Re: Factory CD boot problem

Hi Dinar,

Thanks for your work on the installation media.

Unfortunately though, openSUSE-13.1-ppc64-NET-ppc64-Build0018-Media.iso
still fails to boot into Linux on my machine. The initrd appears to load
okay but the failure remains when loading RTAS.

The installed system continues to work fine (except it needs some
partition resizing that I was hoping to do via a reinstall), so it
doesn't sound like it's a general problem with the IBM firmware's RTAS
implementation - the firmware did not change since original installation.

Any ideas would be welcome. Maybe reduce initrd size even more?
Or is the presence of the graphics card maybe causing problems due to
OpenFirmware framebuffer size?

Regards,
Andreas


Elapsed time since release of system processors: 5 mins 35 secs

yaboot starting: loaded at 00040000 00065a88 (0/0/02039a68; sp: 02cbffd0)
Config file 'yaboot.cnf' read, 342 bytes


  Welcome to openSuSE 13.1!

  Type  "install"  to start the YaST installer on this CD/DVD
  Type  "slp"      to start the YaST install via network
  Type  "rescue"   to start the rescue system on this CD/DVD


Welcome to yaboot version r22.8-r1190.SuSE
booted from
'/pci@800000020000003/pci@2,3/ide@1/disk@0:1,\suseboot\yaboot.ibm'
running with firmware 'IBM,SF240_284' on model 'IBM,9111-285', serial
'IBM,*********', partition '06-C903E'
Enter "help" to get some basic usage information
boot: help
  Press the tab key for a list of defined images.
  The label marked with a "*" is the default image, press <return> to
boot it.

  To boot any other label simply type its name and press <return>.
  It is also possible to expand a label with the tab key.

  To boot a kernel image which is not defined in the yaboot configuration
  file, enter the kernel image name as [[device:[partno]],]/path, where
  "device:" is the OpenFirmware device path to the disk the image
  resides on, and "partno" is the partition number the image resides on.
  Note that the comma (,) is only required if you specify an OpenFirmware
  device, if you only specify a filename you should not start it with a ","
  The shortcut '&device;' can be used to specify the OpenFirmware device
path
  where yaboot was loaded from.

  To load an initrd, specify its path as initrd=[[device:[partno]],]/path

  If you omit "device:" and "partno" yaboot will use the values of
  "device=" and "partition=" in yaboot.conf, right now those are set to:
  device=/pci@800000020000003/pci@2,3/ide@1/disk@0
  partition=1

boot:
  install                    slp                        rescue
boot: install
Please wait, loading kernel...
Allocated 01700000 bytes for kernel @ 03000000
   Elf64 kernel loaded...
Loading ramdisk...
ramdisk loaded 031c5a55 @ 04700000
OF stdout device is: /vdevice/vty@30000000
Preparing to boot Linux version 3.11.6-3-default (geeko@buildhost) (gcc
version 4.8.1 20130909 [gcc-4_8-branch revision 202388] (SUSE Linux) )
#1 SMP Thu Oct 24 16:23:02 UTC 2013 (0ba01b7)
Detected machine type: 0000000000000101
Max number of cores passed to firmware: 1024 (NR_CPUS = 2048)
Calling ibm,client-architecture-support... not implemented
command line: quiet sysrq=1 insmod=sym53c8xx insmod=ipr
memory layout at init:
  memory_limit : 0000000000000000 (16 MB aligned)
  alloc_bottom : 00000000078d0000
  alloc_top    : 0000000008000000
  alloc_top_hi : 0000000077000000
  rmo_top      : 0000000008000000
  ram_top      : 0000000077000000
found display   : /pci@800000020000002/display@1, opening... done
Could not allocate memory for RTAS
EXIT called ok
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