niagara kernel boot problems

niagara kernel boot problems

[Brad Roberts]

I just got a t2000 from sun as part of their try/buy program partially due 
to the news about the successful linux bootup.  I've got to admit that I'm 
an extreme newbie to sun hardware and rather than learn my way around 
solaris I want to stick in the warm comfy zone of linux and debian-based 
distributions.

In the process of booting, I'm hitting a problem:

Sun Fire T200, No Keyboard
Copyright 2005 Sun Microsystems, Inc.  All rights reserved.
OpenBoot 4.19.0, 8184 MB memory installed, Serial #68096096.
Ethernet address 0:14:4f:f:10:60, Host ID: 840f1060.

Rebooting with command: boot net
Boot device: /pci@780/pci@0/pci@1/network@0  File and args: 
100 Mbps full duplex  Link up
Requesting Internet Address for 0:14:4f:f:10:60
/
Remapping the kernel... done.
Booting Linux...

[    0.000000] PROMLIB: Sun IEEE Boot Prom 'OBP 4.19.0 2005/10/27 17:24'             
[    0.000000] PROMLIB: Root node compatible: sun4v                                  
[    0.000000] Linux version 2.6.15-20-sparc64 (buildd@artigas) (gcc version 4.0.3 (Ubuntu 4.0.3-1ubuntu3)) #1 Tue Apr 4 17:55:03 UTC 2006                                               
[    0.000000] ARCH: SUN4V                                                           
[    0.000000] Ethernet address: 00:14:4f:0f:10:60                                   
[    0.000000] CPU[0]: Caches D[sz(8192):line_sz(32)] I[sz(16384):line_sz(32)] E[sz(3145728):line_sz(64)]                                                                                
[    0.000000] SUN4V: virtual-devices devhandle[100] 
... snip ...
[   11.107562] TCP bic registered
[   11.202201] NET: Registered protocol family 1
[   11.338121] NET: Registered protocol family 17
[   11.648468] Badness in proc_get_inode at fs/proc/inode.c:157
[   11.821338] Call Trace:
[   11.898036]  [00000000004a1ee0] __lookup_hash+0xe0/0x140
[   12.065575]  [00000000004a5128] open_namei+0x128/0x640
[   12.227346]  [00000000004924c0] filp_open+0x20/0x60
[   12.379717]  [0000000000492658] do_sys_open+0x38/0xe0
[   12.543989]  [0000000000406a14] linux_sparc_syscall32+0x34/0x40
[   12.739641]  [000000000003dd58] 0x3dd58
[   12.859043] SUN4V-DTLB: Error at TPC[4ca2bc], tl -268435400
[   13.024855] SUN4V-DTLB: vaddr[ffffffffffff0000] ctx[0] pte[800007ffffff0743] error[2]
Program terminated

full log here: http://www.puremagic.com/~braddr/t2000/boot-failure.txt

Can anyone shine some light or point me at what I failed to find through 
the usually rather trusty google?  Up to now, I've really only ever delt 
with x86 hardware.

Thanks,
Brad

Re: niagara kernel boot problems

[David S. Miller]

From: Brad Roberts <braddr@puremagic.com>
Date: Sun, 9 Apr 2006 22:40:41 -0700 (PDT)

> I just got a t2000 from sun as part of their try/buy program partially due 
> to the news about the successful linux bootup.  I've got to admit that I'm 
> an extreme newbie to sun hardware and rather than learn my way around 
> solaris I want to stick in the warm comfy zone of linux and debian-based 
> distributions.
> 
> In the process of booting, I'm hitting a problem:
...
> Can anyone shine some light or point me at what I failed to find through 
> the usually rather trusty google?  Up to now, I've really only ever delt 
> with x86 hardware.

Where in the world did you get the kernel from?

Nothing debian currently ships will work, Ubuntu (which is debian
based) does work, so please try the current Dapper Drake sparc install
images.

