Hi, On Sun, 18 Apr 2004, JLB wrote:
> > Hey, it's Sunday. Give us a break. :) > > (..) Is /dev/hda3 a 'whole disk' partition? > > That is precisely how I did it. (I have an Ultra 1, BTW.) And, as noted > earlier, I enabled ALL (!!!) of the various "advanced partition selection" > (or whatever they call it) options, INCLUDING (but not limited to) Sun > disklabels... and no dice. :/ Why are you actually compiling your own kernel? Do you really need new functionality? And did you leave a working 2.4.18 kernel as a fallback scenario? My LILO can boot a 'linux.old' kernel if the newly compiled one fails. (Debian's make-kpkg script from the 'kernel-package' package is a great help in this.) Even though the Linux 2.4 code is mature, compiling kernels for SPARC is a delicate process. Only since Woody does Debian distribute a gcc which is known to compile SPARC kernels out of the box correctly (previously, a special beta version of GCC had to be used.) I have had a few stupid problems myself when I tried to compile my own first SPARC kernel. I was happy that some other SPARC-people on IRC (#sparc on freenode) helped me. They advised to really use the Debian kernel images - it saves quite some time and tinkering. However, new kernel images (currently only up to 2.4.24) are only in the Debian testing and unstable branches, not in Woody. If you really insist on making your own kernel, you should NOT use the default configuration of the Linux kernel tarball. It is not prepared for SPARC use and you will forget important tweaks. Instead, start with the Debian default .config from [1], run 'make oldconfig' and invoke only new options that you expect to work. If that still fails, you are in development land. After all, 2.4.26 is brand new; you might be doing things that someone has never done before. You'd better have the time and attention to file a detailed bugreport and help developers finding the bug (or fixing it yourself) instead of only crying for help... :) I hope some of this will help you. Regards, Pieter-Paul [1] http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/disks-sparc/current/sun4u/kernel-config
