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* [ALPHA] ES40 fails to boot with >=kernel 2.6.23
@ 2008-02-11 17:27 Raúl Porcel
  2008-02-13  5:22 ` Nick Piggin
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 4+ messages in thread
From: Raúl Porcel @ 2008-02-11 17:27 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-kernel

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Hi,

We have a Compaq AlphaServer ES40 and since 2.6.23 it won't boot. I'm 
attaching the console log and the kernel config.

Need to say that with a DEC Xp1000 it works fine, although they're 
different machines, of course.
With .22 it boots fine, and by booting fine i mean after we reverted to 
2.6.22 it booted again and everything worked as expected.
Still hangs with latest kernel.

I'm attaching the verlinux output as well, hope it helps. If i'm missing 
something, please don't hesitate to ask.

Thanks

[-- Attachment #2: alpha_crash.txt --]
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AlphaServer ES40 Console V7.3-1, built on Feb 27 2007 at 12:57:47               
                                                                                
CPU 0 booting                                                                   
                                                                                
(boot dka0.0.0.1.1 -flags 0)                                                    
block 0 of dka0.0.0.1.1 is a valid boot block                                   
reading 165 blocks from dka0.0.0.1.1                                            
bootstrap code read in                                                          
base = 200000, image_start = 0, image_bytes = 14a00(84480)                      
initializing HWRPB at 2000                                                      
initializing page table at 3ff54000                                             
initializing machine state                                                      
setting affinity to the primary CPU                                             
jumping to bootstrap code                                                       
aboot: Linux/Alpha SRM bootloader version 1.0_pre20040408                       
aboot: switching to OSF/1 PALcode version 1.92                                  
aboot: booting from device 'SCSI 1 1 0 0 0 0 0'                                 
aboot: valid disklabel found: 3 partitions.                                     
aboot: loading uncompressed boot/vmlinuz-2.6.24-rc8...                          
aboot: loading compressed boot/vmlinuz-2.6.24-rc8...                            

[-- Attachment #3: kconfig --]
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[-- Attachment #4: verlinux --]
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Linux monolith 2.6.22-gentoo-r8 #3 SMP Tue Oct 30 18:37:49 CET 2007 alpha EV68AL Tsunami GNU/Linux

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Modules Loaded         ide_cd cdrom generic ohci_hcd alim15x3 sg usbcore ide_core


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* Re: [ALPHA] ES40 fails to boot with >=kernel 2.6.23
  2008-02-11 17:27 [ALPHA] ES40 fails to boot with >=kernel 2.6.23 Raúl Porcel
@ 2008-02-13  5:22 ` Nick Piggin
  2008-02-13 15:44   ` Ivan Kokshaysky
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 4+ messages in thread
From: Nick Piggin @ 2008-02-13  5:22 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Raúl Porcel; +Cc: linux-kernel, rth, ink

On Tuesday 12 February 2008 04:27, Raúl Porcel wrote:
> Hi,
>
> We have a Compaq AlphaServer ES40 and since 2.6.23 it won't boot. I'm
> attaching the console log and the kernel config.
>
> Need to say that with a DEC Xp1000 it works fine, although they're
> different machines, of course.
> With .22 it boots fine, and by booting fine i mean after we reverted to
> 2.6.22 it booted again and everything worked as expected.
> Still hangs with latest kernel.
>
> I'm attaching the verlinux output as well, hope it helps. If i'm missing
> something, please don't hesitate to ask.
>
> Thanks

Hi,

Thanks for reporting. I'm not an alpha person, but I have
cc'ed them in case they missed this.

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* Re: [ALPHA] ES40 fails to boot with >=kernel 2.6.23
  2008-02-13  5:22 ` Nick Piggin
@ 2008-02-13 15:44   ` Ivan Kokshaysky
  2008-02-15 20:22     ` Raúl Porcel
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 4+ messages in thread
From: Ivan Kokshaysky @ 2008-02-13 15:44 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Nick Piggin; +Cc: Raúl Porcel, linux-kernel, rth

On Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 04:22:58PM +1100, Nick Piggin wrote:
> On Tuesday 12 February 2008 04:27, Raúl Porcel wrote:
> > We have a Compaq AlphaServer ES40 and since 2.6.23 it won't boot. I'm
> > attaching the console log and the kernel config.

Looks like your 'aboot' is outdated - see http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/8/14/259

I think all distros have an updated aboot package now.

> Thanks for reporting. I'm not an alpha person, but I have
> cc'ed them in case they missed this.

Thanks, I indeed missed that.

Ivan.

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* Re: [ALPHA] ES40 fails to boot with >=kernel 2.6.23
  2008-02-13 15:44   ` Ivan Kokshaysky
@ 2008-02-15 20:22     ` Raúl Porcel
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 4+ messages in thread
From: Raúl Porcel @ 2008-02-15 20:22 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-kernel

Ivan Kokshaysky wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 04:22:58PM +1100, Nick Piggin wrote:
>> On Tuesday 12 February 2008 04:27, Raúl Porcel wrote:
>>> We have a Compaq AlphaServer ES40 and since 2.6.23 it won't boot. I'm
>>> attaching the console log and the kernel config.
> 
> Looks like your 'aboot' is outdated - see http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/8/14/259
> 
> I think all distros have an updated aboot package now.
> 
>> Thanks for reporting. I'm not an alpha person, but I have
>> cc'ed them in case they missed this.
> 
> Thanks, I indeed missed that.
> 
> Ivan.


Meh, i replied off-list without noticing, sorry about that.
----------------------------


Correct, that was it. Thing is aboot was patched, but the aboot 
installed on the disk was not.

Thanks :)

Linux monolith 2.6.24 #1 SMP Thu Feb 14 12:10:43 CET 2008 alpha EV68AL 
Tsunami GNU/Linux

Thanks guys :)

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