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Talos II / Re: Ubuntu 20.04 5.4.0-167: kexec load failed

« Last post by ry60003333 on November 28, 2023, 10:15:05 am »

That is great to hear! I was actually updating the system ahead of performing an upgrade to 22.04 LTS, so I'm glad that you've been able to run it.

I actually was able to solve this by running

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sudo update-initramfs -u -k 5.4.0-167-generic
and rebuilding the initial ramdisk, so maybe I had some kind of filesystem corruption, which is a bit concerning since the system has ECC memory and a UPS. 

Anyways thanks for the help everyone! I greatly appreciate it, and it is awesome to see people using these amazing machines.

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Talos II / Re: Ubuntu 20.04 5.4.0-167: kexec load failed

« Last post by amock on November 28, 2023, 09:00:04 am »

I don't know why that version doesn't boot, but I'm running 22.04 with 5.15.0-89-generic and haven't had any kernel trouble

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Talos II / Re: Ubuntu 20.04 5.4.0-167: kexec load failed

« Last post by ry60003333 on November 28, 2023, 07:30:05 am »

Oh wow sorry I can't believe I forgot to include that; the new kernel that fails to boot is

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5.4.0-167-generic.

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General OpenPOWER Discussion / Re: Announcement from Raptor / Solid Silicon Corp

« Last post by lepidotos on November 28, 2023, 05:21:38 am »

Loads in fine for me. Page 1 is a generic looking fullscreen video of that mountain shot, page two has three eighths of a paragraph selling open hardware kinda distastefully in my opinion before saying their silicon is "future-proof" (a claim shared by paragons of futurism eMachines), page three is just one sentence and a full screen image of the X1, page four the same (though a sentence twice as long) for the S1, and page five is literally just a giant gray screen with an email address in slightly less big, also gray-on-gray text compared to the much bigger white on blue or black on gray that we've seen before then. You're really not missing out, it's the same kind of site that's almost formatted more like a business card that I hate.

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General OpenPOWER Discussion / Re: POWER11 on the horizon?

« Last post by Borley on November 27, 2023, 08:11:52 pm »

If anything I'm most interested in is IBM returning to its core open source design, so that it has a Power 11 processor that's exactly as open as a Power 8 or Power 9, I'm not going to buy Power CPUs. that they are not IBM because their technology is the best ever for their processors and I don't think that any other company, no matter how good, can reach their level and therefore I don't intend to change companies for these microprocessors. IBM creates it and IBM must produce it or have it produced by one of its direct partners to be the best, this at least is my humble opinion and then obviously it is debatable by anyone.

I've learned in life not to get hung up on vendor brands. Especially in the computing space, it's all about the design and how it's implemented.

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General OpenPOWER Discussion / Re: Announcement from Raptor / Solid Silicon Corp

« Last post by Borley on November 27, 2023, 08:08:24 pm »

Here is the website of Solid Silicon: https://www.solidsilicon.com/

No matter how I try to view the site, it only loads a blank white canvas (Or black canvas, with CSS but no javascript). There is a vimeo link supplied to a scene of smoke rolling over mountains. I assume they attempt to use this for an animated backdrop?

It hasn't been picked up by web archive and other archivers also just grab a blank page. Has anybody been able to view their page?

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Talos II / Re: Ubuntu 20.04 5.4.0-167: kexec load failed

« Last post by ClassicHasClass on November 27, 2023, 11:04:40 am »

What kernel version is it?

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Talos II / Ubuntu 20.04 5.4.0-167: kexec load failed

« Last post by ry60003333 on November 27, 2023, 04:13:55 am »

Hey everyone! I've been rocking a Talos II system for a couple years now running Ubuntu 20.04. I just recently updated and rebooted it and was surprised when it didn't come back up. Looking at the serial output from the serial over LAN console showed this message when trying to boot the new kernel:

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kexec load failed: do_file_load: (-1) Function not implemented
Thankfully I was able to boot the previous kernel I was using (5.4.0-162-generic) and get into the system, but of course I don't want to stick with this kernel forever and I was actually hoping to upgrade the system to Ubuntu 22.04. Is this a problem with my petitboot configuration / version or an issue with the kernel itself? I'm running System Package v2.00 from the wiki. Other than this issue I've loved my experience with the Talos II!

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Operating Systems and Porting / Re: [NEWS] Fedora 39 is here!

« Last post by MauryG5 on November 19, 2023, 03:30:28 pm »

Updated yesterday from 37, I hadn't put 38 precisely because it was disgusting again and so I decided to wait and leave 37 which is fine instead. I confirm what my friend TLE said, everything is good and works well, the Gnome 45 works well and runs as smoothly as the version for Fedora 37 and therefore they have again optimized everything in the correct way. As for the graphics server, I must say that I also encountered some problems under Wayland. If I start under the latter, it sets the 4k resolution as default, i.e. 3840 x 2160 but if I want to change there is a big bug and it doesn't allow me to do so. So I went back to the x11 server as well which is still better today after a long time... I'm now waiting to see Chromium return to Fedora, let's see if it will be possible...

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Firmware / Re: Flashing corrupted BMC firmware

« Last post by hiryu on November 18, 2023, 05:20:04 pm »

Seems like the BMC Write Protect switch was possible just _slightly_ off... It's the only thing I touched that fixed the issue.

As of around 2 hours, my Talos II system is in its new colo and it's working fine!

Hopefully if someone runs into the same or similar issue that this is able to help them!