Re: Installation on Amiga 1200

2015-03-30 Thread Sebastian Bergmann
Am 30.03.2015 um 23:17 schrieb John Paul Adrian Glaubitz: > root/root should do the trick. If not, just add "init=/bin/bash" to the > amiboot command line. This will boot the system right into a bash prompt > allowing you to set a password using the "passwd" command. Then reboot > normally, omittin

Re: Installation on Amiga 1200

2015-03-30 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 03/30/2015 11:15 PM, Sebastian Bergmann wrote: > Which brings me to the next question: can I login as root? If so, what's > the password? If not, which user (and password) should I use? Thanks! root/root should do the trick. If not, just add "init=/bin/bash" to the amiboot command line. This

Re: Installation on Amiga 1200

2015-03-30 Thread Sebastian Bergmann
Am 21.03.2015 um 16:36 schrieb John Paul Adrian Glaubitz: > We'd be happy to help if you mind sharing the actual OOPS with us ;). Used the same steps as before to install (onto the internal CF card this time) and lo and behold, it boots all the way to the login prompt. Which brings me to the n

Re: Installation on Amiga 1200

2015-03-21 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 03/21/2015 06:58 PM, Sebastian Bergmann wrote: > Am 21.03.2015 um 18:56 schrieb John Paul Adrian Glaubitz: >> As long as the USB-RS232 is supported by the operating system on your >> Thinkpad, yes. The Amiga will just see a regular RS232 port. > > The ThinkPad's operation system is Fedora 21 (

Re: Installation on Amiga 1200

2015-03-21 Thread Sebastian Bergmann
Am 21.03.2015 um 18:56 schrieb John Paul Adrian Glaubitz: As long as the USB-RS232 is supported by the operating system on your Thinkpad, yes. The Amiga will just see a regular RS232 port. The ThinkPad's operation system is Fedora 21 (sorry, no Debian :-). -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-

Re: Installation on Amiga 1200

2015-03-21 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 03/21/2015 06:46 PM, Sebastian Bergmann wrote: > Quick question: my ThinkPad does not have a serial port. I found > "USB to Serial RS232 9 Pin adapter converter cables" on Amazon. Can I > use one of those to make a serial connection between my laptop and my > Amiga? As long as the USB-RS232

Re: Installation on Amiga 1200

2015-03-21 Thread Sebastian Bergmann
Am 21.03.2015 um 13:26 schrieb John Paul Adrian Glaubitz: I prefer using a serial cable hooked up to my PC. Works like a charm with debug=ser and console=ttyS0,9600n8. Quick question: my ThinkPad does not have a serial port. I found "USB to Serial RS232 9 Pin adapter converter cables" on Amaz

Re: Installation on Amiga 1200

2015-03-21 Thread Sebastian Bergmann
Am 21.03.2015 um 16:36 schrieb John Paul Adrian Glaubitz: We'd be happy to help if you mind sharing the actual OOPS with us ;). Will do. But in order to that I have to prepare another CompactFlash card. I needed the one I used earlier today for something else. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to de

Re: Installation on Amiga 1200

2015-03-21 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 03/21/2015 03:52 PM, Sebastian Bergmann wrote: > Been there, done that. Now the root partition is mounted during. But now > I run into a kernel panic when the swap partition is activated. Debugging > that will be a task for another weekend, though. We'd be happy to help if you mind sharing t

Re: Installation on Amiga 1200

2015-03-21 Thread Sebastian Bergmann
Am 21.03.2015 um 14:42 schrieb Sebastian Bergmann: I just need to prepare a CompactFlash card with a minimal AmigaOS setup in the first partition to boot and m68k-base.tgz extracted to the second partition. Then I just need to swap the CompactFlash card connected to the internal IDE whenever I wa

Re: Installation on Amiga 1200

2015-03-21 Thread Sebastian Bergmann
Am 21.03.2015 um 14:32 schrieb John Paul Adrian Glaubitz: > I'm not sure whether we actually have support in the kernel for storage > devices connected to the Amiga PCMCIA connector. Missing support in the kernel for storage devices connected to the Amiga PCMCIA connector would, of course, expla

