Re: debian-installer support for RiscPC - volunteers wanted

2006-05-20 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Stuart Winter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-05-20 08:25]: > Cool. Could I have a copy of the .config file for your > 2.6.16 Kernel please? I've attached the config I used. However, I've no idea if it's perfect so please let me know if you have any improvements. -- Martin Michlmayr http://www.cyri

Re: debian-installer support for RiscPC - volunteers wanted

2006-05-20 Thread Stuart Winter
On Fri, 12 May 2006, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > > > I recall that error. Try this patch: > > Thanks a lot! I'll give it a try. > > This works, thanks (and thanks to Simon for testing). Cool. Could I have a copy of the .config file for your 2.6.16 Kernel please? I looked in the Debian diff for 2

Re: debian-installer support for RiscPC - volunteers wanted

2006-05-12 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Martin Michlmayr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-05-11 15:01]: > > > initrd (0x0 - 0x001efbeb) extends beyond physical memory - disabling > > > initrd > > > Can someone please try with !linux or with a self-compiled 2.6 kernel. > > I recall that error. Try this patch: > Thanks a lot! I'll give it a

Re: debian-installer support for RiscPC - volunteers wanted

2006-05-11 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Stuart Winter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-05-11 13:55]: > > initrd (0x0 - 0x001efbeb) extends beyond physical memory - disabling initrd > > Can someone please try with !linux or with a self-compiled 2.6 kernel. > > I recall that error. Try this patch: Thanks a lot! I'll give it a try. -- Marti

Re: debian-installer support for RiscPC - volunteers wanted

2006-05-11 Thread Stuart Winter
On Wed, 10 May 2006, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > initrd (0x0 - 0x001efbeb) extends beyond physical memory - disabling initrd > > Can someone please try with !linux or with a self-compiled 2.6 kernel. > I recall that error. Try this patch: ftp://ftp.armedslack.org/armedslack-current/source/k/sourc

Re: debian-installer support for RiscPC - volunteers wanted

2006-05-10 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Wed, May 10, 2006 at 09:05:07PM +0200, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > The initrd and kernel only have a few MB but the machine has 64 MB, so no. I meant to big for the boot loader. I have seen some boot loaders with size limits in the past which were not related to the total ram of the system. Len

Re: debian-installer support for RiscPC - volunteers wanted

2006-05-10 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Lennart Sorensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-05-10 14:30]: > > If it's not possible to load an initrd with 2.6, it won't be possible > > to boot debian-installer on RiscPC... > Is the initrd too big? Is the kernel + initrd too big? I am afraid I > don't know anything about RiscPC personally. The

Re: debian-installer support for RiscPC - volunteers wanted

2006-05-10 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Wed, May 10, 2006 at 08:22:02PM +0200, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > Simon Voortman kindly did some tests for me on RiscPC. Unfortunately, > it seems that !LinLoader cannot load a initrd together with the 2.6 > kernel. He's getting the following error: > > initrd (0x0 - 0x001efbeb) extends beyond

Re: debian-installer support for RiscPC - volunteers wanted

2006-05-10 Thread Martin Michlmayr
Simon Voortman kindly did some tests for me on RiscPC. Unfortunately, it seems that !LinLoader cannot load a initrd together with the 2.6 kernel. He's getting the following error: initrd (0x0 - 0x001efbeb) extends beyond physical memory - disabling initrd Can someone please try with !linux or w

Re: debian-installer support for RiscPC - volunteers wanted

2006-05-06 Thread Stuart Winter
On Sat, 6 May 2006, Stuart Winter wrote: > > works. Apparently a patch for RTC support might be needed. I've also been unable to get sleep(1) working on anything newer than 2.6.14.6. Any sleeps sleep forever. The config I use is here: ftp://ftp.armedslack.org/armedslack-current/source/k/co

Re: debian-installer support for RiscPC - volunteers wanted

2006-05-06 Thread Stuart Winter
On Tue, 2 May 2006, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > - The RiscPC kernel in Debian needs to be tested > (linux-image-2.6.16-1-rpc). It's unknown whether it actually > works. Apparently a patch for RTC support might be needed. There was a discussion regarding the RTC support >Date: Thu, 19 J

Re: debian-installer support for RiscPC - volunteers wanted

2006-05-04 Thread Stuart Winter
On Wed, 3 May 2006, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > > But for the RiscPC there is a GRUB port: > > http://www.majoroak.f2s.com/tim/grub/RISC_OS/ > > Do you know if these patches are going into GRUB any time soon? No - it'd be best to ask Tim directly. I wanted to get the GRUB port working on the Iyon

Re: debian-installer support for RiscPC - volunteers wanted

2006-05-03 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Stuart Winter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-05-03 16:45]: > I don't know about the Debian installer, so I may be covering old ground > here. > But for the RiscPC there is a GRUB port: > http://www.majoroak.f2s.com/tim/grub/RISC_OS/ Do you know if these patches are going into GRUB any time soon? --

Re: debian-installer support for RiscPC - volunteers wanted

2006-05-03 Thread Stuart Winter
On Wed, 3 May 2006, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > Can you send me some sample config files for !linux so I can try to > write a script writing a proper Debian config file. Also, where is > this !linux located on the adfs file system, where is the adfs file > system located? Is that always /dev/hda1

Re: debian-installer support for RiscPC - volunteers wanted

2006-05-03 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Martin Michlmayr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-05-03 12:24]: > OK, that means usin the old partconf instead of partman and telling it > to run acorn-fdisk. It also means that acorn-fdisk needs a udeb > shipping the binary. Can you send me some sample config files for !linux so I can try to write a

Re: debian-installer support for RiscPC - volunteers wanted

2006-05-03 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Peter Naulls <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-05-02 19:04]: > > - d-i needs to be taught about RiscPC in various places; most of > > this is trivial. One problem is that RiscPC has at least 4 > > different partition formats, something which I believe d-i > > doesn't support. I'd just sta

Re: debian-installer support for RiscPC - volunteers wanted

2006-05-02 Thread Peter Naulls
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Martin Michlmayr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > - d-i needs to be taught about RiscPC in various places; most of > this is trivial. One problem is that RiscPC has at least 4 > different partition formats, something which I believe d-i > doesn't

Re: debian-installer support for RiscPC - volunteers wanted

2006-05-02 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Tue, May 02, 2006 at 11:02:02PM +0200, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > In February I asked which platforms debian-installer on ARM should > support [1]. A number of people were interested in RiscPC support. > > - Various hardware (SCSI/IDE extension cards) need to be tested. > > Anyone interested

debian-installer support for RiscPC - volunteers wanted

2006-05-02 Thread Martin Michlmayr
In February I asked which platforms debian-installer on ARM should support [1]. A number of people were interested in RiscPC support. RiscPC was supported in the past but nobody maintained that support for sarge. At the moment, there's a 2.6 kernel in the archive and no debian-installer support a