On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 10:30:29PM +0100, Jurij Smakov wrote: > > > the sid kernels are not booting on my machine (SunBlade 1000), and I have > > > an independent confirmation from someone with a similar machine that they > > > are experiencing similar problems - I'm going to file a bug for that if > > > the situation does not improve with the next kernel upload. > > > > What seems to be the problem? FWIW the prtconfs.git repo has two SB1000 > > entries one of which is davem's, so we should have upstream support for > > this at least. > > After the message mentioning the console handoff from earlyprom to a real > console it proceeds to clear the screen, however after a couple of lines > it hangs.
Did you try to avoid the handoff? That patch davem keeps telling people to try when something like this happens: --- a/arch/sparc64/kernel/setup.c +++ b/arch/sparc64/kernel/setup.c @@ -82,7 +82,7 @@ unsigned long cmdline_memory_size = 0; static struct console prom_early_console = { .name = "earlyprom", .write = prom_console_write, - .flags = CON_PRINTBUFFER | CON_BOOT | CON_ANYTIME, + .flags = CON_PRINTBUFFER | CON_ANYTIME, .index = -1, }; -- 2. That which causes joy or happiness. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-sparc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org