Re: [parisc-linux] kernel compile

[grundler@dsl2.external.hp.com (Grant Grundler)]

On Mon, Feb 03, 2003 at 01:43:28AM -0500, Aaron St. Pierre wrote:
> Anyway I got the the TOC information for both processors after
> I tried to boot my kernel. It is
> all on that page ( http://hadron.dyndns.org/parisc/ ) 

IIA Offset                   = 0x00000000f0080570

that's not a kernel address. Looks like a PDC call died. :^(

> I also added a link to the firmware. I am running 2.0 of the firmware
> and according to hp the most recent is 2.1 or : 
> 
> Patch Name: /firmware_patches/hp/cpu/PF_CJ224021
> Description: HP 9000 Model J2240 firmware 2.1 patch
> Date       : 00/10/06

hmm...I'd stick with 2.0 for now.

> I will start popping stuff out of the kernel, although I am sure I took
> out all of the stuff wrt graphics. Another try for persistance sake wont
> hurt :) 

You still have STI drivers enabled and CONFIG_FB enabled.
I'd start with those and then remove others one-by-one.

> As far as the palo message, i only started noticing it when I went to
> v1.2 of palo. One thing I should note, when I set up / i made it ext3,
> boot is off of / and not its own fs so when i realized what i did I just
> changed fstab accordingly so it would mount as ext2, although that
> couldn't be the problem either since it is loading the debian kernels.

/ can be ext3. Palo doesn't care since ext2/ext3 are compatible.
What's important is /boot/vmlinux is < 2GB on disk.

grant