On Sun, Dec 09, 2018 at 07:54:52AM +1300, Michael Cree wrote: > On Sat, Dec 08, 2018 at 12:01:23PM +1300, Michael Cree wrote: > > On Fri, Dec 07, 2018 at 10:39:58PM +0100, Frank Scheiner wrote: > > > On 12/7/18 22:06, Michael Cree wrote: > > > > On Tue, Dec 04, 2018 at 05:38:51PM +0100, Frank Scheiner wrote: > > > > > As per [1] and our recent discussions the generic 4.x kernels seem to > > > > > no > > > > > longer work on Alpha machines which also renders any installer images > > > > > using > > > > > the generic 4.x kernels non-working. > > > > > > > > Yes, that was noted some time ago. A generic kernel does not boot > > > > since about 3.13. > > > > > > Must be after 3.16 because a Debian 3.16 generic kernel still worked on my > > > PWS 500au back in 2017 or even earlier. > > > > Confirmed. 3.16 generic boots but 3.18 generic does not on XP1000. > > > > The reason I did not bisect at the time is that there were build errors > > in the kernel about 3.17 and 3.18 but I think I now know how to work > > around those so shall proceed to bisect. > > Bisection leads to: > > dca496451bddea9aa87b7510dc2eb413d1a19dfd is the first bad commit
Actually I am not so sure about that. It appears that sometimes a bad kernel can boot which might have lead me astray. That commit after failing once (assuming I did not make a mistake in the bisection) is now booting... Cheers, Michael.