From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Frank Scheiner Subject: Re: [alpha] Debian 9.0 NETINST fails Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2018 13:36:45 +0100 Message-ID: <4cf52d37-6f60-1714-de43-f9c1b72202c7@web.de> References: <20181102184151.GA15241@gherkin.frus.com> <20181102185623.GB15241@gherkin.frus.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20181102185623.GB15241@gherkin.frus.com> Content-Language: en-US Resent-Message-ID: List-Id: List-URL: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: List-Archive: https://lists.debian.org/msgid-search/4cf52d37-6f60-1714-de43-f9c1b72202c7@web.de Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: Bob Tracy , debian-alpha@lists.debian.org Cc: linux-alpha@vger.kernel.org, mcree@orcon.net.nz, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz Dear Bob, sorry, looks like I missed your mails to the debian-alpha list until now. On 11/2/18 19:56, Bob Tracy wrote: > Additional info... Frank Scheiner reported similar badness on his PWS > back in March of 2017. See the "debian-alpha" archive link: > > https://lists.debian.org/debian-alpha/2017/03/msg00007.html > > Executive summary: SMP 4.x kernels work fine, but the generic Debian > kernel does *not* (or at least didn't at that time). I can confirm this. I don't remember exactly when I tried the Debian 9 Sid installer image with 4.x generic kernel provided by Adrian, but I remember that it produced the same result, i.e.: ``` [...] halted CPU 0 halt code = 5 HALT instruction executed [...] ``` I believe since then no newer installer image for Alpha was produced. **** As a workaround, could it work to netboot the matching stock SMP kernel (4.9.0-3) with the netboot installer initrd from [1]? I don't know how to extract the initrd from the `netabootwrap`ed image though. Or could it work to netboot the SMP kernel with the cdrom installer initrd from [1] and the installer CDROM in the CDROM drive? [1]. http://ftp.ports.debian.org/debian-ports/pool-alpha/main/d/debian-installer/debian-installer-images_20170615_alpha.tar.gz **** Other approach: as per [2] hppa for example uses two kernels. So could we just change [2] for alpha to also include the SMP kernel, with e.g. that patch: ``` --- debian/installer/kernel-versions 2018-11-06 13:30:54.152319148 +0100 +++ debian/installer/kernel-versions-new 2018-11-06 13:31:38.992320296 +0100 @@ -1,5 +1,6 @@ # arch version flavour installedname suffix build-depends alpha - alpha-generic - y - +alpha - alpha-smp - y - amd64 - amd64 - - - arm64 - arm64 - - - armel - marvell - y - ``` ...and the installer images will also include the SMP kernel? [2]: https://salsa.debian.org/kernel-team/linux/raw/master/debian/installer/kernel-versions Cheers, Frank