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From: IsoH <jd@××××××.fi>
To: gentoo-ppc-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-ppc-user] XServeG5 boot failed
Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2004 14:05:43
Message-Id: Pine.LNX.4.21.0408251702500.3400-100000@alphatux2.ts.ray.fi
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-ppc-user] XServeG5 boot failed by IsoH
1 On Wed, 25 Aug 2004, IsoH wrote:
2
3 > On Wed, 25 Aug 2004, IsoH wrote:
4 >
5 > > On Tue, 24 Aug 2004, Rick Altherr wrote:
6 > >
7 > > > I'm assuming you didn't add a video card to the system.
8 > >
9 > > That's correct.
10 > >
11 > > > You need to specify console=ttyS0 for the console to be pushed to the serial port.
12 > >
13 > > I did that (actually "console=ttyS0,57600" like I have wrote below) and
14 > > I also burned new 2004.2.iso with different kernel 2.6.8-gentoo-r1 but
15 > > result was the same.
16 > > I think that I have something wrong with kernel's .config because
17 > > it seems to be so that http://gnumonks.org/~laforge/weblog/
18 > > succeeded with 2.6.8-gentoo-r1
19 > >
20 >
21 > I did forget something! I didn't have these lines:
22 >
23 > CONFIG_SERIAL_PMACZILOG=y
24 > CONFIG_SERIAL_PMACZILOG_CONSOLE=y
25 >
26 > But now I have new (Oops)problem:
27 > ------------------------------------------------
28 >
29 > sungem.c:v0.98 8/24/03 David S. Miller (davem@××××××.com)
30 > Oops: Kernel access of bad area, sig: 11 [#1]
31 > ...
32
33 sungem draiver seems to be too sensitive if machine has no
34 hardware for it.
35 I removed draiver and then livecd booted normally.
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40 >
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44 IsoH
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