Re: Getting the ol' Macintosh LC475 modernized

2013-08-20 Thread Finn Thain
On Wed, 21 Aug 2013, Scott Holder wrote: > ... it looks like the kernel I'm using (Still > http://www.freewrt.org/~tg/f/vmlinux-3.10-2-m68k.gz ) doesn't do ext4, > so back to ext2 it is. Mostly likely you just need the modules; try booting into the initrd and doing "modprobe ext4". If that wo

Re: Getting the ol' Macintosh LC475 modernized

2013-08-20 Thread Scott Holder
On 8/20/2013 2:59 AM, Thorsten Glaser wrote: Maybe we can cheat. http://zigo.mirbsd.org:8080/t/initrd.img-3.10-2-m68k is the one Debian generated for me on the system running the buildd and *might* be able to get you into console mode at least. Well, I never did get the mirnitrd thing working

Re: Getting the ol' Macintosh LC475 modernized

2013-08-20 Thread Finn Thain
On Tue, 20 Aug 2013, Thorsten Glaser wrote: > Finn Thain dixit: > > >Whereas http://www.freewrt.org/~tg/f/mirnitrd has /init so I'd try > >"root=/dev/ram init=/init" with that initrd. > > I think no root= at all... this is basically an "initramfs" that just > never pivots. It's not a "ramdisk

Re: Getting the ol' Macintosh LC475 modernized

2013-08-20 Thread Michael Tomkins
On 20/08/13 11:03, Scott Holder wrote: I do not know whether an LC475 is even supported. In general, the LC475 is considered unsupported only because it came with a 68LC040 with very broken FPU originally. Swapping it for a full 68040 with a full FPU (which I did) should make it run fine. I ra

Re: Getting the ol' Macintosh LC475 modernized

2013-08-20 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Finn Thain dixit: >has CONFIG_SCSI_MAC_ESP=m but the kernel modules are not in the initrd at >http://www.freewrt.org/~tg/f/mirnitrd It’s just a minimal thing to get to userspace *at all*. >Whereas http://www.freewrt.org/~tg/f/mirnitrd has /init so I'd try >"root=/dev/ram init=/init" with that

Re: Getting the ol' Macintosh LC475 modernized

2013-08-20 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Scott Holder dixit: > I went ahead for broke and figured I didn't have anything to lose, so I went > ahead and untarred the m68k-base.tgz on a spare partition and tried it. But, > it > appears the kernel is missing the Mac SCSI drivers (or they aren't working). > It Yes, the 3.10 kernel does no

Re: Getting the ol' Macintosh LC475 modernized

2013-08-20 Thread Finn Thain
On Mon, 19 Aug 2013, Scott Holder wrote: > ... it appears the kernel is missing the Mac SCSI drivers (or they > aren't working). It failed to detect any drives. I see the kernel config > has the Mac SCSI drivers enabled, but maybe there's more to it. This > machine has a NCR 53C96 SCSI chip T