[parisc-linux] 735 experience ??

Matthew Wilcox Matthew.Wilcox@genedata.com
Thu, 15 Jul 1999 23:27:38 +0200


On Thu, Jul 15, 1999 at 05:14:35PM -0400, John David Anglin wrote:
> I tried a few days ago (July 6) and sent the console output to Alex Devries.
> There were problems with cpu speed, cpu level, and the stack/user address
> space seemed to encompass all memory including the kernel.  The kernel
> did determine the amount of memory in the machine and the machine type
> correctly.
> 
> I tried again a few days later and the boot just hung with no messages
> at all.  I think the hpux ipl must have had problems with the object file.
> Haven't tried the most recent version.

You should :-)  Helge checked in some code today which apparently fixes
the booting-via-hpux problems.

-- 
Matthew Wilcox <willy@bofh.ai>
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