Hmm, OK. I'll try test9, and see if that works any better then... The original reason I was upgrading to 2.4 was that the 2.2.17 that I got with potato is extremely flakey on the sun4c platform that I have. Does anyone have any kernels that work well with the SS2, that don't die after a day?
-------------------------------------------------------------------------- Matt Rose [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.folkwolf.net "I've seen scarier secret police agencies than his completely destroyed by a Czech hippie playwright with a manual typewriter" Bruce Sterling On Tue, 10 Oct 2000, Ben Collins wrote: > On Tue, Oct 10, 2000 at 02:35:04AM -0400, Matt Rose wrote: > > > > This is not really a debian problem, but I'm hoping somebody here can help > > me out. > > > > I decided to get on the bleeding edge of kernels and try to install > > 2.4.0pre8 on my sparc box at home. Though I have a lot of experience > > with > > compiling a kernel on i386, I've never done it before for a sparc. When > > I boot into my new kernel I get this error, does anyone know what this > > means? > > > > SILO boot: linux4 > > Uncompressing image... > > bootmem_init: Scan sp_banks, > > init_bootmem(spfn[1ea],bpfn[1ea],mlpfn[fed]) > > free_bootmem: base[0] size[fb4000] > > free_bootmem: base[fb5000] size[13000] > > free_bootmem: base[fcc000] size[21000] > > reserve_bootmem: base[0] size[1ea000] > > reserve_bootmem: base[1ea000] size[200] > > Booting Linux... > > mem_init: Calling free_all_bootmem(). > > It means that sparc support in test8 isn't working so well. I'm using > test9 (and getting ready to try test10-pre1) on UltraSPARC, which works > pretty well. I'm not sure how well sparc32 is working right now. > > Ben > > -- > -----------=======-=-======-=========-----------=====------------=-=------ > / Ben Collins -- ...on that fantastic voyage... -- Debian GNU/Linux \ > ` [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ' > `---=========------=======-------------=-=-----=-===-======-------=--=---' > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] >
