Re: Ultra5 + Linux kernel 2.6.1 = hangs while booting

2004-01-26 Thread James Morrison
Alex Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The keyboard lights flash once and it locks. Booting with the SILO -p > option is pretty useless because it clears out too quickly a few times and > the reboots. Stop+A doesn't work during the sequence. Is there a way to slow > this down or something? >

Re: Ultra5 + Linux kernel 2.6.1 = hangs while booting

2004-01-26 Thread Ben Collins
> Now I boot through the filesystem stuff, but I still get stuck here: > > Hdc: ATAPI 32x CD-ROM drive, 128kB Cache > Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.12 > ... Did you compile the ide-disk as a module too? -- Debian - http://www.debian.org/ Linux 1394 - http://www.linux1394.org/ Subversion

Re: Ultra5 + Linux kernel 2.6.1 = hangs while booting

2004-01-26 Thread Christian Hopp
On Sat, 24 Jan 2004, Alex Smith wrote: Hi Alex, Debian Sparc Folks... > I currently have version 2.4.18 #2 of the kernel, which came when I > installed woody for Sparc. Everything is 'stable', except for gcc and > related packages which were upgraded to 'testing' (gcc 3.3.2). I have been > tryi

RE: Ultra5 + Linux kernel 2.6.1 = hangs while booting

2004-01-25 Thread Alex Smith
-Original Message- > > > > CONFIG_FB_ATY=m > > I have _FB_ATY=y in my config for my ultra 5. > Yeah, that would be a problem :) ^^Original Message^ Yup, that was it. I just recently began to understand kernel modules, but in my quest to keep the image size down, I tried to

Re: Ultra5 + Linux kernel 2.6.1 = hangs while booting

2004-01-25 Thread Ben Collins
On Sun, Jan 25, 2004 at 07:24:42PM -0500, James Morrison wrote: > > Alex Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > # > > # Graphics support > > # > > CONFIG_FB=y > > > > CONFIG_FB_ATY=m > > I have _FB_ATY=y in my config for my ultra 5. > > > CONFIG_FB_ATY_CT=y > > > > CONFIG_FB_PCI=y > > Yea

Re: Ultra5 + Linux kernel 2.6.1 = hangs while booting

2004-01-25 Thread James Morrison
Alex Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > # > # Graphics support > # > CONFIG_FB=y > > CONFIG_FB_ATY=m I have _FB_ATY=y in my config for my ultra 5. > CONFIG_FB_ATY_CT=y > > CONFIG_FB_PCI=y > Jim

RE: Ultra5 + Linux kernel 2.6.1 = hangs while booting

2004-01-25 Thread Alex Smith
Devfs doesn't seem to be a problem, it was just the line before the console error. I tried some of Christian Hopp's ideas, but I had already enabled everything mentioned (The config on the web gives me a 403 error, permissions?). I have attached my current config (which still doesn't work). The

Re: Ultra5 + Linux kernel 2.6.1 = hangs while booting

2004-01-25 Thread Ben Collins
> EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. > VFS: Mounted root (ext3 filesystem) readonly. > Mounted devfs on/dev > Warning: unable to open an initial console Do you have devfsd installed? > It then reboots, I had to Stop+A to get that to copy it down. Is this

RE: Ultra5 + Linux kernel 2.6.1 = hangs while booting

2004-01-25 Thread Alex Smith
Cool, I didn't know about that option, I should have looked into SILO debugging more. What I get now, is that it loads things pretty normally through all the normal hardware stuff, but right after it loads the root fs read-only and devfs, I get this: EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with orde

Re: Ultra5 + Linux kernel 2.6.1 = hangs while booting

2004-01-25 Thread Ben Collins
> boot: linux6 > Loaded kernel version 2.6.1 > > Remapping the kernel... done. > Booting Linux... > > Where it flashes the keyboard LEDs once, then appears to freeze > indefinitely. > I have tried many of the graphics modules, but is there one I need > specifically? How w

Ultra5 + Linux kernel 2.6.1 = hangs while booting

2004-01-24 Thread Alex Smith
Hi Everyone, I currently have version 2.4.18 #2 of the kernel, which came when I installed woody for Sparc. Everything is 'stable', except for gcc and related packages which were upgraded to 'testing' (gcc 3.3.2). I have been trying to compile a version of 2.6.1 for over a week with lots of prob