On Mon, Aug 30, 2004 at 03:50:39PM +0900, Jerome Walter wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hi, > > > Ok, Sven, i got your kernel booting on the OF prep machine, with the > daily netboot image (btw, now the other ppc (PPCBug) does not work...).
We have only the prep kernels, what target for kernel_building are you using ? mkvmlinuz knows how to create prep zImages only, so i guess that for those we need to add support for a ppcbug arch in mkvmlinuz. For this, we need two things from you : 1) a reliable way to autodetect a ppcbug ppc box. mostly done by probing /proc/cpuinfo for the other subarches, but i somehow feel that machine will show up as prep. 2) information on what code path is traveled in arch/ppc/boot/simple to create the ppcbug image in the 2.6.8 kernel Just look at the mkvmlinuz script, and the arch/ppc/boot/simple makefile for inspiration. > It boots quite well, switches from serial to console once the video card > (matrox millenium) has been detected, and lauches the setup. > > It then freeze on hardware detection, and all i got from the logs are > some modules missing: > ncr53c8xx You need to use the sym53c8xx_2 driver, which is available, please fill a bug report against the ddetect package, giving your lspci output (both normal and with -n), as well as telling you are running a 2.6 kernel. > usb-storage (i don't care, i don't have usb controller) > ide-detect | > ide-generic | idem, i don't have ide. > ide-mod | > ide-probe-mod | Well, since this is a netboot image, those should be pulled in by the second hardware detection phase once net is configured. Please put this info in the bug report. > Before filing a bug report, i am calling for advice: > do i miss something ? Is there something i need to do to get the modules ? > And by the way, as i am writing, how can i get expert mode from netboot > installation ? you can just go back in one of the menu questions, but you can also boot with DEBCONF_PRIORITY=medium or low. Not sure if prep allows for command line arguments when netbooting though, i can simply say : ok> boot net vmlinuz-chrp.initrd DEBCONF_PRIORITY=medium on my pegasos. Friendly, Sven Luther
