Re: new SMP kernel on the old Netra X1

On Fri, 2025-09-05 at 06:21 -0400, Dennis Clarke wrote:
> BusyBox v1.20.2 (Debian 1:1.20.0-7) built-in shell (ash)
> Enter 'help' for a list of built-in commands.
> 
> /bin/sh: can't access tty; job control turned off
> (initramfs) cat /proc/partitions
> major minor  #blocks  name
> 
>     8        0   39082680 sda
>     8        1    1951897 sda1
>     8        2    3903795 sda2
>     8        3   39078112 sda3
>     8        4   33222420 sda4
>     8       16   39082680 sdb
>     8       17    2097152 sdb1
>     8       18    4194304 sdb2
>     8       19   39078112 sdb3
>     8       20   32764567 sdb4
> (initramfs) ls bin
> busybox     false       ipconfig    minips      nfsmount    resume 
> umount
> cat         fstype      kill        mkdir       nuke        run-init 
> uname
> chroot      gunzip      kmod        mkfifo      pivot_root  sh
> cpio        gzip        ln          mknod       poweroff    sleep
> dd          halt        losetup     mount       readlink    sync
> dmesg       insmod      ls          mv          reboot      true
> (initramfs) bin/uname -a
> Linux (none) 6.12.3-sparc64-smp #1 SMP Debian 6.12.3-1+sparc64 
> (2025-08-28) sparc64 sparc64
> (initramfs)

OK, so the block devices are there and the kernel may just have swapped sda
and sdb which can happen any time when you boot a system with multiple disks.

I would recommend passing "root=UUID=XXXXX-XXXX.." (put the UUID of the root
partition here) in your silo.conf.

To retrieve the UUID of your root partition, boot the Wheezy kernel and run:

# blkid /dev/sda4, e.g.:

root@stadler:~# blkid /dev/vdiska3
/dev/vdiska3: UUID="30e11c2c-be02-48eb-9238-(redacted)" TYPE="swap" PARTUUID="2495e223-9d30-47f0-bdda-(redacted)"
root@stadler:~# 

Use what's in UUID and paste it into silo.conf as:

root=UUID=NNNNNNNNN-NNNN-NNNN-NNNN-NNNNNNNNNNNN

Adrian

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