I am getting discouraged with Gentoo on ULTRA1
For those of you who are kind enough to care....sigh. On my Ultra1 I succeeded in following the directions in <http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-sparc.xml> to the letter, or so I thought. I "emerge'd" successfully. I compiled successfully. I chroot'd successfully. I removed the CD from its drive. I boot'd and I got the following. yadda yadda yadda.... VFs: Mounted root(ext3 filesystem) readonly Mounted devfs on /dev FATAL: kernel too old Unimplemented SPARC system call 188 Kernel panic: Attempted to kill init! Press Li-A to return to the boot prom I compiled kernel-2.4.34. I chose 2.4 over 2.6 because the handbook hinted I should.. Now I do not even know what questions to ask myself. I checked Google on the "kernel too old" message and the "Attempted to kill" message. I could not understand the few matches that it found. My bet is that I need bigger SCSI hard drives. I'll also be glad to shut up if this is getting boring. Ken
Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2007 16:07:25 -0400 From: ken jones <kjones@ziplink.net> For those of you who are kind enough to care....sigh. On my Ultra1 I succeeded in following the directions in <http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-sparc.xml> to the letter, or so I thought. I "emerge'd" successfully. I compiled successfully. I chroot'd successfully. I removed the CD from its drive. I boot'd and I got the following. yadda yadda yadda.... VFs: Mounted root(ext3 filesystem) readonly Mounted devfs on /dev FATAL: kernel too old Unimplemented SPARC system call 188 Kernel panic: Attempted to kill init! Press Li-A to return to the boot prom I compiled kernel-2.4.34. I chose 2.4 over 2.6 because the handbook hinted I should.. Given the message, you may want to try 2.6 -- 2.4 is certainly older than 2.6. -- Robert Krawitz <rlk@alum.mit.edu> Tall Clubs International -- http://www.tall.org/ or 1-888-IM-TALL-2 Member of the League for Programming Freedom -- mail lpf@uunet.uu.net Project lead for Gutenprint -- http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net "Linux doesn't dictate how I work, I dictate how Linux works." --Eric Crampton
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Did you use udev? There's a spot about using a certain profile if you're using the 2.4. Udev only works on 2.6 and up (and not on some of the older 2.6 kernels). Reboot with the livecd chroot, enter the chrooted environment and check your kernel config for DEVFS. Make sure it's compiled in (Not a module) and it's set to mount automatically at boot. Also, make sure that udev isn't installed (emerge -s udev) and if it is uninstall it (emerge --unmerge udev). Eric ken jones wrote:
For those of you who are kind enough to care....sigh.
On my Ultra1 I succeeded in following the directions in <http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-sparc.xml> to the letter, or so I thought. I "emerge'd" successfully. I compiled successfully. I chroot'd successfully. I removed the CD from its drive. I boot'd and I got the following.
yadda yadda yadda.... VFs: Mounted root(ext3 filesystem) readonly Mounted devfs on /dev FATAL: kernel too old Unimplemented SPARC system call 188 Kernel panic: Attempted to kill init! Press Li-A to return to the boot prom
I compiled kernel-2.4.34. I chose 2.4 over 2.6 because the handbook hinted I should..
Now I do not even know what questions to ask myself. I checked Google on the "kernel too old" message and the "Attempted to kill" message. I could not understand the few matches that it found.
My bet is that I need bigger SCSI hard drives. I'll also be glad to shut up if this is getting boring.
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On Sunday 15 April 2007, Eric Martin wrote:
Did you use udev? There's a spot about using a certain profile if you're using the 2.4. Udev only works on 2.6 and up (and not on some of the older 2.6 kernels). Reboot with the livecd chroot, enter the chrooted environment and check your kernel config for DEVFS. Make sure it's compiled in (Not a module) and it's set to mount automatically at boot. Also, make sure that udev isn't installed (emerge -s udev) and if it is uninstall it (emerge --unmerge udev).
the error he's getting is unrelated to the /dev management ... he cant even launch init because glibc requires a newer kernel than he has installed -mike
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