On Fri, Jan 05, 2001 at 03:19:25PM -0500, Charles Fultz wrote:
> Phil Howard said:
>
> > Once absolutely confirmed, I think this should be treated as a kernel
> > issue and reported. Ideally it should be able to detect whether the
> > PCI is in use or not and apply itself only if applicable, like any
> > good driver should. If they can't make it do that, then the configure
> > description should be updated to say something like "Does not work on
> > many non-PCI systems, so choose this only for just PCI based Sparc
> > machines".
>
> I think that the make [config, menuconfig, xconfig] should check
> /dev/openprom/compatible, and if it equals one of 'sun4c', 'sun4d', or
> 'sun4m' it should not give the option of PCI and/or PS/2
> keyboard/mouse. How's that sound?
That's not a good idea. It makes it difficult for distributors to build
kernels unless they are building them on the target machine. 9 times out
of 10, we don't build a kernel on the target machine, but rather a build
machine.
> > Anyway, if you can zero out the first few sectors of the HD and
> > start from scratch, it may be the fix needed here. Of course do
> > NOT do this if there are other things on the drive to keep.
>
> Seeing how I finally got Slack/sparc installed, I think I'll just go
> with it until I have an problems with it before zeroing out the disk.
> I, actually, follow that practice also. It's just a good idea in my
> opinion. Also, the disk worked fine with Solaris 2.6 installed on it.
I'm looking into e2fsprogs right now to see if there's a new release or
anything like that. I don't know why it would segfaulting. Perhaps the
disklabel support in the kernel, but I don't know.
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David Cantrell | david@slackware.com
KG6CII | Slackware Linux Project
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