Re: 2.6.14 on iMac G5
On Mon, 2005-11-07 at 23:19 -0300, Eduardo Trápani wrote:
> >>Has anybody succesfully booted that kernel? I get lots of "format errors" while trying to load modules. And then, at the end it just blocks, it says something like "waiting for /dev/sda to come up" and that's it.
> >
> >
> > Have you built a 64 bits kernel ?
>
> I used apt-get form unstable, yes the powerpc-64 flavour. That is the
> one that gives me the "format errors".
>
> Then I built it and it boots alright, but after a couple of minutes it
> hangs. If I let it there long enough (console, without using X) I get a
> timeout error on /dev/sda. Nothing works afterwards, not even a ping
> from another machine.
>
> Same thing with the -rc5 Sven posted.
That is strange... looks like you are having an issue with interrupts or
with the disk. Are you using CONFIG_PREEMPT ? If yes, try disabling it.
> > Also, you'll probably want all my patches for adding thermal control to
> > the iMac G5. They'll be in 2.6.15, in the meantime, they have been
> > posted on the list.
>
> I patched the kernel and tried it. Same problem as the non-patched
> kernel. It just hangs and I don't know how to get more information on
> why it hangs.
>
> By the way, I lose the date and time every other boot with those new
> kernels. There is an "invalid date" error and then it gets set to
> 1/1/2001 :(. Sometimes it doesn't even boot at all, I have to turn it
> off, unplug it (I don't know if that necessary, but it works) and then
> turn it on again.
>
> Any ideas on something I could try? How can I debug the kernel to see
> what the problem is? It just hangs, there is nothing in the logs.
Hrm... What excact model of iMac G5 is this (what video card, what is
in /proc/device-tree/model) ? Does the kernel have my latest SMU
driver ?
Ben.
Reply to: