Ultra Enterprise 2 with SMP: illegal instruction in grep
Hello all,
I am trying to get Debian up and running on an old Ultra Enterprise 2
(sun4u, 2x300MHz UltraSPARC II) and running into trouble when using an
SMP kernel.
Everything seems to work peachy with a 2.4.18 UP kernel. Upon boot with
a 2.4.19 or 2.4.21 SMP kernel (the only two I have tried, and I can be
more specific), the shell's processing of /etc/init.d/rcS goes awry
because every time it tries to invoke grep, it dies with an "Illegal
Instruction".
Running grep from the shell does the same thing.
The machine is not on a network so I can't cut and paste, but here are
some relevant package versions:
grep 2.5.1-5
libc6 2.3.1-16
libc6-sparc64 2.3.1-16
kernel-image-2.4.21-sparc64 31
Please cc me as I am not a list subscriber. I will be happy to provide
any other information that might aid in diagnosing this problem. System
was bootstrapped from a recent "stable" CD, then dist-upgraded with a
"Sarge" cd set dated 20030719.
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Matthew Mitchell
Systems Programmer/Administrator matthew@geodev.com
Geophysical Development Corporation phone 713 782 1234
1 Riverway Suite 2100, Houston, TX 77056 fax 713 782 1829
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