Hi! I recently dusted off my Amiga 1200 [1] and am now trying to get Linux to run on it.
Thanks to Google, I came across a post [2] by Adrian Glaubitz that explains the installation of Debian. I followed the instructions but the m68k-base.tgz and vmlinuz-3.2.0-4-amiga files were no longer available at the URLs mentioned. I contacted Adrian off-list and got an immediate response (thanks again!) pointing me to [3]. Using amiboot, I am able to boot the kernel. [4] is a video of the boot process. I am running into a kernel panic as the root filesystem cannot be found / mounted. This is probably due to the fact that I slightly deviated from the instructions: I did not create an affs partition on the same CompactFlash card on which I created the ext4 and swap partitions. That card only has these two partitions (see [5]). I copies amiboot as well as the kernel and initrd images to my Amiga's internal harddisk (also a CompactFlash card). Upon booting Linux, the CompactFlash card with the ext4 and swap partitions is in the CompactFlash reader that is attached via PCMCIA. Question (finally): does the setup I described above work? If so, what would be the correct argument for root=? Thanks! Sebastian -- [1] http://amiga1200.sebastian-bergmann.de/ [2] http://www.amiga.org/forums/showthread.php?t=65146 [3] https://people.debian.org/~glaubitz/chroots/ [4] https://vimeo.com/122827878 [5] https://www.flickr.com/photos/sebastian_bergmann/16692645330/ PS: What a great way of introducing myself to the list :-( First my mail client sends an unfinished version of the mail to the list and then my GPG plugin comes up with the brilliant idea to encrypt the mail using my public key. Sorry for the noise! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-68k-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/550d48b1.3050...@phpunit.de
