Just as a reference for those interested, I am sucessfulyl running 2.2.7 stock on an LX, so the problem is not with _all_ of the 4m machines, so it would seem...
--Adam On Thu, 6 May 1999, Heikki Vatiainen wrote: > Samuel Tardieu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > So, the question now is: has anyone be able to boot a SS10 using > > kernel 2.2.7? > > I'm a newcomer to sparc-Debian but an old Debian user. I installed > my first sparc Linux box (SS20, 2CPUs, 288MB memory) on Sunday > evening. > > After playing with it a bit, I compiled a 2.2.7 kernel and it did > not boot. The boot process froze just before switching to Linux > boot screen which displays the penguin(s). Going back to 2.2.6 > solved the problem. > > However, I had to go all the back to 2.1.125 before the box became > stable. I tried 2.2.1 and 2.2.6 and it froze quite often. One of > the problems is the "use X, get killed" problem which is discussed > e.g. on sparc-linux list. The SS20 is our old server which might > have a little flaky hardware which might explain some of the > mysterious crashes. It's been up for 37 hours now and is running > 2.1.125 kernel. > > > Sam > > // Heikki > -- > Heikki Vatiainen * [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Tampere University of Technology * Tampere, Finland > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Adam Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Purdue University