RE: Kernel 2.1.131 compiles but hangs...

["Barrett G. Lyon" <blyon netpr com>]

Post your .config to the list.... or email it to me.. I'd like to see what
is configured on your machine.

-Barrett


At 05:06 PM 12/7/98 -0000, you wrote:
>
>	Richard Henderson (rth@cygnus.com) wrote:
>	>I had no idea so many people had ill-configured milo...
>
>	I think this is certainly most of the problem but not all: my
>attempts to build
>	2.1.131 with gcc 2.7.2.3 and CONFIG_ALPHA_LX164 set led to it
>crashing
>	out linking kernel.o due to undefined references to miata_mv,
>ruffian_mv etc.
>	Mind you, it could well just be gcc. I just thought i'd try it
>seeing as I'd already
>	gone through a bunch of other compilers and thought failing to
>get 2.1.131 to 
>	run might have something to do with the fact that I'd installed
>two new compilers
>	since 2.1.130 (egcs-1.1.1p3 and 1.1.1 release). No such luck.
>The most i could
>	get before a hang was an unalighed trap from the kernel
>
>      >If you've got variation 0, you've _not_ got the latest MILO.
>Note
>      >that the latest MILO does _not_ live, as one would expect, in the
>      >Miniloader subdirectory, but rather under Kernels.
>
>      just out of curiosity, what is the favoured way of installing milo
>these days?
>      About 5 months ago when I built mine, a lot of documentation
>recommended
>      flashing it, then it was 'no! don't do that - make a dos
>partition'. I'm still 
>      running off of a milo bootdisk made from an old (well, current as
>of june-ish)
>     milo.dd from gatekeeper, which brings me to a question: i presume
>(guessing
>     from the size of them) that the latest milos (milo-lx-980810 & the
>latest in 
>     the 'kernels' directory) aren't suitable to blow onto a floppy? I'm
>guessing this
>     by the way that they're smaller than the one i had that wasn't.
>Sorry if this
>     bit sounds confused - I usually am.
>
>       Lastly, will the 2.1.131 changes have any effect on booting from
>SRM? I'm
>    running srm at the moment and I feel tempted to cut out the milo
>stage altogether
>    sometimes..
>
>cheers
>john
>
>
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