Re: Linux kernel 3.18 and above does not boot on PC164

Hi all,

The PC164 specific 4.4.3 kernel is booting now :-)
The network interface is not present but this is secondary for now.

Thanks for the tip.

I try to find out which kernel patch introduced the error with the generic kernel configuration. This will take some time as every kernel build takes ~10 hours on this legacy machine ...

Best regards,
Juergen

Am 2. März 2016 10:27:21 MEZ, schrieb JB [off-list ref]:

OK, i give the pc164 specific kernel a try. Will report here if it
worked or not the next days ...

At least i am not alone with the issue :-)

Cheers, Juergen

Am 2. März 2016 09:09:52 MEZ, schrieb Michael Cree
[off-list ref]:

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On Tue, Mar 01, 2016 at 08:08:28PM +0100, JB wrote:

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i compiled the latest 3.14.62 kernel for my PC164 EV56 alpha system.

This works without any failures since kernel 3.6.4 and above.

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Unfortunately i cannot get the linux kernel 3.18 and above to boot

(the latest try today was a 4.4.3 Kernel).

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The last entries on the screen are:

###############################################
aboot: Linux/Alpha SRM bootloader version 1.0_pre20040408
aboot: switching to OSF/1 PALcode version 1.23
aboot: booting from device 'IDE 0 11 0 1 1 0 0'
aboot: valid disklabel found: 4 partitions.
aboot: loading compressed vmlinux-4.4.3.gz...
aboot: PHDR 0 vaddr 0xfffffc0001010000 offset 0x2000 size 0xebe3b8
aboot: bss at 0xfffffc0001ece3b8, size 0x179540
aboot: zero-filling 1545536 bytes at 0xfffffc0001ece3b8
aboot: starting kernel vmlinux-4.4.3.gz with arguments ro

root=/dev/sda4

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halted CPU 0

halt code = 6
double error halt
PC = fffffc00010324e4
boot failure
###############################################

Did i miss a new mandatory kernel config option for alpha or am i

the

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only one with this behaviour ?

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Hope you can help me a bit ...

This has also been noted for the debian-ports built generic kernel,
for kernel versions 4.3 and above.  They fail to boot with symptoms
exactly as shown above.

There is some speculation on the debian-alpha mail list that only
a kernel built for generic system is failing to boot.  I have not
been able to confirm that.

I managed to build a 4.3 dp264 variant kernel which boots okay on an
XP1000, but my attempts to build a 4.3 or 4.4 titan variant kernel
is failing with relocation errors such as:

arch/alpha/kernel/built-in.o: In function `osf_filldir':
arch/alpha/kernel/osf_sys.o:(.text+0x278c): relocation truncated to
fit: BRSGP against symbol `__copy_user' defined in .text section in
arch/alpha/lib/lib.a(ev6-copy_user.o)

so I have not got very far with exploring the problem.

Cheers
Michael.
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