Re: ZX6000 hangs on boot of Debian 10.0

[John Vakonakis <jvakon@googlemail.com>]

Hi Adrian,

No, these systems use a LSI SCSI controller, and PCI649 (whatever that might be) for ATA bridge.

I found (the? a?) problem, at least for the image with 4.19.0 kernel. It tries to load the R100 module for the ATI card in this system, but cannot find it and hangs. Passing nomodeset to the kernel allows me to boot (hurray!). 

Now I just need to connect this system to the net to start updating / downloading packages.

Thanks for the help!

John

On Wed, Oct 7, 2020 at 6:58 PM John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de> wrote:

Hi John!

On 10/7/20 6:42 PM, John Vakonakis wrote:
> Thanks for the quick reply. No luck I'm afraid; I tried a couple of images
> with kernel 4.9.0 but they hang ~20 sec after boot start (but always at
> exactly the same point, unlike kernel 5.7.0 that hang at random points).
> But, I'll keep going through them just in case I find one working.

Do you know what kind of storage controller the machine uses? Chances are
you have one of these "hpsa" controllers which require a firmware update
to properly work in SMP mode.

Try booting with "nosmp".

I was able to fix this problem by upgrading the firmware of the controller.

Adrian

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