Re: Ultra5 + Linux kernel 2.6.1 = hangs while booting
On Sat, 24 Jan 2004, Alex Smith wrote:
Hi Alex, Debian Sparc Folks...
> I currently have version 2.4.18 #2 of the kernel, which came when I
> installed woody for Sparc. Everything is 'stable', except for gcc and
> related packages which were upgraded to 'testing' (gcc 3.3.2). I have been
> trying to compile a version of 2.6.1 for over a week with lots of problems
> and I'm finally stuck, exhausting the web and forums, and need some help.
I do run my U10 for quite some years with linux... and now with 2.6.1.
Initially I had some keyboard and mouse problems, but I have solved them.
It needs serio to find them, and the kernel maps the keyboard to pc101...
remember that as soon as you setup you X.
> I have tried endless .config permutations, the most promising being the 2.6
> Ultra10 example from:
>
> http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm/configs/kernel/
That one is good... it gave me some helpful hints. But to add to you
permutations I have put my config to...
http://www.iei.tu-clausthal.de/misc-stuff/sparclinux/
The machine has a Creator3D so you might wanna change the DRI and FB
setting. And you might want to remove the IEEE1394 and the Sound stuff,
too. Cuz I have filled the machines all so pretty PCI slots with nice
additionally hardware. (-:
> It seems like a lot of people like me have trouble with the size of the
> kernel, and I can't ever use vmlinux, even compressed,...
That's strage cuz the sparc arch does have the mem limitation like ix86
platform. You should be able to boot nearly any sized kernel... the
Sparc1e I set up some years ago did complain either. Actually you do not
need to compress your kernel at all. The kernel I run is of 1.4M size.
> ... so I follow these steps:
>
> make menuconfig
> make
> make image
> make modules
> make modules_install
I do have no trouble at all getting the kernel up. No size probs at all.
I simply did...
make menuconfig
make-kpkg clean
make-kpkg --revision whatever kernel-image
Thats it... and you get a slick kernel debian package.
> The arch/sparc64/boot/image is then placed in /boot (along with the new
> /boot/System.map) and added to silo.conf.
>
> Whenever I try to boot to this from silo, I get:
>
> boot: linux6
> Loaded kernel version 2.6.1
>
> Remapping the kernel... done.
> Booting Linux...
>
> Where it flashes the keyboard LEDs once,...
That actually means already quite a lot... once they flash up the keyboard
is initiallized. Thus you should have seen already much more on your
console!
> ...then appears to freeze indefinitely.
May be the kernel ran fine but you didn't have a proper console driver
installed.
> I have tried many of the graphics modules, but is there one I need
> specifically?
Of course the one that fits your gfx card... but you want to have
CONFIG_FRAMEBUFFER_CONSOLE=y too!
> How will my Ultra5 config need to be different from the
> Ultra10?
> Should I go back to a 2.6 instead of 2.6.1?
Better don't.... the 2.6.1 ran a bit better then the 2.6.0 but maybe it
was just the "smell of new" on it.
> Any ideas would be truly appreciated; I'm just tired of compiling.
I would give you kernel bins but you seem to have a different gfx card.
Christian Hopp
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