That's what I'm doing right now, but I would need specific features from 2.4 (802.1q vlans, softRaid...), and I can't figure out how to have them work with the debian 2.2.20 krnl.
Thanks for the advice and the notice for ix86 anyway. Any hint for troubleshooting ?? G ----- Original Message ----- From: "Fabbione" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Guillaume Lécroart" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <debian-sparc@lists.debian.org>; <sparclinux@vger.kernel.org> Sent: Tuesday, November 20, 2001 12:23 PM Subject: Re: HELP 2.4 booting on a serial console (resend) > Guillaume Lécroart wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > I'm trying to get a 2.4 kernel booting on an Enterprise 2 with 2 CPUs. > > The trick is that I'm using a serial console, and have no graphical card > > inside the box. > > > > When booting (either 2.4.10-smp from unstable Debian or 2.4.14 compiled on > > the box itself after d/l from ftp.kernel.org), boot process starts ok : > > > > Remapping the kernel... done. > > Booting Linux... > > Starting CPU 1... OK > > > > Then stops with no output and sending break doesn't fall back to the "{0} ok > > " prompt. Appending something like "serial" or "console=/dev/ttyS0" doesn't > > help. > > > > Any idea anyone? > > I can suggest you something.. try booting a non-smp kernel and if > possible a 2.2 series. I noticed some problem using the console port > to monitor the boot process on 2.4 also on i386 machine. I din't > investigate the problem to much since it was more for fun. > > Fabbione > > -- > Debian GNU/Linux Unstable Kernel 2.4.9 > fabbione on irc.atdot.it #coredump #kchat | [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >