Sparc64 Linux?

Dustin Cross dusty at sandust.com
Thu Jan 17 23:38:41 PST 2002


I solved my compile error.  Everything about keyboard and mouse in the sparc64
kernel is for USB and I had turned off USB support.  That fixed that.

Dusty


Dustin Cross (dusty at sandust.com) wrote: 
>
>Does anyone else use Linux on a sparc?  I just installed Suse 7.3 (kernel 2.4.14)
>on my Ultra 2 and I have having a problem.  I have a second harddrive (36GB IBM
>SCA) that will not work with it.  The drive works fine with Solaris.  I have done
>some searching and it sounds like teh problem might have something to do with the
>way egcs does something while compiling the kernel.  Does anyone else know anything
>about this?  the error is:
>
>esp0: Warning, live target 0 not responding to selection.
>
>That just keeps scrolling up the screen.
>
>If I take the 36 GB drive out and just use my 4GB everythign works fine.
>
>
>So I decided I would try compiling my own kernel and not use egcs and see if that
>solves anything.  Does anyone on the list know how to compile a kernel on sparc64?
>So far I have
>
>#make menuconfig
>#make dep
>#make clean
>#make boot (not make bzImage)
>is the rest the same?
>#make modules
>#make modules install
>
>It keeps erroring out on make boot with something about kbd.
>
>
>Thanks,
>Dusty
>
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