On Sat, Dec 04, 1999 at 05:23:36PM -0800, Robert Dinse wrote:
> Can anybody tell me what I need to do to get this machine to boot and run
> or do I have to re-install Linux and recompile all of my software?
Boot from the CD, copy that kernel over to the hardrive and use that to
boot. Sparc-32 kernels will not boot sparc64 (ultra) systems (there are
hardware driver differences aswell).
Also, two other things:
1) If your sparc userland is pre-rh6.0 you will have some issues.
The userland used on UltraSparc is nearly identical but some fixes
to glibc and some other packages which happened for rh6.0 are
pretty much mandatory.
You will need to reformat your swap partitions as well, the format
is slightly different (64-bit kernel).
2) To build your own custom kernels from 2.2.x sources you will need
to have the egcs64-* package installed, make sure to get the latest
from the rh6.0 updates if going to 6.1 is not an option. This
packages is for the compiler which builds the 64-bit kernel.
Later,
David S. Miller
davem@redhat.com
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