Re: new SMP kernel on the old Netra X1

[John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de>]

On Fri, 2025-09-05 at 05:07 -0400, Dennis Clarke wrote:
> > What's the output of "cat /proc/partitions"?
> > 
> 
> Back on the wheezy provided kernel we see :
> 
> nix# uname -a
> Linux nix 3.2.0-4-sparc64 #1 Debian 3.2.78-1 sparc64 GNU/Linux
> nix# cat /proc/partitions
> major minor  #blocks  name
> 
>     8       16   39082680 sdb
>     8       17    2097152 sdb1
>     8       18    4194304 sdb2
>     8       19   39078112 sdb3
>     8       20   32764567 sdb4
>     8        0   39082680 sda
>     8        1    1951897 sda1
>     8        2    3903795 sda2
>     8        3   39078112 sda3
>     8        4   33222420 sda4
> nix#
> 
> Looks correct to me.

You misunderstood me. You have to run this command from the initramfs
prompt on the new kernel. The following thing you are seeing here is
a shell prompt:

/bin/sh: can't access tty; job control turned off
(initramfs)

Type "cat /proc/partitions" here.

Adrian

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