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Re: dates of ppc daily builds old? WAS: request clarification on sbp2 and tg3



On Mon, Apr 24, 2006 at 10:57:59AM -0400, Toni L. Harbaugh-Blackford [Contr] wrote:
> On Mon, 24 Apr 2006, Sven Luther wrote:
> 
>   >
>   > Try the daily netboot images from :
>   >
>   >   http://people.debian.org/~luther/d-i/images/daily/powerpc64/netboot64/
>   >
>   > They include the needed yaboot stuff to netboot the images, so just move the
>   > whole dir to a tftp server on your network, or use the mini.iso.
>   >
>   > I am not sure what happened to the cd image built, as you may know, i was
>   > replaced as d-i powerpc maintainer, and have thus not be following issues in
>   > much detail.
>   >
>   > Friendly,
>   >
>   > Sven Luther
>   >
> 
> I tried the mini.iso, but it hangs at 'Trying to im_free nonexistant area':

Try an older mini.iso, which still has the 2.6.15 kernel ?

>    .
>    checking if image is initramfs...it isn't (no cpio magic); looks like an initrd
>    Freeing initrd memory: 4652k freed
>    NET: Registered protocol family 16
>    Linux ppc64
> 
>    #2 SMP Mon Apr 10 18:55:49 CEST 2006
>    PCI: Probing PCI hardware
>    mapping IO f0000000 -> d000080000400000, size: 800000
>    mapping IO f4000000 -> d000080000000000, size: 400000
>    PCI: Probing PCI hardware done
>    nvram_init: Could not find nvram partition for nvram buffered error logging.
>    audit: initializing netlink socket (disabled)
>    audit(1145890159.990:1): initialized
>    VFS: Disk quotas dquot_6.5.1
>    Dquot-cache hash table entries: 512 (order 0, 4096 bytes)
>    Initializing Cryptographic API
>    io scheduler noop registered
>    io scheduler anticipatory registered (default)
>    io scheduler deadline registered
>    io scheduler cfq registered
>    HVSI: registered 0 devices
>    Serial: 8250/16550 driver $Revision: 1.90 $ 4 ports, IRQ sharing disabled
>    pmac_zilog: 0.6 (Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>)
>    pmac_zilog: Error registering serial device, disabling pmac_zilog.
>    pmac_zilog: Did another serial driver already claim the minors?
>    Trying to im_free nonexistent area (d0000800820d7000)
> 
> With a previous version of the mini.iso, I was able to get to a shell
> to 'look around', but this time the boot did not get that far.

What version was it ? Can you capture the full log and file a bug report, and
also append your /proc/cpuinfo ? 

Friendly,

Sven Luther



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