Re: Factory CD boot problem

On 21.11.2013, at 13:37, Andreas Färber <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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

Ben, do you know what this means?


Alex

> EXIT called ok
> 0 >
> 
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