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Re: Compiling vanilla kernel issues.
I am a linux guy too, but on my Sun Blade 100, I run OpenBSD - I could never get Debian to work right with it, but with OpenBSD, I have fvwm2, firefox3.6, R, perl, etc. It's not bad, it's fast, and it worked with no tweaking. 



On Tue, 24 Sep 2013, Kieron Gillespie wrote:


So still no joy on my Sun Blade2500 going to post my exact steps, and maybe
I'm still just missing something stupid.

tar xfv linux-3.11.1.tar.xz
cd linux-3.11.1
cp /boot/config-3.2.0-4-sparc64-smp ./.config
make oldconfig
make clean
make -j2 deb-pkg
cd ../
dpkg -i *.deb
vi /etc/silo.conf
reboot

and kernel panic trying to find the root file system.

So am I copying the old config incorrectly? I get asked a lot of questions
about configuring options, which I just go with the default response.
Does anyone have a build I can download? Wondering if I try installing a
known working set of deb packages if the issue goes away.

Thanks again.

-Kieron


On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 10:40 AM, Hartwig Atrops <Hartwig.Atrops@arcor.de>wrote:


Hi.

I repeated the test on a Blade 100 (ATAPI/IDE system, Openboot 4, test
kernel
3.11.1):

No problems ...

Regards,

   Hartwig


On Saturday 21 September 2013 22:37:02 Kieron Gillespie wrote:

Strange as those steps you mentioned are exactly what I am doing on my

two

SPARC systems.

I am going to have to guess this is an issue with these particular pieces
of hardware the Sun Blade 2500 and the Sun Fire T2000.

Thanks for the help, I just wanted to eliminate the possibility I was

just

making some stupid mistake. Looks like it's more than that. I'll
investigate more.

-Kieron

On Sat, Sep 21, 2013 at 3:53 PM, Hartwig Atrops

<Hartwig.Atrops@arcor.de>wrote:

Hi.

I used the Debian Linux Kernel Handbook:

http://kernel-handbook.alioth.debian.org/

I fetched the 3.11.1 kernel source from kernel.org (wget) and

unpacked it

under /usr/src.

During installation of Wheezy, I installed my usual tool set including
make,
gcc, g++ etc.

To build the kernel, I additionally installed:

build-essentials
fakeroot
devscripts (I don't think we need that)

and run apt-get build-dep linux

And now:

copy configuration from /boot
make oldconfig
make clean (I don't think this is necessary)
make deb-pkg

installation via dpkg -i (4 packages)

configure /boot/silo.conf (additional entry)

and reboot - it works.

You didn't mention the build packages, the rest looks the same ...

Regards,

   Hartwig

On Saturday 21 September 2013 17:42:00 Kieron Gillespie wrote:

Could you send me a link to the exact procedure you used. I keep find


like


four different ways to make a vanilla kernel for Debian.

Two of my systems are SCSI based and both of those have problems

when I


do


the standard

cp /boot/config-<Old Version> ./.config

make oldconfig
make deb-pkg

dpkg -i linux-*.deb


-Kieron

On Sat, Sep 21, 2013 at 3:11 AM, Hartwig Atrops


<Hartwig.Atrops@arcor.de>wrote:

Hi.

Last night, I've built a kernel 3.11.1 from kernel.org the Debian

way


(as


described in "Debian Linux Kernel Handbook") - without any

problems.


My test environment: a fresh installation of Wheezy (7.0.1) on a

Sun

Ultra 60,
i.e. a SCSI machine.

I'm going to do a test with an ATAPi/IDE Blade 100 as well, but I
have


to


set
up this machine first - that will take a while.

Regards,

   Hartwig

On Friday 20 September 2013 03:37:30 Kieron Gillespie wrote:

So current when I build the vanilla kernel using the typical

Debian


method


with make deb-pkg I end up with a kernel that panic's on boot.

It says,
--CUT--
Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on
unknown-block(0,0)

CPU: 0 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/1 Not tainted 3.12.0-rc #1
Call Trace:
--END CUT--

Any ideas? If someone has instructions on how they typically

build

there kernel for SPARC system I would like to know. Though this

is


how


I always have done it in the past it just recently stop working
after 3.8.x


series.


On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 9:14 AM, Patrick Baggett

<baggett.patrick@gmail.com>wrote:

I didn't have any problems, but I'm not using initramfs. To

build

a kernel 'the debian way', you might need to find a guide or
maybe


someone


else can chime in?
On Sep 18, 2013 10:05 PM, "Kieron Gillespie" <


ciaran.gillespie@gmail.com>


wrote:

Hello everyone,

Was wondering if anyone had any success compiling any of the


vanilla


Linux kernel's on their SPARC wheezy systems with anything

after


version


3.8.x.

Every time I try to build myself a new kernel I seem to end up


with


a kernel that is unable to boot complaining about not being

able


to


find the root file system. I was wondering if anyone has any
information on how I can configure and build the Linux kernel
for


my


various SPARC systems.

-Kieron


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