hi i know that smp and 2.4 on sun4m is a problem and that some people here don't like question about this but i'm asking anyway assuming that there are some that actually run 2.4 with smp on ss10.
i tried several versions and flavours of 2.4 on my ss10 now and there was always the same problem: the kernel starts without a problem until it starts init. then the system just stops without any error or something in this way. sometimes the "INIT..." message is shown, sometimes not. if i set init=/bin/sh at silo i normally get the shell, i can do ls, but ps puts the system to sleep again. sending a break to the sleeping system (via serial console) shows no reaction, but as i'm somewhat green on sparcs, i don't know if that means anything. with 2.21smp everything works fine, so i assumed the hardware works. also replacing the hyperSparc with an SM100 does not change anything. the hyperSparc module runs at 125Mhz with 1024k cache and there are 160meg of mem in. does anybody know this problem? has anybody an idea what i could try next? is there a mailing list for sparc/sun4m kernel problems (could not find one...)? thanks a lot emanuel