On Thu, Dec 11, 2003 at 08:53:03AM -0500, Ben Collins wrote: > > > This seems to be a problem with the serial console driver in the kernel. > > > What images are you using? > > > > from ftp.debian.org: > > Try the images here: > > http://www.phunnypharm.org/pub/for/sparc-folks/disks-sparc/current/
tried: http://www.phunnypharm.org/pub/for/sparc-folks/disks-sparc/current/sparc64/tftpboot.img 1: booting with a simple 'boot net' ----------------- ok boot net Boot device: /[EMAIL PROTECTED],700000/[EMAIL PROTECTED],1: File and args: Timeout waiting for ARP/RARP packet 535400 Remapping the kernel... done. Booting Linux... UGH: property for SUNW,lomv was 24, need < 1 ------------------- as for the last line, I found the following URL: http://lists.debian.org/debian-sparc/2003/debian-sparc-200302/msg00034.html 2: booting with 'boot net linux -p' -------------------- ok boot net linux -p Boot device: /[EMAIL PROTECTED],700000/[EMAIL PROTECTED],1: File and args: linux -p Timeout waiting for ARP/RARP packet 535400 PROMLIB: Sun IEEE Boot Prom 4.2.4 2001/06/13 10:10 <4>Linux version 2.4.21 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 3.3.2 (Debian)) #1 Sat Nov 29 15:40:07 EST 2003 <4>ARCH: SUN4U Linux version 2.4.21 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 3.3.2 (Debian)) #1 Sat Nov 29 15:40:07 EST 2003 <4>ARCH: SUN4U ARCH: SUN4U Ethernet address: 00:03:ba:0f:6c:fb Remapping the kernel... done. On node 0 totalpages: 195776 zone(0): 196447 pages. zone(1): 0 pages. zone(2): 0 pages. Booting Linux... Found CPU 0 (node=f006fb30,mid=0) Found 1 CPU prom device tree node(s). Kernel command line: linux -p Calibrating delay loop... 499.71 BogoMIPS Memory: 1547720k available (2504k kernel code, 576k data, 184k init) [fffff80000000000,000000005febe000] Dentry cache hash table entries: 262144 (order: 9, 4194304 bytes) Inode cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 8, 2097152 bytes) Mount cache hash table entries: 512 (order: 0, 8192 bytes) Buffer-cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 7, 1048576 bytes) Page-cache hash table entries: 262144 (order: 8, 2097152 bytes) POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX PCI: Probing for controllers. SCHIZO0 PBMB: ver[4:0], portid 8, cregs[40004400000] pregs[40004700000] SCHIZO0 PBMB: PCI CFG[7ffee000000] IO[7ffef000000] MEM[7fe00000000] SCHIZO0 PBMA: ver[4:0], portid 8, cregs[40004400000] pregs[40004600000] SCHIZO0 PBMA: PCI CFG[7ffec000000] IO[7ffed000000] MEM[7fd00000000] PCI-IRQ: Routing bus[ 0] slot[ 5] map[0] to INO[1d] PCI-IRQ: Routing bus[ 0] slot[ 5] map[0] to INO[1f] PCI-IRQ: Routing bus[ 0] slot[ 6] map[0] to INO[18] PCI-IRQ: Routing bus[ 0] slot[ 6] map[0] to INO[19] PCI0(PBMB): Bus running at 33MHz PCI-IRQ: Routing bus[ 1] slot[ 4] map[0] to INO[04] PCI-IRQ: Routing bus[ 2] slot[ 0] map[1] to INO[01] PCI-IRQ: Routing bus[ 2] slot[ 1] map[1] to INO[02] PCI-IRQ: Routing bus[ 2] slot[ 2] map[1] to INO[03] PCI-IRQ: Routing bus[ 2] slot[ 3] map[1] to INO[00] PCI0(PBMA): Bus running at 66MHz ebus0: [flashprom] [bbc] [power] [i2c -> (dimm-fru) (dimm-fru) (dimm-fru) (dimm-fru) (dimm-fru) (dimm-fru) (dimm-fru) (1 <0>Kernel panic: fill_ebus_child Press L1-A to return to the boot prom --------------------------- hope this tells you more than it does to me... thanks for the help, charlie -- Végh Károly - System Engineer - UTA - TIS.SAS.BSS Don't worry. Everything is getting nicely out of control.