SILO won't load images

1999-06-07 Thread Chris Frost
I'm trying to get silo to load kernels which I've made for my sparc (sun4c, a ss2) but silo seems to simply not do it, though it does load debian's kernel just fine. I make a kernel on the sparc and did a make vmlinux, then gzip'd it, put it in /boot, and entered it into /etc/silo. Upon booting

Re: SILO won't load images

1999-06-07 Thread Chris Frost
On Mon, Jun 07, 1999 at 10:13:39AM +0200, Davide Barbieri wrote: You don't have to compress the kernel image. Right, but they can be compressed. Anyway, I gunzip'd the kernel images just to check again and the 700K kernel (with many things as modules) became 2.2MB and gives the same error

Re: SILO won't load images

1999-06-07 Thread Chris Frost
On Mon, Jun 07, 1999 at 05:01:18PM +0100, Edmund GRIMLEY EVANS wrote: If the kernel is dynamically linked, that certainly sounds like a problem!

sparc power light goes out upon 2.2 boot

1999-06-07 Thread Chris Frost
I just compiled a 2.2.9 kernel for a sparcstation 2 ahd upon booting the kernel the keyboard lights flash and the power light on the sparc goes out (thought the computer is still running). This doesn't happen under debian's kernel (2.0.35, this machine is running slink). What be causing this?

Net Booting

1999-06-06 Thread Chris Frost
I'm trying to netboot an install, and am almost there, but can't quite get it. Here's what I'm doing: I have a SS 2 that I am trying to install debian on and would like to net boot from the tftpboot image (to avoid floppies, and I don't have a cdrom). I have another debian (i386 fwiw) box with

Kernel compilation, why no fpu

1999-05-28 Thread Chris Frost
I'm compiling 2.2.9 on a spacstation 2 and the CFLAGS entry in the arch makefile specify the -mno-fpu flag, why is this? thanks, -- Chris - Visit Me At http://www.frostnet.advicom.net/chris/ - --

Storing devalias's into nvram

1999-05-28 Thread Chris Frost
How do you reset a devalias, and store it into nvram? I'd like to change the device disk0 to point to a different value and then store it in nvram reason being. thanks in advance, -- Chris - Visit Me At http://www.frostnet.advicom.net/chris/ -

GX Framebuffer support

1999-04-29 Thread Chris Frost
I'm about to buy a SS2 which has a gx framebuffer, which I didn't see listed at several sites as being a supported card, and was wondering if they are currently supported. thanks, -- Chris - Visit Me At http://www.frostnet.advicom.net/chris/ -