Re: Linux 2.6.3 still doesn't boot on UltraSparc I

From: Ben Collins
Date: Mon Feb 23 2004 - 11:10:52 EST


On Mon, Feb 23, 2004 at 04:06:10PM +0100, Lucas Nussbaum wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 23, 2004 at 08:25:02AM -0500, Ben Collins <bcollins@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > So backing down to silo < 1.4.0 works with the new head.S on UltraSPARC
> > I? I don't think the problem itself is in head.S. Changing that would
> > force silo 1.4.x to not keep the kernel in high memory (would copy it
> > back down to 0x4000 where the old silo would have put it). I am guessing
> > the problem is elsewhere.
> >
> > Try this, keep the new head.S and newer SILO, and edit head.S so that
> > "HdrS version" is 0x202 instead of 0x300. See if that boots for you
> > (would confirm my suspicion).
>
> It boots correctly this way. What can we do to help now ?

Can you enable CONFIG_DEBUG_BOOTMEM and boot with "linux -p"?

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