Re: error booting new kernel after upgrade 6.8.12

[Riccardo Mottola]

Hi

Riccardo Mottola wrote:
> |*Debian GNU/Linux, with Linux 6.8.12-sparc64-smp  |
> | Debian GNU/Linux, with Linux 6.8.12-sparc64-smp (recovery mode)  |
> | Debian GNU/Linux, with Linux 6.7.7-sparc64-smp   |
> | Debian GNU/Linux, with Linux 6.7.7-sparc64-smp (recovery mode)   |

I tried something... instead of reboot, I shut down. Reboot
and 6.8.12 boots wow. So eitehr not every boot is the same, or a
warm boot is different from a cold boot.

There are some bugs in the dmesg... I wonder if they are to worry about?
I attach the full log.

First this:
[   44.121413] Kernel unaligned access at TPC[88f93c]
aa_dfa_unpack+0x3c/0x5a0
[   44.121470] Kernel unaligned access at TPC[88f950]
aa_dfa_unpack+0x50/0x5a0
[   44.121502] Kernel unaligned access at TPC[88f9e8]
aa_dfa_unpack+0xe8/0x5a0
[   44.121538] Kernel unaligned access at TPC[88f9e8]
aa_dfa_unpack+0xe8/0x5a0
[   44.121573] Kernel unaligned access at TPC[88f9e8]
aa_dfa_unpack+0xe8/0x5a0

and later this:


[   44.780364] Call Trace:
[   44.780378] [<00e5b6dc>] dump_stack+0x8/0x18
[   44.780422] [<0046e148>] __warn+0xc8/0x120
[   44.780453] [<0046e244>] warn_slowpath_fmt+0xa4/0x120
[   44.780483] [<004fe234>] msi_domain_free_descs+0xf4/0x120
[   44.780517] [<004fe6e0>]
msi_domain_free_msi_descs_range+0x20/0x40
[   44.780550] [<00a662e0>] pci_msi_teardown_msi_irqs+0x40/0x60
[   44.780597] [<00a65ccc>] pci_free_msi_irqs+0xc/0x40
[   44.780632] [<00a63ef0>] pci_disable_msi+0x50/0x80
[   44.780666] [<1005fb00>] e1000e_open+0x420/0x600 [e1000e]
[   44.780835] [<00bf42ec>] __dev_open+0xec/0x1c0
[   44.780875] [<00bf4818>] __dev_change_flags+0x1b8/0x260
[   44.780909] [<00bf48dc>] dev_change_flags+0x1c/0x80
[   44.780942] [<00c06c60>] do_setlink+0x2c0/0x1220
[   44.780980] [<00c0d4a0>] __rtnl_newlink+0x580/0x8e0
[   44.781014] [<00c0d834>] rtnl_newlink+0x34/0x60
[   44.781047] [<00c056a8>] rtnetlink_rcv_msg+0x248/0x340
[   44.781080] ---[ end trace  ]---
[   46.949142] e1000e :04:00.0 enp4s0f0: NIC Link is Up 1000 Mbps
Full Duplex, Flow Control: Rx/Tx


Riccardo
[0.23] PROMLIB: Sun IEEE Boot Prom 'OBP 4.30.4.d 2011/07/06 14:29'
[0.55] PROMLIB: Root node compatible: sun4v
[0.000128] Linux version 6.8.12-sparc64-smp (debian-ker...@lists.debian.org) (sparc64-linux-gnu-gcc-13 (Debian 13.2.0-24) 13.2.0, GNU ld (GNU Binutils for Debian) 2.42) #1 SMP Debian 6.8.12-1 (2024-05-31)
[0.000360] printk: legacy bootconsole [earlyprom0] enabled
[0.000394] ARCH: SUN4V
[0.000480] Ethernet address: 00:14:4f:2a:b1:76
[0.000504] MM: PAGE_OFFSET is 0x8000 (max_phys_bits == 39)
[0.000523] MM: VMALLOC [0x0001 --> 0x6000]
[0.000539] MM: VMEMMAP [0x6000 --> 0xc000]
[0.078586] Kernel: Using 5 locked TLB entries for main kernel image.
[0.078621] Remapping the kernel... 
[0.078641] done.
[1.523405] OF stdout device is: /virtual-devices@100/console@1
[1.523422] PROM: Built device tree with 163150 bytes of memory.
[1.523439] MDESC: Size is 42288 bytes.
[1.525088] PLATFORM: banner-name [Sun Fire T200]
[1.525102] PLATFORM: name [SUNW,Sun-Fire-T200]
[1.525114] PLATFORM: hostid [842ab176]
[1.525126] PLATFORM: serial# [00ab4130]
[1.525138] PLATFORM: stick-frequency [3b9aca00]
[1.525150] PLATFORM: mac-address [144f2ab176]
[1.525162] PLATFORM: watchdog-resolution [1000 ms]
[1.525175] PLATFORM: watchdog-max-timeout [3153600 ms]
[1.525188] PLATFORM: max-cpus [32]
[1.525361] Top of RAM: 0x3ffd32000, Total RAM: 0x3f791a000
[1.525378] Memory hole size: 132MB
[1.592146] Allocated 16384 bytes for kernel page tables.
[1.592274] Zone ranges:
[1.592285]   Normal   [mem 0x0840-0x0003ffd31fff]
[1.592311] Movable zone start for each node
[1.592321] Early memory node ranges
[1.592331]   node   0: [mem 0x0840-0x0003ffc1]
[1.592356]   node   0: [mem 0x0003ffc28000-0x0003ffd01fff]
[1.592374]   node   0: [mem 0x0003ffd0e000-0x0003ffd27fff]
[1.592391]   node   0: [mem 0x0003ffd2c000-0x0003ffd31fff]
[1.592409] Initmem setup node 0 [mem 0x0840-0x0003ffd31fff]
[1.665533] On node 0, zone Normal: 16896 pages in unavailable ranges
[1.665582] On node 0, zone Normal: 4 pages in unavailable ranges
[1.665601] On node 0, zone Normal: 6 pages in unavailable ranges
[1.665618] On node 0, zone Normal: 2 pages in unavailable ranges
[1.665734] On node 0, zone Normal: 359 pages in unavailable ranges
[1.665752] Booting Linux...
[1.665772] CPU CAPS: [flush,stbar,swap,muldiv,v9,blkinit,mul32,div32]
[1.665855] CPU CAPS: [v8plus,ASIBlkInit]
[1.842838] percpu: Embedded 18 pages/cpu s108136 r8192 d31128 u262144
[1.848

error booting new kernel after upgrade 6.8.12

[Riccardo Mottola]

Hi,

I just did a dist-upgrade on my Netra T2000. I issue a reboot and the
system does not boot and I see the stacktrace coied at the bottom,
cycling on all 32CPUs.. but then restarting.

Grub shows me this

|*Debian GNU/Linux, with Linux 6.8.12-sparc64-smp  |
| Debian GNU/Linux, with Linux 6.8.12-sparc64-smp (recovery mode)  |
| Debian GNU/Linux, with Linux 6.7.7-sparc64-smp   |
| Debian GNU/Linux, with Linux 6.7.7-sparc64-smp (recovery mode)   |

SO I suppose the failing kernel is 6.8.12.
I don't know what the issue is
I reported something very similar (at least from the log) a couple
updates ago. Then I was lucky and it went away. I supposed a kernel fix,
but it came back again.

I start to think that the issue is on something debian related, e.g. the
way the kernel image is generated, kernel is installed and so depending
on the upgrade is performed happens or not.


Riccardo

   47.318013] [<00407714>] sparc64_realfault_common+0x10/0x20
[   47.318064] ---[ end trace  ]---
[   47.377849] [ cut here ]
[   47.377860] WARNING: CPU: 11 PID: 0 at arch/sparc/kernel/nmi.c:84
perfctr_irq+0x2e0/0x320
[   47.377911] Watchdog detected hard LOCKUP on cpu 11
[   47.377921] Modules linked in: sr_mod(+) cdrom ata_generic
ohci_pci(+) ehci_pci ohci_hcd pata_ali mptsas(+) li
bata ehci_hcd mptscsih mptbase usbcore scsi_transport_sas scsi_mod
e1000e usb_common scsi_common
[   47.378089] CPU: 11 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/11 Tainted: G  D W
   6.8.12-sparc64-smp #1  Debian 6.8.12-
1
[   47.378120] Call Trace:
[   47.378128] [<00e5b6dc>] dump_stack+0x8/0x18
[   47.378174] [<0046e148>] __warn+0xc8/0x120
[   47.378207] [<0046e2b0>] warn_slowpath_fmt+0x110/0x120
[   47.378242] [<00e66500>] perfctr_irq+0x2e0/0x320
[   47.378281] [<004209f4>] tl0_irq15+0x14/0x20
[   47.378311] [<0046dcb4>] panic_smp_self_stop+0x14/0x20
[   47.378345] [<00e4e164>] panic+0x6c/0x364
[   47.378387] [<0047460c>] make_task_dead+0x12c/0x160
[   47.378430] [<00e4d07c>] die_if_kernel+0x26c/0x278
[   47.378471] [<00e6709c>] unhandled_fault+0x88/0xac
[   47.378512] [<00e6751c>] do_sparc64_fault+0x45c/0xb00
[   47.378551] [<00407714>] sparc64_realfault_common+0x10/0x20
[   47.378602] [<00e4cf3c>] die_if_kernel+0x12c/0x278
[   47.378644] [<00e6709c>] unhandled_fault+0x88/0xac
[   47.378684] [<00e6758c>] do_sparc64_fault+0x4cc/0xb00
[   47.378723] [<00407714>] sparc64_realfault_common+0x10/0x20
[   47.378773] ---[ end trace  ]---
[   47.405243] [ cut here ]
[   47.405255] WARNING: CPU: 13 PID: 0 at arch/sparc/kernel/nmi.c:84
perfctr_irq+0x2e0/0x320
[   47.405306] Watchdog detected hard LOCKUP on cpu 13
[   47.405315] Modules linked in: sr_mod(+) cdrom ata_generic
ohci_pci(+) ehci_p
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Re: silo and new kernel issue in lenny & squeeze

[urodelo]

Hi,
thanks for your answer

On Thu, 04 Aug 2011 22:15:49 +0200, Mark Morgan Lloyd  
 wrote:



urodelomutante wrote:

Well, since my first upgrade to Lenny, I've never been able to run a  
new kernel, only the old 2.6.18 works. I've upgraded the kernel during  
the upgrade of debian, and silo.conf has been automatically modified to  
load the new kernel (some years ago the one of lenny, some months ago  
the one of squeeze). When I boot the ultra10 with a new kernel, for ex  
2.6.32, openboot loads, than at the prompt should appear SILO, but what  
I get is SI and nothing more. As I've told before, with old 2.6.18, it  
works


I am not an expert in this, but since nobody else has replied: I've run  
Etch, Lenny and Squeeze without SILO problems. Have you read the silo  
manpage and investigated whether it can update itself?


Do you mean silo deb package? It was updated during the last distro  
upgrade.
But if you mean silo configuration, silo.conf has been updated for sure,  
other things I don't know... For what I have understood, teh second stage  
should always be the same on the computer, does not depend on the kernel  
image you want to use; except initrd.img and kernel related files inside  
/boot, I don't know which other file should or not be installed/modified...


(by the way, is there a way to chose the kernel to boot among those  
available in silo.conf, in a way similar to that of grub - lilo?)


Working from memory, by specifying the kernel name etc. at the OpenPROM  
prompt.


Ok, but I mean getting a menu like in grub, from which I can chose which  
kernel to boot, because typing  
/pci@1f,4000/ide/ata@0,0/cmdk@0,0;4/boot/vmlinux.new root=/dev/hda4  
blablabla is too long and if you don't know/remeber the sparc name of the  
boot partition you can't find the kernel


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Re: silo and new kernel issue in lenny & squeeze

[Mark Morgan Lloyd]

urodelomutante wrote:


Well, since my first upgrade to Lenny, I've never been able to run a new 
kernel, only the old 2.6.18 works. I've upgraded the kernel during the upgrade 
of debian, and silo.conf has been automatically modified to load the new kernel 
(some years ago the one of lenny, some months ago the one of squeeze). When I 
boot the ultra10 with a new kernel, for ex 2.6.32, openboot loads, than at the 
prompt should appear SILO, but what I get is SI and nothing more. As I've told 
before, with old 2.6.18, it works


I am not an expert in this, but since nobody else has replied: I've run 
Etch, Lenny and Squeeze without SILO problems. Have you read the silo 
manpage and investigated whether it can update itself?



(by the way, is there a way to chose the kernel to boot among those available 
in silo.conf, in a way similar to that of grub - lilo?)


Working from memory, by specifying the kernel name etc. at the OpenPROM 
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silo and new kernel issue in lenny & squeeze

[urodelomutante]

Hello list!
This is my first post, although I follow the discussions here since some time 
already.
First at al, I'm a sparc noob.
I own an Ultra10 where I've installed somehow Etch with installation cd some 
years ago (kernel 2.6.18). Then I've upgraded to lenny and than to Squeeze. 
Both releases with a new kernel, Squeeze provides the 2.6.32.

Well, since my first upgrade to Lenny, I've never been able to run a new 
kernel, only the old 2.6.18 works. I've upgraded the kernel during the upgrade 
of debian, and silo.conf has been automatically modified to load the new kernel 
(some years ago the one of lenny, some months ago the one of squeeze). When I 
boot the ultra10 with a new kernel, for ex 2.6.32, openboot loads, than at the 
prompt should appear SILO, but what I get is SI and nothing more. As I've told 
before, with old 2.6.18, it works (by the way, is there a way to chose the 
kernel to boot among those available in silo.conf, in a way similar to that of 
grub - lilo?)

Now I think that silo can't load the second stage of the kernel, but I'm not 
sure about this. I don't know how to solve this problem which now is even worse 
because without kernel 2.6.32 the new udev does not work too!

