Power6 boot issue

Josh Barth josh.barth at rmscinc.org
Fri Aug 13 03:13:41 EST 2010


I have an issue getting a new Debian or Ubuntu install to boot.  It seems to
fail to load the initrd not quite sure what the deal is seeing as how it
loads fine during the install.  Here is the output:



Please wait, loading
kernel...
   Elf64 kernel
loaded...
Loading
ramdisk...
ramdisk loaded at 02b00000, size: 10160
Kbytes
OF stdout device is: /vdevice/vty at 30000000

Preparing to boot Linux version 2.6.32-5-powerpc64 (Debian 2.6.32-18) (
ben at decadent.org.uk) (gcc version 4.3.5 (Debian 4.3.5-2) ) #1 SMP Sat Jul 24
04:36:54 UTC
 2010

Calling
ibm,client-architecture-support...\
Elapsed time since release of system processors: 2447 mins 39
secs


Config file read, 4096
bytes


Welcome to yaboot version
1.3.13
Enter "help" to get some basic usage
information
Default supplied on the command line: root=/dev/sda2
ro
boot: root=/dev/sda2
ro
Please wait, loading
kernel...
root=/dev/sda2:2,/vmlinux: Unable to open file, Invalid
device
boot:

  Linux
old
   Elf64 kernel
loaded...
Loading
ramdisk...
ramdisk loaded at 02b00000, size: 10160
Kbytes
OF stdout device is: /vdevice/vty at 30000000

Preparing to boot Linux version 2.6.32-5-powerpc64 (Debian 2.6.32-18) (
ben at decadent.org.uk) (gcc version 4.3.5 (Debian 4.3.5-2) ) #1 SMP Sat Jul 24
04:36:54 UTC
 2010

Calling
ibm,client-architecture-support...\
Elapsed time since release of system processors: 2448 mins 35
secs


Config file read, 4096
bytes




Any help is greatly appreciated.

Josh
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