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List:       gentoo-sparc
Subject:    RE: [gentoo-sparc] Problem booting SPARC64 installcd on Blade2500systems
From:       "Leif Sawyer" <lsawyer () gci ! com>
Date:       2006-10-25 16:44:59
Message-ID: 38D04BF3A4B7B2499D19EB1DB54285EA034F4EC6 () FNB1EX01 ! gci ! com
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Max wrote:
> I am basing this diagnosis on the fact that I can boot any 
> kernel before version 2.6.14, which was when this change was 
> merged, with all more recent kernels (up to 
> git-sources-2.6.19_rc1-r3) failing with similar but random 
> error messages.  Whilst there were other changes which could 
> have caused this issue it seems like more than a coincidence 
> to me that this problem appeared in the same version as a 
> re-write of the SPARC64 boot-up sequence.  
 
I've had this same problem on my Ultra 2 for most of the newer
vanilla kernels, however 2.6.18-gentoo-1 at least works for me.

One thing I did do differently between the -vanilla and -gentoo
source configs  was to completely disable all kernel debugging
in the -gentoo build.

-Leif

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