Re: Bug#717511: Kernel does not start up on Pegasos-2
Hi,
Just for the record, I've installed Wheezy successfully on two Pegasos
IIs, one is a rev 2B1 board, which was installed from scratch, and worked
without major glitches, apart from the fact that the installer required an
installation to MBR partitioned disks, because with RDB disks it said
"Fatal error: Out of memory", when it tried to create the main partition
on an 80GB ATA disk. :)
The other one is a rev 2B3 board, it was upgraded from Squeeze, required
some manual fiddling, but worked in the end. Stock 3.2 kernel and
initramfs in both cases, binary from the ISO (or from the net or what
it builds by default anyway).
Both Pegs have 1GB RAM and Radeon 9200. Everything worked, except the
GBit eth controller.
On Sun, 21 Jul 2013, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> > Unlikely.
> > Looks like the kernel simply does not boot up. It does not say
> > anything. Nor it switches video mode. I just enter boot command and
> > see random flashing rectangles like on old good ZX Spectrum :)
> > I have one suggestion about it. Looks like this kernel has rather big
> > initrd attached. If so, technically it might occasionally overwrite
> > firmware's code in RAM and kill itself even before the actual startup.
>
> If you run the installer in expert mode you can choose to create a
> 'targeted' initramfs which should be much smaller.
I've seen this. I can't recall if the problem was I've booted vmlinux
instead of vmlinuz accidentally, or got the video= arguments wrong.
(Ps: sorry I've not replied to the answer to my previous question, I had
no chance to try the suggestion on the actual machine.)
Regards,
--
Karoly Balogh
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