My Ultra 10 has 2 ide hd, primary and secondary masters, cdrom on sec slave; 
it's configured with a separate boot partition on hda1 (yes, I use the old good 
way!), and then a sw raid 1 with 1 logical group and 3 logical volumes: the 
first lv is for root partition, the second for /var and the third for /home

Here's my silo.conf:
root=/dev/mapper/myvolumegrp_vg-root_lv
partition=1
default=LinuxOLD
read-only
timeout=100
#append="video=atyfb:off mem=512m rootdelay=15"
append="mem=512m"
#append="rootdelay=20"

image=/vmlinuz
label=Linux
initrd=/initrd.img

image=/vmlinuz.old
label=LinuxOLD
initrd=/initrd.img.old


The content of /boot:

lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root1 24 ago  2008 boot -> .
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root43670  5 mag  2009 config-2.6.18-6-sparc64
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root56854 13 giu 18.49 config-2.6.26-2-sparc64
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root71962 14 giu 16.04 config-2.6.32-5-sparc64
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root1 24 ago  2008 etc -> .
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1024 26 ago  2010 fd.b
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  512 26 ago  2010 first.b
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1024 26 ago  2010 generic.b
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  692 26 ago  2010 ieee32.b
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root   27  9 lug 16.09 initrd.img -> 
initrd.img-2.6.32-5-sparc64
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  6309396 29 set  2009 initrd.img-2.6.18-6-sparc64
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  6309670  8 ago  2009 initrd.img-2.6.18-6-sparc64.bak
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  7443312 19 giu 15.22 initrd.img-2.6.26-2-sparc64
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 10628547  9 lug 16.58 initrd.img-2.6.32-5-sparc64
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root   27  9 lug 16.58 initrd.img.old -> 
initrd.img-2.6.18-6-sparc64
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7704 26 ago  2010 isofs.b
drwx-- 2 root root12288 24 ago  2008 lost+found
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7680 24 ago  2008 old.b
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root78336 10 lug 16.40 second.b
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  287 10 lug 17.10 silo.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  262 10 lug 12.02 silo.conf.copia
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root76387 26 ago  2010 silotftp.b
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   886778  5 mag  2009 System.map-2.6.18-6-sparc64
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  1106679 13 giu 21.11 System.map-2.6.26-2-sparc64
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  1444949 14 giu 16.04 System.map-2.6.32-5-sparc64
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  512 26 ago  2010 ultra.b
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root   24  9 lug 16.09 vmlinuz -> vmlinuz-2.6.32-5-sparc64
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  1482166  5 mag  2009 vmlinuz-2.6.18-6-sparc64
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  1728006 13 giu 21.11 vmlinuz-2.6.26-2-sparc64
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  2200826 14 giu 16.03 vmlinuz-2.6.32-5-sparc64
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root   24  9 lug 16.57 vmlinuz.old -> 
vmlinuz-2.6.18-6-sparc64


Then I would like to ask you for help to solve this issue which is quite 
serious for me, assuming that my ultra10 runs several services, and every 
downtime to reset the old setup causes me a gastritis. I'm pretty sure that 
because I'm a sparc noob I'm missing something in the boot process. I've red 
some (old) documentation about it, but didn't find a solution.

Thank you for the help

urodelo


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Re: Please test the new kernel (2.6.18.dfsg.1-9)

[Karl Goetz]

Jim Watson wrote:
>
> On 08/02/2007, at 10:05 PM, Karl Goetz wrote:
>
>> Jim Watson wrote:
>>>> On Thu, Jan 25, 2007 at 22:28:12 -0800, Jurij Smakov wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>> A set of new kernel images has been uploaded to unstable a couple of
>>>>> days ago, including
>>>>>
>>>>> linux-image-2.6.18-4-sparc64_2.6.18.dfsg.1-9_sparc.deb
>>>>>
>>>
>>> Jurij,
>>>
>>> This works on my sunblade100, ( as before, it needs  video=atyfb:off )
>>>
>>
>> How do you pass this parameter? i tried `expert video=atyfb:off` and it
>> failed.
>> kk
>>
>
> When the system is powered on, look for the SILO message then hold
> down the "tab" key and it will stop with a list of available kernels
> and the "boot:" prompt. Assuming you want the default kernel labeled
> Linux, type as below after the boot prompt and hit enter:
>
> boot: Linux video=atyfb:off
>
> I suppose this could be configured in /boot/silo.conf too...
>
> jim
Hi. I'm trying to install off a daily (last few days[0]), so i dont
think silo config is an option(?).
Unfortunately i still get the same error. [1]
The error is as follows (sorry about any line breaks):

Allocated 8 Megs of memory at 0x4000 for kernel
Loaded kernel version 2.6.18
Loading initial ramdisk (3923248 bytes at 0x2F802000 phys, 0x40C0
virt ) ...
Illegal Instruction
ok op-0

This is the same error as before the new kernel.

[0]
http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily-builds/daily/arch-latest/sparc/iso-cd/debian-testing-sparc-businesscard.iso
[1] http://users.on.net/~goetz/P1010106.JPG
ps. (for the archives, Linux is not an option. install expert rescue
auto are).

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Re: Please test the new kernel (2.6.18.dfsg.1-9)

[Jim Watson]

On 08/02/2007, at 10:05 PM, Karl Goetz wrote:


Jim Watson wrote:

On Thu, Jan 25, 2007 at 22:28:12 -0800, Jurij Smakov wrote:


Hi,

A set of new kernel images has been uploaded to unstable a  
couple of

days ago, including

linux-image-2.6.18-4-sparc64_2.6.18.dfsg.1-9_sparc.deb



Jurij,

This works on my sunblade100, ( as before, it needs   
video=atyfb:off )




How do you pass this parameter? i tried `expert video=atyfb:off`  
and it

failed.
kk



When the system is powered on, look for the SILO message then hold  
down the "tab" key and it will stop with a list of available kernels  
and the "boot:" prompt. Assuming you want the default kernel labeled  
Linux, type as below after the boot prompt and hit enter:


boot: Linux video=atyfb:off

I suppose this could be configured in /boot/silo.conf too...

jim


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Re: Please test the new kernel (2.6.18.dfsg.1-9)

[Karl Goetz]

Jim Watson wrote:
>> On Thu, Jan 25, 2007 at 22:28:12 -0800, Jurij Smakov wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> A set of new kernel images has been uploaded to unstable a couple of
>>> days ago, including
>>>
>>> linux-image-2.6.18-4-sparc64_2.6.18.dfsg.1-9_sparc.deb
>>>
> 
> Jurij,
> 
> This works on my sunblade100, ( as before, it needs  video=atyfb:off )
> 

How do you pass this parameter? i tried `expert video=atyfb:off` and it
failed.
kk

> 
> jim
> 
> 


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Re: New kernel

[Josip Rodin]

On Thu, Feb 01, 2007 at 01:10:44PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I try to compile my kernel the boot stops and I think that it isn't
> recognised the scsi qlogic (QLogic Corp. QLA2200 64-bit Fibre Channel
> Adapter (rev 05)). I've installed firmware-qlogic 0.3 that is evidently
> seen by Jurij's image but not by my kernel.

You probably need to run update-initramfs after the installation of
firmware-qlogic, and use the built initrd with your own kernel, too.

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Re: Please test the new kernel (2.6.18.dfsg.1-9)

[Robert Waldner]

On Thu, 01 Feb 2007 09:23:10 +0100, Frans Pop writes:
>> No esp.ko :(

>That is expected. Reason is that the sysfs support in the esp driver is 
>not complete enough yet for automatic detection/inclusion.
>
>So you need to manually add esp to /etc/initramfs-tools/modules. For new 
>installations, the Debian Installer takes care of that.

Thanks, but please put that into the release notes for etch/sparc so that 
 upgrading U1 users aren't surprised.

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[amadesani]

Hi all. It's about a week that I use new kernel image
(linux-image-2.6.18-4-sparc64-smp_2.6.18.dfsg.1-9_sparc.deb) on a blade 1000 
with sid and I've no
problems. The only thing that i'm not able to understand is that with the
downloaded image all is OK, but if I try to compile my kernel the boot
stops and I think that it isn't recognised the scsi qlogic   (QLogic Corp.
QLA2200 64-bit Fibre Channel Adapter (rev 05)).
I've installed firmware-qlogic 0.3 that is evidently seen by Jurij's image
but not by my kernel.
Cheers
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Re: Please test the new kernel (2.6.18.dfsg.1-9)

[Chris Newport]

Stuart Brady wrote:


#394047 seems to include a report of the same problem I'm having.  My
suspicion is that udev is getting confused by the two lance interfaces
using the same MAC address.

If I remove z25_persistent-net.rules and z45_persistent-net-generator.rules
from /etc/udev/rules.d, the problem goes away.

 


Try setting local_mac_address to true in the OBP.


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Re: Please test the new kernel (2.6.18.dfsg.1-9)

[Stuart Brady]

On Wed, Jan 31, 2007 at 11:21:59PM -0800, Jurij Smakov wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 30, 2007 at 07:28:33PM +, Stuart Brady wrote:
> 
> > I'm not sure if this is due to upgrading to 2.6.18-4, but 'eth0' stopped
> > working recently on my SS5.  I did a bit of digging in /sys and noticed:
> [..] 
> > When I renamed 'eth0' to 'eth0_rename' in /etc/network/interfaces, it
> > worked!  Any idea what's going on here?
> 
> Erm, not really. I'll try to see if I can reproduce it on my SS20.

#394047 seems to include a report of the same problem I'm having.  My
suspicion is that udev is getting confused by the two lance interfaces
using the same MAC address.

If I remove z25_persistent-net.rules and z45_persistent-net-generator.rules
from /etc/udev/rules.d, the problem goes away.

> > Also, I can't install 2.6.18-3 as yaird is failing:
[..] 
> 
> That looks like bug #396193, which didn't receive any attention from 
> maintainer for over 3 months now, making yaird pretty much unuseable 
> on sparc. You can use an alternative (and, currently, default) initrd 
> creator, initramfs-tools. Installing initramfs-tools, removing yaird, 
> and running 'dpkg-reconfigure linux-image-2.6.18-4-sparc32' should 
> generate a working initrd.

Okay -- I did that, and it's fine now.  Thanks.
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Re: Please test the new kernel (2.6.18.dfsg.1-9)

[Josip Rodin]

On Wed, Jan 31, 2007 at 11:25:43PM -0800, Jurij Smakov wrote:
> > > > On my Fire 280R, it has two problems:
> > > > * the Qlogic FC controller booted, reported that it can't load firmware,
> > > >   and then just continued to sit there waiting. :(
> [..] 
> > > It seems this is a more general regression, the Ubuntu folks have this:
> > > 
> > > https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/udev/+bug/74004
> 
> Could you please file a bug against initramfs-tools about the qlogic 
> firmware issue, including all the relevant information? I'll ask the 
> maintainer what he thinks about it.

It's #409244.

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Re: Please test the new kernel (2.6.18.dfsg.1-9)

[Frans Pop]

On Thursday 01 February 2007 09:08, Robert Waldner wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp/a# gunzip  25147 blocks
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp/a# find . -name esp\*
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp/a#
>
> No esp.ko :(

That is expected. Reason is that the sysfs support in the esp driver is 
not complete enough yet for automatic detection/inclusion.

So you need to manually add esp to /etc/initramfs-tools/modules. For new 
installations, the Debian Installer takes care of that.

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Re: Please test the new kernel (2.6.18.dfsg.1-9)

[Robert Waldner]

On Wed, 31 Jan 2007 23:16:04 PST, Jurij Smakov writes:
>> I installed this on an up-to-date Etch U1 (sun4u), and it boots until it'd 
>>  like to mount the root-filesystem. Which fails, and if I'm not 
>>  mistaken, because it hasn't loaded any SCSI-drivers (esp in the case 
>>  of my U1). So I threw in yaird, which actually loaded scsi_mod, but 
>>  still no esp, so I had to explicitly set "MODULE esp" in yairds config
>>  so that it would actually load esp and could go on booting.

>Thanks for the report. This problem has been reported for yaird as bug

Erm, I didn't have yaird installed at first, mkinitramfs-kpkg didn't 
 even include SCSI at all. Which's why I then tried yaird.

>#341522 for over a year now without any reaction from maintainer, so 
>the chances that it's going to be solved in time for etch are pretty 
>slim. If you have a chance, please try initramfs-tools, which is an 
>alternative (and currently, the default) initrd generator. Simply 
>installing initramfs-tools, removing yaird and then running 
>'dpkg-reconfigure linux-image-2.6.18-4-sparc64' should regenerate the 
>initrd using it.

I prefer to toggle via kernel-img.conf, no need to remove yaird for
 that ;)

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Running depmod.
Finding valid ramdisk creators.
Using mkinitramfs-kpkg to build the ramdisk.
Other valid candidates: mkinitramfs-kpkg mkinitrd.yaird
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Re: Please test the new kernel (2.6.18.dfsg.1-9)

[Jurij Smakov]

On Wed, Jan 31, 2007 at 05:11:21PM +0100, Josip Rodin wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 30, 2007 at 08:32:59PM +0100, Josip Rodin wrote:
> > > I didn't try any earlier 2.6.x, so this is not necessarily a regression
> > > from the last Debian's kernel, just a general problem.
> > > 
> > > On my Fire 280R, it has two problems:
> > > * the Qlogic FC controller booted, reported that it can't load firmware,
> > >   and then just continued to sit there waiting. :(
[..] 
> > It seems this is a more general regression, the Ubuntu folks have this:
> > 
> > https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/udev/+bug/74004

Could you please file a bug against initramfs-tools about the qlogic 
firmware issue, including all the relevant information? I'll ask the 
maintainer what he thinks about it.

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Re: Please test the new kernel (2.6.18.dfsg.1-9)

[Jurij Smakov]

On Tue, Jan 30, 2007 at 07:28:33PM +, Stuart Brady wrote:

> I'm not sure if this is due to upgrading to 2.6.18-4, but 'eth0' stopped
> working recently on my SS5.  I did a bit of digging in /sys and noticed:
[..] 
> When I renamed 'eth0' to 'eth0_rename' in /etc/network/interfaces, it
> worked!  Any idea what's going on here?

Erm, not really. I'll try to see if I can reproduce it on my SS20.
 
> Also, I can't install 2.6.18-3 as yaird is failing:
[..] 
> Running depmod.
> Finding valid ramdisk creators.
> Using mkinitrd.yaird to build the ramdisk.
> yaird error: unrecognised device: /sys/devices/root
> yaird error: unrecognised device: /sys/devices/root/ffd2c458
> yaird error: unrecognised device: /sys/devices/root/ffd2c458/ffd2c690
> yaird warning: unrecognised legacy device: 
> /sys/devices/root/ffd2c458/ffd2c690/serio0; trying sunkbd
> yaird error: unrecognised device: /sys/devices/sbus0
> yaird error: unrecognised device: /sys/devices/sbus0/sbus[ffd3ce48]
> yaird error: unrecognised device: 
> /sys/devices/sbus0/sbus[ffd3ce48]/sbus[ffd3d224]
> yaird error: there were errors in this run, aborting now without output 
> (fatal)
> mkinitrd.yaird failed to create initrd image.
> Failed to create initrd image.
> dpkg: error processing linux-image-2.6.18-3-sparc32 (--configure):
>  subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 9
> Errors were encountered while processing:
>  linux-image-2.6.18-3-sparc32
> E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

That looks like bug #396193, which didn't receive any attention from 
maintainer for over 3 months now, making yaird pretty much unuseable 
on sparc. You can use an alternative (and, currently, default) initrd 
creator, initramfs-tools. Installing initramfs-tools, removing yaird, 
and running 'dpkg-reconfigure linux-image-2.6.18-4-sparc32' should 
generate a working initrd.

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Re: Please test the new kernel (2.6.18.dfsg.1-9)

[Jurij Smakov]

On Fri, Jan 26, 2007 at 09:15:18PM +0100, Robert Waldner wrote:
 
> I installed this on an up-to-date Etch U1 (sun4u), and it boots until it'd 
>  like to mount the root-filesystem. Which fails, and if I'm not 
>  mistaken, because it hasn't loaded any SCSI-drivers (esp in the case 
>  of my U1). So I threw in yaird, which actually loaded scsi_mod, but 
>  still no esp, so I had to explicitly set "MODULE esp" in yairds config
>  so that it would actually load esp and could go on booting.

