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I have been running gentoo on a sparc64 since 2004.0 or 2005.0 release. |
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I know it isn't sparc32, but unless you have some dire need to run a |
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2.4 kernel I would suggest running a 2.6 kernel. Beside that its |
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getting increasingly difficult to install gentoo under a 2.4 profile. |
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I think we all sometimes forget gentoo is a progressive linux and is |
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always changing. Because of this it is only backward compatible to a |
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short period of time in the past, like a year. Unlike the other |
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distributions (red hat/SuSe, etc) where you can install older versions |
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this distribution sorta requires you to stay somewhat current with the |
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times. =) |
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Not saying it is impossible. For instance I run a few machines in 2.4 |
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profile because I use them for an OpenMosix cluster. That has been |
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removed from portage for months now, but I can still install it because |
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I copied the 2006.0 profile and all the required files to a portage |
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overlay directory so I could still use it even when gentoo stopped |
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supporting it. You may have to do this same technique in order to use |
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your 2.4 kernel and stuff, and as the another poster has mentioned, 2.4 |
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kernel isn't really supported by gentoo anymore in favor of the 2.6 |
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kernel, which I must add works just fine on sparc64 |
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brant williams wrote: |
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> Which version of linux-headers are you running? Can you do an `emerge - |
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> -pv linux-headers` and show the output? |
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> I have no experience with SPARC32, but 2.4 is a fine kernel, and not |
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> wholly different (from a user/administrator perspective) than 2.6. You |
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> have to use devfs instead of udev. .:shrug:. |
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> I know a little about running (Hardened) Gentoo Linux 2.4/2.6 on |
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> SPARC64, although I imagine it's not drastically different for the |
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> SPARCStation 5. So let's start with your kernel-headers version and go |
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> from there. Also, if you could post /usr/src/linux/.config and (if |
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> possible) any dmesg output, that'd be great. |
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> brant williams |
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> FCAA CDCA 20BC 3925 D634 F5C4 7420 6784 4DEB 6002 |
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> On Mon, 17 Sep 2007, Aggelos wrote: |
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>> Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2007 19:46:21 +0300 |
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>> From: Aggelos <marmango@××××××××.gr> |
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>> Reply-To: gentoo-sparc@l.g.o |
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>> To: gentoo-sparc@l.g.o |
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>> Subject: Re: [gentoo-sparc] emerging of silo fails |
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>> on 09/17/2007 03:02 PM Andrew Gaffney wrote the following: |
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>>> Aggelos wrote: |
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>>>> poseidon ~ # ls -l /etc/make.profile lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 62 Sep 12 |
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>>>> 15:02 /etc/make.profile -> |
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>>>> ../usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/sparc/sparc32/2006.1/2.4 |
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>>> First, sparc32 isn't supported, so when it breaks, you won't get much |
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>>> help. Second, the 2.4 kernel is mostly unsupported by Gentoo (not just |
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>>> on sparc), so you're not going to find a lot of help there, either. |
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>> What kernel can boot a sparcstation 5, besides 2.4 (and lower)? |
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>> Isn't the size of 2.6 prohibitive? |
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