Re: [parisc-linux] palo-1.4 broken on 32bit ?

[Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>]

On Tuesday 04 May 2004 21:46, James Bottomley wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-05-04 at 14:36, Helge Deller wrote:
> > after apt-get upgrading to palo_1.4_hppa.deb it seems, that palo-1.4 isn't able any longer to boot up a 32bit Linux kernel on a 32bit Machine.
> > I've run several tests on a B180L, and only after downgrading to palo-1.3 I was able to boot again.
> > 
> > Am I the only one seeing this problem ? 
> > Anyone maybe has an idea what has been changed ?
> 
> Well, it works just fine for me:
> 
> redscar:~# palo -v
> palo version 1.4 bame@c3k Fri Mar 26 16:18:35 MST 2004
> ELF32 executable
> Partition Start(MB) End(MB) Id Type
> 1               1     257   82 swap
> 2             258     277   f0 Palo
> 3             278    2045   83 ext2
> 4            2046    4094   83 ext2
> F0 partition start sector 527744 length 41230
> do_ra(1, 5, 3, -1, '3/boot/vmlinux initrd=3/boot/initrd.img
> root=/dev/sda3 HOME=/ console=ttyS0 console=tty0', 4, -1, 270204928,
> 21109760)
> check_bootloader 213
> checksum(0x2f2b0, 36864) = 0x00000000
> ipl: addr 270204928 size 36864 entry 0x0
>  ko 0x0 ksz 0 k64o 0x0 k64sz 0 rdo 0 rdsz 0
> <3/boot/vmlinux initrd=3/boot/initrd.img root=/dev/sda3 HOME=/
> console=ttyS0 console=tty0>
> check_bootloader 650
> checksum(0x262a8, 36864) = 0x00000000
> ipl: addr 270204928 size 36864 entry 0x0
>  ko 0x101f0000 ksz 3421952 k64o 0x0 k64sz 0 rdo 0 rdsz 0
> <3/boot/vmlinux initrd=3/boot/initrd.img root=/dev/sda3 HOME=/
> console=ttyS0 console=tty0>
> redscar:~# cat /proc/cpuinfo 
> processor       : 0
> cpu family      : PA-RISC 1.1e
> cpu             : PA7300LC (PCX-L2)
> cpu MHz         : 180.000000
> model           : 9000/778/B180L
> model name      : Merlin L2+ 180 (9000/778/B180L)
> hversion        : 0x00005040
> sversion        : 0x00000481
> I-cache         : 64 KB
> D-cache         : 64 KB (WB)
> ITLB entries    : 96
> DTLB entries    : 96 - shared with ITLB
> BTLB fixed      : max. 16384 pages, pagesize=4096 (64MB)
> BTLB fix-entr.  : 0 instruction, 0 data (8 combined)
> BTLB var-entr.  : 0 instruction, 0 data (0 combined)
> bogomips        : 119.60
> software id     : 2012752031
> 
> However, there have been several reports of intermittent failures with
> later versions of palo; if you could actually track the issue down, that
> would be greatly appreciated.
> 
> The current thought is that it's a command line issue (i.e. embedding a
> commmand line >128 characters in palo causes failures).

Ok, I will test this tomorrow (the machine is in the office)..

Thanks for the hint,
Helge