Re: kernel problem

[Frank Van Damme <frank.vandamme@student.kuleuven.ac.be>]

On Monday 17 February 2003 16:17, Frank Van Damme wrote:
> I just installed Debian on a sparc laptop. Version of debian is Sid (that
> means there's some stuff from woody but not much, and glibc is the sid
> version etc). I tried to compile a 2.4 kernel on it, starting from debians
> sources
>
> apt-get source kernel-2.4.20_sparc (or something)
>
> then configure it, make-kpkg buildpackage, reboot.
>
> When I try to use the kernel, I get
> - a message 'uncompressing image)
> - a few messages about bootmem etc (passes quickly)
> - an error "Watchdog reset" and I go back to the boot prompt again.
>
> Anyone who knows what this is (or how to disable watchdog, it sounds to me
> like some hardware protection thing).
>
> Sparc in question is a rdi powerlite 110 laptop. kernel config is attached.

C'mon, nobody who has an idea? I read from this lists archives that 2.4 has 
worked on sparc32 before, but there's no ready-made image in debian.

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Frank Van Damme
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