Re: Ultra Enterprise 2 with SMP: illegal instruction in grep

[Matthew Mitchell <matthew@geodev.com>]

Ben Collins wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 29, 2003 at 01:13:48PM -0500, Matthew Mitchell wrote:
>
> > Hello all,
> >
> > I am trying to get Debian up and running on an old Ultra Enterprise 2 
> > (sun4u, 2x300MHz UltraSPARC II) and running into trouble when using an 
> > SMP kernel.
> >
> > Everything seems to work peachy with a 2.4.18 UP kernel.  Upon boot with 
> > a 2.4.19 or 2.4.21 SMP kernel (the only two I have tried, and I can be 
> > more specific), the shell's processing of /etc/init.d/rcS goes awry 
> > because every time it tries to invoke grep, it dies with an "Illegal 
> > Instruction".
> >
> > Running grep from the shell does the same thing.
> >
> > The machine is not on a network so I can't cut and paste, but here are 
> > some relevant package versions:
>
>
> Are you compiling your own SMP kernels, or using the images I've built?

According to dpkg -s, you built them.

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