Problem booting SPARC64 installcd on Blade2500 systems

Hi,


I'm trying to get the latest 2006.1 Sparc Universal bootcd
(downloaded 
yesterday) to run on some Blade2500 machines, without much
success. I've tried 
the Silver & Non-Silver models, and both the provided
kernels (2.6.16 & 2.6.17)

Some basic info regarding the specs (a prtdiag -v is also
attached) --

OpenBoot v4.17.1
4096 Mb RAM
XVR-1200 GFX module (SUNW,375-3101)
Dual UltraSPARC IIIi 1280 Mhz CPUs
Broadcom NIC (bge0 in Solaris)

Some have both a XVR-1200 and a XVR-100 module installed
(I've tested on both)
The problem however seems to be related to the initial
ramdisk --


<..begin BootPROM output..>

Loading initial ramdisk (644214 bytes at 0x133F802000 phys,
0x40C00000 virt)...

	ERROR: Last Trap: Illegal Instruction

Error -256

	ERROR: Last Trap: Memory Address not Aligned


<..end BootPROM output..>

And then it throws you back to the ok prompt.  Any
suggestions?  I'll be happy 
to test any experimental livecd's and/or possible BootPROM
fixes (env. settings, 
disabling mem, etc.) I didn't do an asr-disable, as the
previous problems seemed 
to have to do with having more than 4Gb mem, which isn't the
issue here.


Regards,

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System Configuration: Sun Microsystems  sun4u Sun Blade 2500
(Silver)
System clock frequency: 160 MHZ
Memory size: 4GB        

==================================== CPUs
====================================
               E$          CPU     CPU       Temperature
CPU  Freq      Size        Impl.   Mask     Die    Ambient
---  --------  ----------  ------  ----  --------  --------
 0   1600 MHz  1MB         US-IIIi   3.4     70 C      29 C 
 
 1   1600 MHz  1MB         US-IIIi   3.4     71 C      29 C 
 

================================= IO Devices
=================================
     Bus   Freq
Brd  Type  MHz   Slot        Name                         
Model
---  ----  ----  ----------  ---------------------------- 
--------------------
 0   pci    66            2  SUNW,XVR-1200 (display)      
SUNW,375-3101      
 0   pci    66            2  display-pci3d3d,7a2.3d3d.104+  
                 
 0   pci    66            2  SUNW,XVR-100 (display)       
SUNW,375-3181      
 0   pci    66            3  network-pci14e4,1647.108e.16+  
                 
 0   pci    66            4  scsi-pci1000,30.1000.1000.7 +
LSI,1030           
 0   pci    66            4  scsi-pci1000,30.1000.1000.7 +
LSI,1030           
 0   pci    33            7  isa/serial-su16550 (serial)    
                 
 0   pci    33            7  isa/serial-su16550 (serial)    
                 
 0   pci    33            7  isa/dma-isadma (dma)           
                 
 0   pci    33            8  sound-pci10b9,5451.10b9.5451+  
                 
 0   pci    33            8  usb-pci1033,35.1235.35.1043 +  
                 
 0   pci    33            8  usb-pci1033,35.1235.35.1043 +  
                 
 0   pci    33            8  usb-pci1033,e0.1235.e0.2004 +  
                 
 0   pci    33           10  usb-pci10b9,5237.3 (usb)       
                 
 0   pci    33           11  usb-pci10b9,5237.3 (usb)       
                 
 0   pci    33           11  firewire-pci104c,8024.1235.8+  
                 
 0   pci    33           13  ide-pci10b9,5229.c4 (ide)      
                 

============================ Memory Configuration
============================
Segment Table:
------------------------------------------------------------
-----------
Base Address       Size       Interleave Factor  Contains
------------------------------------------------------------
-----------
0x200000000        2GB               2           BankIDs
0,1
0x1200000000       2GB               2           BankIDs
16,17

Bank Table:
-----------------------------------------------------------
           Physical Location
ID       ControllerID  GroupID   Size       Interleave Way
-----------------------------------------------------------
0        0             1         1GB             0,1
1        0             1         1GB             
16       1             1         1GB             0,1
17       1             1         1GB             

Memory Module Groups:
--------------------------------------------------
ControllerID   GroupID  Size       Labels
--------------------------------------------------
0              1        2GB        DIMM2,DIMM3

Memory Module Groups:
--------------------------------------------------
ControllerID   GroupID  Size       Labels
--------------------------------------------------
1              1        2GB        DIMM6,DIMM7

=============================== usb Devices
===============================

Name          Port#
------------  -----
mouse           1
keyboard        2

============================ Environmental Status
============================
Fan Speeds:
----------------------------
Fan Device            Speed
----------------------------
dimm-fan              4192rpm
cpu0-fan              3515rpm
cpu1-fan              3125rpm
outtake-fan           1854rpm
intake-fan            2481rpm

================================ HW Revisions
================================
ASIC Revisions:
---------------
pci: Rev 4
pci: Rev 4
pci: Rev 4
pci: Rev 4

System PROM revisions:
----------------------
OBP 4.17.1 2005/04/11 14:25 Sun Blade 2500 (Silver)
OBDIAG 4.17.1 2005/04/11 14:35  

Hi,

I have a similar problem trying to boot any kernel more
recent than
2.6.11.  I am currently net-booting a 2.6.11-r8 kernel which
works fine.

