SPARC Boot Issues

2004-12-28 Thread foo_bar_baz_boo-deb
Regarding your boot problem, I suspect your kernel configuration is missing features you need. Please consider the following URL's premade kernel configurations. I suggest you compare them to yours to ensure you have an adequate feature set for your particular situation. http://dev.gentoo.org/~cia

Re: Cannot boot 2.6.8 kernel from ext3 root partition on Ultra5

2004-12-28 Thread Joshua Kwan
Daniel E. Jonsen wrote: Is there a way I can copy/paste these messages? I used a good old fashioned pen and paper to write down the last six lines. I really would like to avoid using this method for the whole boot sequence, which is about 50 lines. You can use a serial console. Discussing ho

Re: Cannot boot 2.6.8 kernel from ext3 root partition on Ultra5

2004-12-28 Thread Daniel E. Jonsen
Joshua Kwan wrote: > > NET: Registered protocol family 1 > > NET: Registered protocol family 17 > > VFS: Cannot open root device "hda2" or unknown-block(0,0) > > Please append a correct "root=" boot option > > Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0,0) > > <0>Press L1-A to re

Re: Cannot boot 2.6.8 kernel from ext3 root partition on Ultra5

2004-12-28 Thread Joshua Kwan
Daniel E. Jonsen wrote: I have an Ultra5 that I've been running Sarge (testing - official snapshot 11/07/04, kernel 2.4.27). I downloaded and installed kernel-image-2.6.8-1-sparc64_2.6.8-5_sparc.deb, and also the corresponding source deb. I compiled my own custom 2.6.8 kernel and installed i

Re: USB keyboard & mouse on Sun Ultra 5 w/PCI USB card

2004-12-28 Thread Daniel E. Jonsen
After many attempts at trying to disable Sun KB & mouse support in the Debian-supplied 2.4.27 source, nothing worked. First of all, with kernel 2.4.27, there are no options for Sun KB & mouse support listed in xconfig. One has to manually edit .config to change these settings. Even after man

Cannot boot 2.6.8 kernel from ext3 root partition on Ultra5

2004-12-28 Thread Daniel E. Jonsen
I have an Ultra5 that I've been running Sarge (testing - official snapshot 11/07/04, kernel 2.4.27). I downloaded and installed kernel-image-2.6.8-1-sparc64_2.6.8-5_sparc.deb, and also the corresponding source deb. I compiled my own custom 2.6.8 kernel and installed it. Both of the 2.6.8 k