[ILUG] Problem booting SuSe 7.3

[Ronan Cunniffe]

Quoting Matthew French <mfrench42 at yahoo.co.uk>:

> I am trying to recompile the kernel for my SuSe 7.3 box. I can get the
> compile to work fine and the new kernel will boot. However, it hangs right
> after mounting the root disk. There are no error messages.
> 
> I suspect it is a problem with the 'init' process? If I specify the wrong
> root drive, the kernel will panic as expected. I can create an 'initrd' as
> well, but this does not solve the problem.
> 
> The standard SuSe 2.4.14 kernels boot without problems. I am trying to
> build
> a customised 2.4.18 kernel, although I have tried the default configuration
> as well.
> 
> I am not completely familiar with SuSe and it has options to install a 2.2
> kernel so I am worried that the version of init might be old. The version
> of
> gcc is also 2.92.3, and the kernel compile seems to use a special version
> of
> gcc.
IIRC, the kernel must always be sparc64 code (v9?), the apps always sparc32
(v8?).  Hence two versions of gcc.

> One other complication is that I am building this on a sparc64 box while
> all
> the applications are sparc32. But this should not be a real issue as the
> SuSe kernels are also sparc64 and I have configured the ELF32
> 'compatibility
> layer' into my customised kernel.

But if init isn't ELF32.... crunch at the point you indicated. (anybody know
this one?)

Ok.... try leaving ELF32 compatibility *out* and SWH.  Is the config used to
build the default kernel to be found anywhere?

Ronan