The errors which I have experienced so far include:

Illegal Instruction
Memory Address not Aligned
Data Access Exception
Fast Instruction Access MMU Miss
IDPROM: Warning, unknown format type!

They seem to change depending on the size of the kernel
image which I am
attempting to boot and the version from which it was built. 
Other than
that there is no obvious rhyme nor reason.

There is a forum post with similar (unresolved) issues here:
htt
p://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-3642405.html

If 2.6.11 was still in portage I would suggest that you
tried that but
as it isn't....

M


On Fri, 2006-10-13 at 11:19 +0200, Martin Andersen wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> 
> I'm trying to get the latest 2006.1 Sparc Universal
bootcd (downloaded 
> yesterday) to run on some Blade2500 machines, without
much success. I've tried 
> the Silver & Non-Silver models, and both the
provided kernels (2.6.16 & 2.6.17)
> 
> Some basic info regarding the specs (a prtdiag -v is
also attached) --
> 
> OpenBoot v4.17.1
> 4096 Mb RAM
> XVR-1200 GFX module (SUNW,375-3101)
> Dual UltraSPARC IIIi 1280 Mhz CPUs
> Broadcom NIC (bge0 in Solaris)
> 
> Some have both a XVR-1200 and a XVR-100 module
installed (I've tested on both)
> The problem however seems to be related to the initial
ramdisk --
> 
> 
> <..begin BootPROM output..>
> 
> Loading initial ramdisk (644214 bytes at 0x133F802000
phys, 0x40C00000 virt)...
> 
> 	ERROR: Last Trap: Illegal Instruction
> 
> Error -256
> 
> 	ERROR: Last Trap: Memory Address not Aligned
> 
> 
> <..end BootPROM output..>
> 
> And then it throws you back to the ok prompt.  Any
suggestions?  I'll be happy 
> to test any experimental livecd's and/or possible
BootPROM fixes (env. settings, 
> disabling mem, etc.) I didn't do an asr-disable, as the
previous problems seemed 
> to have to do with having more than 4Gb mem, which
isn't the issue here.
> 
> 
> Regards,
> 

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On 10/13/06, Martin Andersen <martin.andersenieee.org> wrote:
>
> <..begin BootPROM output..>
>
> Loading initial ramdisk (644214 bytes at 0x133F802000
phys, 0x40C00000 virt)...
>
>         ERROR: Last Trap: Illegal Instruction
>
> Error -256
>
>         ERROR: Last Trap: Memory Address not Aligned
>
>
> <..end BootPROM output..>


It's been a while since I had to play around with a
non-booting sparc,
but in the past the problem was an incompatibility between
obp and
silo when booting from cd. I found that the best way for
*me* was to
dig out my old Gentoo 1.4 cd, although I believe the 2005.0
disc
worked as well. On all the machines that refused to boot
with the 2006
discs, they worked with one of those older ones.

Or, netboot always worked as well.

Mike
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* Mike Owen <kyphrosgmail.com> on Fri, 13 Oct 2006 at 08:23
-0700:

<...>

> > Loading initial ramdisk (644214 bytes at
0x133F802000 phys, 0x40C00000
> > virt)...
> > 
> > ERROR: Last Trap: Illegal Instruction
> > 
> > Error -256
> > 
> > ERROR: Last Trap: Memory Address not Aligned
> > 
> > 
> > <..end BootPROM output..>
> 
> 
> It's been a while since I had to play around with a
non-booting sparc,
> but in the past the problem was an incompatibility
between obp and
> silo when booting from cd. I found that the best way
for *me* was to
> dig out my old Gentoo 1.4 cd, although I believe the
2005.0 disc
> worked as well. On all the machines that refused to
boot with the 2006
> discs, they worked with one of those older ones.
> 
> Or, netboot always worked as well.

Hmm.. Curious.  So it might be the version of SILO that is
at fault here; or 
perhaps something different with the way initrd is handled.

I'll try a 2005.* image to see if that works better.  Would
be nice to get this 
nailed down in order for recent install cds to work, as much
of the hardware in 
the Blade probably won't be supported as well in those older
releases (if at all) -- 
so an installation would take quite some time and
determination to get going I 
guess (note: they are intended to be used in a graphical
environment.)

As for netbooting -- not an option at that location,
unfortunately. Otherwise 
that would be the way to go (had the same issue on
Linux-MIPS with an Octane2)


Regards,

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