Thanks for the report. This problem has been reported for yaird as bug
#341522 for over a year now without any reaction from maintainer, so 
the chances that it's going to be solved in time for etch are pretty 
slim. If you have a chance, please try initramfs-tools, which is an 
alternative (and currently, the default) initrd generator. Simply 
installing initramfs-tools, removing yaird and then running 
'dpkg-reconfigure linux-image-2.6.18-4-sparc64' should regenerate the 
initrd using it.

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Re: Please test the new kernel (2.6.18.dfsg.1-9)

[Josip Rodin]

BTW, with 2.6.19.1 on an Ultra-5, I also get a bunch of these:

Kernel unaligned access at TPC[5d7f3c] tcp_transmit_skb+0x224/0x4fc
Kernel unaligned access at TPC[5d7f48] tcp_transmit_skb+0x230/0x4fc
Kernel unaligned access at TPC[5d7f34] tcp_transmit_skb+0x21c/0x4fc
Kernel unaligned access at TPC[5d7f3c] tcp_transmit_skb+0x224/0x4fc
Kernel unaligned access at TPC[5d7bc8] tcp_build_and_update_options+0x24/0xe8
Kernel unaligned access at TPC[5d7bd0] tcp_build_and_update_options+0x2c/0xe8
Kernel unaligned access at TPC[5d7bdc] tcp_build_and_update_options+0x38/0xe8
Kernel unaligned access at TPC[5d7f20] tcp_transmit_skb+0x208/0x4fc
Kernel unaligned access at TPC[5d7f2c] tcp_transmit_skb+0x214/0x4fc
Kernel unaligned access at TPC[5d7f34] tcp_transmit_skb+0x21c/0x4fc
Kernel unaligned access at TPC[5d7f3c] tcp_transmit_skb+0x224/0x4fc
Kernel unaligned access at TPC[5d7f48] tcp_transmit_skb+0x230/0x4fc

It's using the sunhme driver.

They seem to be harmless so far.

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Re: Please test the new kernel (2.6.18.dfsg.1-9)

[Josip Rodin]

On Tue, Jan 30, 2007 at 08:32:59PM +0100, Josip Rodin wrote:
> > I didn't try any earlier 2.6.x, so this is not necessarily a regression
> > from the last Debian's kernel, just a general problem.
> > 
> > On my Fire 280R, it has two problems:
> > * the Qlogic FC controller booted, reported that it can't load firmware,
> >   and then just continued to sit there waiting. :(
> > 
> > The first issue has a clear workaround (even if horrible, because the
> > default display mode is very, very slow to render text), but I can't
> > quite figure out the second one (and it's tedious to debug).
> > I actually downloaded a file from the URL provided in the kernel help,
> > and put it into /usr/lib/hotplug/firmware, but it seems sort of obvious
> > that that won't quite work if you can't even get to / without the firmware.
> 
> It seems this is a more general regression, the Ubuntu folks have this:
> 
> https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/udev/+bug/74004

I worked around it by including the ql2200_fw.bin file into the initrd,
by using this initramfs hook file:

% cat /etc/initramfs-tools/hooks/qla2200
#!/bin/sh

. /usr/share/initramfs-tools/hook-functions

mydest="lib/firmware/${version}"

mkdir -p ${DESTDIR}/$mydest

copy_exec /lib/firmware/ql2200_fw.bin /$mydest

# maybe needed
copy_exec /lib/firmware/ql2200_fw.bin /lib/firmware

# almost definitely needed
copy_exec /lib/udev/firmware.agent /lib/udev/

--cut--

Also, it's of utmost importance *not* to put qla2xxx into the modules file,
because that will try to load the module just before the init-premount
scripts have run, and one of those scripts starts udev, which is necessary
for the firmware loader to work.

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Re: Please test the new kernel (2.6.18.dfsg.1-9)

[Richard Mortimer]

On Thu, 2007-01-25 at 22:28 -0800, Jurij Smakov wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> A set of new kernel images has been uploaded to unstable a couple of 
> days ago, including
> 
> linux-image-2.6.18-4-sparc32_2.6.18.dfsg.1-9_sparc.deb
> linux-image-2.6.18-4-sparc64-smp_2.6.18.dfsg.1-9_sparc.deb
> linux-image-2.6.18-4-sparc64_2.6.18.dfsg.1-9_sparc.deb
> 
> This kernel is likely to become the final kernel version for etch, so 
> it is important to give it as much testing as possible at that point.
> If you have a chance, take it for a spin on all machines you have 
> access to, and report the problems, if any.
Hi,

I just tested this on my Netra-X1. 

I am seeing occasional Kernel unaligned access messages as follows

Kernel unaligned access at TPC[5e4420] ip_rcv+0xd0/0x58c
Kernel unaligned access at TPC[517f84] ip_fast_csum+0xc/0x80
Kernel unaligned access at TPC[517f88] ip_fast_csum+0x10/0x80
Kernel unaligned access at TPC[517f8c] ip_fast_csum+0x14/0x80
Kernel unaligned access at TPC[517f94] ip_fast_csum+0x1c/0x80

These repeat something around every 6 seconds (although it often
varies). I've dumped the network traffic (both from the box itself
and from another) and I cannot see any obvious traffic pattern that
causes things to break.

I suspect that the problem has something to do with the tulip network
driver but do not have any better clue than that. I guess that I need to
log this as a bug.

Notes:

1 - the network is actually usable even with the issues (not surprising
the messages are just the kernel telling us that it has "fixed" the
problem.

2 - I had seen a similar thing with an earlier 2.6.18 kernel but at that
time I couldn't be sure whether it was my compilation environment that
was causing it.

Regards

Richard

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Re: Please test the new kernel (2.6.18.dfsg.1-9)

[Josip Rodin]

On Mon, Jan 29, 2007 at 05:17:20PM +0100, Josip Rodin wrote:
> I didn't try any earlier 2.6.x, so this is not necessarily a regression
> from the last Debian's kernel, just a general problem.
> 
> On my Fire 280R, it has two problems:
> * the Qlogic FC controller booted, reported that it can't load firmware,
>   and then just continued to sit there waiting. :(
> 
> The first issue has a clear workaround (even if horrible, because the
> default display mode is very, very slow to render text), but I can't
> quite figure out the second one (and it's tedious to debug).
> I actually downloaded a file from the URL provided in the kernel help,
> and put it into /usr/lib/hotplug/firmware, but it seems sort of obvious
> that that won't quite work if you can't even get to / without the firmware.

It seems this is a more general regression, the Ubuntu folks have this:

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/udev/+bug/74004

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Re: Please test the new kernel (2.6.18.dfsg.1-9)

[Stuart Brady]

On Thu, Jan 25, 2007 at 10:28:12PM -0800, Jurij Smakov wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> A set of new kernel images has been uploaded to unstable a couple of 
> days ago, including
> 
> linux-image-2.6.18-4-sparc32_2.6.18.dfsg.1-9_sparc.deb

I'm not sure if this is due to upgrading to 2.6.18-4, but 'eth0' stopped
working recently on my SS5.  I did a bit of digging in /sys and noticed:

# ls -l /sys/bus/sbus/drivers/sunlance/*/
/sys/bus/sbus/drivers/sunlance/sbus[ffd402d8]/:
total 0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root0 Jan 30 18:46 bus -> ../../../../bus/sbus
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 4096 Jan 30 18:22 devspec
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root0 Jan 30 18:22 driver -> 
../../../../bus/sbus/drivers/sunlance
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root0 Jan 30 18:22 net:eth0_rename -> 
../../../../class/net/eth0_rename
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root0 Jan 30 18:22 subsystem -> ../../../../bus/sbus
--w--- 1 root root 4096 Jan 30 18:46 uevent

/sys/bus/sbus/drivers/sunlance/sbus[ffd426d0]/:
total 0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root0 Jan 30 18:45 bus -> ../../../../bus/sbus
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 4096 Jan 30 18:22 devspec
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root0 Jan 30 18:22 driver -> 
../../../../bus/sbus/drivers/sunlance
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root0 Jan 30 18:22 net:eth1 -> ../../../../class/net/eth1
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root0 Jan 30 18:22 subsystem -> ../../../../bus/sbus
--w--- 1 root root 4096 Jan 30 18:45 uevent

When I renamed 'eth0' to 'eth0_rename' in /etc/network/interfaces, it
worked!  Any idea what's going on here?

Also, I can't install 2.6.18-3 as yaird is failing:

# apt-get install linux-image-2.6.18-3-sparc32
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Suggested packages:
  linux-doc-2.6.18
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  linux-image-2.6.18-3-sparc32
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/6330kB of archives.
After unpacking 18.0MB of additional disk space will be used.
Preconfiguring packages ...
Selecting previously deselected package linux-image-2.6.18-3-sparc32.
(Reading database ... 55540 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking linux-image-2.6.18-3-sparc32 (from 
.../linux-image-2.6.18-3-sparc32_2.6.18-7_sparc.deb) ...
Done.
Setting up linux-image-2.6.18-3-sparc32 (2.6.18-7) ...

 Hmm. The package shipped with a symbolic link 
/lib/modules/2.6.18-3-sparc32/source
 However, I can not read the target: No such file or directory
 Therefore, I am deleting /lib/modules/2.6.18-3-sparc32/source

Running depmod.
Finding valid ramdisk creators.
Using mkinitrd.yaird to build the ramdisk.
yaird error: unrecognised device: /sys/devices/root
yaird error: unrecognised device: /sys/devices/root/ffd2c458
yaird error: unrecognised device: /sys/devices/root/ffd2c458/ffd2c690
yaird warning: unrecognised legacy device: 
/sys/devices/root/ffd2c458/ffd2c690/serio0; trying sunkbd
yaird error: unrecognised device: /sys/devices/sbus0
yaird error: unrecognised device: /sys/devices/sbus0/sbus[ffd3ce48]
yaird error: unrecognised device: 
/sys/devices/sbus0/sbus[ffd3ce48]/sbus[ffd3d224]
yaird error: there were errors in this run, aborting now without output (fatal)
mkinitrd.yaird failed to create initrd image.
Failed to create initrd image.
dpkg: error processing linux-image-2.6.18-3-sparc32 (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 9
Errors were encountered while processing:
 linux-image-2.6.18-3-sparc32
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
# ls -l /sys/devices/root/ffd2c458/ffd2c690/driver
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Jan 30 19:20 
/sys/devices/root/ffd2c458/ffd2c690/driver -> ../../../../bus/of/drivers/zs
# ls /sys/devices/sbus0/sbus\[ffd3ce48\]/sbus\[ffd3d224\]/driver -l lrwxrwxrwx 
1 root root 0 Jan 30 19:22
/sys/devices/sbus0/sbus[ffd3ce48]/sbus[ffd3d224]/driver -> 
../../../../bus/sbus/drivers/esp

Other than that, I've had no problems.
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Re: Please test the new kernel (2.6.18.dfsg.1-9)

[Frans Pop]

On Tuesday 30 January 2007 12:04, Karl Goetz wrote:
> When would we be expecting updated installer images?

We're making the switch today.
If there are no problems, tomorrows *daily built* images for all arches 
should use the new kernel.

Cheers,
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Re: Please test the new kernel (2.6.18.dfsg.1-9)

[Karl Goetz]

Frans Pop wrote:

On Monday 29 January 2007 07:18, Karl Goetz wrote:

I downloaded the daily intall image on 27th this month, my time (+10~),
and It failed to install (installer failed to start) on my SunBlade
100. I dont have sarge or etch debs yet (i should get them in a few
days), but unless my daily is just-pre kernel update, i still cant
install. kk


The installer does not yet use the new kernel. We will make the switch 
later this week.


When would we be expecting updated installer images?
kk

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Re: Please test the new kernel (2.6.18.dfsg.1-9)

[Josip Rodin]

On Thu, Jan 25, 2007 at 10:28:12PM -0800, Jurij Smakov wrote:
> A set of new kernel images has been uploaded to unstable a couple of 
> days ago, including
> 
> linux-image-2.6.18-4-sparc32_2.6.18.dfsg.1-9_sparc.deb
> linux-image-2.6.18-4-sparc64-smp_2.6.18.dfsg.1-9_sparc.deb
> linux-image-2.6.18-4-sparc64_2.6.18.dfsg.1-9_sparc.deb
> 
> This kernel is likely to become the final kernel version for etch, so 
> it is important to give it as much testing as possible at that point.
> If you have a chance, take it for a spin on all machines you have 
> access to, and report the problems, if any.

Hm, on related note, today I tried to upgrade my Fire 280R from its
old 2.4.30. I installed the latest one in etch, I think it was
apt-get install linux-image-2.6.18-3-sparc64, and that installed
version 2.6.18.dfsg.1-7, I believe.

I didn't try any earlier 2.6.x, so this is not necessarily a regression from
the last Debian's kernel, just a general problem.

On my Fire 280R, it has two problems:
* I had to set video=atyfb:off, otherwise I don't see anything after
  'Booting Linux' - the same thing that Jim Watson, Riccardo Tortorici
  and Thomas Köllmann reported earlier in various threads
* the Qlogic FC controller booted, reported that it can't load firmware,
  and then just continued to sit there waiting. :(

The first issue has a clear workaround (even if horrible, because the
default display mode is very, very slow to render text), but I can't
quite figure out the second one (and it's tedious to debug).
I actually downloaded a file from the URL provided in the kernel help,
and put it into /usr/lib/hotplug/firmware, but it seems sort of obvious
that that won't quite work if you can't even get to / without the firmware.

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Re: Please test the new kernel (2.6.18.dfsg.1-9)

[Jim Watson]

On Thu, Jan 25, 2007 at 22:28:12 -0800, Jurij Smakov wrote:


Hi,

A set of new kernel images has been uploaded to unstable a couple of
days ago, including

linux-image-2.6.18-4-sparc64_2.6.18.dfsg.1-9_sparc.deb



Jurij,

This works on my sunblade100, ( as before, it needs  video=atyfb:off )


jim


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Re: Please test the new kernel (2.6.18.dfsg.1-9)

[Julien Cristau]

On Thu, Jan 25, 2007 at 22:28:12 -0800, Jurij Smakov wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> A set of new kernel images has been uploaded to unstable a couple of 
> days ago, including
> 
> linux-image-2.6.18-4-sparc64_2.6.18.dfsg.1-9_sparc.deb
> 
Seems to work fine on my ultra 5.

Cheers,
Julien


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Re: Please test the new kernel (2.6.18.dfsg.1-9)

[Ben Mueller]

On Thu, 25 Jan 2007, Jurij Smakov wrote:
> If you have a chance, take it for a spin on all machines you have 
> access to, and report the problems, if any.

Yesterday I installed linux-image-2.6.18-4-sparc64-smp on my Ultra 60.

