Re: Compiling vanilla kernel issues.

2013-09-27 Thread Hleb Valoshka
Try to set `rootdelay=N' kernel option. See #678696 and merged bugs. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-sparc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20130927202647.GA8674@deneb

Re: Compiling vanilla kernel issues.

2013-09-24 Thread Kieron Gillespie
So still no joy on my Sun Blade2500 going to post my exact steps, and maybe I'm still just missing something stupid. tar xfv linux-3.11.1.tar.xz cd linux-3.11.1 cp /boot/config-3.2.0-4-sparc64-smp ./.config make oldconfig make clean make -j2 deb-pkg cd ../ dpkg -i *.deb vi /etc/silo.conf reboot

Re: Compiling vanilla kernel issues.

2013-09-24 Thread Richard Thornton
I am a linux guy too, but on my Sun Blade 100, I run OpenBSD - I could never get Debian to work right with it, but with OpenBSD, I have fvwm2, firefox3.6, R, perl, etc. It's not bad, it's fast, and it worked with no tweaking. On Tue, 24 Sep 2013, Kieron Gillespie wrote: So still no joy

Re: Compiling vanilla kernel issues.

2013-09-24 Thread Patrick Baggett
Kieron, First off, do you see your initrd in /boot? If not, then that's clearly a problem. Can you run 'silo' without parameters? I believe that just checks the configuration. Second, I'm assuming you're mounting a local disk. Do you: 1) Have the right filesystem driver compiled (root of ext4 -

Re: Compiling vanilla kernel issues.

2013-09-21 Thread Hartwig Atrops
Hi. Last night, I've built a kernel 3.11.1 from kernel.org the Debian way (as described in Debian Linux Kernel Handbook) - without any problems. My test environment: a fresh installation of Wheezy (7.0.1) on a Sun Ultra 60, i.e. a SCSI machine. I'm going to do a test with an ATAPi/IDE Blade

Re: Compiling vanilla kernel issues.

2013-09-21 Thread Kieron Gillespie
Could you send me a link to the exact procedure you used. I keep find like four different ways to make a vanilla kernel for Debian. Two of my systems are SCSI based and both of those have problems when I do the standard cp /boot/config-Old Version ./.config make oldconfig make deb-pkg dpkg -i

Re: Compiling vanilla kernel issues.

2013-09-21 Thread Hartwig Atrops
Hi. I used the Debian Linux Kernel Handbook: http://kernel-handbook.alioth.debian.org/ I fetched the 3.11.1 kernel source from kernel.org (wget) and unpacked it under /usr/src. During installation of Wheezy, I installed my usual tool set including make, gcc, g++ etc. To build the kernel, I

Re: Compiling vanilla kernel issues.

2013-09-21 Thread Kieron Gillespie
Strange as those steps you mentioned are exactly what I am doing on my two SPARC systems. I am going to have to guess this is an issue with these particular pieces of hardware the Sun Blade 2500 and the Sun Fire T2000. Thanks for the help, I just wanted to eliminate the possibility I was just

Re: Compiling vanilla kernel issues.

2013-09-21 Thread Hartwig Atrops
Hi. Hmm, the same problem on two different boxes? What might be the difference compared to my Ultra 60? The Ultra 60 has Openboot 3, my Blades Openboot 4. What about the T2000? I'm just setting up a Blade 100 as a dual boot test machine (Wheezy / Jessie), maybee I should build the kernel

Re: Compiling vanilla kernel issues.

2013-09-19 Thread Patrick Baggett
I didn't have any problems, but I'm not using initramfs. To build a kernel 'the debian way', you might need to find a guide or maybe someone else can chime in? On Sep 18, 2013 10:05 PM, Kieron Gillespie ciaran.gilles...@gmail.com wrote: Hello everyone, Was wondering if anyone had any success

Re: Compiling vanilla kernel issues.

2013-09-19 Thread Kieron Gillespie
So current when I build the vanilla kernel using the typical Debian method with make deb-pkg I end up with a kernel that panic's on boot. It says, --CUT-- Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0,0) CPU: 0 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/1 Not tainted 3.12.0-rc #1 Call

Re: Compiling vanilla kernel issues.

