Re: tlug: RH Sparc 5.1 Trials

[Christopher Sekiya <wileyc@example.com>]

On Mon, 6 Jul 1998, Joe Marchak wrote:

> Entering SMP mode
> Unable to handle kernel NULL Pointer dereference
> tsk->mm->context = ffffffff
> tsk->mm->pga=f0015000
> swapper (0): Oops
> :::::
> misc. dump codes then halts.

Yep.  The usual SMP-kernel-dying-on-UP-machine.

> Hopefully the official version has this bug worked out.  Has anyone
> managed to install RH Sparc 5.1 yet?

Sort of.  I installed the glibc RPM, compiled the 5.1 kernel (but I turned
SMP off), and then compiled the rest of the world by hand.

My kernel may work for you, if you boot from floppy and then copy the
kernel over.  Let me know if you want it.

--	Chris (wileyc@example.com)

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