Parsing ELF ... Done <REBOOT> (lenny 2.6.26-1-486)
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From: Tim Woodall on 22 Nov 2008 11:30 Since upgrading to lenny I've got one (old pentium 60) that will not boot with kernel 2.6.26. It's booting fine with 2.6.18 from Etch. It gets as far as Parsing ELF... Done and then it reboots. I don't think it's even printing "now booting the kernel". Anyone got any ideas? Tim. -- God said, "div D = rho, div B = 0, curl E = - @B/@t, curl H = J + @D/@t," and there was light. http://www.woodall.me.uk/
From: Gordon Henderson on 22 Nov 2008 12:18 In article <slrngigcop.j9k.devnull(a)feynman.home.woodall.me.uk>, Tim Woodall <news003(a)woodall.me.uk> wrote: >Since upgrading to lenny I've got one (old pentium 60) that will not >boot with kernel 2.6.26. It's booting fine with 2.6.18 from Etch. > >It gets as far as Parsing ELF... Done and then it reboots. I don't think >it's even printing "now booting the kernel". > >Anyone got any ideas? Did you install the i486 or the i686 kernel? I suspect it needs the former... Gordon
From: Robert Harris on 22 Nov 2008 12:26 Tim Woodall wrote: > Since upgrading to lenny I've got one (old pentium 60) that will not > boot with kernel 2.6.26. It's booting fine with 2.6.18 from Etch. > > It gets as far as Parsing ELF... Done and then it reboots. I don't think > it's even printing "now booting the kernel". > > Anyone got any ideas? > > Tim. > Try installing and booting from the package: linux-image-486 Robert
From: Tim Woodall on 22 Nov 2008 13:10 On Sat, 22 Nov 2008 17:18:17 +0000 (UTC), Gordon Henderson <gordon+usenet(a)drogon.net> wrote: > In article <slrngigcop.j9k.devnull(a)feynman.home.woodall.me.uk>, > Tim Woodall <news003(a)woodall.me.uk> wrote: >>Since upgrading to lenny I've got one (old pentium 60) that will not >>boot with kernel 2.6.26. It's booting fine with 2.6.18 from Etch. >> >>It gets as far as Parsing ELF... Done and then it reboots. I don't think >>it's even printing "now booting the kernel". >> >>Anyone got any ideas? > > Did you install the i486 or the i686 kernel? I suspect it needs the > former... > I've got the 486 kernel installed (at least everything points to it being the 486 kernel): heisenberg:~# ls /lib/modules/ 2.6.18-6-486 2.6.26-1-486 heisenberg:~# ls /var/lib/dpkg/info/linux-image-2.6*.list /var/lib/dpkg/info/linux-image-2.6-486.list /var/lib/dpkg/info/linux-image-2.6.26-1-486.list /var/lib/dpkg/info/linux-image-2.6.18-6-486.list heisenberg:~# ls -l /boot total 22310 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 717950 Nov 22 15:22 System.map-2.6.18-6-486 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 912232 Nov 8 23:40 System.map-2.6.26-1-486 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 71719 Nov 22 15:22 config-2.6.18-6-486 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 91944 Nov 8 23:40 config-2.6.26-1-486 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1024 Nov 22 13:52 grub lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 23 Nov 22 13:50 initrd.img -> initrd.img-2.6.26-1-486 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5839800 Nov 22 17:50 initrd.img-2.6.18-6-486 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6203484 Nov 22 14:21 initrd.img-2.6.26-1-486 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6202718 Nov 22 13:50 initrd.img-2.6.26-1-486.bak lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 23 Nov 22 15:23 initrd.img.good -> initrd.img-2.6.18-6-486 drwx------ 2 root root 12288 Nov 22 13:46 lost+found lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 20 Nov 22 13:50 vmlinuz -> vmlinuz-2.6.26-1-486 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1219405 Nov 22 15:22 vmlinuz-2.6.18-6-486 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1467760 Nov 8 23:40 vmlinuz-2.6.26-1-486 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 20 Nov 22 15:23 vmlinuz.good -> vmlinuz-2.6.18-6-486 Amongst other things I've increased the memory from 40MB to 64MB incase it was memory - I can't go any bigger than that, I've copied everything onto a bigger disk (6GB rather than 500MB) incase it was disk space. copied everything onto a bigger disk Maybe my next job is to build the kernel myself. Tim. -- God said, "div D = rho, div B = 0, curl E = - @B/@t, curl H = J + @D/@t," and there was light. http://www.woodall.me.uk/
From: Tim Woodall on 22 Nov 2008 13:30
On Sat, 22 Nov 2008 18:04:16 +0000 (UTC), Tim Woodall <devnull(a)woodall.me.uk> wrote: Not sure if it's the same but it looks like people are having problems with the 486 kernel on old hardware. I don't get that BUG message, just an instant reboot. But the people seeing the BUG message are running on a 486. http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=488022 Tim. -- God said, "div D = rho, div B = 0, curl E = - @B/@t, curl H = J + @D/@t," and there was light. http://www.woodall.me.uk/ |