Unable to boot Solaris 10

bharathp · 09-29-2010, 12:50 AM

Hi all,

I have a Sun Solaris sunfire x4200 server which is not booting up.
Attached below are the logs from the serial console. Please help!

Quote:

U-Boot 1.1.1
custom GRASP U-Boot 1.3 (Jun 3 2008 - 07:41:53) r30859
MPC8272 Reset Status: External Soft, External Hard
MPC8272 Clock Configuration
- Bus-to-Core Mult 4x, VCO Div 2, 60x Bus Freq 25-75 , Core Freq 100-300
- dfbrg 1, corecnf 0x1a, busdf 4, cpmdf 1, plldf 0, pllmf 4
- vco_out 330000000, scc_clk 82500000, brg_clk 20625000
- cpu_clk 264000000, cpm_clk 165000000, bus_clk 66000000
- pci_clk 55000000
CPU: MPC8272 (HiP7 Rev 14, Mask A.0 1K50M) at 264 MHz
checkboard()
DRAM: 64 MB
FLASH: Flash is 256 sectors of 131072 bytes each
32 MB
readonly: ethaddr=00:21:28:28:B9:B1
In: serial
Out: serial
Err: serial
misc_init_r()
reset_phy()
Net: Initializing 8260 FEC
FCC1 ETHERNET
Booting linux in 2 seconds...
primary image is type 2, address fe200800
secondary image is type 2, address ff200800
Trying primary image...
Trying to boot package at fe200800
Found bob image at fe340040
## Unzipping microcode at fe340040 ...
done.
Programming now...
Programming complete
Done bit is 1
Program Bob success
Found kernel image at fe360040
Found root image at fe440000
bootargs=ro ip=none console=ttyS0,9600 root=/dev/ramdisk ramdisk_blocksize=4096
mtdblocks=root,0x440000,0x760000,www,0xbc0000,0x100000,params,0xce0000,0x120000,
coredump,0x1000000,0x200000,
## Booting image at fe360040 ...
Image Name: Linux-2.4.22
Image Type: PowerPC Linux Kernel Image (gzip compressed)
Data Size: 716379 Bytes = 699.6 kB
Load Address: 00000000
Entry Point: 00000000
Verifying Checksum ... OK
Uncompressing Kernel Image ... OK
do_bootm_linux():
argv[0]=bootm
argv[1]=fe360040
argv[2]=fe440000
## Current stack ends at 0x03999950 => set upper limit to 0x00A00000
## Loading RAMDisk Image at fe440000 ...
Image Name:
Image Type: PowerPC Linux RAMDisk Image (uncompressed)
Data Size: 7700480 Bytes = 7.3 MB
Load Address: 00000000
Entry Point: 00000000
Verifying Checksum ... OK
## initrd at 0xFE440040 ... 0xFEB9803F (len=7700480=0x758000)
Loading Ramdisk to 03241000, end 03999000 ... OK
## cmdline at 0x009FFF00 ... 0x009FFFB3
memstart = 0x00000000
memsize = 0x04000000
flashstart = 0xFE000000
flashsize = 0x02000000
flashoffset = 0x00000000
sramstart = 0x00000000
sramsize = 0x00000000
EnvAddr = 0xFFF40000
EnvSize = 0x00020000
banksize = 0x02000000
banks = 0x00000001
bankwidth = 0x00000001
sectorsize = 0x00020000
sectorcount = 0x00000100
booted = 0xFE200800
boottype = 0x00000002
primary = 0xFE200000
pritype = 0x00000002
secondary = 0xFF200000
sectype = 0x00000002
image0 = 0xFE200000
image1 = 0xFF200000
maximage = 0x00E00000
immr_base = 0xF0000000
bootflags = 0x00000001
vco = 330 MHz
sccfreq = 82.500 MHz
brgfreq = 20.625 MHz
intfreq = 264 MHz
cpmfreq = 165 MHz
busfreq = 66 MHz
ethaddr = 00:21:28:28:B9:B1
IP addr = 192.168.2.4
baudrate = 9600 bps
## Transferring control to Linux (at address 00000000) ...
## parameters(009ffe10,03241000,03999000,009fff00,009fffb3)

Colinux · 09-29-2010, 06:00 AM

Are you sure your using the correct linux version?

I could be wrong (and often am) but isn't "PowerPC Linux Kernel Image" specifically designed for the powerpc processor found in MAC's?

The x4200 has a duel core AMD processor, so you need a normal Linux kernel.