To get through dpkg --configure from a running 2.6.18 kernel I needed 
the yaird patch from #396193.

There are some strange messages at the end of dmesg:
Kernel unaligned access at TPC[433e34] cp_compat_stat64+0x3c/0x1ec
Kernel unaligned access at TPC[433e44] cp_compat_stat64+0x4c/0x1ec
Kernel unaligned access at TPC[433e58] cp_compat_stat64+0x60/0x1ec
Kernel unaligned access at TPC[433e68] cp_compat_stat64+0x70/0x1ec
Kernel unaligned access at TPC[433e7c] cp_compat_stat64+0x84/0x1ec

But I don't notice any problem with this kernel!
Thanks for your great work.

  Ben


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Re: Please test the new kernel (2.6.18.dfsg.1-9)

[Frans Pop]

On Monday 29 January 2007 07:18, Karl Goetz wrote:
> I downloaded the daily intall image on 27th this month, my time (+10~),
> and It failed to install (installer failed to start) on my SunBlade
> 100. I dont have sarge or etch debs yet (i should get them in a few
> days), but unless my daily is just-pre kernel update, i still cant
> install. kk

The installer does not yet use the new kernel. We will make the switch 
later this week.


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Re: Please test the new kernel (2.6.18.dfsg.1-9)

[Karl Goetz]

Jurij Smakov wrote:

Hi,

A set of new kernel images has been uploaded to unstable a couple of 
days ago, including


linux-image-2.6.18-4-sparc32_2.6.18.dfsg.1-9_sparc.deb
linux-image-2.6.18-4-sparc64-smp_2.6.18.dfsg.1-9_sparc.deb

linux-image-2.6.18-4-sparc64_2.6.18.dfsg.1-9_sparc.deb

This kernel is likely to become the final kernel version for etch, so 
it is important to give it as much testing as possible at that point.
If you have a chance, take it for a spin on all machines you have 
access to, and report the problems, if any.


Thanks,


I downloaded the daily intall image on 27th this month, my time (+10~), 
and It failed to install (installer failed to start) on my SunBlade 100. 
I dont have sarge or etch debs yet (i should get them in a few days), 
but unless my daily is just-pre kernel update, i still cant install.

kk

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Re: Please test the new kernel (2.6.18.dfsg.1-9)

[Robert Waldner]

On Thu, 25 Jan 2007 22:28:12 PST, Jurij Smakov writes:
>linux-image-2.6.18-4-sparc64_2.6.18.dfsg.1-9_sparc.deb
>
>This kernel is likely to become the final kernel version for etch, so 
>it is important to give it as much testing as possible at that point.
>If you have a chance, take it for a spin on all machines you have 
>access to, and report the problems, if any.

I installed this on an up-to-date Etch U1 (sun4u), and it boots until it'd 
 like to mount the root-filesystem. Which fails, and if I'm not 
 mistaken, because it hasn't loaded any SCSI-drivers (esp in the case 
 of my U1). So I threw in yaird, which actually loaded scsi_mod, but 
 still no esp, so I had to explicitly set "MODULE esp" in yairds config
 so that it would actually load esp and could go on booting.

But this is probably a bug in mkinitrd/yaird instead of with the 
 kernel-image (though mkinitrd worked ok with 2.6.8-2-sparc64). Anyway 
 it should be fixed (or get a mention in the release notes) before a lot
 of U1 users are surprised.

Otherwise, the 2.6.18 image seems to behave itself so far.

cheers,
&rw
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Re: Please test the new kernel (2.6.18.dfsg.1-9)

[amadesani]

On Thu, Jan 25, 2007 at 10:28:12PM -0800, Jurij Smakov wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> A set of new kernel images has been uploaded to unstable a couple of 
> days ago, including
> 
> linux-image-2.6.18-4-sparc32_2.6.18.dfsg.1-9_sparc.deb
> linux-image-2.6.18-4-sparc64-smp_2.6.18.dfsg.1-9_sparc.deb
> linux-image-2.6.18-4-sparc64_2.6.18.dfsg.1-9_sparc.deb
> 
> This kernel is likely to become the final kernel version for etch, so 
> it is important to give it as much testing as possible at that point.
> If you have a chance, take it for a spin on all machines you have 
> access to, and report the problems, if any.
> 
> Thanks,
> -- 

Hi Jurij. I've downloaded immediately
linux-image-2.6.18-4-sparc64-smp_2.6.18.dfsg.1-9_sparc.deb
and I'm using it on a blade 1000  with debian sid (regularly updated). If
something interesting I'll write immediately.
If you need information about software or hardware, write.
Best regards
Antonio

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Please test the new kernel (2.6.18.dfsg.1-9)

[Jurij Smakov]

Hi,

A set of new kernel images has been uploaded to unstable a couple of 
days ago, including

linux-image-2.6.18-4-sparc32_2.6.18.dfsg.1-9_sparc.deb
linux-image-2.6.18-4-sparc64-smp_2.6.18.dfsg.1-9_sparc.deb
linux-image-2.6.18-4-sparc64_2.6.18.dfsg.1-9_sparc.deb

This kernel is likely to become the final kernel version for etch, so 
it is important to give it as much testing as possible at that point.
If you have a chance, take it for a spin on all machines you have 
access to, and report the problems, if any.

Thanks,
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Re: Installing new kernel 2.6.17 on Ultra5

[John]

Disregarding my own instincts to pick the sun/type5/us choice and doing as I was directed by various 'howtos' and picking pc/qwerty/us - it worked! I now have a keyboard that I can interface with :-)Thanks to you all for your help.
JohnPS On to the next challenge - getting my fibre channel card to see my sun hd array.On 9/20/06, John <
[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:Roman: Yes the keyboard was working fine before. Having Googled it seems as though this is a known issue when upgrading to 
2.6.? and Frans has pointed me to a url which seems to acknowledge it.Frans: I'm using this Ultra5 as a file server so I'm not running any X. I'm afraid dpkg-reconfigure console-data/Select keym../type5/us didn't work either. 
On 9/20/06, Frans Pop <
[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

On Wednesday 20 September 2006 01:55, John wrote:> Thanks Frans that did the trick for booting into my 2.6.17-2 kernel (I> must have typed something incorrectly into silo.conf) but I now have a> totally stuffed sun keyboard!
http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/sparc/release-notes/ch-information.en.html#s-upgrade-to-2.6

Re: Installing new kernel 2.6.17 on Ultra5

[John]

Roman: Yes the keyboard was working fine before. Having Googled it seems as though this is a known issue when upgrading to 2.6.? and Frans has pointed me to a url which seems to acknowledge it.Frans: I'm using this Ultra5 as a file server so I'm not running any X. I'm afraid dpkg-reconfigure console-data/Select keym../type5/us didn't work either. 
On 9/20/06, Frans Pop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Wednesday 20 September 2006 01:55, John wrote:> Thanks Frans that did the trick for booting into my 2.6.17-2 kernel (I> must have typed something incorrectly into silo.conf) but I now have a> totally stuffed sun keyboard!
http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/sparc/release-notes/ch-information.en.html#s-upgrade-to-2.6

Re: Installing new kernel 2.6.17 on Ultra5

[Frans Pop]

On Wednesday 20 September 2006 01:55, John wrote:
> Thanks Frans that did the trick for booting into my 2.6.17-2 kernel (I
> must have typed something incorrectly into silo.conf) but I now have a
> totally stuffed sun keyboard! 

http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/sparc/release-notes/ch-information.en.html#s-upgrade-to-2.6


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Re: Installing new kernel 2.6.17 on Ultra5

[Roman Shakin]

Glad to hear that dude, hopefully it all works out with your install. As far
as the keyboard there is a way to remap keys once you are all up and running,
did the keyboard work fine before... what kinda of a msg is it giving. 

--Roman

On Wed, Sep 20, 2006, John wrote:

> Thanks Frans that did the trick for booting into my 2.6.17-2 kernel (I must
> have typed something incorrectly into silo.conf) but I now have a totally
> stuffed sun keyboard! :-( By trial and error I managed to find the keys to
> type "root" and the pw. Interestingly I can ssh as root into the sun box and
> my pc keyboard has no problems.
> 
> As a further sweet and sour result, my Qlogic FC card was found by the
> kernel but it wants some firmware.
> 
> 
> 
> On 9/20/06, Frans Pop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> >On Tuesday 19 September 2006 06:17, John wrote:
> >> I think I'm so close I can smell it but I still need a helping hand,
> >> please.
> >
> >Here's the first bit of my working silo.conf:
> >$ cat /boot/silo.conf
> >partition=1
> >message=/boot/message.txt
> >root=/dev/hda1
> >default=linux
> >read-only
> >timeout=100
> >
> >image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.17-2-sparc64
> >initrd=/boot/initrd.img-2.6.17-2-sparc64
> >label=linux
> >
> >I don't have a separate /boot partition obviously.
> >
> >Cheers,
> >FJP
> >
> >
> >


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Re: Installing new kernel 2.6.17 on Ultra5

[John]

Thanks Frans that did the trick for booting into my 2.6.17-2 kernel (I must have typed something incorrectly into silo.conf) but I now have a totally stuffed sun keyboard! :-( By trial and error I managed to find the keys to type "root" and the pw. Interestingly I can ssh as root into the sun box and my pc keyboard has no problems.
As a further sweet and sour result, my Qlogic FC card was found by the kernel but it wants some firmware.On 9/20/06, Frans Pop <
[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:On Tuesday 19 September 2006 06:17, John wrote:> I think I'm so close I can smell it but I still need a helping hand,
> please.Here's the first bit of my working silo.conf:$ cat /boot/silo.confpartition=1message=/boot/message.txtroot=/dev/hda1default=linuxread-onlytimeout=100image=/boot/vmlinuz-
2.6.17-2-sparc64initrd=/boot/initrd.img-2.6.17-2-sparc64label=linuxI don't have a separate /boot partition obviously.Cheers,FJP

Re: Installing new kernel 2.6.17 on Ultra5

[Frans Pop]

On Tuesday 19 September 2006 06:17, John wrote:
> I think I'm so close I can smell it but I still need a helping hand,
> please.

Here's the first bit of my working silo.conf:
$ cat /boot/silo.conf
partition=1
message=/boot/message.txt
root=/dev/hda1
default=linux
read-only
timeout=100

image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.17-2-sparc64
initrd=/boot/initrd.img-2.6.17-2-sparc64
label=linux

I don't have a separate /boot partition obviously.

Cheers,
FJP


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Re: Installing new kernel 2.6.17 on Ultra5

[Roman Shakin]

See if you can pass the boot options manually, as in from the command line
when you boot up the kernel, and I am not sure if you have to specify the
filesystem type, but I would look into that just in case. Also what file
system does you run, make sure the module for it is being loaded, and that
it's not something weird like that.. 

--Roman

PS: We really need to start working for better sparc support if we want to
keep it alive. 


On Tue, Sep 19, 2006, John wrote:

> I finally gave up trying to compile my own kernel and decided to take
> Roman's advice.
> 
> This certainly got me a little further.
> 
> VFS: Cannot open boot device hda1 or unknown-block (0,0)
> Please append a correct "root=" in boot option.
> Kernel panic - not syncing etc
> 
> If you recall at the start of this thread I put the contents of
> silo.confwhich has:
> 
> root=/dev/hda1 already stated.
> 
> and my fstab (see above) hasn't changed.
> 
> my / has:
> lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root   32 Sep 19 12:48 initrd.img -> boot/initrd.img-
> 2.6.17-2-sparc64
> lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root   29 Sep 19 12:48 vmlinuz -> boot/vmlinuz-
> 2.6.17-2-sparc64
> 
> and my /boot has:
> 
> -rw-r--r--  1 root root  837342 Sep  1 04:15 System.map-2.6.17-2-sparc64
> lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root   1 Jul 26  2005 boot -> .
> -rw-r--r--  1 root root   40131 Aug 31 21:57 config-2.6.17-2-sparc64
> lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root   1 Jul 26  2005 etc -> .
> -rw-r--r--  1 root root1024 Jun 21 12:57 fd.b
> -rw-r--r--  1 root root 512 Jun 21 12:57 first.b
> -rw-r--r--  1 root root1024 Jun 21 12:57 generic.b
> -rw-r--r--  1 root root 692 Jun 21 12:57 ieee32.b
> -rw-r--r--  1 root root 4478995 Sep 19 12:48 initrd.img-2.6.17-2-sparc64
> -rw-r--r--  1 root root6928 Jun 21 12:57 isofs.b
> -rw-r--r--  1 root root7680 May 28  2005 old.b
> -rw-r--r--  1 root root   62976 Jul 28 09:45 second.b
> -rw-r--r--  1 root root  77 Sep 19 12:06 silo.conf
> -rw-r--r--  1 root root   60829 Jun 21 12:57 silotftp.b
> -rw-r--r--  1 root root 512 Jun 21 12:57 ultra.b
> -rw-r--r--  1 root root 1379575 May 28  2005 vmlinuz-2.4.18-sun4u
> -rw-r--r--  1 root root 1442770 Sep  1 04:15 vmlinuz-2.6.17-2-sparc64
> 
> I've also tried:
> 
> image=/vmlinuz-2.6.17...
> label=linux
> initrd=/initrd-2.6.17.
> 
> and
> 
> image=1/vmlinuz-2.6.17...
> label=linux
> initrd=1/initrd-2.6.17.
> 
> but that didn't even find the image and left me in bootp.
> 
> I think I'm so close I can smell it but I still need a helping hand, please.
> 
> John
> 
> On 9/15/06, Roman Shakin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> >www.backports.com read it do it... also why exactly are you upgrading the
> >kernel ? 2.4 is alot more stable for sparc atleast... I have a ultra 5 and
> >I've had issues with 2.6 version kernels. backports have the 2.6 testing
> >kernel on them somewhere you will be able to upgrade it using aptitude or
> >apt
> >
> >
> >--Roman
> >
> >On Fri, Sep 15, 2006, John wrote:
> >
> >> Can you point me in the right direction/url, Roman?
> >>
> >>
> >> On 9/15/06, Roman Shakin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >> >
> >> >Why dont you try using the backports package, i've tried compiling the
> >> >kernel
> >> >before and it has not worked, but my problem was with Adaptec drivers.
> >> >
> >> >--Roman
> >> >
> >> >On Fri, Sep 15, 2006, John wrote:
> >> >
> >> >> Hi,
> >> >>
> >> >> I have just compiled a new kernel for my Ultra5 using Debian's
> >> >> kernel-package system.
> >> >>
> >> >> BootP gets to the point of 'Booting into Linux...' and stops. No
> >error
> >> >> message nothing, just halts where it is! If I change vmlinuz to point
> >at
> >> >the
> >> >> old kernel it works fine.
> >> >>
> >> >> I'm obviously missing something but what?
> >> >>
> >> >> My / links are:
> >> >> lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root   25 May 28  2005 vmlinuz.old ->
> >> >boot/vmlinuz-
> >> >> 2.4.18-sun4u
> >> >> lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root   32 Sep 14 15:39 vmlinuz ->
> >boot/vmlinuz-
> >> >> 2.6.17.060914-sun4u
> >> >>
> >> >> My silo.conf is:
> >> >> partition=1
> >> >> root=/dev/hda1
> >> >> timeout=100
> >> >> image=1/vmli