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2015-03-21 Thread Sebastian Bergmann
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Re: Installation on Amiga 1200

2015-03-21 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 03/21/2015 02:23 PM, Sebastian Bergmann wrote: > The CompactFlash card that has the Linux root partition on it, which is > formatted using ext4, is attached to the Amiga via PCMCIA and does not > show up in /proc/partitions. I'm not sure whether we actually have support in the kernel for sto

Re: Installation on Amiga 1200

2015-03-21 Thread Sebastian Bergmann
On 03/21/2015 01:46 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > What does > > cat /proc/partitions > > say? (initramfs) cat /proc/partitions major minor #blocks name 37 0 384 z2ram 3 0 3940272 hda 3 1 1105776 hda1 3 2 2832480 hda2 hda appears to be the CompactFlash card that is

Re: Installation on Amiga 1200

2015-03-21 Thread Sebastian Bergmann
Am 21.03.2015 um 13:52 schrieb Christian T. Steigies: > did you gunzip your kernel? Yes, I simply kept the vmlinuz name and did not rename it to vmlinux. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-68k-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.or

Re: Installation on Amiga 1200

2015-03-21 Thread Christian T. Steigies
On Sat, Mar 21, 2015 at 01:44:08PM +0100, Sebastian Bergmann wrote: > On 03/21/2015 01:26 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > > Please post the full amiboot command line you are using. I haven't > > watched the video yet, but did you remember to use the initrd? > > amiboot-5.6 -d -k vmlinuz-3.

Re: Installation on Amiga 1200

2015-03-21 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 03/21/2015 01:44 PM, Sebastian Bergmann wrote: > It still does not find / mount the root partition but now I should be > able to find out the correct argument for root=. Did you verify that /dev/sdc1 is actually there? What does cat /proc/partitions say? And which filesystem did you use

Re: Installation on Amiga 1200

2015-03-21 Thread Sebastian Bergmann
On 03/21/2015 01:26 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > Please post the full amiboot command line you are using. I haven't > watched the video yet, but did you remember to use the initrd? amiboot-5.6 -d -k vmlinuz-3.16.0-4-m68k initrd=initrd.img-3.16.0-4-m68k root=/dev/sdc1 fb=false > amiboo

Re: Installation on Amiga 1200

2015-03-21 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 03/21/2015 12:50 PM, Christian T. Steigies wrote: > According to the photo, your Linux partition is on sdc1 so you should use: > root=/dev/sd1 sdc1 ;) @Sebastian: Please post the full amiboot command line you are using. I haven't watched the video yet, but did you remember to use the initrd?

Re: Installation on Amiga 1200

2015-03-21 Thread Christian T. Steigies
Moin, On Sat, Mar 21, 2015 at 11:32:17AM +0100, Sebastian Bergmann wrote: > Hi! > > I recently dusted off my Amiga 1200 [1] and am now trying to get > Linux to run on it. > > Thanks to Google, I came across a post [2] by Adrian Glaubitz that > explains the installation of Debian. I followed

Installation on Amiga 1200

2015-03-21 Thread Sebastian Bergmann
Hi! I recently dusted off my Amiga 1200 [1] and am now trying to get Linux to run on it. Thanks to Google, I came across a post [2] by Adrian Glaubitz that explains the installation of Debian. I followed the instructions but the m68k-base.tgz and vmlinuz-3.2.0-4-amiga files were no longer

Installation on Amiga 1200

2015-03-21 Thread Sebastian Bergmann
Hi! I recently dusted off my Amiga 1200 [1] and am now trying to get Linux to run on it. Thanks to Google, I came across a post [2] by Adrian Glaubitz that explains the installation of Debian. I followed the instructions but http://people.debian.org/~tg/f/20121227/m68k-base.tgz and http://

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2015-03-21 Thread Sebastian Bergmann
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