2013-09-19 Thread Patrick Baggett
That's right. It sounds like your initramfs is missing drivers for the IDE/SATA/SAS system. In other words, your kernel loads, but without the drivers either a) built-in to the kernel or b) present in the initramfs, it has no way of detecting and subsequently mounting your disks which contain the

Compiling vanilla kernel issues.

2013-09-18 Thread Kieron Gillespie
Hello everyone, Was wondering if anyone had any success compiling any of the vanilla Linux kernel's on their SPARC wheezy systems with anything after version 3.8.x. Every time I try to build myself a new kernel I seem to end up with a kernel that is unable to boot complaining about not being

Re: Compiling a kernel (was no subject)

2005-09-11 Thread Tyler
Actually, I believe I was thinking of make bzImage ... not vmlinuz ;/ also, I believe with 2.6 kernels, you can just type make .. no commands, and it will do the kernel and the modules i believe. Tyler. Tyler wrote: try make vmlinuz ... possibly a typo with an X on the end. Tyler.

Re: Compiling a kernel (was no subject) (RESOLVE)

2005-09-11 Thread Patrick Dos Santos
I resolve my problem thanks to all The problems was the kernel-source down with apt-get !!! I try with the last source 2.6.12 down in kernel.org with this command make make image modules_install and it works make vmlinuz make modules make modules_install Works to but with make image the

Re: Compiling a kernel (was no subject)

2005-09-08 Thread David Johnson
On Thursday 08 September 2005 12:38, Patrick Dos Santos wrote: Hi How to compile a kernel manualy with tue commande make I try make bzImage and make vmlinux but it don't work If you're building a 2.6 kernel it's 'make all' else 'make vmlinux' should work as long as you've done 'make

Re: Compiling a kernel (was no subject)

2005-09-08 Thread Patrick Dos Santos
Yes it's On Thursday 08 September 2005 12:38, Patrick Dos Santos wrote: Hi How to compile a kernel manualy with tue commande make I try make bzImage and make vmlinux but it don't work If you're building a 2.6 kernel it's 'make all' else 'make vmlinux' should work as long as

Re: compiling my kernel on ultra 10 (sparc64)

2003-08-02 Thread Ben Collins
On Sat, Aug 02, 2003 at 02:23:14PM +0100, ayoj wrote: Hi guys it now time for me to upgrade my kernal to a 2.4.21. But i have problems i have downloaded the gcc 3.x but when i do a gcc -v i am still getting the default gcc 2.95 etc.. i don't think iam linking this the right way can

compiling my kernel on ultra 10 (sparc64)

2003-08-02 Thread ayoj
Hi guys it now time for me to upgrade my kernal to a 2.4.21. But i have problems i have downloaded the gcc 3.x but when i do a gcc -v i am still getting the default gcc 2.95 etc.. i don't think iam linking this the right way can someone help me. this is a snapshot of my errors.. #make dep

Re: Compiling a kernel that works

2003-06-30 Thread Craig Small
On Fri, Jun 27, 2003 at 02:37:28PM -0400, Ben Collins wrote: First, compile a stock sparc64 kernel, without any of these patches. Use 2.4.21, and do: cd /usr/src/linux-2.4.21 cp arch/sparc64/defconfig .config make oldconfig make dep make vmlinux After that, try to boot vmlinux. It

Re: Compiling a kernel that works

2003-06-30 Thread Craig Small
On Sun, Jun 29, 2003 at 08:05:40PM -0400, Ben Collins wrote: On Mon, Jun 30, 2003 at 11:07:00AM +1000, Craig Small wrote: On Fri, Jun 27, 2003 at 02:37:28PM -0400, Ben Collins wrote: First, compile a stock sparc64 kernel, without any of these patches. Use 2.4.21, and do: cd

Re: Compiling a kernel that works

2003-06-30 Thread Craig Small
On Sun, Jun 29, 2003 at 09:12:53PM -0400, Ben Collins wrote: That worked fine, once I included the ext3 (which I remembered) and the tulip card (which I forgot) That seems happy. I normally use make-kpkg and install the resulting .deb file. Could that be the reason why it is breaking?

