Re: m68k netinst cd's

[Lance Tagliapietra]

Summary: debian install CD image for etch-m68k works on my Amiga!

On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 08:57:05AM -0500, Lance Tagliapietra wrote:
> 
> c) The decompressed kernel did not boot with amiboot-5.6 when specifying
> the compressed initrd included on the install CD.  Tonight I will try to
> boot the decompressed 2.6 kernel with a decompressed initrd.

Correction - the decompressed kernel *does* boot with amiboot-5.6 when
specifying the compressed initrd included on the install CD!  You just
have to be very, very patient.  I found that I had to wait at a blank
screen almost 2 minutes from the time I pressed return to tell amiboot
to boot the linux kernel until the boot messages started scrolling up
the screen.  I never had to wait that long for a kernel to
start putting boot messages on to the screen before, so I had been
thinking that it had failed.

Also, it seems that boot fails if the initrd is not compressed.  So the
required combination seems to be uncompressed kernel and compressed
initrd.

> d) I would suggest that the uncompressed kernel be placed on the CD, or
> an AmigaDos native gzip should be included on the CD if not already
> there.  

There is a native Amigados gzip program.  I tested it with the
compressed kernel and initrd.gz from the CD and it worked.

> 
> e) The amiboot on the install CD may need to be upgraded, or regressed
> back to the version 5.6, as the version currently on the CD does not
> work.  Is there a hint to make that work that I'm just not getting?

I have not been able to get the amiboot on the CD to work. Testing above
was done with amiboot version 5.3.  It just seems to lock up the
machine, maybe kills interrupts improperly, as I run a hi res mouse
program, which drops the mouse back to the standard resolution, my
indication that something wrong happened.

> In my tests, I modify the startinstall script to add a -m memfile
> option, where my memfile hides the 6M of Zorro II memory on my GVP
> memory card.  I assume that I still need to do this with 2.6 kernel. I
> will also add a video=clgen: parameter and try booting with my EGS
> Spectrum video card.

I also observed that a memfile was not needed.  The 2.6 kernel properly
identifies my Zorro II RAM, it seems the Zorro II RAM device support is
compiled in.

The clgen kernel support seems to be broken.  Adding the video=clgen:
does not switch video to the EGS Spectrum video output, and using the
video=clgen... parameters that I use in booting my 2.4 kernel does cause
the EGS Spectrum video to be used, but the monitor capabilities and
signal parameters for the 800x600 mode I request do not operate the
same.  The screen was not viewable, the horizontal rate was all messed
up.

Looking at the kernel messages, with the initrd loaded, the kernel ran
out of memory during boot, but observed this and killed a low priority
process.  Also, another kernel message indicated that it could not
access the hardware real time clock.

Once the kernel booted, the installer started to run. It immediately
informed me that it was operating in a low memory mode.  I let the
installer run until it identified my CD ROM drive, found the
installation media, and started verifying the pool files.

That's as far as I could get last night.

Regards,

--Lance


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Re: m68k netinst cd's

[Geert Uytterhoeven]

On Wed, 1 Oct 2008, Lance Tagliapietra wrote:
> Summary: debian install CD image for etch-m68k works on my Amiga!
> 
> On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 08:57:05AM -0500, Lance Tagliapietra wrote:
> > 
> > c) The decompressed kernel did not boot with amiboot-5.6 when specifying
> > the compressed initrd included on the install CD.  Tonight I will try to
> > boot the decompressed 2.6 kernel with a decompressed initrd.
> 
> Correction - the decompressed kernel *does* boot with amiboot-5.6 when
> specifying the compressed initrd included on the install CD!  You just
> have to be very, very patient.  I found that I had to wait at a blank
> screen almost 2 minutes from the time I pressed return to tell amiboot
> to boot the linux kernel until the boot messages started scrolling up
> the screen.  I never had to wait that long for a kernel to
> start putting boot messages on to the screen before, so I had been
> thinking that it had failed.

How long does it take to decompress the ramdisk under AmigaOS? ;-)

> Also, it seems that boot fails if the initrd is not compressed.  So the
> required combination seems to be uncompressed kernel and compressed
> initrd.

Good to know...

> I also observed that a memfile was not needed.  The 2.6 kernel properly
> identifies my Zorro II RAM, it seems the Zorro II RAM device support is
> compiled in.

Yes, 2.6 doesn't use Z2 RAM as system memory on Z3 capable machines.

> The clgen kernel support seems to be broken.  Adding the video=clgen:
> does not switch video to the EGS Spectrum video output, and using the
> video=clgen... parameters that I use in booting my 2.4 kernel does cause
> the EGS Spectrum video to be used, but the monitor capabilities and
> signal parameters for the 800x600 mode I request do not operate the
> same.  The screen was not viewable, the horizontal rate was all messed
> up.

Hmm, I was already afraid clgen got broken somewhere...

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

Geert

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Re: [patch 3/2] m68k: Atari EtherNAT - add writew_be for data push

[Frank P. Szymanski]

>> Where are the current isos located?
> Ahh, iso's (runs screaming into the night).
>  is the
> canonical place for the daily cd buildds.
> I'm in the process of getting those working again. 
> Hopefully I'll have something reasonable for you to test about the
> time you're ready to test. :)

O.K. Even though I still didn't receive my ct63 yet I gave it another
try. Tried the etch netinstall iso from the source above mentioned.

After I started bootstra.prg from harddisk in 16 colour vga mode on my
ct60 falcon with the following bootargs the ide led started to flash,
after a while the screen got corrupted and that's it.

bootargs:
=
-s -d -k o:\install\kernels\vmlinuz-2.6.26-1-atari -r
o:\install\cdrom\initrd.gz root=/dev/ram video=atafb:vga16 console=tty
load_ramdisk=1 fb=false

Regards,

Frank




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Changes for m68k port

[Helge Kreutzmann]

Hello Stephen,
I read your e-mail on -release[1]. Are you planing on updating the
entry on www.debian.org[2] as well?

Greetings

   Helge

[1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-release/2008/09/msg01003.html
[2] http://www.debian.org/ports/m68k and http://www.debian.org/ports

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Re: Changes for m68k port

[Stephen R Marenka]

On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 10:47:20PM +0200, Helge Kreutzmann wrote:
> Hello Stephen,
> I read your e-mail on -release[1]. Are you planing on updating the
> entry on www.debian.org[2] as well?

This is a great point. Who has access?

> [1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-release/2008/09/msg01003.html
> [2] http://www.debian.org/ports/m68k and http://www.debian.org/ports

Thanks,

Stephen

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