Re: New sparc-mini.iso for Debian installs...

["Brian Davis" <bridavis@comcast.net>]

FWIW, I did get the Illegal Instruction problem after Loading Ramdisk on the
new iso you pointed to.

I saw in an earlier thread that boot cdrom /boot/sparc64 would get around
this, and it did, but now it's looking for the root disk, and I don't have a
floppy drive in this machine :(.

Thanks,
Brian

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
To: "Ben Collins" <bcollins@debian.org>
Cc: <debian-sparc@lists.debian.org>; <sparclinux@vger.kernel.org>
Sent: Tuesday, September 30, 2003 1:30 AM
Subject: Re: New sparc-mini.iso for Debian installs...


> On Mon, 29 Sep 2003 11:37:31 -0400
> Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org> wrote:
>
> > Dave, I haven't looked into why gcc-3.3.1 is causing this, but maybe
> > I'll have time this week.
>
> Check for variables explicitly initialized to zero, gcc-3.x will
> put them into the BSS section whether you want this to happen or
> not.
>
> I wouldn't be surprised if explicitly initialized to zero variables
> are used by SILO so that it need not zero out the BSS section.
>
> There's some magic -f* option to gcc-3.x that shuts off this
> transformation.
>
>
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