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Subject:    FW:  booting 2.4.17 kernel on SS20 - does not make it passed PROM
From:       normandl () WellsFargo ! COM
Date:       2001-12-22 16:52:12
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> After reading much of what is going on ... I began building a system from
> scratch using LFS (Gerard Beekman's version 3.1) and a host system of Red
> Hat 6.2 so I could better understand what is going on and not use RPM's.
> 
> After I got through all the quirks of compiling and learning that binutils
> and glibc were missing some code for PRIME-TIME use on a SS20, I got to
> the point of the infamous kernel build. And like most people before me, it
> crashed, horribly. I have look through the archives and have not found any
> references to this, only a couple on vegr but no resolutions, maybe it was
> too simple of a problem...
> 
> 2.4.17 kernel build completes flawlessly, On my host system I copy the
> vmlinux-2.4.17 to the boot directory on sda5, create entries into
> /etc/silo.conf and /sbin/silo. I also copy the vmlinux-2.4.17 kernel to my
> LFS partition prior to the reboot (sdb5). The silo.conf entry reads:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> image=/vmlinux-2.4.17
> 	root=/dev/sdb5
> 	read-only
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> On reboot I receive the following:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> SILO boot: lfs
> PROMLIB: obio_ranges 5
> bootmem_init: Scan sp_banks, init_bootmem(spfn[4247],
> bpfn[4247],mlpfn[8000])
> Level 15 Interrupt
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> Needless to say, I am quite surprised. All of the manual tweaks I had to
> do to get 2.4.16 to compile, Dave Miller has patched in 2.4.17. I still
> get this problem that doesn't happen when I run the host OS (RedHat 6.2 w/
> out-of-the-box 2.2.14smp). The only tweak I did to the default config file
> provided with 2.4.17 was to turn on SMP support. Any insight would be
> greatly be appreciated.
> 
> My system configuration is as follows:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> SparcStation 20
> Dual ROSS 100 MHz
> 128MB RAM
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> 			David Norman
> 			Enterprise Service Management
> 			Monitoring & Notification
> 			Wells Fargo Bank
> 			480-774-5721
> 
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