Re: initrd testing
On Thu, 13 May 2004, Joshua Kwan wrote:
> [ Sorry for the huge crosspost, but this is a pretty big deal. ]
>
> On Thu, May 13, 2004 at 04:21:46PM -0400, Ben Collins wrote:
> > Some people have reported problems with initrd on sparc64. I'm trying to
> > trace that problem (hard, because I can't reproduce it). If you've had
> > the problem where silo reports loading the initrd into memory, but the
> > kernel fails to detect and use it, please try the second.b in the url
> > below, and recompile a kernel using one of the two patches there aswell
> > (2.4 and 2.6).
> >
> > The new second.b will show the phys address that the initrd was loaded
> > to, in addition to the virtual address.
>
> I've built debian-installer images for sparc based on kernels with this
> patch (for 2.4) and the new second.b.
>
> You probably want the CDROM image since it's the one most commonly
> reported as not being able to boot. (cdrom-mini.iso) I am personally not
> able to try these out until I receive a sparc64 machine, which should
> happen sometime in the near future.
>
> http://june.voxel.net/~joshk/d-i/images/2004-05-14/
I tried http://june.voxel.net/~joshk/d-i/images/2004-05-14/drom-mini.iso
on two machines, an Ultra1 and an Ultra10; both failed, though
differently.
Ultra1: On this one, I got (modulo any typos)
Loading initial ramdisk (1477684 bytes at 0x01x phys 022340800 virt) ...
[spinning \/]
Remapping the kernel ... FP Disabled
ok
and I was back to the OpenBoot 'ok' prompt.
Ultra10: On this one, I got much further. The kernel was loading,
but failed near the end. The last messages were
RAMDISK: couldn't find valid ramdisk image starting at 0.
Freeing initrd memory 1443k freed
cramfs: wrong magic
sh-2021: reiserfs_read_super: can not find reiserfs on ramdisk (1,0)
Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 00:00
I hope this means something to somebody.
--
Andy Dougherty doughera@lafayette.edu
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