Re: Installing Etch on A1200 with blizzard 1230mkIV update

2007-03-27 Thread rvalles
On Tue, Mar 27, 2007 at 08:32:46AM -0500, Stephen R Marenka wrote: > On Tue, Mar 27, 2007 at 04:41:13AM +0200, rvalles wrote: > > I've done tons of tests. At the end, it seems the 2.6.18-4 kernel image > > just won't accept any initrd, even the old ones. > > Bummer

3c589 // PCMCIA 3Com Megahertz 3CXE589EC

2007-03-26 Thread rvalles
The only means of TCP/IP communication with the external world on my Amiga is a "3Com Megahertz 3CXE589EC", a 3c589 based PCMCIA ethernet card. It seems the module isn't in the stable or unstable nativehd initrds. A bit of searching let me find this thread: http://www.mail-archive.com/linux-m68k@

Installing Etch on A1200 with blizzard 1230mkIV update

2007-03-26 Thread rvalles
I've done tons of tests. At the end, it seems the 2.6.18-4 kernel image just won't accept any initrd, even the old ones. On the other hand, vmlinuz-2.4.27-amiga from stable does work with any of the initrds, from stable or unstable. Maybe it's just that the 2.6.18-4 kernel image for amiga is broke

Re: Installing Etch on A1200 with blizzard 1230mkIV

2007-03-24 Thread rvalles
On Sat, Mar 24, 2007 at 11:58:21PM +0100, Christian T. Steigies wrote: > I don't think you should gunzip the initrd, amiboot does nothing with it, it > just passes it as an argument to the kernel and the kernel takes care of it. > Ok. I tried unpacking it out of desperation. > > 5> amiboot -d -k v

Installing Etch on A1200 with blizzard 1230mkIV

2007-03-24 Thread rvalles
I'm trying to install Debian/Etch on an Amiga 1200 equipped with a Blizzard 1230mkIV turboboard. CPU: [EMAIL PROTECTED] FPU: [EMAIL PROTECTED] RAM: 64mb For that, I'm using the images that can be found at: http://ftp.es.debian.org/debian/dists/unstable/main/installer-m68k/current/images/ Specifi