On Tue, Jul 29, 2003 at 01:13:48PM -0500, Matthew Mitchell wrote: > Hello all, > > I am trying to get Debian up and running on an old Ultra Enterprise 2 > (sun4u, 2x300MHz UltraSPARC II) and running into trouble when using an > SMP kernel. > > Everything seems to work peachy with a 2.4.18 UP kernel. Upon boot with > a 2.4.19 or 2.4.21 SMP kernel (the only two I have tried, and I can be > more specific), the shell's processing of /etc/init.d/rcS goes awry > because every time it tries to invoke grep, it dies with an "Illegal > Instruction". > > Running grep from the shell does the same thing. > > The machine is not on a network so I can't cut and paste, but here are > some relevant package versions:
Are you compiling your own SMP kernels, or using the images I've built? -- Debian - http://www.debian.org/ Linux 1394 - http://www.linux1394.org/ Subversion - http://subversion.tigris.org/