Re: niagara kernel boot problems

[Brad Roberts]

On Sun, 9 Apr 2006, David S. Miller wrote:

> From: Brad Roberts <braddr@puremagic.com>
> Date: Sun, 9 Apr 2006 22:40:41 -0700 (PDT)
> 
> > I just got a t2000 from sun as part of their try/buy program partially due 
> > to the news about the successful linux bootup.  I've got to admit that I'm 
> > an extreme newbie to sun hardware and rather than learn my way around 
> > solaris I want to stick in the warm comfy zone of linux and debian-based 
> > distributions.
> > 
> > In the process of booting, I'm hitting a problem:
> ...
> > Can anyone shine some light or point me at what I failed to find through 
> > the usually rather trusty google?  Up to now, I've really only ever delt 
> > with x86 hardware.
> 
> Where in the world did you get the kernel from?
> 
> Nothing debian currently ships will work, Ubuntu (which is debian
> based) does work, so please try the current Dapper Drake sparc install
> images.

Right.. I'm using the ubuntu kernel from here:

http://ports.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-ports/dists/dapper/main/installer-sparc/current/images/sparc64/netboot/2.6/boot.img

Notice the line:

[    0.000000] Linux version 2.6.15-20-sparc64 (buildd@artigas) (gcc version 4.0.3 (Ubuntu 4.0.3-1ubuntu3)) #1 Tue Apr 4 17:55:03 UTC 2006

from the boot.

Re: Fw: niagara kernel boot problems

[Fabio Massimo Di Nitto]

Hi David, thanks for the info.

David S. Miller wrote:
> This guy is getting an error we weren't getting before.
> 
> I think it's probably due to some non-sparc change to the ubuntu
> tree recently.  His machine is probably very bog standard just
> like your's and mine.
> 
> Please take a look and see if you can reproduce on your box.
> 
> 

> Right.. I'm using the ubuntu kernel from here:
> 
> http://ports.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-ports/dists/dapper/main/installer-sparc/current/images/sparc64/netboot/2.6/boot.img
> 
> Notice the line:
> 
> [    0.000000] Linux version 2.6.15-20-sparc64 (buildd@artigas) (gcc version 4.0.3 (Ubuntu 4.0.3-1ubuntu3)) #1 Tue Apr 4 17:55:03 UTC 2006
> 
> from the boot.

Brad could you be so kind to check the md5sum of the image?

931cfa6df882132e80c81ceabf3e248e

here and it boots just fine.

Thanks
Fabio

-- 
I'm going to make him an offer he can't refuse.

Re: Fw: niagara kernel boot problems

[Brad Roberts]

On Mon, 10 Apr 2006, Fabio Massimo Di Nitto wrote:

> Hi David, thanks for the info.
> 
> David S. Miller wrote:
> > This guy is getting an error we weren't getting before.
> > 
> > I think it's probably due to some non-sparc change to the ubuntu
> > tree recently.  His machine is probably very bog standard just
> > like your's and mine.
> > 
> > Please take a look and see if you can reproduce on your box.
> > 
> > 
> 
> > Right.. I'm using the ubuntu kernel from here:
> > 
> > http://ports.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-ports/dists/dapper/main/installer-sparc/current/images/sparc64/netboot/2.6/boot.img
> > 
> > Notice the line:
> > 
> > [    0.000000] Linux version 2.6.15-20-sparc64 (buildd@artigas) (gcc version 4.0.3 (Ubuntu 4.0.3-1ubuntu3)) #1 Tue Apr 4 17:55:03 UTC 2006
> > 
> > from the boot.
> 
> Brad could you be so kind to check the md5sum of the image?
> 
> 931cfa6df882132e80c81ceabf3e248e
> 
> here and it boots just fine.
> 
> Thanks
> Fabio

I did that before posting. :)

931cfa6df882132e80c81ceabf3e248e  boot.img

Either of both of you on irc somewhere so we can be more interactive?

Thanks,
Brad