RE: Ultra5 + Linux kernel 2.6.1 = hangs while booting

[Alex Smith <ans1024@rit.edu>]

-----Original Message-----

> > 
> > CONFIG_FB_ATY=m
> 
>  I have _FB_ATY=y in my config for my ultra 5.
> 

Yeah, that would be a problem :)

^^^^^^Original Message^^^^^


Yup, that was it.  I just recently began to understand kernel modules, but
in my quest to keep the image size down, I tried to make everything one.

Yes, there is a limit to SILO image size, it's around 3.5 Meg.  It doesn't
matter if its gzipped because its unzipped to the memory space with the
limit.  It's not a hardware issue per se, there's a decent thread here:

http://lists.debian.org/debian-sparc/2003/debian-sparc-200311/msg00125.html


Now I boot through the filesystem stuff, but I still get stuck here:

Hdc: ATAPI 32x CD-ROM drive, 128kB Cache
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.12
...

The keyboard lights flash once and it locks.  Booting with the SILO -p
option is pretty useless because it clears out too quickly a few times and
the reboots. Stop+A doesn't work during the sequence. Is there a way to slow
this down or something?

What about my input stuff?

CONFIG_SERIO=y
CONFIG_SERIO_I8042=y
CONFIG_SERIO_SERPORT=y

CONFIG_INPUT_KEYBOARD=y
# CONFIG_KEYBOARD_ATKBD is not set
CONFIG_KEYBOARD_SUNKBD=y

Sorry for being so difficult. I'll appreciate this amount of control once I
have it working ;-).

  -Alex