Bug#480310: [ixp4xx] armel NSLU2 fails to boot with 2.6.25

2008-05-31 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Martin Michlmayr [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2008-05-28 08:54]: * Kevin Price [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2008-05-27 07:45]: If lenny's freeze keeps apex from moving on: Will we need to ask the release manager? Yes, in theory we would; but it seems this package isn't frozen yet. ... okay, the new APEX

Bug#480310: [ixp4xx] armel NSLU2 fails to boot with 2.6.25

2008-05-28 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Kevin Price [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2008-05-27 07:45]: If lenny's freeze keeps apex from moving on: Will we need to ask the release manager? Yes, in theory we would; but it seems this package isn't frozen yet. -- Martin Michlmayr http://www.cyrius.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Bug#480310: [ixp4xx] armel NSLU2 fails to boot with 2.6.25

2008-05-17 Thread Martin Michlmayr
This has been fixed in version 2.6.25-3 of linux-image-2.6.25-2-ixp4xx which is now in unstable. Would be great if you (Paul, Kevin) could confirm it works. -- Martin Michlmayr http://www.cyrius.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble?

Bug#480310: [ixp4xx] armel NSLU2 fails to boot with 2.6.25

2008-05-17 Thread Kevin Price
Martin Michlmayr schrieb: This has been fixed in version 2.6.25-3 of linux-image-2.6.25-2-ixp4xx which is now in unstable. Would be great if you (Paul, Kevin) could confirm it works. Yes, confirmed. It works nicely for me. I re-flashed the old apex from debian, and set modules=most in

Bug#480310: [ixp4xx] armel NSLU2 fails to boot with 2.6.25

2008-05-17 Thread Paul Collins
Kevin Price [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Martin Michlmayr schrieb: This has been fixed in version 2.6.25-3 of linux-image-2.6.25-2-ixp4xx which is now in unstable. Would be great if you (Paul, Kevin) could confirm it works. Yes, confirmed. It works nicely for me. Works great here too.

Bug#480310: [ixp4xx] armel NSLU2 fails to boot with 2.6.25

2008-05-15 Thread Kevin Price
Kevin Price schrieb: Martin Michlmayr schrieb: The 2.6.26-rc2 test image is available from http://people.debian.org/~tbm/armel/kernel/r11383/ The fixed 2.6.25 package will be uploaded in the near future. At least the 2.6.26-rc2 makes my slug unbootable. Again, I need some time to hook the

Bug#480310: [ixp4xx] armel NSLU2 fails to boot with 2.6.25

2008-05-14 Thread Kevin Price
Martin Michlmayr schrieb: The 2.6.26-rc2 test image is available from http://people.debian.org/~tbm/armel/kernel/r11383/ The fixed 2.6.25 package will be uploaded in the near future. At least the 2.6.26-rc2 makes my slug unbootable. Again, I need some time to hook the serial console up to

Bug#480310: [ixp4xx] armel NSLU2 fails to boot with 2.6.25

2008-05-12 Thread Paul Collins
Martin Michlmayr [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: * Paul Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2008-05-12 09:15]: Nothing, I'm afraid; all 2.6.24. There was no disk activity when I restarted after installing 2.6.25. Judging by /usr/share/doc/nslu2-utils/README.Debian it didn't even get as far as starting

Bug#480310: [ixp4xx] armel NSLU2 fails to boot with 2.6.25

2008-05-12 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Paul Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2008-05-12 09:15]: Nothing, I'm afraid; all 2.6.24. There was no disk activity when I restarted after installing 2.6.25. Judging by /usr/share/doc/nslu2-utils/README.Debian it didn't even get as far as starting the initramfs. hmm, I'm not sure. Do you

Bug#480310: [ixp4xx] armel NSLU2 fails to boot with 2.6.25

2008-05-12 Thread Kevin Price
Hi! Martin Michlmayr schrieb: I just tried (on arm) and it works for me. CCing debian-arm. Anyone else seeing problems with 2.6.25? Yes, I can confirm this bug on armel. Thanks Martin fo CCing debian-arm. In order to reproduce this, I installed 2.6.25-1-ixp4xx_2.6.25-1_armel onto my

Bug#480310: [ixp4xx] armel NSLU2 fails to boot with 2.6.25

2008-05-12 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Kevin Price [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2008-05-12 13:40]: Yes, I can confirm this bug on armel. Thanks Martin fo CCing debian-arm. In order to reproduce this, I installed 2.6.25-1-ixp4xx_2.6.25-1_armel onto my otherwise complete lenny/armel slug. Since then it fails to boot. My slug does have a

Bug#480310: [ixp4xx] armel NSLU2 fails to boot with 2.6.25

2008-05-12 Thread Kevin Price
Martin Michlmayr schrieb: Cool, that'd be great! Here we go: Ethernet eth0: MAC address 00:14:bf:65:db:3d IP: 192.168.0.1/255.255.255.0, Gateway: 192.168.0.1 Default server: 0.0.0.0, DNS server IP: 0.0.0.0 RedBoot(tm) bootstrap and debug environment [ROMRAM]

Bug#480310: [ixp4xx] armel NSLU2 fails to boot with 2.6.25

2008-05-12 Thread Kevin Price
Martin Michlmayr schrieb: Can you show me the output of ls -l /boot Are you suspecting the initrd size? My /etc/initramfs-tools/initramfs.conf says MODULES=most, btw. ls -l /boot -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 748537 Apr 21 22:05 System.map-2.6.24-1-ixp4xx -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 762523 Apr 30

