[Voyage-linux] Trouble booting RLX blade

[Punky Tse]

Hi Ben,

Since you are using serial console, I would suggest you put the console 
output for us to investigate.

Regards,
Punky


Ben Kochie wrote:
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> Sorry, I forgot to mention in my earlier mail.  These blade servers do 
> not have a console at all, they only support serial installs.
>
> I'm not sure exactly what the issue is yet, because after waiting a 
> long long time (10+min) it eventually gets past the serial driver 
> loading, but it never completes boot. It fails somewhere in the 
> initrd.  I will try and log a boot sequence.  Unfortunately, the 
> voyage kernel disables the kernel message timestamps so it will be 
> harder to debug the length of time it takes to boot.  Can those 
> timestamps be enabled via boot args?
>
> - -ben
>
>  "UNIX is user-friendly, it's just picky about its friends."
>
> On Wed, 18 Feb 2009, Punky Tse wrote:
>
>> Hi Ben,
>>
>> I suggest you to use console terminal option when installing, or 
>> remove ttyS0 option at grub prompt.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Punky
>>
>> Ben Kochie wrote:
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>>> I'm trying to get voyage-current (as of yesterday) booted on a 
>>> fairly old Trasmeta based blade server by RLX.  I am able to boot 
>>> Ubuntu hardy, but the 2.6.26-486-voyage kernel will not boot.  It 
>>> gets stuck after trying to load the serial drivers.  I chose Generic 
>>> PC for install, and serial console at 38400. (deafult for this 
>>> system)  I also had no problem booting lenny.
>>>
>>> - -ben
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>>>  "UNIX is user-friendly, it's just picky about its friends."
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