i have tried to upgrade my kernel from 2.2.15 to 2.2.17(test 5 and benh)
or 2.4.0. I am able to get the kernels to compile, but they won't
boot. I have modified my quik.conf file and reran quik. with any of
the new kernels I have made (I also made the existing 2.2.15 kernel), i
get the quik boot screen and select the kernel I wish to boot and the
screen goes to the "copying OF device tree....done", then says
'booting', but then it locks up. i never get the actual kernel to
load....at one point, i was getting a returning from prom_init message,
but I no longer get that message. I also at one point got messages
"Initializing Fake screen" and "Failed to get address", followed by a
"returning from prom_init" message...but the kernel never actually
loads...I have /boot on /dev/sda2 and have tried everything I can think
of to fix this. I have used multiple kernels as I thought the problem
was kernel related (first occured when I went to 2.4.0, that didn't
work, so I tried 2.2.17, that didn't work, so I got 2.2.17-benh, that
didn't work either). Since all these kernels are displaying the same
problem, I think I am doing something wrong, but I don't know
what....any assistance/offers/ideas are greatly appreciated...
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Hi Bill,
On 6 Aug, this message from Bill Jackson echoed through cyberspace:
i have tried to upgrade my kernel from 2.2.15 to 2.2.17(test 5 and benh)
or 2.4.0. I am able to get the kernels to compile, but they won't
boot. I have modified my quik.conf file and reran quik. with any of
the new kernels I have made (I also made the existing 2.2.15 kernel), i
get the quik boot screen and select the kernel I wish to boot and the
screen goes to the "copying OF device tree....done", then says
'booting', but then it locks up. i never get the actual kernel to
load....at one point, i was getting a returning from prom_init message,
but I no longer get that message. I also at one point got messages
"Initializing Fake screen" and "Failed to get address", followed by a
"returning from prom_init" message...but the kernel never actually
loads...
Occasionally, I had the same problem, but it was relatively random. It
could happen on one kernel, I would recompile it, and the problem would
be gone. Or I switched the box off for some time, retried, and now it
worked...
I would rather conclude on some strange phenomenon rather than a
straight bug somewhere. Possibly recent kernels, due to some code
changes like differences in execution time, reveal the problem more
often....
Unfortunately, I don't have a solution neither.... Note that I'm running
aome old version of quik that I had to modifiy to get it to boot my G3
processor upgrade card. There was a problem with the way the BAT regs
were set... No idea whether the fix Paulus sent me actually made its way
into the latest quik release.
Michel
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