well it is an e450 im working with but it only has 2.3gigs of ram atm, so i shouldnt have to turn anything off. does the 2.6 kernel support SMP for sparc? IIRC when i tried it almost a year ago it was really unstable or something. is that all cleared up now?
On 2/21/06, Mitchell, Ralph <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Just FYI, this experimental boots on my e450, but only after disabling the > 4th Gb of memory as suggested by Pengi in the forums: > > > http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-3125170.html?sid=6e8cc73dcfa9b304d78f485c074d00ab#3125170 > > Presumably that's the silo issue. Now to see if I can fix my root volume... > :) > > Thanks! > > Ralph Mitchell > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Gustavo Zacarias [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Mon 2/20/2006 12:23 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [gentoo-sparc] LVM on sparc? > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Nick Smith wrote: > > > can you do LVM on sparc? the dm-mod module for it doesnt seem to > > exsist on the install cd. how do you go about using it with sparc if > > it can be done? > > Yeah, dm-mod is a 2.6 (and lvm2) thingie. > For 2.4 you use lvm-user (instead of lvm2) and lvm-mod (instead of dm-mod). > If you want 2.6/lvm2 you can try my experimental (as in doesn't work on > many machine models and i know and i'm not about to fix it atm since > it's silo having issues) livecd @ > http://dev.gentoo.org/~gustavoz/sparc/experimental/ > > - -- > Gustavo Zacarias > Gentoo/SPARC monkey > > > -- Linux, because I'd rather own a free OS than steal one that's not worth paying for. -- [email protected] mailing list
