Hi Everyone, I currently have version 2.4.18 #2 of the kernel, which came when I installed woody for Sparc. Everything is 'stable', except for gcc and related packages which were upgraded to 'testing' (gcc 3.3.2). I have been trying to compile a version of 2.6.1 for over a week with lots of problems and I'm finally stuck, exhausting the web and forums, and need some help.
I have tried endless .config permutations, the most promising being the 2.6 Ultra10 example from: http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm/configs/kernel/ It seems like a lot of people like me have trouble with the size of the kernel, and I can't ever use vmlinux, even compressed, so I follow these steps: make menuconfig make make image make modules make modules_install The arch/sparc64/boot/image is then placed in /boot (along with the new /boot/System.map) and added to silo.conf. Whenever I try to boot to this from silo, I get: boot: linux6 Loaded kernel version 2.6.1 Remapping the kernel... done. Booting Linux... Where it flashes the keyboard LEDs once, then appears to freeze indefinitely. I have tried many of the graphics modules, but is there one I need specifically? How will my Ultra5 config need to be different from the Ultra10? Should I go back to a 2.6 instead of 2.6.1? Any ideas would be truly appreciated; I'm just tired of compiling. Thanks, Alex Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED]
