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

From: George Auch (gwauch_at_auch.us)
Date: Sun May 26 2002 - 22:35:31 CEST

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    From: George Auch <gwauch@auch.us>
Date: Sun, 26 May 2002 16:35:31 -0400
Message-Id: <20020526203542.DD8EC1457C@Cantor.suse.de>
Subject: Re: [suse-sparc] Using 2.4.18 on Ultra 1

    On Sunday 26 May 2002 03:46 pm, you wrote:

    > > 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.

    Kernel 2.4.18 with the 2.4.19-pre8 patch compiles and seems to work
    fine for sparc64 

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George Auch | SuSE Linux 7.3 for SPARC
Linux ns1 2.4.19-pre8 #1 SMP Wed May 22 10:00:09 EDT 2002 sparc64

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