Bug#420602: kernel fails to boot on SunBlade 100

[Moritz Muehlenhoff <jmm@inutil.org>]

On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 01:43:29PM +0100, Kolargol double zero wrote:
> 
> > If you're running Etch, could you try to reproduce this bug
> > with the 2.6.24 based kernel added in 4.0r4?
> 
> Thanks for your suggestion Moritz.
> 
> I've tried that by installing packages linux-image-2.6-sparc64-etchnhalf (version 2.6.24+13~etchnhalf.1) and linux-image-2.6.24-etchnhalf.1-sparc64 (version 2.6.24-6~etchnhalf.6). My machine boots correctly with a nice console :) but the built-in Ethernet device doesn't work anymore... :( Could this be related to http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10273 ?

Quite likely. #10273 was introduced in 2.6.23 and fixed in 2.6.25.4.

To verify you could apply the patch provided by David Miller
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;a=commit;h=227c3311786dbe64cb221e63d53817f98240e587
to your 2.6.24 kernel or alternatively you could upgrade to Lenny,
which is based on 2.6.26 and won't change very much any more, since
the release is close.

Cheers,
        Moritz