Re: Installing new kernel 2.6.17 on Ultra5

[John]

I finally gave up trying to compile my own kernel and decided to take Roman's advice.This certainly got me a little further.VFS: Cannot open boot device hda1 or unknown-block (0,0)Please append a correct "root=" in boot option.
Kernel panic - not syncing etcIf you recall at the start of this thread I put the contents of silo.conf which has:root=/dev/hda1 already stated.and my fstab (see above) hasn't changed.
my / has:lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root   32 Sep 19 12:48 initrd.img -> boot/initrd.img-2.6.17-2-sparc64lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root   29 Sep 19 12:48 vmlinuz -> boot/vmlinuz-2.6.17-2-sparc64and my /boot has:
-rw-r--r--  1 root root  837342 Sep  1 04:15 System.map-2.6.17-2-sparc64lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root   1 Jul 26  2005 boot -> .-rw-r--r--  1 root root   40131 Aug 31 21:57 config-2.6.17-2-sparc64lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root   1 Jul 26  2005 etc -> .
-rw-r--r--  1 root root    1024 Jun 21 12:57 fd.b-rw-r--r--  1 root root 512 Jun 21 12:57 first.b-rw-r--r--  1 root root    1024 Jun 21 12:57 generic.b-rw-r--r--  1 root root 692 Jun 21 12:57 ieee32.b
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 4478995 Sep 19 12:48 initrd.img-2.6.17-2-sparc64-rw-r--r--  1 root root    6928 Jun 21 12:57 isofs.b-rw-r--r--  1 root root    7680 May 28  2005 old.b-rw-r--r--  1 root root   62976 Jul 28 09:45 
second.b-rw-r--r--  1 root root  77 Sep 19 12:06 silo.conf-rw-r--r--  1 root root   60829 Jun 21 12:57 silotftp.b-rw-r--r--  1 root root 512 Jun 21 12:57 ultra.b-rw-r--r--  1 root root 1379575 May 28  2005 
vmlinuz-2.4.18-sun4u-rw-r--r--  1 root root 1442770 Sep  1 04:15 vmlinuz-2.6.17-2-sparc64I've also tried:image=/vmlinuz-2.6.17...label=linuxinitrd=/initrd-2.6.17.and
image=1/vmlinuz-2.6.17...
label=linux
initrd=1/initrd-2.6.17.but that didn't even find the image and left me in bootp.I think I'm so close I can smell it but I still need a helping hand, please.John
On 9/15/06, Roman Shakin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
www.backports.com read it do it... also why exactly are you upgrading thekernel ? 2.4 is alot more stable for sparc atleast... I have a ultra 5 andI've had issues with 2.6 version kernels. backports have the 
2.6 testingkernel on them somewhere you will be able to upgrade it using aptitude or apt--RomanOn Fri, Sep 15, 2006, John wrote:> Can you point me in the right direction/url, Roman?>
>> On 9/15/06, Roman Shakin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:> >> >Why dont you try using the backports package, i've tried compiling the
> >kernel> >before and it has not worked, but my problem was with Adaptec drivers.> >> >--Roman> >> >On Fri, Sep 15, 2006, John wrote:> >> >> Hi,
> >>> >> I have just compiled a new kernel for my Ultra5 using Debian's> >> kernel-package system.> >>> >> BootP gets to the point of 'Booting into Linux...' and stops. No error
> >> message nothing, just halts where it is! If I change vmlinuz to point at> >the> >> old kernel it works fine.> >>> >> I'm obviously missing something but what?
> >>> >> My / links are:> >> lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root   25 May 28  2005 vmlinuz.old ->> >boot/vmlinuz-> >> 2.4.18-sun4u> >> lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root   32 Sep 14 15:39 vmlinuz -> boot/vmlinuz-
> >> 2.6.17.060914-sun4u> >>> >> My silo.conf is:> >> partition=1> >> root=/dev/hda1> >> timeout=100> >> image=1/vmlinuz> >> label=linux
> >> read-only> >>> >> My /boot is:> >> -rw-r--r--  1 root root  848101 Sep 14 15:23> >System.map-2.6.17.060914-sun4u> >> lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root   1 Jul 26  2005 boot -> .
> >> -rw-r--r--  1 root root   29349 Sep 14 14:08 config-2.6.17.060914-sun4u> >> lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root   1 Jul 26  2005 etc -> .> >> -rw-r--r--  1 root root1024 Jun 21 12:57 
fd.b> >> -rw-r--r--  1 root root 512 Jun 21 12:57 first.b> >> -rw-r--r--  1 root root1024 Jun 21 12:57 generic.b> >> -rw-r--r--  1 root root 692 Jun 21 12:57 ieee32.b
> >> -rw-r--r--  1 root root6928 Jun 21 12:57 isofs.b> >> -rw-r--r--  1 root root7680 May 28  2005 old.b> >> -rw-r--r--  1 root root   62976 Jul 28 09:45 second.b> >> -rw-r--r--  1 root root  78 Feb  2  2006 
silo.conf> >> -rw-r--r--  1 root root   60829 Jun 21 12:57 silotftp.b> >> -rw-r--r--  1 root root 512 Jun 21 12:57 ultra.b> >> -rw-r--r--  1 root root 1379575 May 28  2005 vmlinuz-2.4.18-sun4u
> >> -rw-r--r--  1 root root 1452906 Sep 14 15:23 vmlinuz-2.6.17.060914-sun4u> >>> >> and /etc/fstab is:> >> /dev/hda1   /   ext3errors=remount-ro   0
> >1> >> /dev/hda2   noneswapsw  0> >0> >> proc/proc   procdefaults0> >0> >> /dev/fd0/floppy autouser,noauto 0
> >0> >> /dev/cdrom  /cdrom  iso9660 ro,user,noauto  0> >0> >>> >> If you need any other info to help, please let me know.> >>
> >> TIA> >>> >> John> >

Re: Installing new kernel 2.6.17 on Ultra5

[John]

List,Well I don't know if its me but it will not go past that point. I've rebuilt it 3 times all with the same result. The video drivers are ATI which is the onboard frame buffer on my Ultra5s.If I can furnish information let me know.
Any thoughts are appreciated.JohnOn 9/16/06, Frans Pop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Friday 15 September 2006 14:28, Martin Marques wrote:> How truthful are the statements of Roman related to kernel 2.4 vs. 2.6.> I rekall reading that Linus Torvalds is working on SPARC the last> years, so I would say that it should be working quite well.
2.6 works fine on my Ultra 10 and we getting a fair amount of successfulinstallation reports for sparc based on 2.6 kernels (though some failurestoo).Anyway, Etch will support only 2.6 so if there are issues, you'd better
catch and report them now :-)Cheers,FJP

Re: Installing new kernel 2.6.17 on Ultra5

[Frans Pop]

On Friday 15 September 2006 14:28, Martin Marques wrote:
> How truthful are the statements of Roman related to kernel 2.4 vs. 2.6.
> I rekall reading that Linus Torvalds is working on SPARC the last
> years, so I would say that it should be working quite well.

2.6 works fine on my Ultra 10 and we getting a fair amount of successful 
installation reports for sparc based on 2.6 kernels (though some failures 
too).
Anyway, Etch will support only 2.6 so if there are issues, you'd better 
catch and report them now :-)

Cheers,
FJP


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Re: Installing new kernel 2.6.17 on Ultra5

[Martin Marques]

On Thu, 14 Sep 2006 23:53:50 -0700, Roman Shakin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> www.backports.com read it do it... also why exactly are you upgrading the
> kernel ? 2.4 is alot more stable for sparc atleast... I have a ultra 5 and
> I've had issues with 2.6 version kernels. backports have the 2.6 testing
> kernel on them somewhere you will be able to upgrade it using aptitude or
> apt

How truthful are the statements of Roman related to kernel 2.4 vs. 2.6. I 
rekall reading that Linus Torvalds is working on SPARC the last years, so I 
would say that it should be working quite well.

P.D.: I am with the latest 2.4 at the moment, but planning to junp to 2.6 soon.

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Re: Installing new kernel 2.6.17 on Ultra5

[John]

Hugh,I'm not in a position to try at the moment. I seem to recall that the hd was perhaps still active but I wasn't able to ping the ip over the net.Your idea about the frame buffer certainly has merit as I've not built that many kernels and its possible I omitted to include the correct one as I started from nothing - no oldconfig.
I'll try it again next week when I have time.Thank youJohnOn 9/15/06, H C Pumphrey <
[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:John wrote:> I have just compiled a new kernel for my Ultra5 using Debian's
> kernel-package system.>> BootP gets to the point of 'Booting into Linux...' and stops. No error> message nothing, just halts where it is! If I change vmlinuz to point at> the old kernel it works fine.
It may be the thing that bit me a week or two ago of the framebuffer not doingthe right thing. Does the HD contine to grind and whir once the screen freezesat 'Booting into Linux...' ? If you wait  a few minutes, can you log onto the
machine over the network from another machine? (Obviously this assumes youhave a network.)This is a particularly likely thing to happen if your Ultra has two graphicscards in (The U10s have a ATI one on the mobo, but often have a Sun Creator 3D
one in an expansion slot. 2.6 kernels may choose the opposite one to 2.4kernels by default.) I guess it might also happen if you didn't build thekernel with the appropriate framebuffer devices.Hope this helps,
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Re: Installing new kernel 2.6.17 on Ultra5

[H C Pumphrey]

John wrote:

I have just compiled a new kernel for my Ultra5 using Debian's 
kernel-package system.


BootP gets to the point of 'Booting into Linux...' and stops. No error 
message nothing, just halts where it is! If I change vmlinuz to point at 
the old kernel it works fine.


It may be the thing that bit me a week or two ago of the framebuffer not doing 
the right thing. Does the HD contine to grind and whir once the screen freezes 
at 'Booting into Linux...' ? If you wait  a few minutes, can you log onto the 
machine over the network from another machine? (Obviously this assumes you 
have a network.)


This is a particularly likely thing to happen if your Ultra has two graphics 
cards in (The U10s have a ATI one on the mobo, but often have a Sun Creator 3D 
one in an expansion slot. 2.6 kernels may choose the opposite one to 2.4 
kernels by default.) I guess it might also happen if you didn't build the 
kernel with the appropriate framebuffer devices.


Hope this helps,

Hugh


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Re: Installing new kernel 2.6.17 on Ultra5

[John]

It has to do with my other post for info on the Qlogic QLA2200F/66. I was hoping the newer kernel might have support for it. The other reason is I'm running Etch on the other Ultra5 and I want to upgrade Squid which wont run on 
2.4.18 I gather.On 9/15/06, Roman Shakin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
www.backports.com read it do it... also why exactly are you upgrading thekernel ? 2.4 is alot more stable for sparc atleast... I have a ultra 5 andI've had issues with 2.6 version kernels. backports have the 
2.6 testingkernel on them somewhere you will be able to upgrade it using aptitude or apt--RomanOn Fri, Sep 15, 2006, John wrote:> Can you point me in the right direction/url, Roman?>
>> On 9/15/06, Roman Shakin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:> >> >Why dont you try using the backports package, i've tried compiling the
> >kernel> >before and it has not worked, but my problem was with Adaptec drivers.> >> >--Roman> >> >On Fri, Sep 15, 2006, John wrote:> >> >> Hi,
> >>> >> I have just compiled a new kernel for my Ultra5 using Debian's> >> kernel-package system.> >>> >> BootP gets to the point of 'Booting into Linux...' and stops. No error
> >> message nothing, just halts where it is! If I change vmlinuz to point at> >the> >> old kernel it works fine.> >>> >> I'm obviously missing something but what?
> >>> >> My / links are:> >> lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root   25 May 28  2005 vmlinuz.old ->> >boot/vmlinuz-> >> 2.4.18-sun4u> >> lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root   32 Sep 14 15:39 vmlinuz -> boot/vmlinuz-
> >> 2.6.17.060914-sun4u> >>> >> My silo.conf is:> >> partition=1> >> root=/dev/hda1> >> timeout=100> >> image=1/vmlinuz> >> label=linux
> >> read-only> >>> >> My /boot is:> >> -rw-r--r--  1 root root  848101 Sep 14 15:23> >System.map-2.6.17.060914-sun4u> >> lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root   1 Jul 26  2005 boot -> .
> >> -rw-r--r--  1 root root   29349 Sep 14 14:08 config-2.6.17.060914-sun4u> >> lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root   1 Jul 26  2005 etc -> .> >> -rw-r--r--  1 root root1024 Jun 21 12:57 
fd.b> >> -rw-r--r--  1 root root 512 Jun 21 12:57 first.b> >> -rw-r--r--  1 root root1024 Jun 21 12:57 generic.b> >> -rw-r--r--  1 root root 692 Jun 21 12:57 ieee32.b
> >> -rw-r--r--  1 root root6928 Jun 21 12:57 isofs.b> >> -rw-r--r--  1 root root7680 May 28  2005 old.b> >> -rw-r--r--  1 root root   62976 Jul 28 09:45 second.b> >> -rw-r--r--  1 root root  78 Feb  2  2006 
silo.conf> >> -rw-r--r--  1 root root   60829 Jun 21 12:57 silotftp.b> >> -rw-r--r--  1 root root 512 Jun 21 12:57 ultra.b> >> -rw-r--r--  1 root root 1379575 May 28  2005 vmlinuz-2.4.18-sun4u
> >> -rw-r--r--  1 root root 1452906 Sep 14 15:23 vmlinuz-2.6.17.060914-sun4u> >>> >> and /etc/fstab is:> >> /dev/hda1   /   ext3errors=remount-ro   0
> >1> >> /dev/hda2   noneswapsw  0> >0> >> proc/proc   procdefaults0> >0> >> /dev/fd0/floppy autouser,noauto 0
> >0> >> /dev/cdrom  /cdrom  iso9660 ro,user,noauto  0> >0> >>> >> If you need any other info to help, please let me know.> >>
> >> TIA> >>> >> John> >

Re: Installing new kernel 2.6.17 on Ultra5

[Roman Shakin]

www.backports.com read it do it... also why exactly are you upgrading the
kernel ? 2.4 is alot more stable for sparc atleast... I have a ultra 5 and
I've had issues with 2.6 version kernels. backports have the 2.6 testing
kernel on them somewhere you will be able to upgrade it using aptitude or apt 


--Roman

On Fri, Sep 15, 2006, John wrote:

