Re: Partitioning Atari Falcon in order to run linux/m68k

2013-12-16 Thread Michael Schmitz
Stefan, Make sure the BGM/FAT partition is less or equal 128 MB in size - the logical sector size may not exceed the kernel page size of 4k. Why this? Falcon has Tos 4.04 and allows than 128MB partitions iirc. I always use 500 MB for my first TOS partition. Limitation of the Linux VFAT fil

Re: Bug#239816: bug#16134: libparted Atari partition table support

2013-12-16 Thread Phillip Susi
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 12/16/2013 04:19 PM, Thorsten Glaser wrote: > John Paul Adrian Glaubitz dixit: > >> But, of course, you could apply the patch to gparted, rebuild >> it, then create a partition table on a hard disk and hook it up >> to your ATARI and see if it's

Re: bug#16134: libparted Atari partition table support

2013-12-16 Thread Thorsten Glaser
John Paul Adrian Glaubitz dixit: >But, of course, you could apply the patch to gparted, rebuild it, >then create a partition table on a hard disk and hook it up to >your ATARI and see if it's being recognized. Before hooking it up, bswap the disc if it’s IDE, though. bye, //mirabilos -- Yay for

Re: bug#16134: libparted Atari partition table support

2013-12-16 Thread Stefan Niestegge
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Re: Bug#239816: bug#16134: libparted Atari partition table support

2013-12-16 Thread Phillip Susi
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 12/16/2013 2:45 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > I'm pretty sure that Philipp was talking about tests which are run > during build time to check the code, hence the name "make check". Yes. You should start with the current git head preferab

Re: bug#16134: libparted Atari partition table support

2013-12-16 Thread Stefan Niestegge
Am 16.12.2013 19:18, schrieb Phillip Susi: > Would you be able to write a test case so make check verifies it is > working? > If i can help in any way, please explain what to do. (I am the one with the Falcon 060). > On 12/13/2013 5:54 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: >> Hi! > >> While chat

Re: bug#16134: libparted Atari partition table support

2013-12-16 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 12/16/2013 08:31 PM, Stefan Niestegge wrote: > Am 16.12.2013 19:18, schrieb Phillip Susi: >> Would you be able to write a test case so make check verifies it is >> working? >> > > If i can help in any way, please explain what to do. > (I am the one with the Falcon 060). I'm pretty sure that Ph

Re: bug#16134: libparted Atari partition table support

2013-12-16 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 12/16/2013 07:18 PM, Phillip Susi wrote: > Would you be able to write a test case so make check verifies it is > working? What kind of checks does libparted perform during build to verify it's doing what it's supposed to do. Is there any documentation or do I need to dig into the code? Adrian

Re: bug#16134: libparted Atari partition table support

2013-12-16 Thread Stefan Niestegge
Am 16.12.2013 19:18, schrieb Phillip Susi: > Would you be able to write a test case so make check verifies it is > working? > If i can help in any way, please explain what to do. (I am the one with the Falcon 060). > On 12/13/2013 5:54 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: >> Hi! > >> While chat

Re: Partitioning Atari Falcon in order to run linux/m68k

2013-12-16 Thread Stefan Niestegge
Am 16.12.2013 19:20, schrieb Geert Uytterhoeven: > On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 7:03 PM, Stefan Niestegge wrote: >>> There’s a ready-made ext2fs image in the same directory where I put >>> the tarball. >> >> Thorsten, how would i unpack this image? The manpage of dd doesn't tell >> how to write a gzipp

Re: bug#16134: libparted Atari partition table support

2013-12-16 Thread Phillip Susi
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 12/13/2013 6:32 PM, Michael Schmitz wrote: > John, > > as long as libparted (or some other PC side kernel magic > automagically invoked by libparted - dm??) does take care of > byte-swapping IDE data on the fly, go for it. I had a quick glance > at

Re: bug#16134: libparted Atari partition table support

2013-12-16 Thread Phillip Susi
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Would you be able to write a test case so make check verifies it is working? On 12/13/2013 5:54 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > Hi! > > While chatting with someone who was trying to install Linux onto > his ATARI Falcon 060, we stumbled into t

