Re: Sparc20 and kernel 2.4.7: problem to boot

["Joël Soete" <jso@europay.com>]

Thanks a lot.
I will waiting better days (actually I already try to follow progress of
other Linux projects)

Joel

PS: more I read about 2.4 (sparc, parisc, ...) more I thing it would better
named 2.3.xxxx :-;). Don't you?



                                                                                                                   
                    Tad Bilby                                                                                      
                    <tbilby@rave.        To:     Joël Soete/BRU/MASTERCARD@MASTERCARD                              
                    com>                 cc:     debian-sparc@lists.debian.org@SMTP@EUROPAY                        
                                         Subject:     Re: Sparc20 and kernel 2.4.7: problem to boot                
                    23-08-01                                                                                       
                    04:01 PM                                                                                       
                                                                                                                   
                                                                                                                   



Check the list archive-
2.4 and Sparc32 don't mix well-
http://lists.debian.org/debian-sparc/2001/debian-sparc-200107/msg00149.html

T

Joël Soete wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I found an old Sun Sparc20 station with dual processor, 64Mb of mem and 2
> disk of 1Gb.
> I successfully install the last Debian "potato (r3)".
>
> As it is a dual processor, I would like to test kernel 2.4 with
> multi-processor support.
> I first try to boot with unstable package
> "kernel-image-2.4.7-sun4u_14_sparc.deb" (and update libc6 and modutils).
> But SILO failed to load kernel: "decompressing error, uncompress image
too
> long, wouldn't fir into destination".
>
> Being newbee on Sparc Linux, all advises will be well come.
>
> Regards,
>      Joel
>
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