Re: [suse-sparc] Using 2.4.18 on Ultra 1

From: Alvaro Figueroa (fede2_at_fuerzag.ulatina.ac.cr)
Date: Sun May 26 2002 - 21:46:18 CEST

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    From: Alvaro Figueroa <fede2@fuerzag.ulatina.ac.cr>
Date: 26 May 2002 13:46:18 -0600
Message-Id: <1022442378.1392.8.camel@lucy>
Subject: Re: [suse-sparc] Using 2.4.18 on Ultra 1

    > I just started using the 2.4.18 kernel from
    > ftp://ftp.uk.kernel.org:/pub/linux/kernel/v2.4/

    (...)

    > Reboot was OK except init hung instead of reading /etc/inittab.
    > I rebuilt the same version on init (2.78) from src, no changes to src
    > and
    > no changes to the Makefile and it worked fine.
    > The rebuilt one works on the old kernel 2.4.14 too.
    > The sizes of the two executables are a bit confusing though:
    >
    > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 30632 May 26 19:08 init.new
    > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 502540 Oct 29 2001 init.orig

    This has been discused here and other places also. If you use kernel
    2.4.18, you will have problems running static binaries (like SuSE's
    defaul init :). Use 2.4.18-rc4, or some .19-pre kernels. instead. 

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Alvaro Figueroa

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