Bug#480310: [ixp4xx] armel NSLU2 fails to boot with 2.6.25

2008-05-12 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Kevin Price [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2008-05-12 15:37]: Cool, that'd be great! Here we go: Thanks. Can you show me the output of ls -l /boot -- Martin Michlmayr http://www.cyrius.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Bug#480310: [ixp4xx] armel NSLU2 fails to boot with 2.6.25

2008-05-12 Thread Kevin Price
Hi again! Problem spotted. Kevin Price schrieb: Are you suspecting the initrd size? My /etc/initramfs-tools/initramfs.conf says MODULES=most, btw. That was the cause. Chaning modules to dep created an initrd.img with a size of 2176130, which is less than half the size of -rw-r--r-- 1 root

Processed: Re: Bug#480310: [ixp4xx] armel NSLU2 fails to boot with 2.6.25

2008-05-12 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: retitle 480310 [ixp4xx] armel NSLU2 ramdisk too large Bug#480310: [ixp4xx] armel NSLU2 fails to boot with 2.6.25 Changed Bug title to `[ixp4xx] armel NSLU2 ramdisk too large' from `[ixp4xx] armel NSLU2 fails to boot with 2.6.25'. severity 480310

Bug#480310: [ixp4xx] armel NSLU2 fails to boot with 2.6.25

2008-05-12 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Kevin Price [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2008-05-12 15:54]: Are you suspecting the initrd size? Yes, while the NSLU2 has 6 MB for the ramdisk, APEX passes a parameter to the kernel saying the ramdisk is 4 MB, so everything after 4 MB is ignored. Your ramdisk is larger than 4 MB, which explains why the

Bug#480310: [ixp4xx] armel NSLU2 fails to boot with 2.6.25

2008-05-12 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Kevin Price [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2008-05-12 16:33]: ii flash-kernel 1.7utility to write kernel and initramfs I suggest moving this bug to package flash-kernel. Any objections? flash-kernel does the right thing, apex-nslu2 doesn't. Anyway, let's leave this bug open on the

Bug#480310: [ixp4xx] armel NSLU2 fails to boot with 2.6.25

2008-05-12 Thread Kevin Price
Martin Michlmayr schrieb: Kevin, since you have a serial console, are you interested in testing the patches in #451882 and #421359? Yes. My slug is now compiling apex-1.4.15 with the patch from #451882 (CONFIG_RAMDISK_SIZE=0x0050) I am curious if this solves this bug and I will let you

Bug#480310: [ixp4xx] armel NSLU2 fails to boot with 2.6.25

2008-05-12 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Kevin Price [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2008-05-12 17:43]: Kevin, since you have a serial console, are you interested in testing the patches in #451882 and #421359? Yes. My slug is now compiling apex-1.4.15 with the patch from #451882 (CONFIG_RAMDISK_SIZE=0x0050) I am curious if this solves

Bug#480310: [ixp4xx] armel NSLU2 fails to boot with 2.6.25

2008-05-12 Thread Kevin Price
Martin Michlmayr schrieb: You'll also need the patch from #421359, otherwise the new APEX is not written to flash. Yeah. I was thinking from a more low-level point of view and flashed the apex binary myself with the script. The result is good: The large initrd (modules=all) boots fine with

Bug#480310: [ixp4xx] armel NSLU2 fails to boot with 2.6.25

2008-05-12 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Kevin Price [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2008-05-12 18:36]: That was because I dislike the idea about the imaginary version 1.5.14. Is it more appropriate to name it something like 1.5.13+gf1 ? I'll give it a try. I suggest you use 1.5.14~test1; the ~ means that 1.5.14~xxx is smaller than 1.5.14, so

Bug#480310: [ixp4xx] armel NSLU2 fails to boot with 2.6.25

2008-05-11 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Paul Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2008-05-10 01:07]: Package: linux-image-2.6.25-1-ixp4xx Version: 2.6.25-1 After the usual initial lightshow, the NSLU2 sits there with only the Ethernet LED illuminated. I have initramfs-tools 0.92a and the initrd is 1.4MB, so I think that should be

Bug#480310: [ixp4xx] armel NSLU2 fails to boot with 2.6.25

2008-05-11 Thread Martin Michlmayr
Paul, can you check in /var/log on your hard drive to see if there's anything useful? -- Martin Michlmayr http://www.cyrius.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#480310: [ixp4xx] armel NSLU2 fails to boot with 2.6.25

2008-05-11 Thread Paul Collins
Martin Michlmayr [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Paul, can you check in /var/log on your hard drive to see if there's anything useful? Nothing, I'm afraid; all 2.6.24. There was no disk activity when I restarted after installing 2.6.25. Judging by /usr/share/doc/nslu2-utils/README.Debian it didn't

Bug#480310: [ixp4xx] armel NSLU2 fails to boot with 2.6.25

2008-05-09 Thread Paul Collins
Package: linux-image-2.6.25-1-ixp4xx Version: 2.6.25-1 After the usual initial lightshow, the NSLU2 sits there with only the Ethernet LED illuminated. I have initramfs-tools 0.92a and the initrd is 1.4MB, so I think that should be mustard. I'm running armel. I have no serial console, so I