2.6.26 does not boot on Pegasos

2.6.26 does not boot on Pegasos

[Gabriel Paubert]

	Hi,

I just tried to boot 2.6.26 on a Pegasos and the kernel does not boot.
The last message I have is:
gunzip (0xffffffff <----- some more hex digits)

The configuration has been created from a working 2.6.25 one with
make oldconfig and answering N to new config options.

Anybody has seen this or do I have to start digging deeper?

	Regards,
	Gabriel

Re: 2.6.26 does not boot on Pegasos

[Benjamin Herrenschmidt]

On Tue, 2008-07-15 at 12:00 +0200, Gabriel Paubert wrote:
> 	Hi,
> 
> I just tried to boot 2.6.26 on a Pegasos and the kernel does not boot.
> The last message I have is:
> gunzip (0xffffffff <----- some more hex digits)
> 
> The configuration has been created from a working 2.6.25 one with
> make oldconfig and answering N to new config options.
> 
> Anybody has seen this or do I have to start digging deeper?

Unfortunately, I don't have a pegasos anymore. David, did you get a
chance to test anything recent on yours ? Matt ?

Cheers,
Ben.

Re: 2.6.26 does not boot on Pegasos

[Gabriel Paubert]

On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 08:05:49PM +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-07-15 at 12:00 +0200, Gabriel Paubert wrote:
> > 	Hi,
> > 
> > I just tried to boot 2.6.26 on a Pegasos and the kernel does not boot.
> > The last message I have is:
> > gunzip (0xffffffff <----- some more hex digits)
> > 
> > The configuration has been created from a working 2.6.25 one with
> > make oldconfig and answering N to new config options.
> > 
> > Anybody has seen this or do I have to start digging deeper?
> 
> Unfortunately, I don't have a pegasos anymore. David, did you get a
> chance to test anything recent on yours ? Matt ?

I seem to remember that 2.6.26-rc5 booted fine. Compiling it right now
before I start a bisection.

	Regards,
	Gabriel

Re: 2.6.26 does not boot on Pegasos

[David Woodhouse]

On Tue, 2008-07-15 at 20:05 +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-07-15 at 12:00 +0200, Gabriel Paubert wrote:
> > 	Hi,
> > 
> > I just tried to boot 2.6.26 on a Pegasos and the kernel does not boot.
> > The last message I have is:
> > gunzip (0xffffffff <----- some more hex digits)
> > 
> > The configuration has been created from a working 2.6.25 one with
> > make oldconfig and answering N to new config options.
> > 
> > Anybody has seen this or do I have to start digging deeper?
> 
> Unfortunately, I don't have a pegasos anymore. David, did you get a
> chance to test anything recent on yours ? Matt ?

I'm away from home for the next couple of weeks, but can test when I get
home after OLS. I've run relatively recent kernels on Pegasos within the
last 2-3 weeks.

-- 
dwmw2

Re: 2.6.26 does not boot on Pegasos

[Matt Sealey]

If you built this kernel yourself, you need to do it from a system with
an up-to-date binutils (2.18) otherwise, it does this.

If you got it from somewhere (like a distribution) then please tell us
where, as there are some other troubles with load-base location for
Fedora and so on...

-- 
Matt Sealey <matt@genesi-usa.com>
Genesi, Manager, Developer Relations

Gabriel Paubert wrote:
> 	Hi,
> 
> I just tried to boot 2.6.26 on a Pegasos and the kernel does not boot.
> The last message I have is:
> gunzip (0xffffffff <----- some more hex digits)
> 
> The configuration has been created from a working 2.6.25 one with
> make oldconfig and answering N to new config options.
> 
> Anybody has seen this or do I have to start digging deeper?
> 
> 	Regards,
> 	Gabriel
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Re: 2.6.26 does not boot on Pegasos

[Gabriel Paubert]

On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 04:27:49PM +0100, Matt Sealey wrote:
> If you built this kernel yourself, you need to do it from a system with
> an up-to-date binutils (2.18) otherwise, it does this.
> 

Thanks, this is likely the problem. The distribution is Debian stable 
with all security udates but the binutils are still 2.17. I was also 
wondering why the zImage was exploding from 2 to 5MB and why it spent
so much time in gzip at the end of a build.

Trying to add Lenny source does not help, bummer. Aptitude fails 
with an error message like "Dynamic MMap ran out of room".

	Regards,
	Gabriel

Re: 2.6.26 does not boot on Pegasos

[Jon Smirl]

On 7/15/08, Matt Sealey <matt@genesi-usa.com> wrote:
> If you built this kernel yourself, you need to do it from a system with
>  an up-to-date binutils (2.18) otherwise, it does this.
>
>  If you got it from somewhere (like a distribution) then please tell us
>  where, as there are some other troubles with load-base location for
>  Fedora and so on...

Is it hard to put a check into the kernel make system to look for
binutils 2.17 and refuse to build with a nice error message? I poked
around in the makefile but I'm not 100% sure of how it works.

>
>  --
>  Matt Sealey <matt@genesi-usa.com>
>  Genesi, Manager, Developer Relations
>
>
>  Gabriel Paubert wrote:
>
> >        Hi,
> >
> > I just tried to boot 2.6.26 on a Pegasos and the kernel does not boot.
> > The last message I have is:
> > gunzip (0xffffffff <----- some more hex digits)
> >
> > The configuration has been created from a working 2.6.25 one with
> > make oldconfig and answering N to new config options.
> >
> > Anybody has seen this or do I have to start digging deeper?
> >
> >        Regards,
> >        Gabriel
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> > Linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org
> > https://ozlabs.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxppc-dev
> >
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>


-- 
Jon Smirl
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Re: 2.6.26 does not boot on Pegasos

[Matt Sealey]

Gabriel Paubert wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 04:27:49PM +0100, Matt Sealey wrote:
>> If you built this kernel yourself, you need to do it from a system with
>> an up-to-date binutils (2.18) otherwise, it does this.

Note to the linux-ppc guys; is there any changelog entry which reports
this requirement somewhere? I didn't find one...

> Thanks, this is likely the problem. The distribution is Debian stable 
> with all security udates but the binutils are still 2.17.

That's generally the problem we had with SuSE 10.3. Debian stable
should be updated by Christmas.. :D

> Trying to add Lenny source does not help, bummer. Aptitude fails 
> with an error message like "Dynamic MMap ran out of room".

Ouch. Well, all I can recommend is grabbing the source files from;

http://packages.debian.org/source/testing/binutils

And compiling and installing it manually. There is a bit of a
disparity between glibc support between testing and stable that
the prebuild packages will complain about (you have to install
half of Lenny to do it, which is a bad idea just to update one
package).

Once you have the files you can just use "dpkg -x binutils-blah.dsc"
to get going.

-- 
Matt Sealey <matt@genesi-usa.com>
Genesi, Manager, Developer Relations

Re: 2.6.26 does not boot on Pegasos

[Segher Boessenkool]

>>> If you built this kernel yourself, you need to do it from a system 
>>> with
>>> an up-to-date binutils (2.18) otherwise, it does this.
>
> Note to the linux-ppc guys; is there any changelog entry which reports
> this requirement somewhere? I didn't find one...

That's because there is no such requirement.  2.18 is the latest
version, so it's always wise to test with that in case you have
some problems; but it wouldn't be nice if the kernel can be built
with only one binutils major version.

Please try my build patch for a similar problem, it went into
BenH's tree today.  Would be nice if it was the same problem;
if not, send a proper, _detailed_ bug report here and I'll look
into it.


Segher