On Fri, Oct 01, 2004 at 03:34:16PM -0500, Matthew Allen wrote:
> Hi-
> I'm trying to get the 2.6 kernel running on sparc linux for some research
> I am doing. I had been running woody for a while with no problems on a
> SunFire machine. My plan was to upgrade to sarge, and then to the 2.6
> kernel. When I upgraded to sarge I had the "Fast Data Access MMU Miss"
> problem, which I resolved by dropping back to the woody version of SILO.
>
> Now I have installed the 2.6.8 kernel, and can't get the machine to boot.
> With SILO 1.4.8 I get the following error message:
>
> SILO Version 1.4.8
> boot:
> Allocated 8 Megs of memory at 0x40000000 for kernel
> Uncompressing image...
> Memory Address not Aligned
> {0} ok .registers
> Normal Alternate MMU Vector
> 0: 0 0 0 0
> 1: 0 fff916d0 4400001e02 f1
> 2: 1 f0000000 14 f0000000
> 3: 20 0 fffd0000 0
> 4: 3a5c00 0 ffffffffffffffff 4000
> 5: 0 f fff90000 0
> 6: 0 4400001606 800000003ff180b6 e
> 7: ffffffffffffffff 34 2 f0061e80
> %PC 4000c000 %nPC 4000c004
> %TBA f0000000 %CCR 44 XCC:nZvc ICC:nZvc
> {0} ok
>
> Rolling back to the woody version of SILO (which is what fixed my original
> 2.4 kernel sarge install) produces a slightly different error message:
> SILO boot:
> Uncompressing image...
> Loading initial ramdisk....
> Fast Data Access MMU Miss
> {0} ok .registers
> Normal Alternate MMU Vector
> 0: 0 0 0 0
> 1: f005844c 1 fff916d0 f1
> 2: f0000000 f00085b4 f0000000 f0000000
> 3: fffd0000 fffd0000 4 0
> 4: 8000 0 4 4000
> 5: f0012944 ffdbd7e0 f 0
> 6: fffefde0 8800001604 fffd0000 e
> 7: fffef780 4e 68 f0061e80
> %PC f000ad94 %nPC f000ad84
> %TBA f0000000 %CCR 88 XCC:Nzvc ICC:Nzvc
> {0} ok
>
>
> Any idea what is going wrong here? I'd really like to use the 2.6 kernel
> on this machine.
Update http://bugs.debian.org/261824
> Thanks in advance,
Learn to use the Debian Bug Tracking System.
> Matt
Geert Stappers
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