[Voyage-linux] Trouble booting RLX blade

[Ben Kochie]

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This still doesn't explain the extremely slow booting after touching the 
serial port.  Please re-enable CONFIG_PRINTK_TIME in the voyage kernel 
config.  It's very very useful for debugging this kind of issue.

- -ben

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

On Thu, 19 Feb 2009, Kim-man 'Punky' TSE wrote:

> Ben,
>
> Looking at the console log, it seems that voyage is unable to locate hda 
> device.  Try appending all_generic_ide to kernel parameter at grub prompt.
>
> Regards,
> Punky
>
>
>
> Ben Kochie wrote:
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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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> Punky
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