On Wed, Oct 02, 2002 at 04:48:41PM -0700, David S. Miller wrote: > From: Roy Bixler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Wed, 2 Oct 2002 12:44:46 -0500 > > Any suggestions for getting 2.5.x kernels running are appreicated. > Otherwise, I'll have to try your patches on a 2.4 kernel. > > Don't use gcc-3.2 to build the kernel. It has known problems. > > Take the egcs64 package from the stable debian release and > use that.
Taking advice from others, I compiled 2.5.40 with egcs64 and without framebuffer support and was finally to see why it locks up on boot. That is it doesn't detect any disks. Here is the startup message from 2.4.19: Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 6.31 ide: Assuming 66MHz system bus speed for PIO modes ALI15X3: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 68 ALI15X3: chipset revision 195 ALI15X3: 100% native mode on irq 4,7cc ide0: BM-DMA at 0x1fe02000a20-0x1fe02000a27, BIOS settings: hda:pio, hdb:pio ide1: BM-DMA at 0x1fe02000a28-0x1fe02000a2f, BIOS settings: hdc:pio, hdd:piohda: ST320011A, ATA DISK drive hdb: LTN486S, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive ide0 at 0x1fe02000a00-0x1fe02000a07,0x1fe02000a1a on irq 4,7cc hda: 39102336 sectors (20020 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=38792/16/63, UDMA(66) hdb: ATAPI 48X CD-ROM drive, 120kB Cache, UDMA(33) Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.12 Partition check: hda: hda1 hda2 hda3 hda4 hda5 hda7 hda8 I compiled the ALI15X3 driver into 2.5.40 as well, but the lines about 'hda' and 'hdb' don't show up. I thought GCC 3.1 and above are OK for compiling kernels on Ultrasparc. I also thought the IDE drivers were from the 2.4 series and should be stable. Will I have to eat my words there too? R.