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PostPosted: Fri Jun 28, 2002 10:12 am    Post subject: SparcStation 20 booting issues (tmpfs) Reply with quote

Ok, I have a stage 3 Gentoo sparc build on my SS20.
I've compiled a vanilla 2.4.18 kernel (from kernel.org) with devfs and tmpfs support.
When I reboot (after running SILO) I see the 'Gentoo Linux' copyright notice and it goes on to mount /proc, devfs, start devfsd and then mount tmpfs at /dev/.init.d.
Regardless of whether I have tmpfs compiled in to the kernel or an entry in fstab, the initial mounting of tmpfs fails. (it all so fails when I boot with notmpfs)

Any ideas?

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PostPosted: Sat Jun 29, 2002 7:24 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I have the same problem after a reinstall of my gentoo Linux on my Sparc 10.

I have not jet found out wat is the cause of this problem.
I just hope some one has a solution. :lol:
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PostPosted: Sun Aug 18, 2002 3:45 pm    Post subject: Re: SparcStation 20 booting issues (tmpfs) Reply with quote

I did a couple of things at the same time, so I don't know what it was that fixed the problem. First thing I did was add the line:
Code:
append = "gentoo=notmpfs"
to the image for vmlinuz.

I don't think that helped the situation, but like I said, I did it at the same time that I did the kernel rebuild.

From some searching, I found that doing a
Code:
make mrproper; make menuconfig; make dep clean vmlinux modules
caused the problem to go away. The menuconfig will be necessary after doing a mrproper, as the .config file will be removed.

For what it's worth... My system boots now after what I did.

Good Luck

Chris
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PostPosted: Sun Feb 02, 2003 3:11 pm    Post subject: Re: SparcStation 20 booting issues (tmpfs) Reply with quote

Roobarb wrote:
Regardless of whether I have tmpfs compiled in to the kernel or an entry in fstab, the initial mounting of tmpfs fails.


Turn off '/dev/pts support' and rebuild the kernel, and you should be set.
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