Re: (Sparc64) 2.6.20 seems to ignore initramfs

2007-02-24 Thread Andrew Walrond
On Saturday 24 February 2007 15:23, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > On Feb 23 2007 15:47, Andrew Walrond wrote: > > > >I have tracked this down to a broken version of gnu cpio (latest release, > > 2.7) which was used to create the initramfs archive. Bloody annoying > > since this has bitten me before!

Re: (Sparc64) 2.6.20 seems to ignore initramfs

2007-02-24 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Feb 23 2007 15:47, Andrew Walrond wrote: >On Friday 23 February 2007 15:17, Tomasz Chmielewski wrote: >> >> Try to decrease the initramfs size just to know if it boots correctly. >> >> I.e., put just a sh/bash/ash/dash binary there (probably /dev/console >> node, too), executed in init. >> >>

Re: (Sparc64) 2.6.20 seems to ignore initramfs

2007-02-24 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Feb 23 2007 15:47, Andrew Walrond wrote: On Friday 23 February 2007 15:17, Tomasz Chmielewski wrote: Try to decrease the initramfs size just to know if it boots correctly. I.e., put just a sh/bash/ash/dash binary there (probably /dev/console node, too), executed in init. Then, try to

Re: (Sparc64) 2.6.20 seems to ignore initramfs

2007-02-24 Thread Andrew Walrond
On Saturday 24 February 2007 15:23, Jan Engelhardt wrote: On Feb 23 2007 15:47, Andrew Walrond wrote: I have tracked this down to a broken version of gnu cpio (latest release, 2.7) which was used to create the initramfs archive. Bloody annoying since this has bitten me before! Last time I

Re: (Sparc64) 2.6.20 seems to ignore initramfs

2007-02-23 Thread Andrew Walrond
On Friday 23 February 2007 15:17, Tomasz Chmielewski wrote: > > Try to decrease the initramfs size just to know if it boots correctly. > > I.e., put just a sh/bash/ash/dash binary there (probably /dev/console > node, too), executed in init. > > Then, try to start the kernel with initramfs embedded

Re: (Sparc64) 2.6.20 seems to ignore initramfs

2007-02-23 Thread Tomasz Chmielewski
Andrew Walrond schrieb: On Friday 23 February 2007 13:32, Tomasz Chmielewski wrote: Andrew Walrond schrieb: On a Sun T1000 I am trying to boot 2.6.20 using initramfs. (I use the same procedure successfully on x86_64 and itanium2 servers). The relevent silo section looks like this:

Re: (Sparc64) 2.6.20 seems to ignore initramfs

2007-02-23 Thread Andrew Walrond
On Friday 23 February 2007 13:32, Tomasz Chmielewski wrote: > Andrew Walrond schrieb: > > On a Sun T1000 I am trying to boot 2.6.20 using initramfs. (I use the > > same procedure successfully on x86_64 and itanium2 servers). > > > > The relevent silo section looks like this: > > > >

Re: (Sparc64) 2.6.20 seems to ignore initramfs

2007-02-23 Thread Tomasz Chmielewski
Andrew Walrond schrieb: On a Sun T1000 I am trying to boot 2.6.20 using initramfs. (I use the same procedure successfully on x86_64 and itanium2 servers). The relevent silo section looks like this: image=/boot/2.6.20.image label=2.6.20 initrd=/boot/2.6.20.initramfs

(Sparc64) 2.6.20 seems to ignore initramfs

2007-02-23 Thread Andrew Walrond
On a Sun T1000 I am trying to boot 2.6.20 using initramfs. (I use the same procedure successfully on x86_64 and itanium2 servers). The relevent silo section looks like this: image=/boot/2.6.20.image label=2.6.20 initrd=/boot/2.6.20.initramfs partition=2 read-only

(Sparc64) 2.6.20 seems to ignore initramfs

2007-02-23 Thread Andrew Walrond
On a Sun T1000 I am trying to boot 2.6.20 using initramfs. (I use the same procedure successfully on x86_64 and itanium2 servers). The relevent silo section looks like this: image=/boot/2.6.20.image label=2.6.20 initrd=/boot/2.6.20.initramfs partition=2 read-only

Re: (Sparc64) 2.6.20 seems to ignore initramfs

2007-02-23 Thread Tomasz Chmielewski
Andrew Walrond schrieb: On a Sun T1000 I am trying to boot 2.6.20 using initramfs. (I use the same procedure successfully on x86_64 and itanium2 servers). The relevent silo section looks like this: image=/boot/2.6.20.image label=2.6.20 initrd=/boot/2.6.20.initramfs

Re: (Sparc64) 2.6.20 seems to ignore initramfs

2007-02-23 Thread Andrew Walrond
On Friday 23 February 2007 13:32, Tomasz Chmielewski wrote: Andrew Walrond schrieb: On a Sun T1000 I am trying to boot 2.6.20 using initramfs. (I use the same procedure successfully on x86_64 and itanium2 servers). The relevent silo section looks like this: image=/boot/2.6.20.image

Re: (Sparc64) 2.6.20 seems to ignore initramfs

2007-02-23 Thread Tomasz Chmielewski
Andrew Walrond schrieb: On Friday 23 February 2007 13:32, Tomasz Chmielewski wrote: Andrew Walrond schrieb: On a Sun T1000 I am trying to boot 2.6.20 using initramfs. (I use the same procedure successfully on x86_64 and itanium2 servers). The relevent silo section looks like this:

Re: (Sparc64) 2.6.20 seems to ignore initramfs

2007-02-23 Thread Andrew Walrond
On Friday 23 February 2007 15:17, Tomasz Chmielewski wrote: Try to decrease the initramfs size just to know if it boots correctly. I.e., put just a sh/bash/ash/dash binary there (probably /dev/console node, too), executed in init. Then, try to start the kernel with initramfs embedded in the