Re: dates of ppc daily builds old? WAS: request clarification on sbp2 and tg3

["Toni L. Harbaugh-Blackford [Contr]" <harbaugh@abcc.ncifcrf.gov>]

On Mon, 24 Apr 2006, Sven Luther wrote:

  >
  > Try the daily netboot images from :
  >
  >   http://people.debian.org/~luther/d-i/images/daily/powerpc64/netboot64/
  >
  > They include the needed yaboot stuff to netboot the images, so just move the
  > whole dir to a tftp server on your network, or use the mini.iso.
  >
  > I am not sure what happened to the cd image built, as you may know, i was
  > replaced as d-i powerpc maintainer, and have thus not be following issues in
  > much detail.
  >
  > Friendly,
  >
  > Sven Luther
  >

I tried the mini.iso, but it hangs at 'Trying to im_free nonexistant area':

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   checking if image is initramfs...it isn't (no cpio magic); looks like an initrd
   Freeing initrd memory: 4652k freed
   NET: Registered protocol family 16
   Linux ppc64

   #2 SMP Mon Apr 10 18:55:49 CEST 2006
   PCI: Probing PCI hardware
   mapping IO f0000000 -> d000080000400000, size: 800000
   mapping IO f4000000 -> d000080000000000, size: 400000
   PCI: Probing PCI hardware done
   nvram_init: Could not find nvram partition for nvram buffered error logging.
   audit: initializing netlink socket (disabled)
   audit(1145890159.990:1): initialized
   VFS: Disk quotas dquot_6.5.1
   Dquot-cache hash table entries: 512 (order 0, 4096 bytes)
   Initializing Cryptographic API
   io scheduler noop registered
   io scheduler anticipatory registered (default)
   io scheduler deadline registered
   io scheduler cfq registered
   HVSI: registered 0 devices
   Serial: 8250/16550 driver $Revision: 1.90 $ 4 ports, IRQ sharing disabled
   pmac_zilog: 0.6 (Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>)
   pmac_zilog: Error registering serial device, disabling pmac_zilog.
   pmac_zilog: Did another serial driver already claim the minors?
   Trying to im_free nonexistent area (d0000800820d7000)

With a previous version of the mini.iso, I was able to get to a shell
to 'look around', but this time the boot did not get that far.

Thanks,
Toni

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Toni Harbaugh-Blackford                   harbaugh@abcc.ncifcrf.gov
System Administrator
Advanced Biomedical Computing Center (ABCC)
National Cancer Institute
Contractor - SAIC/Frederick