Re: compiling kernel for an alphaserver (VERY OLD ONE)

[Alan Bort <333101@personal.net.py>]

El sáb, 26 de 04 de 2003 a las 09:33, Jan-Benedict Glaw escribió:
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> > Don't use 2.4.20 on Alpha, it has nasty bugs.  2.4.19 is fine, as are
> > 2.4.21-pre1 and up.
> 
> Or 2.5.x. I'm running them for quite some time on NoName, Miata and
> Avanti with no problems at all.
I'll try with 2.4.19 I think it is a little more tested... or at least I
think it should

> 
> > > Since Lilo is not an option... what happends if I missconfigure
> > > something??? how do I boot to another kernel??? from the bios console???
> > 
> > Have you read the aboot man pages.  On Alphas, aboot does what lilo
> > does on PCs (approximately).
> 
> aboot (for SRM-based machines), or milo (which is for AlphaBIOS based
> machines).
> 
> > > I've noted that the downloadable file is only 4 MB (a little less)... is
> > > that the FULL kernel???
> > 
> > Is that already compiled?  My kernels usually end up around 1.5 MB in
> > size, or ~2.7 MB uncompressed.
> Maybe it contains loads of drivers. I think you can easily get a 4MB
> uncompressed kernel image...
The problem is that It's 4MB compressed WITH BZ2!
> 
[SNIP]
> 
> I subscribe that. Alpha is _not_ i386, so some things _are_ different.
> Please, do some reading (and asking) first, then eventually don't shoot
> your foot.
Of course... I'll odo as much resaerch as I do for ANY 'new' sthing I do
on linux... but... will reading preapre me well for what I should
expect???

Thanks a lot.
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Alan Bort
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