Hello,
I'm the proud owner of a Genesi Pegasos 2 G4 system. I previously had Debian 7 (Wheezy) installed on the system. It worked perfectly, including XWindows, etc.
I decided to upgrade the system from Debian 7 to Debian 8 this weekend via apt-get dist-upgrade (with requisite repo changes, etc).
The upgrade process itself took a while, but did complete without errors.
Upon reboot however, the system appears to hang right after startup. I've transcribed this from a photo I took of the screen:
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Finalizing device tree... using OF tree (promptr=01003bc4)
OF stdout device is: /bootconsole
Preparing to boot Linux version 3.16.0-4-powerpc (debian-kernel@lists.debian.org)
(gcc version 4.8.4 (Debian 4.8.4-1) ) #1 Debian 3.16.51-3 (2017-12-13)
Detected machine type : 00000500
command line: root=/dev/mapper/pegasos2-root video=radeonfb:off
memory layout at init:
memory_limit : 00000000 (16 MB aligned)
alloc_bottom : 02431000
alloc_top : 30000000
alloc_top_hi : 40000000
rmo_top : 30000000
ram_top : 40000000
instantiating rtas at 0x0fbfd000... done
Fixing up missing ISA range on Pegasos...
Fixing up missing IDE interrupt on Pegasos...
Fixing up IDE class-code on Pegasos...
copying OF device tree...
Building dt strings...
Building dt structure...
Device tree strings 0x02432000 -> 0x024327a9
Device tree struct 0x02433000 -> 0x02456000
Calling quiesce...
returning from prom_init
<seems to hang here>
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I've tried both with and without the video=radeonfb:off kernel boot option, but the result is the same.
I'd really like to keep my Pegasos running and would appreciate it if anybody has tips to address.
Not sure if it matters, but my system has a ATI Radeon 9200 series card (I believe it's designation RV280).
-Gabor