yaboot-1.3.17 failure on 9114-275 (power4+)

[acrux]

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On Tue, 6 Dec 2011 16:01:27 +1100
Tony Breeds <tony at bakeyournoodle.com> wrote:

> On Sun, Dec 04, 2011 at 07:48:27PM +0100, acrux_it at libero.it wrote:
> 
> > ok, i moved this (damned weightly) old pSeries  to my home...
> > this is my yaboot-debug binary (i use to dd yaboot.chrp on PreP
> > partition)
> > ftp://ftp.cruxppc.org/cruxppc/distfiles/2.7/yaboot-debug-bin-1.3.17-1.tar.xz
> 
> Thanks alot!  That was more effort than I was expecting you to go to.
>  
> > and this is my full output:
> 
> <snip>
> 
> >     ext2_read - ext_read() from pos 0x10000, size: 0x9210752x
> 
> Wow!  That gives me something to look at.  I doubt your kernel is
> really 0x9210752 (~146MB)
> 

In tempo, indeed it should be my ext2 boot partition.

root at power4:~# df -Th
Filesystem     Type      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda5      reiserfs   11G  5.1G  5.0G  51% /
/dev/sda6      reiserfs   58G   12G   46G  21% /home
/tmp           tmpfs     2.0G     0  2.0G   0% /tmp
shm            tmpfs     2.0G     0  2.0G   0% /dev/shm
/dev/sda3      ext2      126M   70M   50M  59% /boot
root at power4:~# fdisk -l

Disk /dev/sda: 73.4 GB, 73407820800 bytes
128 heads, 32 sectors/track, 35003 cylinders, total 143374650 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x416a4baa

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1   *          32       20479       10224   41  PPC PReP Boot
/dev/sda2           20480     2121727     1050624   82  Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda3         2121728     2387967      133120   83  Linux
/dev/sda4         2387968   143372287    70492160    5  Extended
/dev/sda5         2388000    23363583    10487792   83  Linux
/dev/sda6        23363616   143372287    60004336   83  Linux




> I'll poke around in that area.  I don't knwo if I can work this out
> from the binaries I have but are the failing yaboot's built against
> the same e2fsprogs version?
> 

yes, they are all built against e2fsprogs-1.41.14 .

> I think I may have found a power4 system similar to you 275.  I'll
> drag it out of storgae and spin it up this week sometime.
> 

that's great! 


cheers,
- --nico
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GNU/Linux on Power Architecture
CRUX PPC - http://cruxppc.org/

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