> Can you point me in the right direction/url, Roman?
> 
> 
> On 9/15/06, Roman Shakin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> >Why dont you try using the backports package, i've tried compiling the
> >kernel
> >before and it has not worked, but my problem was with Adaptec drivers.
> >
> >--Roman
> >
> >On Fri, Sep 15, 2006, John wrote:
> >
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> I have just compiled a new kernel for my Ultra5 using Debian's
> >> kernel-package system.
> >>
> >> BootP gets to the point of 'Booting into Linux...' and stops. No error
> >> message nothing, just halts where it is! If I change vmlinuz to point at
> >the
> >> old kernel it works fine.
> >>
> >> I'm obviously missing something but what?
> >>
> >> My / links are:
> >> lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root   25 May 28  2005 vmlinuz.old ->
> >boot/vmlinuz-
> >> 2.4.18-sun4u
> >> lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root   32 Sep 14 15:39 vmlinuz -> boot/vmlinuz-
> >> 2.6.17.060914-sun4u
> >>
> >> My silo.conf is:
> >> partition=1
> >> root=/dev/hda1
> >> timeout=100
> >> image=1/vmlinuz
> >> label=linux
> >> read-only
> >>
> >> My /boot is:
> >> -rw-r--r--  1 root root  848101 Sep 14 15:23
> >System.map-2.6.17.060914-sun4u
> >> lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root   1 Jul 26  2005 boot -> .
> >> -rw-r--r--  1 root root   29349 Sep 14 14:08 config-2.6.17.060914-sun4u
> >> lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root   1 Jul 26  2005 etc -> .
> >> -rw-r--r--  1 root root1024 Jun 21 12:57 fd.b
> >> -rw-r--r--  1 root root 512 Jun 21 12:57 first.b
> >> -rw-r--r--  1 root root1024 Jun 21 12:57 generic.b
> >> -rw-r--r--  1 root root 692 Jun 21 12:57 ieee32.b
> >> -rw-r--r--  1 root root6928 Jun 21 12:57 isofs.b
> >> -rw-r--r--  1 root root7680 May 28  2005 old.b
> >> -rw-r--r--  1 root root   62976 Jul 28 09:45 second.b
> >> -rw-r--r--  1 root root  78 Feb  2  2006 silo.conf
> >> -rw-r--r--  1 root root   60829 Jun 21 12:57 silotftp.b
> >> -rw-r--r--  1 root root 512 Jun 21 12:57 ultra.b
> >> -rw-r--r--  1 root root 1379575 May 28  2005 vmlinuz-2.4.18-sun4u
> >> -rw-r--r--  1 root root 1452906 Sep 14 15:23 vmlinuz-2.6.17.060914-sun4u
> >>
> >> and /etc/fstab is:
> >> /dev/hda1   /   ext3errors=remount-ro   0
> >1
> >> /dev/hda2   noneswapsw  0
> >0
> >> proc/proc   procdefaults0
> >0
> >> /dev/fd0/floppy autouser,noauto 0
> >0
> >> /dev/cdrom  /cdrom  iso9660 ro,user,noauto  0
> >0
> >>
> >> If you need any other info to help, please let me know.
> >>
> >> TIA
> >>
> >> John
> >


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Re: Installing new kernel 2.6.17 on Ultra5

[John]

Can you point me in the right direction/url, Roman?On 9/15/06, Roman Shakin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Why dont you try using the backports package, i've tried compiling the kernelbefore and it has not worked, but my problem was with Adaptec drivers.
--RomanOn Fri, Sep 15, 2006, John wrote:> Hi,>> I have just compiled a new kernel for my Ultra5 using Debian's> kernel-package system.>> BootP gets to the point of 'Booting into Linux...' and stops. No error
> message nothing, just halts where it is! If I change vmlinuz to point at the> old kernel it works fine.>> I'm obviously missing something but what?>> My / links are:> lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root   25 May 28  2005 
vmlinuz.old -> boot/vmlinuz-> 2.4.18-sun4u> lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root   32 Sep 14 15:39 vmlinuz -> boot/vmlinuz-> 2.6.17.060914-sun4u>> My silo.conf is:> partition=1> root=/dev/hda1
> timeout=100> image=1/vmlinuz> label=linux> read-only>> My /boot is:> -rw-r--r--  1 root root  848101 Sep 14 15:23 System.map-2.6.17.060914-sun4u> lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root   1 Jul 26  2005 boot -> .
> -rw-r--r--  1 root root   29349 Sep 14 14:08 config-2.6.17.060914-sun4u> lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root   1 Jul 26  2005 etc -> .> -rw-r--r--  1 root root1024 Jun 21 12:57 fd.b> -rw-r--r--  1 root root 512 Jun 21 12:57 
first.b> -rw-r--r--  1 root root1024 Jun 21 12:57 generic.b> -rw-r--r--  1 root root 692 Jun 21 12:57 ieee32.b> -rw-r--r--  1 root root6928 Jun 21 12:57 isofs.b> -rw-r--r--  1 root root7680 May 28  2005 
old.b> -rw-r--r--  1 root root   62976 Jul 28 09:45 second.b> -rw-r--r--  1 root root  78 Feb  2  2006 silo.conf> -rw-r--r--  1 root root   60829 Jun 21 12:57 silotftp.b> -rw-r--r--  1 root root 512 Jun 21 12:57 
ultra.b> -rw-r--r--  1 root root 1379575 May 28  2005 vmlinuz-2.4.18-sun4u> -rw-r--r--  1 root root 1452906 Sep 14 15:23 vmlinuz-2.6.17.060914-sun4u>> and /etc/fstab is:> /dev/hda1   /   ext3errors=remount-ro   0   1
> /dev/hda2   noneswapsw  0   0> proc/proc   procdefaults0   0> /dev/fd0/floppy autouser,noauto 0   0
> /dev/cdrom  /cdrom  iso9660 ro,user,noauto  0   0>> If you need any other info to help, please let me know.>> TIA>> John

Re: Installing new kernel 2.6.17 on Ultra5

[Roman Shakin]

Why dont you try using the backports package, i've tried compiling the kernel
before and it has not worked, but my problem was with Adaptec drivers. 

--Roman

On Fri, Sep 15, 2006, John wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I have just compiled a new kernel for my Ultra5 using Debian's
> kernel-package system.
> 
> BootP gets to the point of 'Booting into Linux...' and stops. No error
> message nothing, just halts where it is! If I change vmlinuz to point at the
> old kernel it works fine.
> 
> I'm obviously missing something but what?
> 
> My / links are:
> lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root   25 May 28  2005 vmlinuz.old -> boot/vmlinuz-
> 2.4.18-sun4u
> lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root   32 Sep 14 15:39 vmlinuz -> boot/vmlinuz-
> 2.6.17.060914-sun4u
> 
> My silo.conf is:
> partition=1
> root=/dev/hda1
> timeout=100
> image=1/vmlinuz
> label=linux
> read-only
> 
> My /boot is:
> -rw-r--r--  1 root root  848101 Sep 14 15:23 System.map-2.6.17.060914-sun4u
> lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root   1 Jul 26  2005 boot -> .
> -rw-r--r--  1 root root   29349 Sep 14 14:08 config-2.6.17.060914-sun4u
> lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root   1 Jul 26  2005 etc -> .
> -rw-r--r--  1 root root1024 Jun 21 12:57 fd.b
> -rw-r--r--  1 root root 512 Jun 21 12:57 first.b
> -rw-r--r--  1 root root1024 Jun 21 12:57 generic.b
> -rw-r--r--  1 root root 692 Jun 21 12:57 ieee32.b
> -rw-r--r--  1 root root6928 Jun 21 12:57 isofs.b
> -rw-r--r--  1 root root7680 May 28  2005 old.b
> -rw-r--r--  1 root root   62976 Jul 28 09:45 second.b
> -rw-r--r--  1 root root  78 Feb  2  2006 silo.conf
> -rw-r--r--  1 root root   60829 Jun 21 12:57 silotftp.b
> -rw-r--r--  1 root root 512 Jun 21 12:57 ultra.b
> -rw-r--r--  1 root root 1379575 May 28  2005 vmlinuz-2.4.18-sun4u
> -rw-r--r--  1 root root 1452906 Sep 14 15:23 vmlinuz-2.6.17.060914-sun4u
> 
> and /etc/fstab is:
> /dev/hda1   /   ext3errors=remount-ro   0   1
> /dev/hda2   noneswapsw  0   0
> proc/proc   procdefaults0   0
> /dev/fd0/floppy autouser,noauto 0   0
> /dev/cdrom  /cdrom  iso9660 ro,user,noauto  0   0
> 
> If you need any other info to help, please let me know.
> 
> TIA
> 
> John


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Installing new kernel 2.6.17 on Ultra5

[John]

Hi,I have just compiled a new kernel for my Ultra5 using Debian's kernel-package system.BootP gets to the point of 'Booting into Linux...' and stops. No error message nothing, just halts where it is! If I change vmlinuz to point at the old kernel it works fine.
I'm obviously missing something but what?My / links are:lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root   25 May 28  2005 vmlinuz.old -> boot/vmlinuz-2.4.18-sun4ulrwxrwxrwx  1 root root   32 Sep 14 15:39 vmlinuz -> boot/vmlinuz-
2.6.17.060914-sun4uMy silo.conf is:partition=1root=/dev/hda1timeout=100image=1/vmlinuzlabel=linuxread-onlyMy /boot is:-rw-r--r--  1 root root  848101 Sep 14 15:23 System.map-2.6.17.060914-sun4u
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root   1 Jul 26  2005 boot -> .-rw-r--r--  1 root root   29349 Sep 14 14:08 config-2.6.17.060914-sun4ulrwxrwxrwx  1 root root   1 Jul 26  2005 etc -> .-rw-r--r--  1 root root    1024 Jun 21 12:57 
fd.b-rw-r--r--  1 root root 512 Jun 21 12:57 first.b-rw-r--r--  1 root root    1024 Jun 21 12:57 generic.b-rw-r--r--  1 root root 692 Jun 21 12:57 ieee32.b-rw-r--r--  1 root root    6928 Jun 21 12:57 
isofs.b-rw-r--r--  1 root root    7680 May 28  2005 old.b-rw-r--r--  1 root root   62976 Jul 28 09:45 second.b-rw-r--r--  1 root root  78 Feb  2  2006 silo.conf-rw-r--r--  1 root root   60829 Jun 21 12:57 
silotftp.b-rw-r--r--  1 root root 512 Jun 21 12:57 ultra.b-rw-r--r--  1 root root 1379575 May 28  2005 vmlinuz-2.4.18-sun4u-rw-r--r--  1 root root 1452906 Sep 14 15:23 vmlinuz-2.6.17.060914-sun4uand /etc/fstab is:
/dev/hda1   /   ext3    errors=remount-ro   0   1/dev/hda2   none    swap    sw  0   0proc    /proc   proc    defaults    0   0
/dev/fd0    /floppy auto    user,noauto 0   0/dev/cdrom  /cdrom  iso9660 ro,user,noauto  0   0If you need any other info to help, please let me know.
TIAJohn

Re: Silo, Lilo, Grub and a new kernel

[Vincent Pelletier]

Le mercredi 16 août 2006 10:27, Daniel Liikamaa a écrit :
> You can't run lilo on a sparc, silo is the sparc alternative, so to
> speak.
> And as for your question; you just relink vmlinuz to your new kernel and
> reboot. Silo works a little bit like grub, you don't have to reinstall
> the boot sector every time you upgrade your kernel.

Just to mention it, I've started a sparc64-ieee1275 grub 2 port. It's not 
usable yet, sadly, and I haven't worked on it for some time.
For now I can just boot grub using netboot (it lacks a disk install 
system), "use" grub 2 (module loading, command line, ...) and cannot boot any 
OS (err... bootloader ? Ah, nevermind :) ).

If anyone want to contribute, you're welcome on #grub irc channel on freenode 
(I'm sometimes there...).

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Re: Silo, Lilo, Grub and a new kernel

[John]

Thanks to all of you for your help.JohnOn 8/16/06, Daniel J. Priem <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
After all this comments my question is:Does nobody use make-kpkg from kernel-package? This tool will handle all
for you. why do something like make install or similar? you have by handto remove all the files wenn removing the kernel etc... with a deb allthis is done automatic.Daniel"Jurzitza, Dieter" <
[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:> Hi John,> you should also not forget to do a>> strip -R .comment,.note vmlinux>> prior to the
>> gzip -c vmlinux > vmlinuz>> in order to reduce kernel size twice. On some systems you might otherwise run into kernel size problems. You've been warned :-)> Take care>>
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Re: Silo, Lilo, Grub and a new kernel

[Daniel J. Priem]

After all this comments my question is:

Does nobody use make-kpkg from kernel-package? This tool will handle all
for you. why do something like make install or similar? you have by hand
to remove all the files wenn removing the kernel etc... with a deb all
this is done automatic.

Daniel


"Jurzitza, Dieter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Hi John,
> you should also not forget to do a
>
> strip -R .comment,.note vmlinux
>
> prior to the
>
> gzip -c vmlinux > vmlinuz
>
> in order to reduce kernel size twice. On some systems you might otherwise run 
> into kernel size problems. You've been warned :-)
> Take care
>
>
>
> Dieter


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AW: Silo, Lilo, Grub and a new kernel

[Jurzitza, Dieter]

Hi John,
you should also not forget to do a

strip -R .comment,.note vmlinux

prior to the

gzip -c vmlinux > vmlinuz

in order to reduce kernel size twice. On some systems you might otherwise run 
into kernel size problems. You've been warned :-)
Take care



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> Gesendet: Mittwoch, 16. August 2006 10:16
> An: John
> Cc: debian-sparc@lists.debian.org
> Betreff: Re: Silo, Lilo, Grub and a new kernel
> 
> 
> edit /boot/silo.conf and include it there or just try  
*
> > I have an Ultra 5 running Debian Etch on 2.4.18. It uses 
> Silo as I've 
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Re: Silo, Lilo, Grub and a new kernel

[Daniel J. Priem]

edit /boot/silo.conf and include it there or just try  at the silo
prompt



example:

root=/dev/sda2  # check the setting / dont change it :)
partition=1
default=Linux  # so always your standard kernel will be booted
read-only
timeout=50

#This is your 2.4.18
image=/vmlinuz  #symlink to your 2.4 kernel
label=Linux
#here some initrd? i dont know

image=/vmlinuz-2.6.selfbuilt   #check the name
label=Linux26
initrd=/initrd.img268 # if you have a initrd under your homebuilt 2.6


John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Hi,
>
> I have an Ultra 5 running Debian Etch on 2.4.18. It uses Silo as I've never
> been game to change it to Lilo or Grub on the basis 'if it aint broke, don't
> fix it!'
>
> I've just compiled and installed a brand new kernel 2.6.16. (vmlinuz is
> still pointing at 2.4.18)
>
> Q. How do I get Silo to offer me the choice of kernel on boot? (I don't want
> to be left hung out to dry if my new kernel has a panic)
>
> TIA
>
> John


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Re: Silo, Lilo, Grub and a new kernel

[Daniel Liikamaa]

On ons, 2006-08-16 at 18:05 +1000, John wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have an Ultra 5 running Debian Etch on 2.4.18. It uses Silo as I've
> never been game to change it to Lilo or Grub on the basis 'if it aint
> broke, don't fix it!'
> 
> I've just compiled and installed a brand new kernel 2.6.16. (vmlinuz
> is still pointing at 2.4.18)
> 
> Q. How do I get Silo to offer me the choice of kernel on boot? (I
> don't want to be left hung out to dry if my new kernel has a panic)
> 
> TIA
> 
> John

You can't run lilo on a sparc, silo is the sparc alternative, so to
speak.
And as for your question; you just relink vmlinuz to your new kernel and
reboot. Silo works a little bit like grub, you don't have to reinstall
the boot sector every time you upgrade your kernel.
Oh, and you can gzip the kernel if you like, "make" on the sparc doesn't
do this itself, that's why the kernel it produces is called vmlinux and
not vmlinuz. :)

Hope this helped you.

