new bootloader

new bootloader

[Cort Dougan]

Has anyone tried it yet?  I haven't had any complaints and it's hard to
believe it works for everyone as it is now.

If you haven't tried it and were having trouble before please do give it a
test.  Even if you can't give me patches for your hardware a quick
description of the problem will help me get things in position to work
sooner.



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Re: new bootloader

[Johnnie Peters]

Hi Cort,

I have it running.  I had some troubles with 2.2.2.  The SCSI system tended
to lock up after awhile but this seems to be gone on 2.2.3.  The only thing
I have so far noticed is that when compiled with SMP enabled, the 2.2.2
release hung during semaphore handling in the SCSI driver and in 2.2.3 it
panics at the same place.  I traced it down that far but have not had the time
to
go further.

I was glad to see that you have merged in the open firmware changes from
Gary Thomas.  I am finally preparing a patch of all the stuff I have been
doing
and will get that to you today.

Johnnie



Cort Dougan wrote:

> Has anyone tried it yet?  I haven't had any complaints and it's hard to
> believe it works for everyone as it is now.
>
> If you haven't tried it and were having trouble before please do give it a
> test.  Even if you can't give me patches for your hardware a quick
> description of the problem will help me get things in position to work
> sooner.




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Re: new bootloader

[Benjamin Herrenschmidt]

On Tue, Mar 16, 1999, Johnnie Peters <jpeters@phx.mcd.mot.com> wrote:

>I have it running.  I had some troubles with 2.2.2.  The SCSI system tended
>to lock up after awhile but this seems to be gone on 2.2.3.  The only thing
>I have so far noticed is that when compiled with SMP enabled, the 2.2.2
>release hung during semaphore handling in the SCSI driver and in 2.2.3 it
>panics at the same place.  I traced it down that far but have not had
the time
>to
>go further.

2.2.2 (from samba, I'm only getting back vger now) gave me MESH scsi
panics on boot here. (I haven't seen them for a while). the NCR 53X8XX
behaved fine but MESH panicked just after seeing my external HD. No
problem without the disk of course.

Didn't have time to try to find the problem yet neither.

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Re: new bootloader

[Michael Meissner]

On Tue, Mar 16, 1999 at 03:24:43AM -0700, Cort Dougan wrote:
> 
> Has anyone tried it yet?  I haven't had any complaints and it's hard to
> believe it works for everyone as it is now.
> 
> If you haven't tried it and were having trouble before please do give it a
> test.  Even if you can't give me patches for your hardware a quick
> description of the problem will help me get things in position to work
> sooner.

I'm not sure whether I have the code or not, but I did take the vger tarball
linux-vger-2.2.2-990307, and built it.  It sort of boots on my Motorola
PowerStack-II NET4000, in that if I'm physically present and type in the
root=/dev/sda2 string at the prompt it will boot, and it won't recongize more
than 32 meg of memory (my machine has 128 meg).  However, the machine mostly
sits in a closet, so I would prefer not to have to do anything to reboot it.
In addition, when the machine wants to reboot, it hangs.  Gary's patches to
2.2.1 solves the first problem via CONFIG_CMDLINE that the user can specify the
initial command line and the second problem by knowing where the OF residual
data is kept, and I never experienced the third problem.

On my other machine, an original PowerStack with a 603 (not 603e) and no cache,
it hangs right after the prompt, just like Gary's patches did (the original
version of the last of the 2.1.xx series booted fine on this machine, but did
not boot on the NET4000).  Note, I didn't have a disk in the machine, but it
didn't get the usual distance going through the boot screens until it actually
touches the disk.

> 

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Re: new bootloader

[Cort Dougan]

Try the latest.  The OF and booting problem should be fixed.


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Re: new bootloader

[Gary Thomas]

On 17-Mar-99 Cort Dougan wrote:
> 
> Try the latest.  The OF and booting problem should be fixed.
> 

Forgive my "denseness", but how does one "try the latest"?

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Re: new bootloader

[Michael Meissner]

On Wed, Mar 17, 1999 at 01:05:03AM -0700, Cort Dougan wrote:
> Try the latest.  The OF and booting problem should be fixed.

I tried 2.2.4-pre6.  It still has the problem that there is no way to setup the
command line before booting like Gary's fixes had support for (and it ignores
the command line that I setup with OF on the PowerStack-II).  It does recognize
128meg of memory, and it does reboot cleanly.  I haven't tried it yet on the
original PowerStack with PPC1BUG (but that machine doesn't have a disk
anymore, and I stripped some of its memory for my router).

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Re: new bootloader

[Michael Meissner]

On Mon, Mar 22, 1999 at 10:27:51PM -0500, Michael Meissner wrote:
> 
> On Wed, Mar 17, 1999 at 01:05:03AM -0700, Cort Dougan wrote:
> > Try the latest.  The OF and booting problem should be fixed.
> 
> I tried 2.2.4-pre6.  It still has the problem that there is no way to setup the
> command line before booting like Gary's fixes had support for (and it ignores
> the command line that I setup with OF on the PowerStack-II).  It does recognize
> 128meg of memory, and it does reboot cleanly.  I haven't tried it yet on the
> original PowerStack with PPC1BUG (but that machine doesn't have a disk
> anymore, and I stripped some of its memory for my router).

I forgot to mention I used most of the common defaults instead of prep, adding
pc style parallel ports, pc style floppies, and removing a few mac ethernet
targets.  So except for the command line thing, it looks like a winner.

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meissner@cygnus.com

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