[Fedora-sparc] installing sparc F12
On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 07:35:48AM -0500, Dennis Gilmore wrote:
On Wednesday 21 April 2010 05:05:45 am Rafal Maszkowski wrote:
...
> I have adapted a grub2 to example with a hope that it may work:
> # Timeout for menu
> set timeout=10
> # Set default boot entry as Entry 0
> set default=0
> # Entry 0 - Load Linux kernel
> menuentry "My Linux Kernel on (hd0,1)" {
> set root=(hd0,1)
> linux /vmlinuz-2.6.32.9-72.fc12.sparc64 root=LABEL=/
> initrd /initramfs-2.6.32.9-72.fc12.sparc64.img
> }
> If it does not work I can use silo instead (with the needed sparc32
> libraries installed).
> Burning questions:
> - does not grub2 make sense at all in these circumstances?
ive not once gotten a successful boot with grub2
I will try it once or twice befove giving up and using silo.
Is the configuration above theoretically correct? I will use /dev/sda1
for /boot .
> - should I expect problems with silo? It will have all the
necessary
> 32-bits libraries in place.
silo only needs the 32 bit glibc installed and only then to actually run the
silo command there would be no problems
I expected it to be so.
> - are there any fundamental problems with the 64-bits userspace
or the
> main problem is that nobody tested it yet?
No one has tested it. binaries are bigger, which in turn means it takes
longer to load and run, uses more ram, and you do not gain additional cpu
features by doing it, x86_64 you gain access to additional registers and
other thinsg that make it worthwhile. sparc64 you don't
So actually it does not make any sense to keep development/sparc64 tree?
Anyway switching between 64 and 32 bits with use of yum is not very
difficult. Maybe I will do it once the machine is running. I am copying
my sparc64 tree on my new logical volumes (on top of RAID6 and RAID5
MDs).
> BTW the sparc64 devel version installs smoothly except dwdiff
which has
> dependency problems:
> dwdiff-1.5-4.fc12.sparc64 z rawhide ma problemy z rozwi�zywaniem zale�no�ci
> --> Brakuj�ca zale�no��: libicui18n.so.40()(64bit) jest wymagane przez
> pakiet dwdiff-1.5-4.fc12.sparc64 (rawhide) dwdiff-1.5-4.fc12.sparc64 z
> rawhide ma problemy z rozwi�zywaniem zale�no�ci --> Brakuj�ca zale�no��:
> libicudata.so.40()(64bit) jest wymagane przez pakiet
> dwdiff-1.5-4.fc12.sparc64 (rawhide) dwdiff-1.5-4.fc12.sparc64 z rawhide ma
> problemy z rozwi�zywaniem zale�no�ci --> Brakuj�ca zale�no��:
> libicuuc.so.40()(64bit) jest wymagane przez pakiet
> dwdiff-1.5-4.fc12.sparc64 (rawhide) Błąd: Brakująca zależność:
> libicui18n.so.40()(64bit) jest wymagane przez pakiet
> dwdiff-1.5-4.fc12.sparc64 (rawhide) Błąd: Brakująca zależność:
> libicuuc.so.40()(64bit) jest wymagane przez pakiet
> dwdiff-1.5-4.fc12.sparc64 (rawhide) Błąd: Brakująca zależność:
> libicudata.so.40()(64bit) jest wymagane przez pakiet
> dwdiff-1.5-4.fc12.sparc64 (rawhide)
there are some broken deps in the tree
This should be taken to the fedora sparc list
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/sparc
I am already there - so I send it there too.
R.
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