Installed kernel crash on T5120
Hello all,
Trying to install Sid sparc64 on a T5120. I have a cdrom with the
2018-05-18 ISO from
<https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/ports/10.0/sparc64/iso-cd/>.
I'm installing on the third hard drive (first two are a mirrored ZFS
pool for Solaris).
It worked just fine installing to the whole disk in a big partition
(ZFS support is missing, I presume it's a known issue, so I let the
installer pick a partition scheme and figured I'd try ZFS root in the
fourth disk at a later date). I picked sdc as the target for grub when
asked (sda & sdb are Solaris, didn't want to mess with them).
However, the system wouldn't boot on the fresh install - PROM said
'not bootable'. So I booted in rescue mode and loaded a shell in
/dev/sdc2, then tried installing grub by hand with:
grub-install --force --skip-fs-probe /dev/sdc1
(as suggested in <https://github.com/esnowberg/grub2-sparc/wiki>).
Now grub loads fine, I see the grub menu, pick the default choice, and
this happen:
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Loading Linux 4.16.0-1-sparc64-smp ...
Segmentation fault
/dev/sdc2: clean, 38180/6938624 files, 827057/27744254 blocks
Segmentation fault
[ 32.916580] run-init[1]: segfault at 38 ip 00000000800106cc (rpc
0000000000100500) sp 000007feffb02eb1 error 1 in
klibc-gioU2Ql6Bpp06841ZXKfdH4dunE.so[80000000+14000]
[ 32.917090] Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init!
exitcode=0x0000000b
[ 32.917090]
[ 32.917242] CPU: 7 PID: 1 Comm: run-init Not tainted
4.16.0-1-sparc64-smp #1 Debian 4.16.5-1
[ 32.917365] Call Trace:
[ 32.917443] [000000000046b8a8] panic+0xe8/0x2a0
[ 32.917520] [0000000000471010] do_exit+0xb50/0xb60
[ 32.917594] [00000000004710cc] do_group_exit+0x2c/0xe0
[ 32.917651] [000000000047d194] get_signal+0x3b4/0x660
[ 32.917710] [000000000042dbbc] do_signal+0x3c/0x480
[ 32.917831] [000000000042e850] do_notify_resume+0x50/0xa0
[ 32.918110] [0000000000404b44] __handle_signal+0xc/0x2c
[ 32.919181] Press Stop-A (L1-A) from sun keyboard or send break
[ 32.919181] twice on console to return to the boot prom
[ 32.919398] ---[ end Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill
init! exitcode=0x0000000b
[ 32.919398]
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I probably messed up somewhere, just can't figure out where... any
help appreciated.
Already tried upgrading, but no newer kernel is available.
Related question - Solaris installs fine from a USB stick on this
beast, is there already support for an USB installer in Debian
Sparc64? (I've run out of blank media - don't use them that much
anymore...).
Thanks in advance & cordially,
--
Romain Dolbeau
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