Bug#357065: linux-image-2.6-r4k-ip22 immediately reboots on Indy 200MHz R4400
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Hi,
On 2006-03-15 17:12, Thiemo Seufer wrote:
> Could you retry with the upcoming 2.6.16 which is currently in
> preparation and includes support for mips/ip22? (As found in
> http://lists.debian.org/debian-mips/2006/01/msg00050.html )
I've tried 2.6.16-rc6[1] now, and get the following message at the end
of the kernel boot process:
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered date mode.
VFS: Mounted root (ext3 filesystem) readonly.
Freeing unused kernel memory: 308k freed
Warning: unable to open an initial console.
Kernel panic - not syncing: No init found. Try passing init= option to
kernel.
<0>Rebooting in 120 seconds..
That was the clue I needed: I then looked at the partition numbering and
found that the new kernel enumerates numbers partitions differently (my
root partition was /dev/sda5 with 2.4) and assigns numbers that
correspond to those listed by fdisk -l.
But when I try to boot with root=/dev/sda7, activating swap and mounting
of the boot partition doesn't work and also keyboard input is ignored
when I'm dropped to the maintenance prompt.
I'll provide my parition table as printed by fdisk here to make my
comments above clearer:
# fdisk -l /dev/sda
Disk /dev/sda (SGI disk label): 64 heads, 32 sectors, 8748 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 2048 * 512 bytes
- ----- partitions -----
Pt# Device Info Start End Sectors Id System
1: /dev/sda1 boot 130 6229 12492800 a SGI xfs
2: /dev/sda2 swap 2 129 262144 3 SGI raw
5: /dev/sda3 6359 6422 131200 83 Linux native
6: /dev/sda4 6231 6358 262400 82 Linux swap
7: /dev/sda5 6423 8747 4761600 83 Linux native
9: /dev/sda6 0 1 4096 0 SGI volhdr
11: /dev/sda7 0 8748 17916240 6 SGI volume
- ----- Bootinfo -----
Bootfile: /unix
- ----- Directory Entries -----
0: sgilabel sector 4 size 512
1: arcboot sector 5 size 80472
2: sash sector 163 size 343040
3: ide sector 833 size 343040
4: arcboot2 sector 1503 size 67392
5: arcboott sector 1635 size 67592
It seems from the boot prompt of the 2.6 kernel, that the following
numbers are then used:
sda1 sda2 sda5 sda6 sda7 sda9 sda11
I'm not sure, but this seems to be a good idea, if it wasn't for the
lack of backwards compatibility. So perhaps it would be smart to have
some boot option to switch from one numbering scheme to the other, to
allow for a smooth transition?
Please comment. But with non-working PS/2 keyboard and non-working
/etc/fstab for both kernel version, the 2.6.16 image is pretty worthless
to me at this moment.
I assume that my problems with 2.6.12 where for the same reason, but
that I didn't even notice the root filesystem (which indeed is the boot
partition) was mounted and the kernel rebooted immediately when no init
is found.
Ciao, Thomas Jahns
[1] the following packages are installed
# dpkg -l '*2.6.16*'
linux-image-2.6.16-rc6-r4k-ip22 2.6.15+2.6.16-rc6-0experimental.1
Linux kernel 2.6.16 image on SGI IP22 machines
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"Computers are good at following instructions,
but not at reading your mind."
D. E. Knuth, The TeXbook, Addison-Wesley 1984, 1986, 1996, p. 9
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