Re: [suse-sparc] char-major-11

From: Joseph Gordon (joseph.gordon_at_bms.com)
Date: Tue Dec 03 2002 - 15:34:47 CET

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    From: Joseph Gordon <joseph.gordon@bms.com>
    Message-id: <3DECC107.D1AE4A94@bms.com>
    Subject: Re: [suse-sparc] char-major-11
    

    TYPO: this should read gzip -c --best vmlinux > /boot/vmlinuz (or vmlinuz.2.4.xx)

    Joseph Gordon wrote:

    > The last part, moving vmlinux to /boot is done with gzip -c --best vmlinux >
    > vmlinuz (or vmlinuz.2.4.xx) and update silo.conf if required.
    > While I'm thinking about it, does anyone know why when I compiled Reiserfs
    > support into the kernel it caused a panic. It appears to be useless as a module
    > since it complains that the kernel doesn't include Reiserfs support.
    >
    > Richard Klingler wrote:
    >
    > > Morning (o;
    > >
    > > I am running finally SuSE Sparc 7.3 on my Sunblade 100 thanx to
    > > downgrading OpenBoot to 4.5.9 (o;
    > >
    > > Why do I get lots of "can't locate char-major-11" on the console?
    > >
    > > Also I'm recompiling the kernel with 2.4.20 'cause 2.4.14 has
    > > no support for the Sunblade 100 soundchip. So the right steps
    > > would just be:
    > >
    > > make vmlinux
    > > make modules
    > > make modules_install
    > >
    > > and move the vmlinux and System-map to /boot?
    > >
    > > thanx for feedback
    > > Rick
    > >
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