Bug#404950: Installation Report [mips] [rc1] [Failure] SWARM (Broadcom BCM91250a)
* Karsten Merker <merker@debian.org> [2006-12-29 21:45]:
> In the step "Detecting disks and all other hardware" another
> error gets displayed: "Error while running 'modprobe -v
> amd74xx'", but it does not cause any further problems. Dmesg
> reveals that the module loader cannot resolve a kernel symbol:
> "amd74xx: Unknown symbol pci_get_legacy_ide_irq". It looks
> like this issue is already fixed upstream in the Linux/MIPS
> git repository, cf.
> http://www.linux-mips.org/git?p=linux.git;a=commit;h=49a3ea926ff0cc6c5af15d79bfbab075991f5dab
Thanks, I'll add that patch.
> What makes me wonder is the text of the messages in the next two steps:
>
> "The following partitions are going to be formatted:
> partition #3 of IDE1 master, partition # (hda) as ext3
> partition #7 of IDE1 master, partition # (hda) as ext3
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Not sure about this. Looks strange.
> The rest of the installation ran ok up to the reboot. When trying
> to start the installed system, sibyl, the bootloader, loads kernel
> and initrd from the harddisk, but the kernel freezes immediately.
> This seems to be a problem with the installed 2.6.18 kernel. It is
> the same effect as in bug number #404951.
Thiemo, do you know why 2.6.18 doesn't boot? If not, Karsten, do you
have time to bisect 2.6.17 and 2.6.18 to see where the problem lies.
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Martin Michlmayr
http://www.cyrius.com/
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