Re: quik/kernel interaction
flat view
From: Michel Lanners <hidden>
Date: 2000-08-08 20:46:19
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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Michel Lanners | " Read Philosophy. Study Art. 23, Rue Paul Henkes | Ask Questions. Make Mistakes. L-1710 Luxembourg | email mlan@cpu.lu | http://www.cpu.lu/~mlan | Learn Always. " ** Sent via the linuxppc-dev mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/