On Tue, Oct 03, 2000 at 09:24:18PM +0100, Angelo wrote: > Hi, > > I have installed Debian 2.2, but I have the same problems as under Reddhat. > The installation is very instable (memory problems ?). I fixed it by > recompiling a 2.4.0-testx kernel and that worked under Redhat and the system > was stable. But after updating to Debian 2.2 the kernel refuses to run. It > does uncompress and then hangs. So I recompiled a new kernel (crosscompiled > on a Redhat 6.2 linux running on a Intel). This has the same problem ... it > hangs after uncompressing. Could someone please tell me what I need to do, to > make the kernel working ? Do I need to change something to the kernelsources > to make it run on Debian ? Is there anyone who has it a 2.4.0 kernel running > under Debian.
I found that debian was expecting Unix98 ptys to be configured, whereas redhat wasn't. So in /usr/src/linux/.config I have CONFIG_UNIX98_PTYS=y CONFIG_UNIX98_PTY_COUNT=256 CONFIG_DEVPTS_FS=y This may not be the problem, however. Can you get at /var/log/messages on the RiscPC to see what diagnostics are in there? (the answer should be yes, either via another linux install (I've got /dev/hda3 and /dev/hda4 as 2 root partitions) or using !IscaFS, or by removing the HD and temporarily installing it in your PC (although that then would need a kernel with ADFS partition support. erm.)) Without the diagnostics from /var/log/messages or the serial port (I don't know how to do that) anyone on either list you've cross posted to will be guessing. Nicholas Clark
