Hi, I've probably missed something obvious here, so please don't be *too* offensive, but any help would be much appreciated.
The problem: Booting a sparc classic from a 2.6 kernel is causing me grief. The details: The machine is a sparc classic, with 80 meg of memory and a 4 gig disk. Initially installed from the woody CD, giving me a 2.2 kernel. I then added unstable to my sources list, installed the 2.4.26 kernel, then ran a dist-upgrade, then installed the 2.4.27 kernel (having previously been caught out by the 2.4.27 / glibc upgrade loop). Before anyone asks, I have a 20 meg /boot partition with silo.conf living in it, so the machine can boot properly. I then ran apt-get install kernel-image-2.6-sparc32, which installed a 2.6.8 kernel no problem. Added the relevant kernel and initrd entries to silo.conf, sunlance to /etc/modules and rebooted. What happens next is that the machine appears to boot - the image is uncompressed and the ram disk loaded. Unfortuantely the screen then goes blank. As far as I can tell, it starts up, but doesn't respond to the keyboard either (blindy logging in and trying a shutdown doesn't work). Hitting <stop><a> and then typing "boot" (still blind) will reset the machine. Just before it completely resets, the screen comes back and you can see the dmesg output + a login prompt in the background, which is what makes me think it booted properly. Anyone know what I've missed? Cheers, Tony