Re: Compiling a kernel that works

2003-06-29 Thread nate
Craig Small said: Hello, I seem to be having a lot of problems getting a kernel that will work on the sparc64 arch. All I need it to do is to use a VPN protocol - any VPN protocol. be sure your using the egcs64 compiler to build the kernel. I have built 2.4.x kernels on my ultra 1 with

Re: Compiling a kernel that works

2003-06-29 Thread James Morrison
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Re: Compiling a kernel that works

2003-06-29 Thread Ben Collins
On Mon, Jun 30, 2003 at 11:07:00AM +1000, Craig Small wrote: On Fri, Jun 27, 2003 at 02:37:28PM -0400, Ben Collins wrote: First, compile a stock sparc64 kernel, without any of these patches. Use 2.4.21, and do: cd /usr/src/linux-2.4.21 cp arch/sparc64/defconfig .config make oldconfig

Re: Compiling a kernel that works

2003-06-29 Thread Ben Collins
That worked fine, once I included the ext3 (which I remembered) and the tulip card (which I forgot) That seems happy. I normally use make-kpkg and install the resulting .deb file. Could that be the reason why it is breaking? Nope...I use make-kpkg aswell. I'd say you are just creating a

Re: Compiling a kernel that works

2003-06-29 Thread Ben Collins
This happens even if I put it on the silo line, eg linux root=/dev/hda1 The only way to get it to work is to break to the ok prompt and type boot linux root=/dev/hda1 it then knows the kernel paramters are root=/dev/hda1 and mounts / correctly and happily goes on its way. Not sure what

Re: Compiling a kernel that works

2003-06-27 Thread Steffan Baron
When I try to compile a kernel and then boot it I get this: Boot device: disk File and args: SILO boot: Uncompressing image...

Re: Compiling a kernel that works

2003-06-27 Thread Ben Collins
On Thu, Jun 26, 2003 at 03:57:38PM +1000, Craig Small wrote: Hello, I seem to be having a lot of problems getting a kernel that will work on the sparc64 arch. All I need it to do is to use a VPN protocol - any VPN protocol. First, compile a stock sparc64 kernel, without any of these

Compiling a kernel that works

2003-06-26 Thread Craig Small
Hello, I seem to be having a lot of problems getting a kernel that will work on the sparc64 arch. All I need it to do is to use a VPN protocol - any VPN protocol. Here is my sorry tale of VPNs - IPsec - doesn't work because the ioctls fail - l2tpd - bus error - pptpd kernel oops if i try

Re: Compiling 2.4.18 kernel for U1

2002-08-07 Thread Stuart Yarrow
Disable USB and the Input interfaces. Make sure you disable IEEE1394 aswell. disabling the input interfaces solved my problems. the kernel package I am using is available here, in case anyone with an Ultra 1 (or possibly 2) finds it useful. it has no Creator support, as mine is a plain U1.

Compiling 2.4.18 kernel for U1

2002-07-31 Thread Stuart Yarrow
with: in function 'emulate_raw' undefined reference to 'handle_scancode' in function 'keybdev_init' undefined reference to 'kbd_ledfunc' I found a reference on another list that suggested it could be a USB issue, but all the USB options in menuconfig seem to be inactive. I am new to kernel compiling

Problem Compiling Sparc64 Kernel

2001-12-12 Thread Ian Chilton
Hello, Trying to compile a native kernel (2.2.20 from cvs on vger) on an Ultra 1 running Debian sid. First got sparc64-linux-gcc not found, so I did apt-get install egcs64 as mentioned in the ultralinux faq. Then got sparc64-linux-ld / as not found so I did: cd /usr/bin ln -s as

Re: Problem Compiling Sparc64 Kernel

2001-12-12 Thread Patrick Morris
I had the same problem myself. The solution (for me) was to modify the /usr/src/linux/arch/sparch64/Makefile so that, instead of calling sparc64-linux-ld, it used sparc64-linux-ld -m elf64_sparc. You'll also need to make sure sparc64-linux-as ends up calling as -m64 as well. Ian Chilton wrote:

Re: Problem Compiling Sparc64 Kernel

2001-12-12 Thread Patrick Morris
Ack! That flag to as (or sparc64-linux-as) should be -64, not -m64 Patrick Morris wrote: I had the same problem myself. The solution (for me) was to modify the /usr/src/linux/arch/sparch64/Makefile so that, instead of calling sparc64-linux-ld, it used sparc64-linux-ld -m elf64_sparc.

