Re: Woody boot CD/Floppy
On Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 09:56:19AM +0200, Turbo Fredriksson wrote:
> I have a Ultra 2 here with ESP SCSI. I get the same problem as
> http://www.tux.org/hypermail/linux-kernel/1999week19/0593.html
> (esp0: Warning, live target 0 not responding to selection).
>
> Now, I checked my Potato CD I have for SPARC, and that's compiled
> with egcs (gcc vesion egcs-2.92.11 19980921 (gcc2 ss-980609 experimental).
>
>
> Didn't Linus say YEARS ago that DO NOT USE EGCS!!! ?
>
>
> Is the woody/sarge images better? Any other temporary fix for this,
> than getting a new kernel? I don't have any 64 bit SPARC, so I can't
> make my own kernel (if I don't somehow get THIS kernel up and running
> temporarily)...
That isn't "egcs", that's actually egcs64, which is the _only_ compiler
known to produce stable kernels for sparc64. Anything else is buggy.
Get a netinst.iso or tftpboot.img from:
http://auric.debian.org/~bcollins/disks-sparc/current/
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