Re: [suse-sparc] DHCP server problems

From: Thorsten Kukuk (kukuk@suse.de)
Date: Wed Dec 12 2001 - 07:11:54 PST

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    Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2001 16:11:54 +0100
From: Thorsten Kukuk <kukuk@suse.de>
Message-ID: <20011212161154.A7149@suse.de>
Subject: Re: [suse-sparc] DHCP server problems

    On Wed, Dec 12, Chris Wareham wrote:

    >
    >
    > Thorsten Kukuk wrote:
    >
    > >
    > >I have a dhcp running here on my UltraSPARCs without problems. But
    > >it could be that you need to recompile the 32bit SPARC kernel for
    > >a SPARCstation 2 (I cannot test it in the moment). I had to disable
    > >a lot of functions to make the kernel small enough to boot.
    > >
    >
    >
    > I wasn't aware of any limit on the size of a bootable kernel on a
    > Sparc. In fact I thought that was one of a number of nice design
    > features of Sun's hardware. Or am I misunderstanding something?

    The PROM only maps 3 or 4 MB of RAM. If you let the kernel do the
    mapping of the other RAM, silo only has limited space.

    If I make the kernel bigger, silo was not able to load the kernel
    and initrd on my SS20.

      Thorsten 

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