[Voyage-linux] Trouble booting RLX blade

[Ben Kochie]

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In my continued effort to debug this booting issue, I rebuilt a new initrd 
based on the default lenny kernel (2.6.26-1-486).

My procedure was this:
* gunzip and extract the voyage inird cpio file
* delete /lib/modules/2.6.26-486-voyage
* copy over the /lib/modules/2.6.26-1-486 from lenny
* repack the cpio with find * | cpio -ov -H newc | gzip -c - > /mnt/cf/boot/initrd.img-2.6.26-1-486
* copy the vmlinuz-2.6.26-1-486 from lenny
* add an entry to grub
* copy the lib/moduels to the voyage real rootfs

I then booted voyage Feb 18 nightly build, which failed to boot properly.

I then booted with my test kernel/initrd which booted properly.

You can see the logs of my attempts at http://ben.nerp.net/voyage/

PS. It seems Punky Tse mail server is rejecting mail due to over quota. :(

- -ben

  "UNIX is user-friendly, it's just picky about its friends."

On Wed, 18 Feb 2009, Punky Tse wrote:

> 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
>>>>
>>>>  "UNIX is user-friendly, it's just picky about its friends."
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