On Wed, Aug 14, 2002 at 11:32:35AM +0200, Benoit Panizzon wrote: > Hi all > > This is probably a stupid newbie question, but it's the first time I > install Debian on a sparc and I could not find any hint in the Kernel > Readme. > > Apparently there is no make bzImage in a Sparc. > > So I read the docs I found and tryed to figure out how silo loads the > kernel image. > > What I did looked reasonable to me: > > make vmlinux (and modules etc...) > gzip vmlinux and call it vmlinuz. > copy it to /boot/vmlinuz (where the 2.2 kernel from debian also resides) > Copy System.map too. > edit silo.conf and make it point to the new kernel. > reboot. > > But, Silo on the sparcstation 10 I use won't boot. Something about the > image not being in the right format, not fitting in a buffer or similar. > > What's the right procedure to install a new kernel on a sparc4m then? As I > understood I don't need to execute silo like it is needed with lilo to tell > it the address on the disk.
Sounds to me like you compiled too much stuff into the kernel. Try making some things modules. -- Debian - http://www.debian.org/ Linux 1394 - http://linux1394.sourceforge.net/ Subversion - http://subversion.tigris.org/ Deqo - http://www.deqo.com/
