Re: Can't boot linux on sun blade 2000
13/04/2004 09:45 Patrick Finnegan wrote:
> Alexey Nezhdanov declared on Tuesday 13 April 2004 12:09 am:
> > current linux kernel. And I can not try 2.6 kernel since nobody agreed
> > to mail me a compiled binary (Oh well - I know this is serious risk to
>
> Well, if it makes you feel any better, I can't get 2.6 to boot on any Sun
> thing I've got that I've tried it on, which has only been an Ultra 30,
> U60, and Cycle quad-proc (E450 in an U2 case) Ultrasparc-II.
>
> Has anyone gotten a version of 2.6 to boot on any Ultrasparc hardware?
> I've been using the latest kernel (2.6.0 through 2.6.4) with the latest
> toolchain in testing to compile it, yet it doesn't boot... the last time
> I tried it, it spit out a bunch of whitespace to my serial console, and
> then froze the machine (couldn't break back to OpenBoot).
I'm now getting similar effect with 2.4 kernel. The most strange thing that
this effect was not from the very beginning. Initially (when I just got this
box) all was ok but then I have got an advice to update OpenBoot firmware.
Afer update kernel works same as before (with "unable to open initial
console" message in final) BUT it beginned to print out two or three screens
of whitespace _in_the_middle_of_initialisation_. This is the difference
between old and new OpenBoot that was on this box.
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Respectfully
Alexey Nezhdanov
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