Re: SPARCstation 10 w/2.4.1 boot hangs early
I added the mem=<whatever> param to my boot params and it works for me.
Brian Macy
Quoting Tim ter Laak <timl@scintilla.utwente.nl>:
> Does the 2.2.17 run on the exact same machine, or are you trying 2.4.0
> on
> a "spare" machine? I had the same behaviour ("Booting Linux..." and then
> just stopping) on a Sparc IPC. Turned out swapping some memory did the
> trick (even though the Sparc's diagnostics claimed the memory to be ok).
>
> Tim.
>
> On Tue, 6 Feb 2001, KELEMEN Peter wrote:
>
> > [ Please Cc: me in replies since I'm not subscribed to the list. ]
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > I'm in the process of upgrading a DNS server to 9.1.0 but it
> > refuses to drop privileges when running under kernels prior to
> > 2.3.99-pre3. I compiled 2.4.1 with gcc-2.95.2 (from potato), but
> > it hangs very early upon boot, right after printing "Booting
> > Linux...". Architecture is right (sun4m, it fits the default I
> > figure), I tried without framebuffer also but it does not help.
> > Anyone out there with success stories on such hardware?
> >
> > TIA,
> > Peter
> >
> > PS: Currently running potato with 2.2.17.
> >
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