On Wed, Feb 16, 2000 at 08:30:20AM -0800, Robert Dinse wrote:
> On Thu, 17 Feb 2000, Anton Blanchard wrote:
> >
> > > To date, while I've been able to get 2.3 kernels to compile on both Sparc
> > > and Intel platforms, I haven't been able to get them to run. Not sure what I
> > > am doing wrong, but after it says Booting Linux... it just hangs.
> >
> > sparc32 hasn't been in a workable state until recently. UP should work
> > OK in vger tree now, SMP is being looked at now.
> >
> > Anton
>
> Unfortunately, I got the same result with Sparc-64 (Ultra-1) and Intel
> Pentium, exactly the same symptoms, prints Booting Linux... and then hangs,
> so I'm convinced there must be something stupid I'm doing but not clear what.
> Is a newer lilo required for 2.3.x?
It works just fine on all Ultra machines I have access to.
What compiler are you using?
Also, you might want to try on sparc32/sparc64 booting with console=prom
to see how far it gets before dying.
Cheers,
Jakub
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Jakub Jelinek | jakub@redhat.com | http://sunsite.mff.cuni.cz/~jj
Linux version 2.3.45 on a sparc64 machine (1343.49 BogoMips)
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