From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Grant Grundler Subject: Re: [parisc-linux] Gentoo & PARisc Kernel broken? Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2005 00:51:02 -0700 Message-ID: <20051216075102.GA12934@colo.lackof.org> References: <912523912e0e.912e0e912523@shaw.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: parisc-linux@lists.parisc-linux.org To: Keven Tipping Return-Path: In-Reply-To: <912523912e0e.912e0e912523@shaw.ca> List-Id: parisc-linux developers list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: parisc-linux-bounces@lists.parisc-linux.org On Thu, Dec 15, 2005 at 10:58:42PM -0700, Keven Tipping wrote: > Greetings to all! > > I have a K370 here, all reasonable attempts to boot it have failed miserably. > The only thing that boots is the Gentoo 2005 Live CD and I have no clue why :(. > > Here is the bootup log. ... > 12. HP HSC-PCI Cards at 0xf1808000 [10/8] { 4, 0x0, 0x004, 0x0009d } > 13. Gecko BOA BC GSC+ Port at 0xf1810000 [10/16] { 7, 0x0, 0x500, 0x0000c } > 14. Gecko BOA BC HP-PB Port at 0xf1a3c000 [10/16/60] { 7, 0x0, 0x103, 0x0000c } > 15. U2-IOA BC GSC+ Port at 0xf183f000 [10/63] { 7, 0x1, 0x501, 0x0000c } > 16. U2-IOA BC Runway Port at 0xfff88000 [8] { 12, 0xf, 0x580, 0x0000b } > 17. Shrike Add-on FW-SCSI at 0xf1008000 [8/8] { 4, 0x1, 0x014, 0x00089 } > 18. HP HSC-PCI Cards at 0xf100c000 [8/12] { 4, 0x0, 0x004, 0x0009d } My first guess was the "HSC-PCI" cards are the root of some new problem... ... > Found GeckoBoa at 0xf1804000 > Found GeckoBoa at 0xf1810000 > Dino version 3.x (card mode) found at 0xf100c000 > Dino version 3.x (card mode) found at 0xf1808000 which are better known as "Card Mode Dino". But I don't think that's the case since I never saw evidence of tulip getting loaded nor any problem with configuring LAN. > * Calculating module dependencies ... [ ok ] > * Using /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6 as config: > * Loading module lasi_82596 ... [ ok ] Note that this LAN driver worked fine. Firmware programs the MMIO address range for this card. Any reason why tulip driver didn't get auto-loaded here? ... > * Bringing up eth0 > * 10.0.1.202 Which I expect to be the LASI NIC. ... > * Mounting network filesystems ... [ ok ] > Kernel panic - not syncing: Kernel Fault > > What happens here is that it sticks at "Mounting Network Filesystems". > If I press any key on my Serial console here, then it goes off and panics. Which suggests it's a problem with the Mux Driver somehow. I expect a "login:" prompt to be the next output. At one point there were issues with MUX driver keyboard input. Maybe those issues have resurfaced in a new way now. ... > I'm not sure whats wrong here, and rebooting this beast is a very long > process (20 minutes each time). > > Does anyone have any ideas? ... > I'd really like to run Linux on this mammoth somehow, but I've tried > everything I can think of with no sucssess (except the Gentoo Live CD, > but that doesn't really do anything other then let me setup the system > and compile a kernel). Start comparing the Gentoo Live CD kernel with the nearest revision from debian or otherwise that fails. MUX driver and serial support in particular. hth, grant _______________________________________________ parisc-linux mailing list parisc-linux@lists.parisc-linux.org http://lists.parisc-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/parisc-linux