From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sat, 26 Jan 2002 16:47:49 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sat, 26 Jan 2002 16:47:39 -0500 Received: from gadolinium.btinternet.com ([194.73.73.111]:51339 "EHLO gadolinium.btinternet.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sat, 26 Jan 2002 16:47:25 -0500 From: "Chris Mason" To: Subject: SPARCstation 5 (sun4m) and 2.4.17 Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2002 21:48:07 -0000 Message-ID: <000401c1a6b3$24bac020$0100a8c0@krad> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.2627 Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi, I know I have seen this discussed before on various mailing lists, but it was generally regarding the 2.4.0-test kernels. I am attempting to use 2.4.17 on a SPARCstation 5 (sun4m) with 192MB of RAM. On attempting to boot the kernel I get the following message; SILO boot: PROMLIB: obio_ranges 1 bootmem_init: Scan sp_banks, init_bootmem(spfn[41ad],bpfn[4a1d],mlpfn[c000]) It then pauses for a period of about 3 mins then I get the following (as expected), Watchdog Reset, Rebooting. Resetting ... I have attempted to pass it mem=16M as some earlier posts suggested to do on 2.4.0-test kernels with no luck. On enable PROM_DEBUG_CONSOLE in /usr/src/linux/arch/sparc/kernel/setup.c I see that the kernel does oops, however as the screen moves up very quickly I cannot read what it is saying. Thanks in advance, Chris