Re: Problems booting with initrd [was: Re: Testing 2.6.10 on sparc]
On Feb 12, 2005 12:31 AM, Jurij Smakov <jurij@wooyd.org> wrote:
> On Fri, 11 Feb 2005, Mehul Sanghvi wrote:
>
> > The kernel that has worked for me is the kernel from the Debian Woody 3.0r2
> > release. If I remember correctly, it was a 2.4.18 kernel. I have not compiled
> > any kernels on my own.
> >
> > What happens is that upon bootup, SILO takes over, and starts trying to
> > load the kernel. In the case of the Debian Installer images that I have
> > used, these are 2.4.x (x > 20) ( I don't have access to the U2 at this time
> > to double check the version).
> >
> > The kernel starts loading and pretty much immediately after that
> > I get an error as follows:
> >
> > Remapping kernel .... FP Disabled
> >
> > and I am back at the 'ok ' prompt.
> >
> > I've reported the problem before (PR #281641) you can get the exact details
> > in there.
>
> Hi Mehul,
>
> This problem has been known for some time, see bug report #267428 (I'll
> merge your report with it). This is a serious bug, which we would very
> much like to resolve before sarge release. Unfortunately, I don't have
> access to any machine which exhibits this failure. If you would be willing
> to do some testing, I can build some custom kernels with some extra
> debugging information. Can you netboot this machine? Does the problem
> persist with any of the current netboot images from [0]?
>
When we last left this thread, I was supposed to get around to setting
a few things
up and trying to do a netboot of Debian on my U2. Of course real life and work
got involved and came up with other plans for me. Now that I have
some time, and have gotten a TFTP server setup, where do I get the
netboot image
from that I should work with ?
FJP (Frans Pop), pointed me to http://people.debian.org/~joshk/d-i/images/daily/
but that only has a sparc32/floppy directory. There is no
sparc32/netboot directory, nor is
there a sparc64 directory.
cheers,
mehul
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Mehul N. Sanghvi
email: mehul.sanghvi@gmail.com
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