Re: Using 2.4.18 on Ultra 1

On Sunday 26 May 2002 03:46 pm, you wrote:

> > I just started using the 2.4.18 kernel from
> > ftp://ftp.uk.kernel.org:/pub/linux/kernel/v2.4/
>
> (...)
>
> > Reboot was OK except init hung instead of reading /etc/inittab.
> > I rebuilt the same version on init (2.78) from src, no changes to
> > src and
> > no changes to the Makefile and it worked fine.
> > The rebuilt one works on the old kernel 2.4.14 too.
> > The sizes of the two executables are a bit confusing though:
> >
> > -rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root        30632 May 26 19:08 init.new
> > -rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root       502540 Oct 29  2001 init.orig
>
> This has been discused here and other places also. If you use kernel
> 2.4.18, you will have problems running static binaries (like SuSE's
> defaul init :). Use 2.4.18-rc4, or some .19-pre kernels. instead.

Kernel 2.4.18 with the 2.4.19-pre8 patch compiles and seems to work 
fine for sparc64


-- 
George Auch | SuSE Linux 7.3 for SPARC
Linux ns1 2.4.19-pre8 #1 SMP Wed May 22 10:00:09 EDT 2002 sparc64

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