Re: HELP 2.4 booting on a serial console (resend)

[Guillaume Lécroart <dummy.goug@free.fr>]

Let's just make it clearer.

2.2.20-smp works fine on the box (serial boot OK, no "unaligned panic"
either) , but I still can't do any softRaid Stuff.

Regarding raid, this 2.2.20 comes from stable Deabian release, and using the
raidtools from the SAME debian release won't work. That's why I considered
using 2.4.x., and probably raidtools2.

I also considered 2.4.x because of vlan support, but that's not a big issue.

Now the question :

I can work for myself trying to patch 2.2.20 to get raid stuff work (but I
think It's gonna be hard because it's already partially patched by debian
maintainer)

or

I could work for anybody willing to boot 2.4.10 via a serial console
(Anyhow, I can't beleive that nobody's using 2.4.10 on some Netra boxes. How
come they do not have this problem???), and enjoy helping the community :).
But for this, I'd need some troubleshooting hints. That's what I asked for
in my previous mail...

Thxs & Rgds

G.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Fabbione" <fabbione@fabbione.net>
To: "Guillaume Lécroart" <dummy.goug@free.fr>
Cc: <debian-sparc@lists.debian.org>; <sparclinux@vger.kernel.org>
Sent: Tuesday, November 20, 2001 3:00 PM
Subject: Re: HELP 2.4 booting on a serial console (resend)


> Guillaume Lécroart wrote:
>
> > That's what I'm doing right now, but I would need specific features from
2.4
> > (802.1q vlans, softRaid...), and I can't figure out how to have them
work
> > with the debian 2.2.20 krnl.
> >
> > Thanks for the advice and the notice for ix86 anyway.
> >
> > Any hint for troubleshooting ??
> >
> > G
> >
>
> I think you should try to boot with 2.2 to see if it's a problem with the
serial
>
> driver in 2.4 (like I experienced). That was the meaning of booting with
>   an old kernel. Software raid is working on 2.2.20.. regarding other
> patches you can always figure out later. Dont you think is more
> important now to make it booting correctly???
>
>
> Fabbione
>
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