Re: Problems booting with initrd [was: Re: Testing 2.6.10 on sparc]

2005-02-21 Thread Matt R Hall
You can. But it's not strictly necessary: http://www.enterasys.com/support/techtips/tk0020-9.html If you keep Googling, you'll find further such tools and documentation that should get you up and running pretty efficiently. Basically, you need BOOTP (DHCP's not supported by the ROM) and TFTP suppo

Re: New 2.4.27-2 kernel and d-i images available for sparc - testers wanted

2005-02-19 Thread Matt R Hall
I'll clarify what I can here. Regarding Ubuntu, if you do not compile SILO with GCC 2.95 it will not boot right on SPARCs because later compilers mistakenly generate floating point CPU instructions not available during boot time. That's probably what they did wrong. My kernel config file should g

Re: New 2.4.27-2 kernel and d-i images available for sparc - testers wanted

2005-02-19 Thread Matt R Hall
Good day, sir. I am reading about your Ultra 10 problem and must admit that I find it surprising, as my Ultra 10 worked right in 2.4.xx and 2.6.xx, all the way up to 2.6.10, which I cannot get to build for some reason. I have not been complaining about this because my C build failure intuition tel

Re: Fixed X Debian Packages For Allocation Bug #280384

2004-12-04 Thread Matt R Hall
Yes, I know this. Every time I find a problem with X they tell me to just wait for the next upload. But: 1) X always FTBFS for me from the SVN repo. It takes hours to find out it's failed. Every time it fails you have to start from the beginning because it purges all the object files in the source