the serial console, but that
>>>> shouldn't make a difference, I wouldn't think.
>>> Since the kernel changes the PCI bus and controller settings from what
>>> SRM set, it attempts to save the original settings and restore them
>>> when gracefully (non-crash) shutting down. If it doesn't get it right,
>>> ie doesn't restore everything necessary, this problem could happen.
>> IIRC, 2.4.x did do that, but the code was removed in the early 2.6.x
>> timeframe. I didn't check, but was it added again?
>
> Sigh...
>
> There IS such code in SOME of the core-logic support, but unfortunately,
> you're right about the LCA support - it does NOT have that stuff...
>
> Since I'd been doing most of my work in TITAN/TSUNAMI/T2 recently, I
> was deluded into thinking it was throughout... :-(
>
> Sorry; I'll see what it might take...
>
> --Jay++
>
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Harmon Seaver
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