On Mon, Nov 15, 1999 at 08:13:40AM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I just compiled and booted 2.2.13 (sun4c, Sparc IPX) on a BARE Slink > system (base dbootstrap install plus potato's apt, plus > kernel-package+gcc) and saw a couple interesting problems. > > Firstly when I booted the machine to 2.2.13 for the first time I got > several hundred lines of errors saying something like 'operation not > permitted on /dev/cua0' and then a panic in the swapper process. So far > this problem hasn't been reproducable. > > I am booting with console on serial port A, so it would already be in use. > > The main problem is that insmod says for my modules 'ELF file not for this > archetecture' and fails to load anything. > > I did compile on the Sparc, but had the kernel source tree NFS-mounted.
I assume that you have the modutils from potato aswell. They are currently in flux due to a sparc/sparc64 mismatch problem. I'm working on uploading a fixed set today. You can in the meantime, either downgrade to slink's modutils, or recompile the potato source yourself. -- -----------=======-=-======-=========-----------=====------------=-=------ / Ben Collins -- ...on that fantastic voyage... -- Debian GNU/Linux \ ` [EMAIL PROTECTED] - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - [EMAIL PROTECTED] ' `---=========------=======-------------=-=-----=-===-======-------=--=---'