RE: Problem Compiling Sparc64 Kernel

2001-12-12 Thread Ian Chilton
Hello, I had the same problem myself. The solution (for me) was to modify the /usr/src/linux/arch/sparch64/Makefile so that, instead of calling sparc64-linux-ld, it used sparc64-linux-ld -m elf64_sparc. You'll also need to make sure sparc64-linux-as ends up calling as -m64 as well. Glad

Re: Problem Compiling Sparc64 Kernel

2001-12-12 Thread Ben Collins
On Wed, Dec 12, 2001 at 10:53:49PM +, Ian Chilton wrote: Hello, Trying to compile a native kernel (2.2.20 from cvs on vger) on an Ultra 1 running Debian sid. First got sparc64-linux-gcc not found, so I did apt-get install egcs64 as mentioned in the ultralinux faq. Then got

Re: Problem Compiling Sparc64 Kernel

2001-12-12 Thread David S. Miller
From: Ben Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2001 19:20:01 -0500 Edit arch/sparc64/Makefile and find the NEW_GAS line, and change --version to -V CVS is updated.

Re: Compiling a kernel

2001-10-12 Thread Hakan Kuecuekyilmaz
cd /usr/src/linux make menuconfig (again, whatever you prefer) make-kpkg kernel-image cd .. dpkg -i kernel-image-x.x.x_sparc.deb Hello, I installed egcs-sparc64, now I am get this error after make-kpkg kernel-image . make[2]: Entering directory

Re: Compiling a kernel

2001-10-12 Thread Steffan Baron
I installed egcs-sparc64, now I am get this error after make-kpkg kernel-image . make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/src/kernel-source-2.4.9/arch/sparc64/kernel' sparc64-linux-gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/kernel-source-2.4.9/include -Wall - Wstrict-prototypes -Wno-trigraphs -O2

RE: Compiling a kernel

2001-10-12 Thread Ben Castricum
[atomic_dec_and_lock' undeclared] I'm not quite sure but I think I've seen this on the list some weeks ago. You might want to search the archives. However, the solution for me was to use current vger sources (2.4.11). The atomic_dec_and_lock function was only defined when the kernel was

Re: Compiling a kernel

2001-10-11 Thread Steffan Baron
after make-kpg kernel-image I get following error message: . make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/kernel-source-2.4.9' /usr/bin/makeARCH=sparc64 \ vmlinux /bin/bash: sparc64-linux-gcc: command not found You're missing the egcs64 package. Gruss Steffan ---

Compiling a kernel

2001-10-10 Thread David Cantrell
This isn't Debian-specific, but I hope someone here can help me. I've been running Linux on Sparc for a year or so now, and have never once managed to compile a working kernel. I follow the instructions to the letter, but always end up with an unbootable file. I believe that the problem lies in

Re: Compiling a kernel

2001-10-10 Thread Ben Collins
On Wed, Oct 10, 2001 at 11:28:50PM +0100, David Cantrell wrote: This isn't Debian-specific, but I hope someone here can help me. I've been running Linux on Sparc for a year or so now, and have never once managed to compile a working kernel. I follow the instructions to the letter, but

compiling the kernel

2001-03-28 Thread Pierfrancesco Caci
Do make xconfig and make menuconfig work for you ? etabeta:/usr/src/linux# make xconfig rm -f include/asm ( cd include ; ln -sf asm-sparc64 asm) make -C scripts kconfig.tk make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/kernel-source-2.4.2/scripts' cat header.tk ./kconfig.tk ./tkparse

Re: compiling the kernel

2001-03-28 Thread Gabor Zoltan Csejtey
Hi, You should try the kernel sources from the CVS. http://vger.samba.org/ However the loop device was broken when I downloaded the source a some weeks ago. Gabor

Re: Compiling a kernel on Sparc.

