Mailing List Archive: gentoo boot from disk freezes

gentoo boot from disk freezes

Nov 15, 2005, 6:12 PM

Post #1 of 3 (2175 views)

Hi All,

I installed gentoo on a SUN V210 using the 38MB LiveCD.
I did the setup exactly by
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-sparc-quickinstall.xml

I installed the 2.4.31-sparc kernel image which was obtained from the
livecd and silo installed fine too but at reboot i get the

Remapping the kernel... Done.

message and it freezes.... I made several kernel images but the same
situation unfortunatelly.

If I tell the livecd to boot with root=/dev/sda1 video=atyfb:off then the
system is booting fine and it's perfect.... but I would like to make my
own kernel running on that box.

I tried to put the initrd images and some other "append" things to
silo.conf as on the livecd but nothing's changed.

I checked /etc/inittab and /etc/runlevels but they're all seem to be fine
and if I boot from the LiveCD then it goes very well....
As I noticed, I don't get the Booting Linux. message. It freezes before
it's displayed. Maybe this help...

How can I get this problem done? Have you experienced such like that?

As workaround, how can i make my own sparc livecd with my own kernel?

Thank you,
Peter

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Re: gentoo boot from disk freezes [ In reply to ]

davem at redhat

Nov 15, 2005, 6:27 PM

Post #2 of 3 (2085 views)

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From: NADASI Peter <peter@citynet.hu>
Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2005 02:12:28 +0100 (CET)

> How can I get this problem done? Have you experienced such like that?

Many people hit this problem, the cause is unknown and until
a capable engineer gets their hands physically on a V210
or similar system that exhibits this problem it will never
get fixed.
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Re: gentoo boot from disk freezes [ In reply to ]

gustavoz at gentoo

Nov 15, 2005, 7:13 PM

Post #3 of 3 (2093 views)

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NADASI Peter wrote:

> I installed gentoo on a SUN V210 using the 38MB LiveCD.
> I did the setup exactly by
> http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-sparc-quickinstall.xml
> How can I get this problem done? Have you experienced such like that?
>
> As workaround, how can i make my own sparc livecd with my own kernel?

Switch to SILO 1.2.6 for the hard disk, for some reason that works on
UltraSPARC IIIi-based systems whereas newer ones don't.
Basically cp /boot/*.b from the livecd into the hard disk /boot and run
silo -f.

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