[Debootloaders-silo] Bug#589891: silo: No more boots on UltraSparc 10: "Fast Data Access MMU Miss"

[Axel Beckert]

Package: silo
Version: 1.4.14+git20100228-1
Severity: grave

After quite some downtime (280 days or so) I updated my UltraSparc 10
running Sid. With that update came also a new silo (skipping one or two
package versions inbetween).

Since that upgrade silo doesn't start anymore. On boot I just get the
error message "Fast Data Access MMU Miss" even before the silo version
number is shown.

The version which was installed before is 1.4.13a+git20070930-3 which is
also the version currently in Debian Stable. After downgrading to it,
the box boots fine again.

Both times, I tried the silo installation (i.e. calling silo on the
command line) while running under 2.6.24 from the
Lenny-while-being-testing installer CD I used to setup this box three
years ago or so, so it shouldn't be that bug again with 32 vs 64 bit
image which happened under some kernels around 2.6.30 or so.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (400, 'stable'), (110, 'experimental')
Architecture: sparc (sparc64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-sparc64
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages silo depends on:
ii  libc6                         2.11.2-2   Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib

silo recommends no packages.

silo suggests no packages.

-- Configuration Files:
/etc/silo.conf changed:
root=/dev/mapper/vg0-root
partition=1
default=Linux
read-only
timeout=100
append="video=atyfb:off"
image=/vmlinuz
	label=Linux
	initrd=/initrd.img
image=/vmlinuz.old
	label=LinuxOLD
	initrd=/initrd.img.old
image=/vmlinuz-2.6.30-1-sparc64
	label=2.6.30-1
	initrd=/initrd-2.6.30-1-sparc64.img
image=/vmlinuz-2.6.32-5-sparc64
	label=2.6.32-5
	initrd=/initrd-2.6.32-5-sparc64.img


-- no debconf information

-- debsums errors found:
debsums: changed file /boot/second.b (from silo package)