On Monday 17 February 2003 16:17, Frank Van Damme wrote: > I just installed Debian on a sparc laptop. Version of debian is Sid (that > means there's some stuff from woody but not much, and glibc is the sid > version etc). I tried to compile a 2.4 kernel on it, starting from debians > sources > > apt-get source kernel-2.4.20_sparc (or something) > > then configure it, make-kpkg buildpackage, reboot. > > When I try to use the kernel, I get > - a message 'uncompressing image) > - a few messages about bootmem etc (passes quickly) > - an error "Watchdog reset" and I go back to the boot prompt again. > > Anyone who knows what this is (or how to disable watchdog, it sounds to me > like some hardware protection thing). > > Sparc in question is a rdi powerlite 110 laptop. kernel config is attached.
C'mon, nobody who has an idea? I read from this lists archives that 2.4 has worked on sparc32 before, but there's no ready-made image in debian. -- Frank Van Damme http://www.openstandaarden.be