Re: Partitioning Atari Falcon in order to run linux/m68k

2013-12-16 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 7:03 PM, Stefan Niestegge wrote: >> There’s a ready-made ext2fs image in the same directory where I put >> the tarball. > > Thorsten, how would i unpack this image? The manpage of dd doesn't tell > how to write a gzipped image. zcat gz | dd of=... Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

Re: Partitioning Atari Falcon in order to run linux/m68k

2013-12-16 Thread Stefan Niestegge
Am 14.12.2013 02:22, schrieb Thorsten Glaser: > There’s a ready-made ext2fs image in the same directory where I put > the tarball. > > bye, > //mirabilos > Thorsten, how would i unpack this image? The manpage of dd doesn't tell how to write a gzipped image. Thanks, Stefan signature.asc Desc

Re: Partitioning Atari Falcon in order to run linux/m68k

2013-12-16 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Stefan Niestegge dixit: >Is it possible to just unpack a tarball of a debian/68k system to that >partiton under FreeMiNT? That is what i tried with m68k-base.tgz . Yes, BTDT. But it is easier to dd(1) the ext2fs image under FreeMiNT. In your case this should even be more reliable. bye, //mirabil

Re: Making use of the BigRamPlus?

2013-12-16 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
Hi Ingo, On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 3:14 PM, Ingo Jürgensmann wrote: > On 2013-12-16 14:41, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: >> On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 11:57 AM, Ingo Jürgensmann > BigRamplus is Z3, not Z2, so it won't show up. >>> >>> Uhm... is there any reason why this is limited to Z2? >> >> Becau

Re: Making use of the BigRamPlus?

2013-12-16 Thread Ingo Jürgensmann
On 2013-12-16 14:41, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 11:57 AM, Ingo Jürgensmann BigRamplus is Z3, not Z2, so it won't show up. Uhm... is there any reason why this is limited to Z2? Because it's called z2ram? So far, no one played with Z3 RAM boards. So far I thought of Z3

Re: Making use of the BigRamPlus?

2013-12-16 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 11:57 AM, Ingo Jürgensmann wrote: > On 2013-12-16 10:48, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > >>> I already built a kernel with "Use one physical chunk of memory only" as >>> stated on http://www.linux-m68k.org/faq/z2ram.html but apparently this >>> doesn't help as I expect the 256M

Re: Partitioning Atari Falcon in order to run linux/m68k

2013-12-16 Thread Stefan Niestegge
Am 16.12.2013 12:21, schrieb Stefan Niestegge: >>> Is it possible to make this partition scheme with HD Driver under TOS? >> >> That's about the only way I know of. > > Okay, i did this. Then i used FreeMiNT to make an ext2 FS on the LNX > partition. > The kernel boot messages tell me it mounted

Re: Partitioning Atari Falcon in order to run linux/m68k

2013-12-16 Thread Stefan Niestegge
Am 14.12.2013 01:11, schrieb Michael Schmitz: > Stefan, > >> i am trying to install linux on my Atari Falcon. >> >> My first partition should be BGM/FAT, so TOS can run. >> The second one is ext2 filesystem, for the unix stuff of MiNT. >> I have a third partition, also ext2 for programs and data i

Re: Making use of the BigRamPlus?

2013-12-16 Thread Ingo Jürgensmann
On 2013-12-16 10:48, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: I already built a kernel with "Use one physical chunk of memory only" as stated on http://www.linux-m68k.org/faq/z2ram.html but apparently this doesn't help as I expect the 256M to pop up in z2ram listing. BigRamplus is Z3, not Z2, so it won't sho

Re: Making use of the BigRamPlus?

2013-12-16 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 7:54 AM, Ingo Jürgensmann wrote: > Currently there's no sparsemem support in the m68k kernel yet, so the > question is: how to make use of the BigRamPlus now? > > A possible use case would be as swap space, but z2ram shows this during boot: > > [ 29.04] Z2RAM: using