//Daniel


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Hi,I have an Ultra 5 running Debian Etch on 2.4.18. It uses Silo as I've never been game to change it to Lilo or Grub on the basis 'if it aint broke, don't fix it!'I've just compiled and installed a brand new kernel 
2.6.16. (vmlinuz is still pointing at 2.4.18)Q. How do I get Silo to offer me the choice of kernel on boot? (I don't want to be left hung out to dry if my new kernel has a panic)TIAJohn

Re: New kernel-images?

[Mike Mestnik]

I had the same problem building my own 2.6 kernels, I used initrd and it seamed 
to work to have
every thing built as mod like on i386.

Keep up the good work.  I don't think i'l be building my own kernels, mainly 
because It takes so
long on an ultrasparc IIi.

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> On Sat, Jan 17, 2004 at 03:06:59AM -0800, Mike Mestnik wrote:
> > What do I need to do to help get some newer kernel images released for 
> > sparc?
> 
> Wait. I have new images ready, but they are getting too big for SILO to
> boot. So I am fixing SILO to be able to handle larger images.
> 
> Currently, even the 2.4.21-smp kernel package cannot be booted because
> of size.
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Re: New kernel-images?

[Ben Collins]

On Sat, Jan 17, 2004 at 03:06:59AM -0800, Mike Mestnik wrote:
> What do I need to do to help get some newer kernel images released for sparc?

Wait. I have new images ready, but they are getting too big for SILO to
boot. So I am fixing SILO to be able to handle larger images.

Currently, even the 2.4.21-smp kernel package cannot be booted because
of size.

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Re: New kernel 2.4.21 and Sparc

[Andreas Tille]

On Tue, 17 Jun 2003, Herbert Xu wrote:

> >kernel-image-2.4.19-sun4u(from stable)
  ^^
>
> Make sure you have modutils >= 2.4.19.  Those kernels are
> built with a relatively recent version (not in woody) of
> binutils which "requires" a new modutils.
Well this might be the reason.  Sorry, I'm not able to check because
the box in question went today into production.  I use to compile
kernels without modules (for security reasons) and as I said I
was successful here.  (By the way - would this mean I could remove
modutils completely?)

> Fortunately those errors are harmless so you should just say
> no when the postinst asks you to abort.
Hmm, this might work but I would regard it as RC bug because
kernel-image-2.4.19-sun4u is not installable in stable.  It should
depend from a working modutils package and this package has to go
into stable.

I would like to file a bug report if noone instists.

Kind regards

Andreas.

Re: New kernel 2.4.21 and Sparc

[Herbert Xu]

Andreas Tille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> personal problem is solved.  This does not solve the problem that
> 
>kernel-image-2.4.19-sun4u(from stable)
>kernel-image-2.4.21-sparc64  (from unstable)
> 
> throw these errors and I really have no idea what might cause this trouble.

Make sure you have modutils >= 2.4.19.  Those kernels are
built with a relatively recent version (not in woody) of
binutils which "requires" a new modutils.

Fortunately those errors are harmless so you should just say
no when the postinst asks you to abort.
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Re: New kernel 2.4.21 and Sparc

[Kenneth Johansson]

On Tue, 2003-06-17 at 07:19, Elie De Brauwer wrote:
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> 
> On Monday 16 June 2003 19:33, Kenneth Johansson wrote:
> > On Mon, 2003-06-16 at 16:58, Elie De Brauwer wrote:
> > > I little quick response, the 2.4.21 package works perfectly on my Sun
> > > Blade 100, installed from the first time, loaded perfectly after reboot
> > >  after following the threads the past few days i think it has to be
> > > said that the kernel package can actually work
> >
> > Can you create and use a swapfile ??
> 
> Since i never used a swapfile it tried to create and use one, but it seems 
> that it fails, am I doing something wrong ? 

No you are doing it right.

> Or is there some other problem ?

Looks like it :(

Re: New kernel 2.4.21 and Sparc

[Elie De Brauwer]

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On Monday 16 June 2003 19:33, Kenneth Johansson wrote:
> On Mon, 2003-06-16 at 16:58, Elie De Brauwer wrote:
> > I little quick response, the 2.4.21 package works perfectly on my Sun
> > Blade 100, installed from the first time, loaded perfectly after reboot
> >  after following the threads the past few days i think it has to be
> > said that the kernel package can actually work
>
> Can you create and use a swapfile ??

Since i never used a swapfile it tried to create and use one, but it seems 
that it fails, am I doing something wrong ? 
Or is there some other problem ?


Kafka:~# dd if=/dev/zero of=/swapfile bs=1024 count=65536
65536+0 records in
65536+0 records out
67108864 bytes transferred in 3.052310 seconds (21986254 bytes/sec)
Kafka:~# mkswap /swapfile
Assuming pages of size 8192 (not 4096)
Setting up swapspace version 1, size = 67166 kB
Kafka:~# swapon /swapfile
swapon: /swapfile: Invalid argument


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Re: New kernel 2.4.21 and Sparc

[Eloy A. Paris]

On Fri, Jun 13, 2003 at 08:31:02PM -0400, Ben Collins wrote:
> > 
> > This is very confusing. What version of gcc shoud I be using to compile
> > kernels on the Sparc?
> 
> You can uninstall gcc-3.3. You compiled with the right version. I
> suspect you did something wrong though. Try my
> kernel-image-2.4.21-sparc64 package. If that works, use the
> /boot/config-2.4.21 as a starting point for compiling your own.

OK, your kernel-image-2.4.21-sparc64 worked just fine. I then went
back to compiling my own kernel with similar configuration to the one
you used for your kernel-image package but it still didn't work.

In an act of desesperation I ran "make mrproper", "make menuconfig"
again (setting the same options I had before) and build my kernel again
("make dep boot modules modules_install"). This time the thing worked.

So, I don't know exactly what was causing problems. Maybe it was
something that "make clean" was not fixing. Whatever it was it's gone,
and 2.4.21 seems to be a pretty good kernel on the Sparc.

Thanks for the help.

Cheers,

Eloy.-

Re: New kernel 2.4.21 and Sparc

[Kenneth Johansson]

On Mon, 2003-06-16 at 16:58, Elie De Brauwer wrote:

> I little quick response, the 2.4.21 package works perfectly on my Sun Blade 
> 100, installed from the first time, loaded perfectly after reboot  after 
> following the threads the past few days i think it has to be said that the 
> kernel package can actually work
> 

Can you create and use a swapfile ??

Re: New kernel 2.4.21 and Sparc

[Andreas Tille]

On Mon, 16 Jun 2003, Ben Collins wrote:

> > I failed compiling a working kernel fpr my UltraSparc 10, running stable and
> > egcs64.  Thus I tried this hint, but it also fails with the messages printed
> > in the end of this mail.  It is the same as I reported in this list with
> > subject  "Some issues with UltraSparc 10".
>
> Damn, what the hell have you built into this kernel?
Not me - you builded this image which failed.  I just obtained it from
Debian-Mirror!

> Do me a favor, build a kernel like this:
But now I'm able to get a working Kernel by compiling it myself using
xour /boot/config* as template by stripping the unnecessary parts.  I guess
my own compile failed because of including the wrong IDE driver. So *my*
personal problem is solved.  This does not solve the problem that

kernel-image-2.4.19-sun4u(from stable)
kernel-image-2.4.21-sparc64  (from unstable)

throw these errors and I really have no idea what might cause this trouble.

Kind regards

   Andreas.

Re: New kernel 2.4.21 and Sparc

[Elie De Brauwer]

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On Monday 16 June 2003 15:42, Andreas Tille wrote:
> On Fri, 13 Jun 2003, Ben Collins wrote:
> > I bet you compiled it with gcc-3.3. Upgraded the gcc and gcc-3.2
> > packages, and rebuild, or just install the kernel-image-2.4.21-sparc64
> > package.
>
> I failed compiling a working kernel fpr my UltraSparc 10, running stable
> and egcs64.  Thus I tried this hint, but it also fails with the messages
> printed in the end of this mail.  It is the same as I reported in this list
> with subject  "Some issues with UltraSparc 10".
>

I little quick response, the 2.4.21 package works perfectly on my Sun Blade 
100, installed from the first time, loaded perfectly after reboot  after 
following the threads the past few days i think it has to be said that the 
kernel package can actually work

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Re: New kernel 2.4.21 and Sparc

[Ben Collins]

On Mon, Jun 16, 2003 at 03:42:12PM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote:
> On Fri, 13 Jun 2003, Ben Collins wrote:
> 
> > I bet you compiled it with gcc-3.3. Upgraded the gcc and gcc-3.2
> > packages, and rebuild, or just install the kernel-image-2.4.21-sparc64
> > package.
> I failed compiling a working kernel fpr my UltraSparc 10, running stable and
> egcs64.  Thus I tried this hint, but it also fails with the messages printed
> in the end of this mail.  It is the same as I reported in this list with
> subject  "Some issues with UltraSparc 10".

Damn, what the hell have you built into this kernel?

Do me a favor, build a kernel like this:

cp arch/sparc64/defconfig .config
make-kpkg ...


That should work for you. When it does, change some options to suit your
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Re: New kernel 2.4.21 and Sparc

[Andreas Tille]

On Fri, 13 Jun 2003, Ben Collins wrote:

> I bet you compiled it with gcc-3.3. Upgraded the gcc and gcc-3.2
> packages, and rebuild, or just install the kernel-image-2.4.21-sparc64
> package.
I failed compiling a working kernel fpr my UltraSparc 10, running stable and
egcs64.  Thus I tried this hint, but it also fails with the messages printed
in the end of this mail.  It is the same as I reported in this list with
subject  "Some issues with UltraSparc 10".

Any hint

 Andreas.


Reading Package Lists...
Building Dependency Tree...
Selected version 29 (Debian:unstable) for kernel-image-2.4.21-sparc64
Sorry, kernel-image-2.4.21-sparc64 is already the newest version.
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0  not upgraded.
1 packages not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used.
Setting up kernel-image-2.4.21-sparc64 (29) ...
depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in 
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depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.4.21/kernel/drivers/block/nbd.o
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Re: New kernel 2.4.21 and Sparc

[Kenneth Johansson]

On Sat, 2003-06-14 at 15:13, Ben Collins wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 14, 2003 at 03:06:20PM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote:
> > On Fri, 13 Jun 2003, Ben Collins wrote:
> > 
> > > suspect you did something wrong though. Try my
> > > kernel-image-2.4.21-sparc64 package. If that works, use the
> > > /boot/config-2.4.21 as a starting point for compiling your own.
> > Any hint what would be the right compiler for a woody machine?
> 
> I have better than a hint, egcs64 package.

Typical I just upgraded my kernel and used "gcc (GCC) 3.2.3 (Debian)"
The result is actually running now what problems could I expect ??

The original reason for upgrading was that I noticed that the old
version I was running could not use swapfiles but that problem still
exist.

#mkswap .swapfile
Assuming pages of size 8192 (not 4096)
Setting up swapspace version 1, size = 8200 kB

# swapon .swapfile
swapon: .swapfile: Invalid argument

In syslog I get this 
Swap area shorter than signature indicates

Re: New kernel 2.4.21 and Sparc

[Ari Pollak]

I wish I had seen this thread before I rebooted into a 2.4.21 kernel 
compiled with gcc 3.3. The x86 kernel compiles fine with 3.3, I was 
under the assumption that sparc would be fine as well. Now I rebooted 
without access to the machine, and I can't bring it up into the backup 
kernel until Monday :(

BTW, I see no kernel-image-2.4.21 for sparc, where are they located?

Re: New kernel 2.4.21 and Sparc

[Ben Collins]

On Sat, Jun 14, 2003 at 03:06:20PM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote:
> On Fri, 13 Jun 2003, Ben Collins wrote:
> 
> > suspect you did something wrong though. Try my
> > kernel-image-2.4.21-sparc64 package. If that works, use the
> > /boot/config-2.4.21 as a starting point for compiling your own.
> Any hint what would be the right compiler for a woody machine?

I have better than a hint, egcs64 package.

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Re: New kernel 2.4.21 and Sparc

[Andreas Tille]

On Fri, 13 Jun 2003, Ben Collins wrote:

> suspect you did something wrong though. Try my
> kernel-image-2.4.21-sparc64 package. If that works, use the
> /boot/config-2.4.21 as a starting point for compiling your own.
Any hint what would be the right compiler for a woody machine?

Kind regards

Andreas.

Re: New kernel 2.4.21 and Sparc

[Eloy A. Paris]

On Fri, Jun 13, 2003 at 08:31:02PM -0400, Ben Collins wrote:

> You can uninstall gcc-3.3. You compiled with the right version. I
> suspect you did something wrong though. Try my
> kernel-image-2.4.21-sparc64 package. If that works, use the
> /boot/config-2.4.21 as a starting point for compiling your own.

Ok, will do that (on Monday, when I am back at work and can rescue the
box if something goes wrong.)

Thanks!

Eloy.-

Re: New kernel 2.4.21 and Sparc

[Ben Collins]

> $ strings vmlinux | grep gcc
> Linux version 2.4.21 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 3.2.3 (Debian)) #16 Fri 
> Jun 13 18:11:31 EDT 2003
> 
> This is very confusing. What version of gcc shoud I be using to compile
> kernels on the Sparc?

You can uninstall gcc-3.3. You compiled with the right version. I
suspect you did something wrong though. Try my
kernel-image-2.4.21-sparc64 package. If that works, use the
/boot/config-2.4.21 as a starting point for compiling your own.

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Re: New kernel 2.4.21 and Sparc

[Eloy A. Paris]

On Fri, Jun 13, 2003 at 06:37:34PM -0400, Ben Collins wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 13, 2003 at 05:55:38PM -0400, Eloy A. Paris wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Has anyone had problem booting the just-released 2.4.21 kernel on an
> > Ultra 5? Here it just hangs at:
[...]
> I bet you compiled it with gcc-3.3. Upgraded the gcc and gcc-3.2
> packages, and rebuild, or just install the kernel-image-2.4.21-sparc64
> package.

