[Wlug] New ULTRA1 - one step forward, two steps backward....

[ken jones]

Folks,
When the box failed to boot, you might remember, it complained that the 
kernel was "too old".

I remade the box using the newer kernel 2.6.20.  I apparently configured 
the correct silo.conf (there are five of them in there when using the 
livecd).  It looked like it was going to BOOT!! :-)    See below.....  
Trouble is this is as far as it got.

I printed and used as reference the Gentoo Linux 2006.1 SPARC Handbook, 
the Using UTF08 with Gentoo document and the Gentoo Upgrading Guide.  
Nevertheless I had a very difficult time with manual configuration of 
the kernel.  I had not the faintest idea which modules I could ignore 
and which I needed to modularize

Question: is there a log somewhere?  I did emerge syslog-ng.
Another question: Where is the detailed documentation on all the modules?
Final question:  How do I get a hint at what I did wrong?

Ken
----------------snip of hyperterminal watching SUN ULTRA boot.------------
Sun Ultra 1 UPA/SBus (UltraSPARC 200MHz), No Keyboard
OpenBoot 3.11, 192 MB memory installed, Serial #9633364.
Ethernet address 8:0:20:92:fe:54, Host ID: 8092fe54.


Initializing Memory \
Initializing Memory \
Initializing Memory \
Initializing Memory -
Initializing Memory -

Boot device: disk  File and args:
SILO Version 1.4.13
boot:

Allocated 8 Megs of memory at 0x40000000 for kernel
Loaded kernel version 2.6.20

Remapping the kernel... done.
Booting Linux...

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