Re: Bug#711135: Re: compiling a bootable kernel for ia64 (itanium2, mckinley, rx2620)

Am 14.02.2018 um 14:46 schrieb Jason Duerstock:
> Hi Pedro,
>
> Can you try booting this ISO and let us know what happens?
> http://distfiles.gentoo.org/releases/ia64/autobuilds/20180201T031003Z/install-ia64-minimal-20180201T031003Z.iso
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jason
>
>
>
>
> On Wed, Feb 14, 2018 at 2:52 AM, Pedro Miguel Teixeira <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Emeric.
>>
>>
>>
>> The machine has no iLO card, so it can’t be because of it. As far as I can
>> tell, either ELILO never gets to pass control to the kernel, or the kernel
>> never gets to output the 1st message.
>>
>>
>>
>> _____
>> Pedro
>>
>>
>>
>> From: Émeric MASCHINO
>> Sent: Tuesday, February 13, 2018 23:43
>> To: Pedro Miguel Teixeira
>> Cc: Jason Duerstock; Gatis Visnevskis; Ivan Zakharyaschev; debian-ia64;
>> [email protected]
>>
>>
>> Subject: Re: Bug#711135: Re: compiling a bootable kernel for ia64 (itanium2,
>> mckinley, rx2620)
>>
>>
>>
>> Well, problem is then likely with iLO card or serial console.
>> Indeed, I'm daily using a zx6000 workstation for years, being with
>> Debian for more than a decade, now with Gentoo since Debian has killed
>> the plug on ia64 in 2013.
>> I have no problem booting/using it locally (GNOME 3.24 desktop
>> environment) with kernels 4.9.76 and 4.12.12. Kernels were compiled
>> either with GCC 4.5.4 (because of a nasty error with GDB that
>> sometimes segfaults when kernels i compiled with GCC > 4.5) or 6.2.0.
>>
>> 2018-02-14 1:41 GMT+01:00 Pedro Miguel Teixeira <[email protected]>:
>>>
>>> Hi Jason.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> That was close – I was really about to send the zx6000 onto the tech
>>> recycle.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> The following is all I get coming out from the console (Serial A, since
>>> the
>>> zx6000 does not have a management card / iLO). After the initrd line
>>> shows,
>>> a good 5 seconds pass. Then the front panel becomes all red and the
>>> cryptic
>>> modem-style sounds come out. I’ve wondered about the health of both my
>>> ELILO
>>> and Kernel, but my rx2660 boots fine with the exact the same two.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> EFI Boot Manager ver 1.10 [14.61]  Firmware ver 2.31 [4411]
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Loading device drivers
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Loading.: Auxiliary Floating Point Driver
>>>
>>> Load of Auxiliary Floating Point Driver failed: Not Found
>>>
>>> EFI Boot Manager ver 1.10 [14.61]  Firmware ver 2.31 [4411]
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Please select a boot option
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>      Windows Boot Manager
>>>
>>>      Debian
>>>
>>>      EFI Shell [Built-in]
>>>
>>>      Removable Media
>>>
>>>      Boot Option Maintenance Menu
>>>
>>>      System Configuration Menu
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>      Use ^ and v to change option(s). Use Enter to select an option
>>>
>>> Loading.: Debian
>>>
>>> Starting: Debian
>>>
>>> ELILO v3.14 for EFI/IA-64
>>>
>>> ..
>>>
>>> Uncompressing Linux... done
>>>
>>> Loading file \EFI\debian\initrd.img...done
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>

This is the same wrong behavior with my zx2000 Itanium machine.
I was able to install the latest debian distribution.
I managed to update the kernel by hand but all the other software
gets no update because Debian stops the IA64 support.

The crash happens on a very early stage where no debug message
been produced by the starting process.

Eberhard

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