From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jakub Jelinek Date: Thu, 05 Nov 1998 21:37:38 +0000 Subject: Re: ultrapenguin-1.0.9 on ultra30 Message-Id: List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: ultralinux@vger.kernel.org > > hi! > > i'm having a few problems with the new ultrapenguin stuff. > > 1 - the install works flawlessly, but there seems to be something wrong > with initrd... when i reboot after installing i get: > > initrd overwritten ([some address] > [some other address]) - disabling it Can you tell me those some addresses and some other addresses? How much memory do you have? What size is your /boot/initrd*.img (provided you get tftprescue.img working - see below). > > and after this it of course can't mount root. is there a way to tell silo > to load a module? There is no way to do that, you have to get either initrd working, or compile the required modules into the kernel. > > 2 - tftprescue.img fails horribly: > > > 2f9000 TILO > copy 31A000 1538F0 1726398 > copy 260000 9A276 759418 > Memory Address not Aligned > > > > any hints? Grab the most recent tftprescue.img, it should not fail horribly (I assume you don't have it, as it should not print the copy messages). Cheers, Jakub ___________________________________________________________________ Jakub Jelinek | jj@sunsite.mff.cuni.cz | http://sunsite.mff.cuni.cz Administrator of SunSITE Czech Republic, MFF, Charles University ___________________________________________________________________ Ultralinux - first 64bit OS to take full power of the UltraSparc Linux version 2.1.126 on a sparc64 machine (498.80 BogoMips). ___________________________________________________________________