From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Robert Reif Date: Sat, 23 May 2009 01:21:54 +0000 Subject: Re: sparc32 boot problem (SCSI?) Message-Id: <4A174FB2.2060809@earthlink.net> List-Id: References: <4A1608E3.6040009@earthlink.net> In-Reply-To: <4A1608E3.6040009@earthlink.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: sparclinux@vger.kernel.org Josip Rodin wrote: > You might want to do the generic initramfs debug steps like those > described at http://wiki.debian.org/InitramfsDebug > > I tried the steps above and I don't see any issues. All the devices are in /dev, fstype returns the right info and /proc/modules are the same. The two significant differences in boot messages are the timestamps and the premount output of the bad boot has less output. good: Begin: Running /scripts/init-premount ... [42949392.740000] Driver 'sd' needs updating - please use bus_type methods [42949392.770000] sd 1:0:0:0: [sda] 17689267 512-byte hardware sectors: (9.05 GB/8.43 GiB) [42949392.790000] sd 1:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off [42949392.800000] sd 1:0:0:0: [sda] Write cache: disabled, read cache: enabled, supports DPO and FUA [42949392.820000] sd 1:0:0:0: [sda] 17689267 512-byte hardware sectors: (9.05 GB/8.43 GiB) [42949392.830000] sd 1:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off [42949392.850000] sd 1:0:0:0: [sda] Write cache: disabled, read cache: enabled, supports DPO and FUA [42949392.860000] sda: sda1 sda2 sda3 sda4 [42949392.920000] sd 1:0:0:0: [sda] Attached SCSI disk Done. bad: Begin: Running /scripts/init-premount ... [ 16.080000] Driver 'sd' needs updating - please use bus_type methods [ 16.110000] sd 1:0:0:0: [sda] 17689267 512-byte hardware sectors: (9.05 GB/8.43 GiB) [ 16.120000] sd 1:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off [ 16.130000] sd 1:0:0:0: [sda] Write cache: disabled, read cache: enabled, supports DPO and FUA [ 16.150000] sda: sda1 sda2 sda3 sda4 [ 16.200000] sd 1:0:0:0: [sda] Attached SCSI disk Done.