Kernel 2.{4,6} on sparc32

[Steve Kowalik <stevenk@debian.org>]

Hi,

    I've been trying to update my SparcStation 5 from the installation
kernel of 2.2.0-sun4cdm to a 2.4 or a 2.6 kernel for the last 3 months
or so (whenever the new libc6 went in), and have had pretty much zero
sucess. If the kernel is above about 1.1Mb, I can't boot the kernel,
and get something about the destination being too small, but if the
kernel is the right size, I doesn't boot anyway. This happens to any
kernel, not just 2.6.3.

    Booting 2.2.20 gives me:

PROMLIB: obio_ranges 1
Booting Linux ....

    Booting 2.6.3 gives me:

PROMLIB: obio_ranges 1

Watchdog reset
Reseting ...

    The PROM version of the machine is, to my mind, extremly old, which
may be why I can't boot anything newer than 2.2.

ok .version
Release 2.15 Version 5 created 95/03/29 14:21:55

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Thanks,
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					Steve
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