Re: Macintosh Quadra 950 Not Booting

2015-08-09 Thread Greg Andrzejewski
On Sun, Aug 9, 2015 at 8:32 PM, Finn Thain wrote: > > On Sun, 9 Aug 2015, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > > It's the internal buffer for printk(): > > > > kernel/printk/printk.c:static char __log_buf[__LOG_BUF_LEN] ... > > Right, thanks. If I run this, > > $ m68k-linux-gnu-readelf -a boot/vmlinux-4.1

Re: Fwd: Macintosh Quadra 950 Not Booting

2015-08-08 Thread Greg Andrzejewski
On 8/8/15, Finn Thain wrote: > > I agree. And that reminds me: the Quadra 900 and 950 have an SCC IOP, like > the Mac IIfx. That means you must tell MacOS to switch the serial ports to > IOP-bypass ("compatible") mode. Otherwise the serial port won't work. (I > don't know whether this applies to E

Re: Fwd: Macintosh Quadra 950 Not Booting

2015-08-07 Thread Greg Andrzejewski
On Fri, Aug 7, 2015 at 8:53 PM, Finn Thain wrote: > > Someone suggested (off-list) that you should remove any expansion cards, > which is always good advice when troubleshooting an early crash. > > E.g. Linux doesn't have support for the WGS 95 PDS card fitted to some > Quadra 950 machines (unfor

Re: Fwd: Macintosh Quadra 950 Not Booting

2015-08-07 Thread Greg Andrzejewski
On Fri, Aug 7, 2015 at 8:31 PM, Finn Thain wrote: > > On Fri, 7 Aug 2015, Greg Andrzejewski wrote: > > > On Fri, Aug 7, 2015 at 12:43 AM, Finn Thain > > wrote: > > > > > > > > On Thu, 6 Aug 2015, Greg Andrzejewski wrote: > > > > > &g

Fwd: Macintosh Quadra 950 Not Booting

2015-08-07 Thread Greg Andrzejewski
On Fri, Aug 7, 2015 at 12:43 AM, Finn Thain wrote: > > On Thu, 6 Aug 2015, Greg Andrzejewski wrote: > > > Greetings, > > > > After finally getting my Mac SE/30 working again, I set about trying to > > get a modern version of Linux installed on the little fellow

Re: Macintosh Quadra 950 Not Booting

2015-08-07 Thread Greg Andrzejewski
my SE/30. I'm using kernel 4.0 and decompressed image size is 3.5 MB, so I don't think I'm running into either of those two issues. Unless... don't macs shadow the ROM at physical address 0 on powerup? Could this be triggering as part of the shutdown of MacOS? -Greg > Le 0

Macintosh Quadra 950 Not Booting

2015-08-06 Thread Greg Andrzejewski
Greetings, After finally getting my Mac SE/30 working again, I set about trying to get a modern version of Linux installed on the little fellow. Early experiments with 3.14 kernels were successful and when a trio of Quadra 950s appeared on the local craigslist, I picked them up, looking forward to