Re: Problems installing on ARM710

On Wed, Feb 14, 2001 at 04:27:20PM +0100, Richard Atterer wrote: > I booted with Peter's 2.2.16 kernel using the new root image, and > the crash immediately after the splash screen no longer occurs. I > haven't yet tried base2_2.tgz, Here's an update on my progress: With Wookey's root image, the

Re: Problems installing on ARM710

Hello, Wookey very kindly made available a version of the boot-floppies done for the Aleph1 release, with "various things fettled" :), at (or something like that). And what can I say - it works a treat!!! I booted with Peter's 2.2.16 kernel

Re: Problems installing on ARM710

Richard Atterer wrote: >Is your ARM7 also an ARM710 in a RiscPC? No, it's an ARM7500. But as far as I know the cores (and, for that matter, most of the peripherals) are identical. If anybody else happens to have an ARM7-equipped RiscPC, it would be interesting to know whether they see the same

Re: Problems installing on ARM710

On Mon, Feb 12, 2001 at 05:29:55PM +, Philip Blundell wrote: > > gzip: unhandled page fault at pc=0x4007350c, lr=0x40074678 (bad > > address=0x0002, code 0) > > This is crashing in index(), called from strrchr(). The bad address > is indeed an invalid pointer. The md5sum you gave matches

Re: Problems installing on ARM710

In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Richard Atterer writes: >I really fail to see anything unusual about it! The only modifications >to the standard model were: [...] Well, that certainly doesn't sound at all unusual. I doubt your RO3.7 ROMs are to blame. > gzip: unhandled page fault at pc=0x40073

Re: Problems installing on ARM710

On Mon, Feb 12, 2001 at 10:46:30AM +, Philip Blundell wrote: > Hmm. Well, I tried the `gzip' from Peter's base_2.2.tgz on my ARM7 > with a current 2.4 kernel and couldn't reproduce your segfault. > Dbootstrap doesn't seem to work in a NFS-root environment so I can't > test that. But I wonder i

Re: Problems installing on ARM710

Richard Atterer wrote: >Unfortunately, this makes no difference whatsoever - dbootstrap still >segfaults almost immediately. :-/ I've now put in ftp.armlinux.org:/users/philb a RiscPC zImage built with the various CONFIG_DEBUG_ME_HARDER type of options set. This ought to elicit some diagnostics

Re: Problems installing on ARM710

Richard Atterer wrote: >Unfortunately, this makes no difference whatsoever - dbootstrap still >segfaults almost immediately. :-/ Hmm. Well, I tried the `gzip' from Peter's base_2.2.tgz on my ARM7 with a current 2.4 kernel and couldn't reproduce your segfault. Dbootstrap doesn't seem to work in

Re: Problems installing on ARM710

On Sun, Feb 11, 2001 at 10:21:58PM +, Philip Blundell wrote: > Richard Atterer wrote: > >Er - where can you get a precompiled 2.4 kernel for RiscPCs? > > ftp.armlinux.org:/pub/lkab/netwinder-cvs-2.4/ Thanks for the link. I fetched kernel-image-2.4.1-riscpc_20010210_arm.deb, dissected it and

Re: Problems installing on ARM710

Richard Atterer wrote: >On Sun, Feb 11, 2001 at 05:46:06PM +, Philip Blundell wrote: >> Can you try with a 2.4 kernel? There's nothing about the binaries >> themselves that should make them problematic for ARM7, as far as I >> know. But I don't entirely trust 2.2 kernels on such machines. > >Er

Re: Problems installing on ARM710

In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Richard Atterer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > After the failure, I also attempted to continue by installing > everything manually. Formatting the partitions and unzipping > base2_2.tgz worked OK, but e.g. "apt-get update" or the "gzip" > contained in base2_2

Re: Problems installing on ARM710

On Sun, Feb 11, 2001 at 05:46:06PM +, Philip Blundell wrote: > Can you try with a 2.4 kernel? There's nothing about the binaries > themselves that should make them problematic for ARM7, as far as I > know. But I don't entirely trust 2.2 kernels on such machines. Er - where can you get a precom

Re: Problems installing on ARM710

Richard Atterer wrote: >When I start the installer (from plain RISC OS 3.7, without anything >booted or any modules loaded, and no extra args to the kernel), I get >the splash screen, and after I press Return, the "is determining the >current state..." message appears for a very short time, there i

Problems installing on ARM710

Hi all, well, it seems there *are* problems with the boot floppies on ARM710s after all. :-( I tried to start the installation process using the latest 2.2.16 boot floppies from ftp.arm.linux.org.uk, built on 2000-09-06. When I start the installer (from plain RISC OS 3.7, without anything booted