Re: 2.0.35 turbosparc kernel
On Thu, 30 Jul 1998, Kris Boulez wrote:
> Quoting Derrick J Brashear (shadow@DEMENTIA.ORG):
> > Well, I'd like to think I solved at least one problem in the last week.
> > For those of you with SS5/170 (Turbosparc) machines, there's a kernel at
> > ftp://ftp.dementia.org/pub/linux/2.0.35-turbosparc, along with modules
> > for it. The patches have been checked into the CVS tree and will be in
> > the next snapshot (which hopefully will be when there's a handle on the
> > egcs/sun4c/esp problems)
> >
> > Try it out with your favorite Turbosparc.
>
> How does one go about installing this kernel on a virgin disk (no linux
> yet). With other words: does someone has a bootable image that I can
> use to install a complete distribution from ? (I just got a second HD
> for my SS5/170 and would like to install Linux on it).
I assume that you have figured this out already. My replied is intended
for others who try to do the same thing. Basically, you would use
the current image disk. It is "disks-sparc/1998-05-25" at the time of
this message. After you created the boot disk, you would copy the new
Turbosparc kernel and its System.map file to the boot disk (make sure
you use the same file name as the existing disk). You will copy the
module tarball to the driver disk. By the way, the current Turbosparc
kernel is in ftp://vger.rutgers.edu/pub/linux/Sparc/kernel/v2.0/980805/.
This newer kernel works for me. It appears that there is some timing
problem on the boot script. It tried to eject the floppy too soon before
the root disk prompt message. But a paper clip worked very well for me.
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