RE: happy meal unhappy

Steven Rodenburg <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.suse.sparc
Message-ID <[email protected]>
The Happy meal works just fine. Stable as a rock. Both Full Duplex and
Half Duplex 100mbit (didn't try 10mbit).

I even got a little Disney toy with my happy meal  8-)

Oh and please, call me Steve. You make me feel like a very old man 8-)






On Thu, 2002-04-04 at 23:18, IT3 Stuart Blake Tener, USNR-R wrote:
> Mr. Rodenburg, et al.:
> 
> 	Fair enough! I will build 2.4.19-pre5 and put it on the Ultra 5.
> I too would agree with your logic, I just wanted to make sure I
> understood the way you were describing the issues.
> 
> 	However, I am still curious about the Happy Meal Ethernet; did
> you have more success with it working properly under 2.4.19?
> 
> 
> Very Respectfully, 
> 
> Stuart Blake Tener, IT3 (E-4), USNR-R, N3GWG 
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> Saturday, January 26, 2002 8:47 AM
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Steven Rodenburg [mailto:[email protected]] 
> Sent: Thursday, April 04, 2002 12:59 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Cc: 'Jorge Rivas'; [email protected]
> Subject: RE: [suse-sparc] happy meal unhappy
> 
> Well, "WILL" not boot maybe a little harsh but as a number of people
> reported not being to be able to boot Ultra10's and Ultra2's etc with
> 2.4.18 as well as my self getting stuck at "mounted VFS root" -> poof
> freeze i'd rather say "very unlikely to boot a Ultra5".
> 
> This while 2.4.18 patched to 2.4.19-pre4 with EXACTLY the same options
> in the .config, booted without a hitch and is running a very stable
> server over here with a high-load soft-RAID5 and everything.
> 
> The fact that the Ultra5 is practically the same as the Ultra10 led me
> to my answer.
> 
> In my quest for the "2.4.18 won't boot on my Ultra10" problem some guy
> said there was a Sparc specific bug in 2.4.18. I then started trying
> 2.4.19-pre4 and viola !
> 
> 
> Greetings,
> Steve
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Thu, 2002-04-04 at 19:54, IT3 Stuart Blake Tener, USNR-R wrote:
> > Mr. Rodenburg:
> > 
> > 	Are you saying that 2.4.18 will not boot on an ULTRA 5?
> > 
> > 	Have you had success with 2.4.19-pre4 or later in terms of
> > getting the Happy Meal card to be more happy?
> > 
> > 
> > Very Respectfully, 
> > 
> > Stuart Blake Tener, IT3 (E-4), USNR-R, N3GWG 
> > Beverly Hills, California
> > VTU 1904G (Volunteer Training Unit) 
> > [email protected] 
> > west coast: (310)-358-0202 P.O. Box 16043, Beverly Hills, CA
> 90209-2043 
> > east coast: (215)-338-6005 P.O. Box 45859, Philadelphia, PA 19149-5859
> 
> > 
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> > free!) 
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> > 
> > Thursday, April 04, 2002 9:53 AM
> > 
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Steven Rodenburg [mailto:[email protected]] 
> > Sent: Thursday, April 04, 2002 9:31 AM
> > To: Jorge Rivas
> > Cc: [email protected]
> > Subject: Re: [suse-sparc] happy meal unhappy
> > 
> > Booting a 2.4.18 kernel on Sparc64 is no go. Go for 2.4.19-pre4 or
> > later.
> > It's a known problem.
> > 
> > 
> > Greetings,
> > Steve
> > 
> > 
> > On Thu, 2002-04-04 at 17:52, Jorge Rivas wrote:
> > > El Jue 04 Abr 2002 16:47, Jorge Rivas escribió:
> > > > i have the same problem on a ULTRA 1 3D
> > > > The problem appears to be in the kernel of suse 7.3
> > > > I have compiled a 2.2.18 kernel, and the card works fine , but i
> > have some
> > > > problems booting this kernel ....
> > > 
> > > Sorry, the kernel i have tried is 2.4.18
> > > 
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