Re: new SMP kernel on the old Netra X1

On 9/5/25 05:20, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> On Fri, 2025-09-05 at 05:07 -0400, Dennis Clarke wrote:
>>> What's the output of "cat /proc/partitions"?
>>>
>>
>> Back on the wheezy provided kernel we see :
>>
>> nix# uname -a
>> Linux nix 3.2.0-4-sparc64 #1 Debian 3.2.78-1 sparc64 GNU/Linux
>> nix# cat /proc/partitions
>> major minor  #blocks  name
>>
>>      8       16   39082680 sdb
>>      8       17    2097152 sdb1
>>      8       18    4194304 sdb2
>>      8       19   39078112 sdb3
>>      8       20   32764567 sdb4
>>      8        0   39082680 sda
>>      8        1    1951897 sda1
>>      8        2    3903795 sda2
>>      8        3   39078112 sda3
>>      8        4   33222420 sda4
>> nix#
>>
>> Looks correct to me.
> 
> You misunderstood me. You have to run this command from the initramfs
> prompt on the new kernel. The following thing you are seeing here is
> a shell prompt:
> 
> /bin/sh: can't access tty; job control turned off
> (initramfs)
> 
> Type "cat /proc/partitions" here.

Oh ... well gee ... that will take a full cup of coffee to get
working again :)