Re: SunBlade2000 illegal instruction right after SILO
Steffen Moeller wrote:
> Dear list,
>
> we successfully netboot a Blade 2000 donated to us with Etch's netboot install
> disk. We went through the Sparc install instructions and, switching to the
> second console at the right times (the installer could be more helpful here),
> also installed firmware-qlogic which allowed us to continue with the
> installation. We have a complete lvm-based file system on our disk. The
> update-initramfs was executed.
Just because it may help with a different bug: Does the Blade run with
one or two CPUs?
> After a reboot the SILO is found. Return is pressed and immediately an illegal
> instruction is raised.
Which Kernel are you trying to boot? I run into such things while trying
to boot a SMP Kernel on non-SMP machines and the other way round. Also
2.6.18 seems to have issues with US III CPUs in general.
Try to boot with -p as option, that'll probably give more output.
> There is no ready Debian sparc machine at our disposal, which means that we
> cannot construct an image to boot ourselves, right?
As the installer boots the installed Kernel should boot on the machine,
too, as it is the same Kernel version as the one from the installer usually.
Please note that you have to update your initrd if you've installed the
firmware package after the Kernel. But this doesn't result in the
mentioned illegal instruction.
Cheers,
Bernd
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Bernd Zeimetz
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