Re: Problems booting with initrd [was: Re: Testing 2.6.10 on sparc]
Jurji,
I'm more then willing to help out :) I've not tried a netboot
image before. I've
only tried the businesscard images. I willl try a netboot image over this week
and report on how it goes.
cheers,
mehul
On Sat, 12 Feb 2005 00:31:52 -0500 (EST), 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]?
>
> [0] http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer
>
> Best regards,
>
> Jurij Smakov jurij@wooyd.org
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>
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