Alexey Nezhdanov declared on Tuesday 13 April 2004 01:01 am: > 13/04/2004 09:45 Patrick Finnegan wrote: > > Alexey Nezhdanov declared on Tuesday 13 April 2004 12:09 am: > > > current linux kernel. And I can not try 2.6 kernel since nobody > > > agreed to mail me a compiled binary (Oh well - I know this is > > > serious risk to > > > > Well, if it makes you feel any better, I can't get 2.6 to boot on > > any Sun thing I've got that I've tried it on, which has only been an > > Ultra 30, U60, and Cycle quad-proc (E450 in an U2 case) > > Ultrasparc-II. > > > > Has anyone gotten a version of 2.6 to boot on any Ultrasparc > > hardware? I've been using the latest kernel (2.6.0 through 2.6.4) > > with the latest toolchain in testing to compile it, yet it doesn't > > boot... the last time I tried it, it spit out a bunch of whitespace > > to my serial console, and then froze the machine (couldn't break > > back to OpenBoot). > > I'm now getting similar effect with 2.4 kernel. The most strange thing > that this effect was not from the very beginning. Initially (when I > just got this box) all was ok but then I have got an advice to update > OpenBoot firmware. Afer update kernel works same as before (with > "unable to open initial console" message in final) BUT it beginned to > print out two or three screens of whitespace > _in_the_middle_of_initialisation_. This is the difference between old > and new OpenBoot that was on this box.
Are you trying to use a framebuffer, or a serial console? It's possible that something is missing for the framebuffer to work if you're trying that. I'd recommend trying a serial console if you haven't yet. Pat -- Purdue University ITAP/RCS --- http://www.itap.purdue.edu/rcs/ The Computer Refuge --- http://computer-refuge.org
