[SunRescue] Re: Trolls and MP on rescued suns

[Gregory Leblanc]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stout, Logan [mailto:ldstout at broadband.att.com]
> 
> Apologies in advance to those who find this question off 
> topic, heretical,
> offensive, or just plain bad smelling.
> 
> one or two people have mentioned running Linux on older sparc 
> machines, so
> I'm hoping someone can answer a couple of questions.
> 
> 1: does it run, slower, faster, about the same? as Solaris 2.6

Depends on the hardware.  Linux runs MUCH better on my SS2 than does Solaris
7.  Solaris 7 runs much better on my SS20, except that I'm forced to run X.

> 2: anyone know any guru tricks for dealing with a system that 
> refuses to
> properly boot after a Linux install.. for what appears to be, 
> among possibly
> other things, a problem with prom settings. I manually made a 
> new devalias
> to try booting, but for some reason this still, at best gets 
> me to a point
> where SILO dies..  (I realize this description is not super 
> detailed, but I
> suspect if it has happened to you, you will recall the event 
> based on this
> info.

Yeah, make sure that you have a partition to store the kernel that exists
entirely below 1GB.  I usually make a 20MB /boot partition right at the
start of the disk to make life easier.
	Greg