From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from hadron.dyndns.org (ma-amesbury1e-100.mrrmnh.adelphia.net [68.168.107.100]) by dsl2.external.hp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id BE4F14829 for ; Tue, 4 Feb 2003 12:18:17 -0700 (MST) Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2003 14:17:41 -0500 From: "Aaron St. Pierre" To: Paul Bame Cc: Michael Wood , Grant Grundler , parisc-linux@lists.parisc-linux.org Subject: Re: [parisc-linux] kernel compile Message-ID: <20030204191741.GC25469@hadron> References: <20030203020247.GB1046@hadron> <20030203041122.GB29454@dsl2.external.hp.com> <20030203053336.GC1046@hadron> <20030203060359.GF29454@dsl2.external.hp.com> <20030203064328.GD1046@hadron> <20030203101959.GA28668@marmite.its.uct.ac.za> <20030203153735.GE1046@hadron> <20030204165754.GA23535@paul.bame> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <20030204165754.GA23535@paul.bame> Sender: parisc-linux-admin@lists.parisc-linux.org Errors-To: parisc-linux-admin@lists.parisc-linux.org List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: parisc-linux developers list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Paul, My root filesystem is 250MB. parisc:~# df -kh Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sda2 231M 52M 168M 24% / /dev/sda5 1.9G 212M 1.6G 12% /var /dev/sda6 2.8G 1009M 1.7G 38% /usr Don't know if you saw the thread, but for some reason 2.5.58 boots, there are problems after, which is expected with a development kernel, but it boots nonetheless and that is hopeful :) Is there perhaps some other way I should be organizing my swap and filesystems ? I followed the instructions from http://www.parisc-linux.org/software/install.html. Thanks In another life Paul Bame wrote: > On Mon, Feb 03, 2003 at 10:37:35AM -0500, Aaron St. Pierre wrote: > > Yes, the boot partition is < 2GB. In fact here is the partion table as > > reported from fdisk. > > > > Disk /dev/sda: 9100 MB, 9100044288 bytes > > 64 heads, 32 sectors/track, 8678 cylinders > > Units = cylinders of 2048 * 512 = 1048576 bytes > > > > Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System > > /dev/sda1 * 1 29 29680 f0 Linux/PA-RISC boot > > /dev/sda2 30 267 243712 83 Linux > > Your TOC dump indicated a likely death in firmware, which is consistent > with trying to load a kernel from beyond the 2G mark. Indeed your > /dev/sda2 ends past the 2G mark, so you can expect that sometimes > it'll work and sometimes it won't. > > -P > _______________________________________________ > parisc-linux mailing list > parisc-linux@lists.parisc-linux.org > http://lists.parisc-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/parisc-linux -- Aaron St. Pierre tel: 978.828.6177 asp@ungod.com liiwi: printk("CPU0 on fire\n");