Re: FW: Slink kernel compilation
Yes, because if you start MILO from SRM, then the kernel is actually
started from MILO not SRM. So that makes sense (in some strange way).
Can I ask why you are starting MILO from SRM and not just started Linux
directly (with the help of aboot)? Just curious.
--rdp
On Fri, 14 Jan 2000 simonst@WellsFargo.COM wrote:
> I've been trying for months to go from the Debian 2.1 cdrom Alpha (2.0.36
> kernel) to a 2.2.13 kernel. It would always hang booting from SRM to MILO
> to the kernel, but it's working now that I turned off the "Use SRM as
> bootloader" during the "make config".
>
> Thank you, thank you, thank you!
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Martin Lucina [mailto:mato@kotelna.sk]
> Sent: Thursday, January 13, 2000 10:30 PM
> To: Robert Parnell
> Subject: Re: Slink kernel compilation
>
>
> robparnell@yahoo.com said:
>
> These things need to go into the FAQs.
>
> > 1. I've searched the Alpha-specific Debian
> > documentation and cannot seem to find detailed
> > instructions on how to build a new 2.0.36 kernel on my
> > PC64-275 (I've done this many times on my ix86
> > machine). The docs at alphalinux.org seem RH-specific
> > and quite old, and the kernel-compilation instructions
> > in the Debian-FAQ do not seem to address any
> > Alpha-specific issues.
>
> The stock 2.0.36 tree does not support Alpha correctly. The only 2.0.x
> kernel I have ever built and used is 2.0.35 with the patches on Nikita's
> site (FTP to genie.ucd.ie:/pub/alpha).
>
> I don't know if updated versions of these patches exist for 2.0.3[678].
>
> > 2. Because of (1), I cannot build a kernel with BSK
> > disklabel and SRM boot support; I'm not familiar with
> > ARC/AlphaBIOS and would rather use SRM to boot the
> > PC64-275. The generic kernel in Slink doesn't seem to
> > have either. Is this not recommended for the PC64-275
> > and/or Debian-Alpha distribution?
>
> My advice is to go straight to 2.2.13 or later (the former has been rock
> solid for me) and use that. 2.0.x is fairly out of date with respect to
> Alpha. If you plan to boot directly from SRM then all you need IIRC is to
> set 'Use SRM as bootloader' when configuring the kernel. However a kernel
> thus configured will hang mysteriously when you try to boot it from MILO
> (anyone else seen this?).
>
> Cheers
>
> --
> Martin Lucina http://www.kotelna.sk/mato/ Wellington, New Zealand
> I've always been mad I know I've been mad like the most of us are
> Pretty hard to explain why you're a madman even if you're not mad
>
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