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On Tuesday 12 February 2008 04:27, Raúl Porcel wrote:
> Hi,
>
> We have a Compaq AlphaServer ES40 and since 2.6.23 it won't boot. I'm
> attaching the console log and the kernel config.
>
> Need to say that with a DEC Xp1000 it works fine, although they're
> different machines, of course.
> With .22 it boots fine, and by booting fine i mean after we reverted to
> 2.6.22 it booted again and everything worked as expected.
> Still hangs with latest kernel.
>
> I'm attaching the verlinux output as well, hope it helps. If i'm missing
> something, please don't hesitate to ask.
>
> Thanks
Hi,
Thanks for reporting. I'm not an alpha person, but I have
cc'ed them in case they missed this.
On Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 04:22:58PM +1100, Nick Piggin wrote:
> On Tuesday 12 February 2008 04:27, Ra?l Porcel wrote:
> > We have a Compaq AlphaServer ES40 and since 2.6.23 it won't boot. I'm
> > attaching the console log and the kernel config.
Looks like your 'aboot' is outdated - see http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/8/14/259
I think all distros have an updated aboot package now.
> Thanks for reporting. I'm not an alpha person, but I have
> cc'ed them in case they missed this.
Thanks, I indeed missed that.
Ivan.
Ivan Kokshaysky wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 04:22:58PM +1100, Nick Piggin wrote:
>> On Tuesday 12 February 2008 04:27, Ra?l Porcel wrote:
>>> We have a Compaq AlphaServer ES40 and since 2.6.23 it won't boot. I'm
>>> attaching the console log and the kernel config.
>
> Looks like your 'aboot' is outdated - see http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/8/14/259
>
> I think all distros have an updated aboot package now.
>
>> Thanks for reporting. I'm not an alpha person, but I have
>> cc'ed them in case they missed this.
>
> Thanks, I indeed missed that.
>
> Ivan.
Meh, i replied off-list without noticing, sorry about that.
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Correct, that was it. Thing is aboot was patched, but the aboot
installed on the disk was not.
Thanks :)
Linux monolith 2.6.24 #1 SMP Thu Feb 14 12:10:43 CET 2008 alpha EV68AL
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Thanks guys :)