I am a linux guy too, but on my Sun Blade 100, I run OpenBSD - I could
never get Debian to work right with it, but with OpenBSD, I have fvwm2,
firefox3.6, R, perl, etc. It's not bad, it's fast, and it worked with no
tweaking.
On Tue, 24 Sep 2013, Kieron Gillespie wrote:
So still no joy on my Sun Blade2500 going to post my exact steps, and maybe
I'm still just missing something stupid.
tar xfv linux-3.11.1.tar.xz
cd linux-3.11.1
cp /boot/config-3.2.0-4-sparc64-smp ./.config
make oldconfig
make clean
make -j2 deb-pkg
cd ../
dpkg -i *.deb
vi /etc/silo.conf
reboot
and kernel panic trying to find the root file system.
So am I copying the old config incorrectly? I get asked a lot of questions
about configuring options, which I just go with the default response.
Does anyone have a build I can download? Wondering if I try installing a
known working set of deb packages if the issue goes away.
Thanks again.
-Kieron
On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 10:40 AM, Hartwig Atrops <hartwig.atr...@arcor.de>wrote:
Hi.
I repeated the test on a Blade 100 (ATAPI/IDE system, Openboot 4, test
kernel
3.11.1):
No problems ...
Regards,
Hartwig
On Saturday 21 September 2013 22:37:02 Kieron Gillespie wrote:
Strange as those steps you mentioned are exactly what I am doing on my
two
SPARC systems.
I am going to have to guess this is an issue with these particular pieces
of hardware the Sun Blade 2500 and the Sun Fire T2000.
Thanks for the help, I just wanted to eliminate the possibility I was
just
making some stupid mistake. Looks like it's more than that. I'll
investigate more.
-Kieron
On Sat, Sep 21, 2013 at 3:53 PM, Hartwig Atrops
<hartwig.atr...@arcor.de>wrote:
Hi.
I used the Debian Linux Kernel Handbook:
http://kernel-handbook.alioth.debian.org/
I fetched the 3.11.1 kernel source from kernel.org (wget) and
unpacked it
under /usr/src.
During installation of Wheezy, I installed my usual tool set including
make,
gcc, g++ etc.
To build the kernel, I additionally installed:
build-essentials
fakeroot
devscripts (I don't think we need that)
and run apt-get build-dep linux
And now:
copy configuration from /boot
make oldconfig
make clean (I don't think this is necessary)
make deb-pkg
installation via dpkg -i (4 packages)
configure /boot/silo.conf (additional entry)
and reboot - it works.
You didn't mention the build packages, the rest looks the same ...
Regards,
Hartwig
On Saturday 21 September 2013 17:42:00 Kieron Gillespie wrote:
Could you send me a link to the exact procedure you used. I keep find
like
four different ways to make a vanilla kernel for Debian.
Two of my systems are SCSI based and both of those have problems
when I
do
the standard
cp /boot/config-<Old Version> ./.config
make oldconfig
make deb-pkg
dpkg -i linux-*.deb
-Kieron
On Sat, Sep 21, 2013 at 3:11 AM, Hartwig Atrops
<hartwig.atr...@arcor.de>wrote:
Hi.
Last night, I've built a kernel 3.11.1 from kernel.org the Debian
way
(as
described in "Debian Linux Kernel Handbook") - without any
problems.
My test environment: a fresh installation of Wheezy (7.0.1) on a
Sun
Ultra 60,
i.e. a SCSI machine.
I'm going to do a test with an ATAPi/IDE Blade 100 as well, but I
have
to
set
up this machine first - that will take a while.
Regards,
Hartwig
On Friday 20 September 2013 03:37:30 Kieron Gillespie wrote:
So current when I build the vanilla kernel using the typical
Debian
method
with make deb-pkg I end up with a kernel that panic's on boot.
It says,
--CUT--
Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on
unknown-block(0,0)
CPU: 0 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/1 Not tainted 3.12.0-rc #1
Call Trace:
--END CUT--
Any ideas? If someone has instructions on how they typically
build
there kernel for SPARC system I would like to know. Though this
is
how
I always have done it in the past it just recently stop working
after 3.8.x
series.
On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 9:14 AM, Patrick Baggett
<baggett.patr...@gmail.com>wrote:
I didn't have any problems, but I'm not using initramfs. To
build
a kernel 'the debian way', you might need to find a guide or
maybe
someone
else can chime in?
On Sep 18, 2013 10:05 PM, "Kieron Gillespie" <
ciaran.gilles...@gmail.com>
wrote:
Hello everyone,
Was wondering if anyone had any success compiling any of the
vanilla
Linux kernel's on their SPARC wheezy systems with anything
after
version
3.8.x.
Every time I try to build myself a new kernel I seem to end up
with
a kernel that is unable to boot complaining about not being
able
to
find the root file system. I was wondering if anyone has any
information on how I can configure and build the Linux kernel
for
my
various SPARC systems.
-Kieron
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