[gentoo-embedded] WRAP crashes on reboot

[gentoo-embedded] WRAP crashes on reboot

[mjinks]

I'm (still) playing with a PC Engines WRAP machine, trying to get it
ready for a life in a network closet.  I'm (still) almost there, except
that rebooting isn't going so well.

Originally the system would hang after the console printed "Restarting
system."  After adding "reboot=bios" to my kernel command line with some
help from Thierry, now I'm getting a little further:

[...]
 * Unmounting filesystems ...                                             [ ok ] * Remounting remaining filesystems readonly ...                          [ ok ]Restarting system.
PC Engines WRAP.2B/2C v1.09
640 KB Base Memory

...and there it sits indefinitely.  In a normal boot, the next line
would print the amount of extended memory.

I suppose this could be a bug in the hardware, and I'll see if I can get
any suggestions from the PC Engines people, but I thought I'd ask here
just in case somebody knows what to do.

Cheers,
-mrj
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Re: [gentoo-embedded] WRAP crashes on reboot

[Christian Heim]

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On Friday 07 April 2006 23:15, mj wrote:                 
>   [ ok ]Restarting system. PC Engines WRAP.2B/2C v1.09
> 640 KB Base Memory
>
> ...and there it sits indefinitely.  In a normal boot, the next line
> would print the amount of extended memory.

I'm seeing the same issues here.

>
> I suppose this could be a bug in the hardware, and I'll see if I can get
> any suggestions from the PC Engines people, but I thought I'd ask here
> just in case somebody knows what to do.

Definitly, I already talked to the PC Engines People (in fact I talked to 
Pascal Dornier). He told me to send my (broken) WRAP to him, he returned a 
new one to me. But its still broken.

The funny thing about that is if you unplug the WRAP for some time (5+mins) it 
runs fine again. So I think the reboot is really b0rked.

Regards

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Gentoo Linux Developer - vserver/openvz

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Re: [gentoo-embedded] WRAP crashes on reboot

[Natanael Copa]

On Fri, 7 Apr 2006 16:15:39 -0500
mjinks@uchicago.edu wrote:

> [...]
>  * Unmounting filesystems ...                                             [ ok ] * Remounting remaining filesystems readonly ...                          [ ok ]Restarting system.
> PC Engines WRAP.2B/2C v1.09
> 640 KB Base Memory
> 
> ...and there it sits indefinitely.  In a normal boot, the next line
> would print the amount of extended memory.

Have you tried turning on
Procerssor type and features -> Enable X86 board specific fixups for reboot
in the kernel config?
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Re: [gentoo-embedded] WRAP crashes on reboot

[Thierry Carrez]

Natanael Copa wrote:

> Have you tried turning on
> Procerssor type and features -> Enable X86 board specific fixups for reboot
> in the kernel config?

It's not enabled in standard GNAP. Maybe I should :)

mjinks:
Your way out is to rebuild (gnap_make) with a new
specs/isolinux/syslinux.cfg and kernel.config.

Since GNAP 1.8.2 is broken with current portage you might be better out
waiting for the 2.0 release, or play with 2.0rc1 from
http://dev.gentoo.org/~koon/gnap-2.0rc1

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resolved, Re: [gentoo-embedded] WRAP crashes on reboot

[mjinks]

On Sat, Apr 08, 2006 at 04:41:54PM +0200, Natanael Copa wrote:
> 
> Have you tried turning on
> Procerssor type and features -> Enable X86 board specific fixups for reboot
> in the kernel config?

I thought I had, but no, I hadn't.  When I did, the problem went away.

Thanks, all.

Is there any downside to enabling that feature in the default GNAP
kernel build?

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Re: resolved, Re: [gentoo-embedded] WRAP crashes on reboot

[Thierry Carrez]

mjinks@uchicago.edu wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 08, 2006 at 04:41:54PM +0200, Natanael Copa wrote:
> 
>>Have you tried turning on
>>Procerssor type and features -> Enable X86 board specific fixups for reboot
>>in the kernel config?
> 
> 
> I thought I had, but no, I hadn't.  When I did, the problem went away.
> 
> Thanks, all.
> 
> Is there any downside to enabling that feature in the default GNAP
> kernel build?
> 

Probably not. Please file a bug under the GentooHostedProjects/GNAP
Bugzilla component so that I remember to fix it.

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Re: resolved, Re: [gentoo-embedded] WRAP crashes on reboot

[mjinks]

On Thu, Apr 13, 2006 at 06:07:33PM +0200, Thierry Carrez wrote:
> 
> Probably not. Please file a bug under the GentooHostedProjects/GNAP
> Bugzilla component so that I remember to fix it.

Done!  Thanks again.

-mrj
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