2000-05-09 Thread B.C.J.O
On Tue, 9 May 2000, Aaron Daniels wrote: Hi, I am trying to upgrade from slink to potato on my sparc, which is running the default kernel until now. libc6 says it needs kernel 2.2.7 to install so I have downloaded 2.2.7 and configured it then ran make dep clean modules modules_install

Compiling a kernel on Sparc.

2000-05-08 Thread Aaron Daniels
Hi, I am trying to upgrade from slink to potato on my sparc, which is running the default kernel until now. libc6 says it needs kernel 2.2.7 to install so I have downloaded 2.2.7 and configured it then ran make dep clean modules modules_install bzImage as I normally would on my i386 box and all

creating a tftpboot kernel/compiling a kernel for ultra 5

1999-07-01 Thread Martin Bruns
Hallo, I installed Debian/Sparc on an ultra 5. Since I want to use the solaris-emulation I have to recompile the kernel this solris-emul on. The stock slink kernel-image is lacking this. Compiling a kernel failed with this: atyfb.c: In function `atyfb_ioctl': atyfb.c:2213: `FBTYPE_PCI_GENERIC

Re: creating a tftpboot kernel/compiling a kernel for ultra 5

1999-07-01 Thread Andreas Jaehnigen
Hi... Kernel-source 2.2.9 or 2.2.10. I guess it compiles sparc and not sparc64 but how to change this. No clue about this :-( Maybe somebody can help...? I also tried to create a tftpboot from the potato kernel-image but I'm not able to make it ;-(. Your Sun can only boot from an

Re: creating a tftpboot kernel/compiling a kernel for ultra 5

1999-07-01 Thread Eric Delaunay
Andreas Jaehnigen wrote: Your Sun can only boot from an A.OUT image- however, the kernel image is ELF binary format. (Also, this will be the format of every kernel you compile youself.) You may check this (in a rather sloppy way) by issuing a file your kernel image Result will be ELF

Re: Compiling the kernel

1999-06-23 Thread edmundo
I've experience on compiling the Linux kernel for i386 systems but not for SPARC. I want to compile a kernel myself for my SPARC, but have no idea on how to do it. Is there any information somewhere about it? It's the same as on Intel, really, except that the kernel image produced is /usr/src

Compiling the kernel

1999-06-22 Thread Angel Martin Alganza
Hello! I've experience on compiling the Linux kernel for i386 systems but not for SPARC. I want to compile a kernel myself for my SPARC, but have no idea on how to do it. Is there any information somewhere about it? Thanks a lot, Angel

Problems compiling a kernel on a Sparc 1+

1999-06-01 Thread Troy Tuttle
I just came into a Sparc 1+ and instantly installed Linux upon it...(via floppies) and I then proceeded to update the kernel image to 2.2.1 so I can install all the new versions of libc6 and such for compiling a 2.2.x kernelI got a kernel source for 2.2.9 and when I try to make config or

Re: cross-compiling the kernel

1999-05-11 Thread Joel Klecker
At 18:01 -0400 1999-05-10, Ben Collins wrote: Just a note, you can skip the entire portion dealing with the binutils if you install the binutils-multiarch package, which can handle objects from any of binutils supported architecures. This means you only need to build the cross-compiler itself.

cross-compiling the kernel

1999-05-10 Thread edmundo
/tmp/prog.o Link it and run it on the target machine: sun$ egcc prog.o -o prog sun$ ./prog Hello, world! We can't link on the host machine because there aren't any libraries, but we don't need any libraries for compiling the kernel, so we just ignore that problem for now and unpack the kernel

Re: cross-compiling the kernel

1999-05-10 Thread Ben Collins
On Mon, May 10, 1999 at 07:52:07PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Unpack the source packages: $ tar xzf binutils_2.9.1.0.19a.orig.tar.gz $ bzcat egcs-1.1.2.tar.bz2 Just a note, you can skip the entire portion dealing with the binutils if you install the binutils-multiarch package, which can