Re: bootfloppies for sparc 1+

Harold Hartley wrote: > I am wondering if the newer bootfloppies for sparc has been released or > not.. > I have the ones when slink was released and wondering if there are newer > ones yet... New beta release is sitting in ftp://lix.polytechnique.fr/pub/Linux/debian/sparc/exp/disks-sparc/current

sparc power light goes out upon 2.2 boot

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? Anoth

Re: SILO won't load images

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! >

Re: SILO won't load images

On Mon, Jun 07, 1999 at 04:06:52PM +0100, Edmund GRIMLEY EVANS wrote: > Hm. It sounds as though there is something seriously wrong with your > vmlinux. When you built it, did you have any unusual binutils > installed, like a cross-compiler or something? I'm just using out-of-the-box stuff off of an

Re: SILO won't load images

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 messag

bootfloppies for sparc 1+

I am wondering if the newer bootfloppies for sparc has been released or not.. I have the ones when slink was released and wondering if there are newer ones yet... I'm also still having trouble trying to rid the old SunOS from my sparc 1+ drive as when I need to shutdown linux it falls into a loop

Re: esp0 error on boot with 2.2 kernels only?

> "Marc" == Marc Reichman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Marc> esp0: Warning, live target 0 not responding to selection. Does linux max_scsi_luns=1 at the silo prompt help? -- Stephen --- "If 8-year-old boys discharging loaded firearms into their own legs isn't necessary to the

SILO won't load images

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