Re: Bug#711135: Re: compiling a bootable kernel for ia64 (itanium2, mckinley, rx2620)

[Eberhard Heuser <eberhard.heuser@chemie.uni-konstanz.de>]

Am 14.02.2018 um 14:46 schrieb Jason Duerstock:
> Hi Pedro,
>
> Can you try booting this ISO and let us know what happens?
> http://distfiles.gentoo.org/releases/ia64/autobuilds/20180201T031003Z/install-ia64-minimal-20180201T031003Z.iso
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jason
>
>
>
>
> On Wed, Feb 14, 2018 at 2:52 AM, Pedro Miguel Teixeira <pmsjt@texair.net> wrote:
> > Hi Emeric.
> >
> >
> >
> > The machine has no iLO card, so it can’t be because of it. As far as I can
> > tell, either ELILO never gets to pass control to the kernel, or the kernel
> > never gets to output the 1st message.
> >
> >
> >
> > _____
> > Pedro
> >
> >
> >
> > From: Émeric MASCHINO
> > Sent: Tuesday, February 13, 2018 23:43
> > To: Pedro Miguel Teixeira
> > Cc: Jason Duerstock; Gatis Visnevskis; Ivan Zakharyaschev; debian-ia64;
> > glebfm@altlinux.org
> >
> >
> > Subject: Re: Bug#711135: Re: compiling a bootable kernel for ia64 (itanium2,
> > mckinley, rx2620)
> >
> >
> >
> > Well, problem is then likely with iLO card or serial console.
> > Indeed, I'm daily using a zx6000 workstation for years, being with
> > Debian for more than a decade, now with Gentoo since Debian has killed
> > the plug on ia64 in 2013.
> > I have no problem booting/using it locally (GNOME 3.24 desktop
> > environment) with kernels 4.9.76 and 4.12.12. Kernels were compiled
> > either with GCC 4.5.4 (because of a nasty error with GDB that
> > sometimes segfaults when kernels i compiled with GCC > 4.5) or 6.2.0.
> >
> > 2018-02-14 1:41 GMT+01:00 Pedro Miguel Teixeira <pmsjt@texair.net>:
> > > Hi Jason.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > That was close – I was really about to send the zx6000 onto the tech
> > > recycle.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > The following is all I get coming out from the console (Serial A, since
> > > the
> > > zx6000 does not have a management card / iLO). After the initrd line
> > > shows,
> > > a good 5 seconds pass. Then the front panel becomes all red and the
> > > cryptic
> > > modem-style sounds come out. I’ve wondered about the health of both my
> > > ELILO
> > > and Kernel, but my rx2660 boots fine with the exact the same two.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > EFI Boot Manager ver 1.10 [14.61]  Firmware ver 2.31 [4411]
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Loading device drivers
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Loading.: Auxiliary Floating Point Driver
> > >
> > > Load of Auxiliary Floating Point Driver failed: Not Found
> > >
> > > EFI Boot Manager ver 1.10 [14.61]  Firmware ver 2.31 [4411]
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Please select a boot option
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >      Windows Boot Manager
> > >
> > >      Debian
> > >
> > >      EFI Shell [Built-in]
> > >
> > >      Removable Media
> > >
> > >      Boot Option Maintenance Menu
> > >
> > >      System Configuration Menu
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >      Use ^ and v to change option(s). Use Enter to select an option
> > >
> > > Loading.: Debian
> > >
> > > Starting: Debian
> > >
> > > ELILO v3.14 for EFI/IA-64
> > >
> > > ..
> > >
> > > Uncompressing Linux... done
> > >
> > > Loading file \EFI\debian\initrd.img...done

This is the same wrong behavior with my zx2000 Itanium machine.
I was able to install the latest debian distribution.
I managed to update the kernel by hand but all the other software
gets no update because Debian stops the IA64 support.

The crash happens on a very early stage where no debug message
been produced by the starting process.

Eberhard

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