Is anyone else having kernel problems?

[Andrew Bradley]

Geert,

I have an 8500 + powerlogix G3 upgrade card and Suse 7.3
and have recently built a fresh 2.4.18 (With the elf-fix.patch) with no 
problems.
I use the following compiler details:-
Reading specs from /usr/lib/gcc-lib/powerpc-suse-linux/2.95.3/specs
gcc version 2.95.3 20010319 (2.95.4 CVS + prerelease/franzo/20010912)

What I did find is that I was having problems bootstrap building GCC 3.x.
I dont use GCC 3.x for kernel building.

It turn out that the overclocking of the powerlogix board from 400Mhz to 
450hmz was too much for the m/c.
I set it back to 400Mhz with no problems.

The only caveat I have when building a kernel for my machine is to make 
sure the adaptec 2930 driver is included in the kernel and not as a 
module.
This is because my hard disk is only on the adaptec card and the CD is 
on the internal scsi bus.

Regards
Andrew

On Wednesday, May 8, 2002, at 10:05  am, Geert Janssens wrote:

>
> I have now answers to this problem, but I crosspost this to the Linux
> PPC mailing list (linuxppc-user@lists.linuxppc.org, archives on
> http://lists.linuxppc.org), since I know Benjamin Herrenschmidt (benh)
> sometimes reads this list.
>
> I believe it might be in a better position than most yellowdog linux
> users to answer your questions here.
>
> Cheers,
> Geert
>
> Stephen J. Sanders wrote:
>> Murias,
>> I tried 2.4.19-pre7-ben0 and had to give up on it.  I didn't have
>> the problem of being dumped into the debugger, but I started to see
>> some VERY strange behaviors in using automake and libtool--for longer
>> programs I kept getting messages about bad libtool archives and other
>> errors that suggested that an internal system buffer might be getting
>> overwritten, although this latter is speculation on my part.Switching
>> back to the default YDL 2.2 kernel fixed the problems.
>> ...steve
>>
>>> The below was originally posted about a month ago.  So I figured that
>>> maybe by a months time something might be worked out.  Well, I just
>>> compiled the 2.4.19-pre7, compiled very nicely. even booted.  Once it
>>> got to the console login.... it dumped me into the debugger. so 
>>> close...
>>
>>
>>> has anyone figured out how to get this kernel to work as of yet?
>>
>>
>>> Murias
>>
>>
>>
>>>>> I've been having real problems with kernels lately - so much so that
>>>>> I yhink it needs to be flagged for users.  Specifically, for late
>>>>> 2.4.17 thru 2.4.19 kernels:
>>>>>
>>>>> - a number of the 2.4.19pre kernels fail to build
>>>>> - several, including benh versions have been unstable
>>>>> - a couple failed to boot (dropping into the debugger at cron or
>>>>> swapper tasks)
>>>>> - one created a filesystem error
>>>>> - another started spewing garbage out of the imap socket after a 
>>>>> week
>>>>>
>>>>> This is BAD and can only make people very wary of Linux in general.
>>>>> Does anyone know the status of work to iron these problems out?  My
>>>>> system is a 9600 with PowerLogix processor upgrade booting from SCSI
>>>>> but running Linux
>>>>
>>>
>>>> from an IDE RAID array off a Sonnet card.
>>>
>>
>>>>>
>>>>>  Iain
>>>>
>>>
>>
>>
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