RE: [suse-sparc] 2.4.6 on ultrasparc (64-bit)

From: Leif Sawyer (lsawyer@gci.com)
Date: Wed Jul 11 2001 - 09:44:34 PDT

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    From: Leif Sawyer <lsawyer@gci.com>
    Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2001 08:44:34 -0800
    Subject: RE: [suse-sparc] 2.4.6 on ultrasparc (64-bit)
    

    Yep. Paring down the kernel size to under 3.5MB is the trick.

    2.4.6 works great here so far. I'll be trying IPv6 next.

    Leif

    > -----Original Message-----
    > From: Leif Sawyer [mailto:lsawyer@gci.com]
    > Sent: Tuesday, July 10, 2001 10:11 AM
    > To: suse-sparc@suse.com
    > Subject: [suse-sparc] 2.4.6 on ultrasparc (64-bit)
    >
    >
    > Responding to himself:
    > > I'll let you know how 2.4.6 works out, although i'm using the usagi
    > > ipv6 distro. Trying to get my feet wet, as it were..
    >
    > Well, 2.4.6 won't boot.
    >
    > Silo starts to load the image, the fails with an 'image too
    > large to fit in
    > destination'
    > or some such error.
    >
    > I'm going to try paring down the image (more modules, yech!) and see
    > if that helps.
    >
    > Not sure why i'm getting that error, as the size difference from 2.4.3
    > and 2.4.6 is fairly small (3487313-243 vs 3829632-246)
    >
    > I've upgraded silo to 1.20, and the 2.4.6 image still doesn't load --
    > however
    > a new problem is that the 2.4.3 image won't load either.
    > Sigh. Back to the
    > boot-CD
    >
    >
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