Re: 'Illegal instruction' during boot
On Mon, Jun 19, 2006 at 08:34:37PM -0700, Jurij Smakov wrote:
> Since we have so many people who can reproduce it, I would very much
> appreciate a detailed report.
I reproduced the 'Illegal instruction' just now on a Sun Fire V240...
> 1. Use some CD image which can be unambigously identified and causes
> problem. Include the download location and MD5/SHA1 sum of the image used.
> I recommend using http://www.wooyd.org/debian/silo/sparc-mini.iso
I couldn't find that file (it's now 404)... I booted
http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/etch_di_rc2/sparc/iso-cd/debian-testing-sparc-netinst.iso
downloaded and burnt just a few moments ago.
> 2. Boot from CD-ROM until you are dumped to prom (after 'Illegal
> instruction' message) or press Stop-A to get to prom if the machine
> hanged.
>
> 3. Issue a 'ctrace' command at the 'ok' prompt, and includ as much output
> as possible with your report. Hopefully, this will allow us to identify
> the problem.
Here's the output (I pasted it from the serial console):
boot: [pressed enter]
Allocated 8 Megs of memory at 0x40000000 for kernel
Loaded kernel version 2.6.18
Loading initial ramdisk (3879265 bytes at 0x103F802000 phys, 0x40C00000
virt)...
Illegal Instruction
{1} ok
{1} ok ctrace
PC: 404434
Last leaf: jmpl f0059c40 from 40004310
0 w %o0-%o7: (0 0 0 0 f0059c40 0 fedd7701 40004310 )
{1} ok
Can something be done?
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