On Sat, Apr 01, 2006 at 01:02:17PM +0200, Marc Zyngier wrote: > People, > > I recently extracted that old Indy (R4000-PC, 100MHz) from my pile of > junk, and gave the Etch installer a go (net install, serial console). > > Got the install image from : > > http://people.debian.org/~tbm/d-i/images/daily/r4k-ip22/netboot-boot.img > > This one doesn't work. Image loads fine, tip22 says it boots the > kernel, and everything stops here. > > Then tried the 2.4 image, which works nicely. > > Tried to upgrade to a 2.6.16 kernel, that wouldn't boot. Noticied this > 2.6 kernel is a 64bit one. > > Compiled my own 2.6.16, 32bit kernel, which works fine. Tried to > compile another 64bit kernel, which fails to boot.
From which source tree did you build you 32bit kernel? Linus' tree, linux-mips.org, Debian? > So, in the end, it looks like 64bit kernels are busted on this > particular IP22 (I have yet to try on my Indigo2). > > Maybe providing 32bit 2.6 kernels would be a good thing... Well, or fixing the 64bit one. :-) Thiemo