Hhmmm, I have all these gcc packages installed:

$ dpkg -l gcc* | grep ^.i
ii  gcc3.2-6  The GNU C compiler.
ii  gcc-2.95   2.95.4-17  The GNU C compiler.
ii  gcc-3.23.2.3-4The GNU C compiler
ii  gcc-3.2-base   3.2.3-4The GNU Compiler Collection (base package)
ii  gcc-3.33.3-3  The GNU C compiler
ii  gcc-3.3-base   3.3-3  The GNU Compiler Collection (base package)

But my default gcc is version 3.2.3, and my kernel was compiled with
this version:

$ strings vmlinux | grep gcc
Linux version 2.4.21 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 3.2.3 (Debian)) #16 Fri 
Jun 13 18:11:31 EDT 2003

This is very confusing. What version of gcc shoud I be using to compile
kernels on the Sparc?

Cheers,

Eloy.-

Re: New kernel 2.4.21 and Sparc

[Ben Collins]

On Fri, Jun 13, 2003 at 05:55:38PM -0400, Eloy A. Paris wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Has anyone had problem booting the just-released 2.4.21 kernel on an
> Ultra 5? Here it just hangs at:
> 
> Rebooting with command: boot
> Boot device: disk  File and args:
> SILO boot:
> 
> Remapping the kernel... done.
> Booting Linux...
> 
> Thanks God my silo.conf has a backup image (/vmlinux.old), so I was
> able to boot the previous kernel I had been running (2.4.19).
> 
> Kernel compiled on this same box, which runs Debian unstable.

I bet you compiled it with gcc-3.3. Upgraded the gcc and gcc-3.2
packages, and rebuild, or just install the kernel-image-2.4.21-sparc64
package.

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New kernel 2.4.21 and Sparc

[Eloy A. Paris]

Hi,

Has anyone had problem booting the just-released 2.4.21 kernel on an
Ultra 5? Here it just hangs at:

Rebooting with command: boot
Boot device: disk  File and args:
SILO boot:

Remapping the kernel... done.
Booting Linux...

Thanks God my silo.conf has a backup image (/vmlinux.old), so I was
able to boot the previous kernel I had been running (2.4.19).

Kernel compiled on this same box, which runs Debian unstable.

Thanks for any pointers.

Eloy.-

Re: New kernel images coming to unstable

[Arthur van Dorp]

Is it a good idea to use this kernel instead of the standard 2.4.18 in 
order to use RAID-1? Or are there more 'stable' prepacked kernels to use 
vor Sparc64?


Thanks

Arthur

Re: New kernel images coming to unstable

[David List]

On Fri, 6 Jun 2003, Joshua Uziel wrote:

>* David List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [030605 15:37]:
>> On Thu, 5 Jun 2003, Ben Collins wrote:
>>
>> >Based off of 2.4.21-rc7+patches.
>>
>> Has the hme ethernet lockup patch been used in these?
>
>Seems to be the case:
>http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=183044

Great. Thank you for your answer.

Best regards,
David List

Re: New kernel images coming to unstable

[Joshua Uziel]

* David List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [030605 15:37]:
> On Thu, 5 Jun 2003, Ben Collins wrote:
> 
> >Based off of 2.4.21-rc7+patches.
> 
> Has the hme ethernet lockup patch been used in these?

Seems to be the case:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=183044

Re: New kernel images coming to unstable

[David List]

On Thu, 5 Jun 2003, Ben Collins wrote:

>Based off of 2.4.21-rc7+patches.
..

Has the hme ethernet lockup patch been used in these?

Best regards,
David List

New kernel images coming to unstable

[Ben Collins]

Based off of 2.4.21-rc7+patches.

The package naming scheme has changed:

kernel-image-2.4.21-sparc32
kernel-image-2.4.21-sparc32-smp

kernel-image-2.4.21-sparc64
kernel-image-2.4.21-sparc64-smp

Not to mention there are also some udeb's for work I am doing on
debian-installer for sparc.

I have not tested the sparc32 kernels, so feel free to send feedback
about them. All kernels are built with the now default gcc-3.2.3 64-bit
enabled compiler (one compiler for all kernels and userspace...yay!).


Don't expect to really see these for a day or two as they make their
way to the mirrors. Just a heads up.

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Problem new kernel 2.4.19

[Andrea Dettori]

Hi all,


when hi build new kernel 2.4.19 into Netra X1 with debian/woody, hi
recive this error message:

sysctl_net_unix.c:1: parse error at null character
make[3]: *** [sysctl_net_unix.o] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.19/net/unix'
make[2]: *** [first_rule] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.19/net/unix'
make[1]: *** [_subdir_unix] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.19/net'
make: *** [_dir_net] Error 2


any help please?

thank to all


Andrea

Re: How to install a new kernel?

[Ben Collins]

On Wed, Aug 14, 2002 at 01:58:08PM -0400, Eloy A. Paris wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 14, 2002 at 01:41:55PM -0400, Ben Collins wrote:
> 
> > I have 2.4.19 sun4u deb's built and ready to upload. Might not want to
> > waste time with it. Not only is it 2.4.19, but it contains one extra
> > surprise patch, which I'll announce once I have it tested.
> 
> I am sorry, I haven't been following, but, is there anything wrong with
> 2.4.19 on sparc64? I am happily running 2.4.19rc1 and was considering to
> upgrade to 2.4.19.

Not really. This is more a a bonus patch than a fixup patch.

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Re: How to install a new kernel?

[Eloy A. Paris]

On Wed, Aug 14, 2002 at 01:41:55PM -0400, Ben Collins wrote:

> I have 2.4.19 sun4u deb's built and ready to upload. Might not want to
> waste time with it. Not only is it 2.4.19, but it contains one extra
> surprise patch, which I'll announce once I have it tested.

I am sorry, I haven't been following, but, is there anything wrong with
2.4.19 on sparc64? I am happily running 2.4.19rc1 and was considering to
upgrade to 2.4.19.

Cheers,

Eloy.-

Re: How to install a new kernel?

[Ben Collins]

On Wed, Aug 14, 2002 at 11:28:10AM -0400, Rob Radez wrote:
> With all these people suggesting kernel-package, I thought I'd just plug my 
> own
> kernel packages, available at http://osinvestor.com/sparc/ .  They're only for
> sparc32 at this point, but I'm at LinuxWorld right now without access to most
> of my home machines.  When I get back home, I'll make and upload a 2.4.20-pre2
> set of packages, and remake 2.4.19 with a couple CONFIG_ options turned on 
> that
> people requested.

I have 2.4.19 sun4u deb's built and ready to upload. Might not want to
waste time with it. Not only is it 2.4.19, but it contains one extra
surprise patch, which I'll announce once I have it tested.

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Re: How to install a new kernel?

[Rob Radez]

With all these people suggesting kernel-package, I thought I'd just plug my own
kernel packages, available at http://osinvestor.com/sparc/ .  They're only for
sparc32 at this point, but I'm at LinuxWorld right now without access to most
of my home machines.  When I get back home, I'll make and upload a 2.4.20-pre2
set of packages, and remake 2.4.19 with a couple CONFIG_ options turned on that
people requested.

Regards,
Rob Radez

Re: How to install a new kernel?

[Ottavio Campana]

> Apparently there is no make bzImage in a Sparc.

why don't you use make-kpkg? Try to install the package kernel-package.

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Re: How to install a new kernel?

[Ben Collins]

On Wed, Aug 14, 2002 at 11:32:35AM +0200, Benoit Panizzon wrote:
> Hi all
> 
> This is probably a stupid newbie question, but it's the first time I 
> install Debian on a sparc and I could not find any hint in the Kernel 
> Readme.
> 
> Apparently there is no make bzImage in a Sparc.
> 
> So I read the docs I found and tryed to figure out how silo loads the 
> kernel image.
> 
> What I did looked reasonable to me:
> 
> make vmlinux (and modules etc...)
> gzip vmlinux and call it vmlinuz.
> copy it to /boot/vmlinuz (where the 2.2 kernel from debian also resides)
> Copy System.map too.
> edit silo.conf and make it point to the new kernel.
> reboot.
> 
> But, Silo on the sparcstation 10 I use won't boot. Something about the 
> image not being in the right format, not fitting in a buffer or similar.
> 
> What's the right procedure to install a new kernel on a sparc4m then? As I 
> understood I don't need to execute silo like it is needed with lilo to tell 
> it the address on the disk.

Sounds to me like you compiled too much stuff into the kernel. Try
making some things modules.

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Re: How to install a new kernel?

[Joshua Uziel]

I second the kernel-package sentiment, but more on that in a bit...

* Benoit Panizzon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [020814 02:32]:
> Apparently there is no make bzImage in a Sparc.

Nope... "make vmlinux" is your friend on sparc.

> make vmlinux (and modules etc...)

Yep, just substitute in vmlinux... the rest is the same.

> gzip vmlinux and call it vmlinuz.

No need to do this.  Sparc can boot an uncompressed kernel.  The big
difference is the disk space it takes.  I don't compress my kernels.

> copy it to /boot/vmlinuz (where the 2.2 kernel from debian also resides)
> Copy System.map too.

I usually copy 'em as /boot/vmlinuz-x.y.z and /boot/System.map-x.y.z
when I do things by hand.

> edit silo.conf and make it point to the new kernel.
> reboot.

Yep, and I'm glad you know that running "silo" is not necesary.

> But, Silo on the sparcstation 10 I use won't boot. Something about the 
> image not being in the right format, not fitting in a buffer or similar.

Are you building too much stuff into the kernel?  There's a size limit
on how big the image can be, but I'm not sure of it off-hand.  Just make
more things be modules.

> What's the right procedure to install a new kernel on a sparc4m then? As I 
> understood I don't need to execute silo like it is needed with lilo to tell 
> it the address on the disk.

Basically what's outlined above... it just sounds like you need to trim
down your kernel image's size a bit.  In Debian, there's a better way of
dealing with kernels:

1) apt-get install kernel-package ... if it isn't installed already
2) make {old,menu,x,}config ... whichever one you prefer
3) make-kpkg --revision=foobar.1 kernel_image
   This is the special step... this does almost everything for you after
   you have a decent kernel config, you run this and it builds a kernel
   deb for you.  Note the revision... I usually do "machine name dot
   some number"... or "kermit.1", etc.
4) cd .. and dpkg -i kernel-image-x.y.z_foobar.1_sparc.deb
5) make sure your /etc/silo.conf is in order... usually with the links
   to kernel images at /vmlinuz and /vmlinuz.old

Hope this helps.

Re: How to install a new kernel?

[jmt]

Use the Debian feature : kernel-package !



On Wednesday 14 August 2002 11:32, Benoit Panizzon wrote:
> Hi all
> 
> This is probably a stupid newbie question, but it's the first time I 
> install Debian on a sparc and I could not find any hint in the Kernel 
Readme.
> 
> Apparently there is no make bzImage in a Sparc.
> 
> So I read the docs I found and tryed to figure out how silo loads the 
> kernel image.
> 
> What I did looked reasonable to me:
> 
> make vmlinux (and modules etc...)
> gzip vmlinux and call it vmlinuz.
> copy it to /boot/vmlinuz (where the 2.2 kernel from debian also resides)
> Copy System.map too.
> edit silo.conf and make it point to the new kernel.
> reboot.
> 
> But, Silo on the sparcstation 10 I use won't boot. Something about the 
> image not being in the right format, not fitting in a buffer or similar.
> 
> What's the right procedure to install a new kernel on a sparc4m then? As I 
> understood I don't need to execute silo like it is needed with lilo to tell 
> it the address on the disk.
> 
> -Benoit-
> 
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How to install a new kernel?

[Benoit Panizzon]

Hi all

This is probably a stupid newbie question, but it's the first time I 
install Debian on a sparc and I could not find any hint in the Kernel Readme.


Apparently there is no make bzImage in a Sparc.

So I read the docs I found and tryed to figure out how silo loads the 
kernel image.


What I did looked reasonable to me:

make vmlinux (and modules etc...)
gzip vmlinux and call it vmlinuz.
copy it to /boot/vmlinuz (where the 2.2 kernel from debian also resides)
Copy System.map too.
edit silo.conf and make it point to the new kernel.
reboot.

But, Silo on the sparcstation 10 I use won't boot. Something about the 
image not being in the right format, not fitting in a buffer or similar.


What's the right procedure to install a new kernel on a sparc4m then? As I 
understood I don't need to execute silo like it is needed with lilo to tell 
it the address on the disk.


-Benoit-

Re: how to install new kernel

[hakubw00]

Quoting Thomas Duffy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:

> On Thu, 2001-09-13 at 12:06, Hakan Kuecuekyilmaz wrote:
> 
-snip
> > may I try it with /vmlinuz-2.4.9?
> 
> well, I don't see a /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.9-sun4u file, so yes, try with
> vmlinuz-2.4.9 only.  and vmlinuz is also pointing to an image that
> does
> not exist, namely vmlinuz-2.2.19...
> 
> -tduffy
> 
vmlinuz-2.4.9 is doing the thing. The package is named
kernel-image-2.4.9-sun4u, so I thought that I have to boot
vmlinuz-2.4.9-sun4u.
Well, now I messed upped my X, but that is another story.



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Re: how to install new kernel

[Thomas Duffy]

On Thu, 2001-09-13 at 12:06, Hakan Kuecuekyilmaz wrote:

> ll /boot says:
> 
> -rw-r--r--1 root root   363682 Aug 23 21:00 
> System.map-2.2.19-sun4u
> -rw-r--r--1 root root   434708 Aug 11 04:47 System.map-2.4.7
> -rw-r--r--1 root root   435851 Aug 30 21:46 System.map-2.4.9
> -rw-r--r--1 root root 1024 Aug 10 06:36 cd.b
> -rw-r--r--1 root root 5256 Aug 23 21:00 config-2.2.19-sun4u
> -rw-r--r--1 root root16660 Aug 11 04:01 config-2.4.7
> -rw-r--r--1 root root16836 Aug 30 21:07 config-2.4.9
> -rw-r--r--1 root root 1024 Aug 10 06:36 fd.b
> -rw-r--r--1 root root  512 Aug 10 06:36 first.b
> -rw-r--r--1 root root 1024 Aug 10 06:36 generic.b
> -rw-r--r--1 root root  844 Aug 10 06:36 ieee32.b
> drwxr-xr-x2 root root12288 Aug 23 20:39 lost+found
> -rw-r--r--1 root root 7680 Aug 23 20:58 old.b
> -rw-r--r--1 root root58880 Sep 13 19:21 second.b
> -rw-r--r--1 root root56490 Aug 10 06:36 silotftp.b
> -rw-r--r--1 root root  512 Aug 10 06:36 ultra.b
> lrwxrwxrwx1 root root   14 Aug 23 20:58 vmlinuz -> 
> vmlinuz-2.2.19
> -rw-r--r--1 root root  1245830 Aug 23 21:00 vmlinuz-2.2.19-sun4u
> -rw-r--r--1 root root  1342365 Aug 11 04:47 vmlinuz-2.4.7
> -rw-r--r--1 root root  1279799 Aug 30 21:46 vmlinuz-2.4.9



> may I try it with /vmlinuz-2.4.9?

well, I don't see a /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.9-sun4u file, so yes, try with
vmlinuz-2.4.9 only.  and vmlinuz is also pointing to an image that does
not exist, namely vmlinuz-2.2.19...

-tduffy