Re: Touching vmlinux.coff, was Re: Current benh-kernel fails to boot (after clock) on iBook G4

2004-05-26 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, May 25, 2004 at 09:18:45AM +0200, Helge Kreutzmann wrote: > So simply put: I file bugs when I know on which side of the keyboard > the bug is and which package I can file it against. Are installation > reports still requested on ppc? Yes, please. -- Colin Watson

Re: Touching vmlinux.coff, was Re: Current benh-kernel fails to boot (after clock) on iBook G4

2004-05-25 Thread Helge Kreutzmann
Hello Sven, On Mon, May 24, 2004 at 07:25:43PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > Ok. So I should ask Benjamin Herrenschmid to fix this and close the > > Debian bug, right? > > Yep. Let me check if the fix is already in the debian package, so you > can also directly send him a patch. That said, i have

Re: Touching vmlinux.coff, was Re: Current benh-kernel fails to boot (after clock) on iBook G4

2004-05-24 Thread Sven Luther
On Mon, May 24, 2004 at 06:52:23PM +0200, Helge Kreutzmann wrote: > Hello Sven, > On Mon, May 24, 2004 at 06:47:10PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > Well, this is not a bug against kernel-package, at least i belive that > > from a cursory examination, but a bug in whatever kernel-source you are > > u

Re: Touching vmlinux.coff, was Re: Current benh-kernel fails to boot (after clock) on iBook G4

2004-05-24 Thread Helge Kreutzmann
Hello Sven, On Mon, May 24, 2004 at 06:47:10PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > Well, this is not a bug against kernel-package, at least i belive that > from a cursory examination, but a bug in whatever kernel-source you are > using. > Nope, since the kernel-image-2.4.25-powerpc-pmac contains both the

Re: Touching vmlinux.coff, was Re: Current benh-kernel fails to boot (after clock) on iBook G4

2004-05-24 Thread Sven Luther
On Mon, May 24, 2004 at 06:27:02PM +0200, Helge Kreutzmann wrote: > Hello Sven, > On Mon, May 24, 2004 at 06:22:42PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > > I reported this as bug #247850, so if you are in the position to help > > > > Against which package ? > > Against kernel-package, as this contains

Re: Touching vmlinux.coff, was Re: Current benh-kernel fails to boot (after clock) on iBook G4

2004-05-24 Thread Helge Kreutzmann
Hello Sven, On Mon, May 24, 2004 at 06:22:42PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > I reported this as bug #247850, so if you are in the position to help > > Against which package ? Against kernel-package, as this contains the make-kpkg I used (as recommend by the ibook guides out there). > Ah, i beli

Re: Touching vmlinux.coff, was Re: Current benh-kernel fails to boot (after clock) on iBook G4

2004-05-24 Thread Sven Luther
On Mon, May 24, 2004 at 05:59:26PM +0200, Helge Kreutzmann wrote: > Hello, > On Mon, May 24, 2004 at 05:54:04PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > On Sat, May 08, 2004 at 06:21:25PM +0200, Helge Kreutzmann wrote: > > > Hello, > > > I am new to PPC, so please excuse if these are FAQs, but I searched > >

Touching vmlinux.coff, was Re: Current benh-kernel fails to boot (after clock) on iBook G4

2004-05-24 Thread Helge Kreutzmann
Hello, On Mon, May 24, 2004 at 05:54:04PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > On Sat, May 08, 2004 at 06:21:25PM +0200, Helge Kreutzmann wrote: > > Hello, > > I am new to PPC, so please excuse if these are FAQs, but I searched > > the archive and could not find the answers. I use a new iBook G4. > > > > I

Re: Current benh-kernel fails to boot (after clock) on iBook G4

2004-05-24 Thread Sven Luther
On Sat, May 08, 2004 at 06:21:25PM +0200, Helge Kreutzmann wrote: > Hello, > I am new to PPC, so please excuse if these are FAQs, but I searched > the archive and could not find the answers. I use a new iBook G4. > > I got the latest benh-kernel by rsync and build the kernel using > make-kpkg. As

Re: Current benh-kernel fails to boot (after clock) on iBook G4

2004-05-23 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Sat, 2004-05-22 at 01:28, Helge Kreutzmann wrote: > Hello Ben, > On Mon, May 10, 2004 at 07:27:32PM +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > I don't think the defconfig is specific to ppc, though we do have a very > > broad range of different machines to deal with, unlike x86. > > My primary pl

Re: Current benh-kernel fails to boot (after clock) on iBook G4

2004-05-21 Thread Helge Kreutzmann
Hello Ben, On Mon, May 10, 2004 at 07:27:32PM +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > I don't think the defconfig is specific to ppc, though we do have a very > broad range of different machines to deal with, unlike x86. My primary platform (alpha) does have it neither :-(( > > Btw. I found at lea

Re: Current benh-kernel fails to boot (after clock) on iBook G4

2004-05-10 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
> I have never heard about pmac_defconfig, sorry. I read several (5 ?) > web pages about installing on ibook, and also the Debian powerpc-port > pages, where it is not mentioned. Yes, the kernel has default configs for several machines in arch/ppc/configs You can either cp that to .config and do

Re: Current benh-kernel fails to boot (after clock) on iBook G4

2004-05-10 Thread Helge Kreutzmann
Hello, On Mon, May 10, 2004 at 10:17:56AM +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > Have you tried disabling the RTC driver? I think it's been known to cause > > problems on ppc. I only had it as module. Disabling it completly got the kernel to boot. > Indeed, this is the "legacy" x86 driver, it

Re: Current benh-kernel fails to boot (after clock) on iBook G4

2004-05-09 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
> Have you tried disabling the RTC driver? I think it's been known to cause > problems on ppc. Indeed, this is the "legacy" x86 driver, it doesn't work on Macs. You should use CONFIG_PPC_RTC and not CONFIG_RTC on those. In general (for the 1nth time), use pmac_defconfig ! Ben.

Re: Current benh-kernel fails to boot (after clock) on iBook G4

2004-05-08 Thread Nathanael Hasbrouck
On Saturday 08 May 2004 1221, somebody named Helge Kreutzmann inscribed this message: (snip) > I boot the kernel, and it stops at: > VFS: Mounted root (ext3 filesystem) readonly. > Freeing unused kernel memory: 172k init 4k chrp 8k prep > INIT: version 2.85 booting > Loading /etc/console/boottime.

Current benh-kernel fails to boot (after clock) on iBook G4

2004-05-08 Thread Helge Kreutzmann
Hello, I am new to PPC, so please excuse if these are FAQs, but I searched the archive and could not find the answers. I use a new iBook G4. I got the latest benh-kernel by rsync and build the kernel using make-kpkg. As described in the archive, I had to touch arch/ppc/boot/images/vmlinux.coff and

Kernel fails to boot..

1999-11-02 Thread Peter Abrahamsen
Hi there, I have a UMAX C600, and am attempting to boot a kernel that I compiled on my 7600. The kernel is the rsynced linux-vger-stable from samba, as of monday night ~8pm. I compiled using the experimental gcc 2.95.2 debs, and binutils 2.9.5.0.16-2. The system has IDE and SCSI, a DEC 21041-b