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PostPosted: Fri Apr 09, 2004 1:15 am    Post subject: Illegal Instruction Reply with quote

Hardware: Sun UltraSPARC-IIi 440MHz/20G IDE disk/256M memory

I compiled both vanilla-sources and sparc-sources sucessfully, but unforunately, any of the two kernel can not boot up.

error message is:
Code:
boot device: disk: a file and args:
SILO Version 1.4.4
Allocated 8 Mega of memory at 0x40000000 for kernel.
Loaded kernel version 2.4.25
Illegal Instruction
ok


/boot/silo.conf
Code:
default "gentoo"
timeout 10

image=/boot/kernel-2.4.25
    label="gentoo"
    partion=1
    root=/dev/hda4


but if I use the kernel(kernel-2.4.24-r2-up) on the livecd, it works.
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PostPosted: Fri Apr 09, 2004 1:53 pm    Post subject: Illegal Instruction Reply with quote

I had this exact problem and what worked for me was to downgrade to silo-1.3.1-r1 from silo 1.4.4 and then rerun silo -C /boot/silo.conf.

Boots perfectly now.
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PostPosted: Mon Apr 12, 2004 2:47 am    Post subject: Re: Illegal Instruction Reply with quote

claudia wrote:
I had this exact problem and what worked for me was to downgrade to silo-1.3.1-r1 from silo 1.4.4 and then rerun silo -C /boot/silo.conf.

Boots perfectly now.


I don't think it is a problem of SILO, because if I use the kernel on the livecd(kernel-2.4.24-sparc-r2-up), it CAN boot up.
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PostPosted: Mon Apr 12, 2004 7:58 pm    Post subject: Re: Illegal Instruction Reply with quote

knighterrant wrote:
I don't think it is a problem of SILO, because if I use the kernel on the livecd(kernel-2.4.24-sparc-r2-up), it CAN boot up.


I was able to boot the kernel on the CDROM with silo 1.4, but not my own kernel. Switching to silo-1.3.1-r1 fixed this.

To reiterate, using the exact same kernel, I could NOT boot with 1.4, but I COULD with 1.3.1-r1. Nothing changed except SILO.

FYI, I'm using a dual-CPU Ultra2.
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PostPosted: Mon Apr 12, 2004 11:18 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

silo 1.4.4 has problems with a few specific kernels I think... 2.6.3* comes to mind. 2.4.25 and 2.6.5 should be fine.
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PostPosted: Tue Apr 13, 2004 1:20 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

ciaranm wrote:
silo 1.4.4 has problems with a few specific kernels I think... 2.6.3* comes to mind. 2.4.25 and 2.6.5 should be fine.


I'm using 2.4.25, straight from "emerge sparc-sources", as of about 3pm today. It may work for some people, just not me. :)
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PostPosted: Tue Apr 13, 2004 1:28 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Hrm... If silo has bugs, probably best to let Ben know... Please provide a detailed report to the sparc-linux mailing list (sparclinux@vger.kernel.org)
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PostPosted: Wed Apr 14, 2004 1:08 am    Post subject: Re: Illegal Instruction Reply with quote

hab136 wrote:
I was able to boot the kernel on the CDROM with silo 1.4, but not my own kernel. Switching to silo-1.3.1-r1 fixed this.

To reiterate, using the exact same kernel, I could NOT boot with 1.4, but I COULD with 1.3.1-r1. Nothing changed except SILO.

FYI, I'm using a dual-CPU Ultra2.


That's too strange, maybe some bug is in the silo-1.4.4?

By the way, I want to know is there avaliable kernel source of 2.6.X version for SPARC? and where to download it?
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PostPosted: Thu Apr 15, 2004 1:15 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I sync my system last night, and silo-1.4.4 can boot my ultra10 now!
Maybe the bug has been fixed in the newer version. :D
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PostPosted: Wed Apr 21, 2004 10:56 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I have exactly he same problem with silo 1.4.4 with kernel 2.4.26. How do I downgrade silo through emerge ?
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PostPosted: Wed Apr 21, 2004 12:16 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Try
Code:

emerge =sys-boot/silo-1.3.1-r1

(or whatever version you need)
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PostPosted: Wed Apr 21, 2004 12:16 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

knighterrant wrote:
I sync my system last night, and silo-1.4.4 can boot my ultra10 now!
Maybe the bug has been fixed in the newer version. :D


How do I downgrade silo o 1.3.1-r1 or sync with the current version ?
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