Re: Mac 7200 (PPC) sees Promise controller.. BUT NO DRIVES

2003-04-13 Thread Chris Tillman
On Sat, Apr 12, 2003 at 12:33:17PM -0600, Jessica Blank wrote: > On Sat, 12 Apr 2003, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > > > > > Eh? Why does the keyboard WORK with init=/bin/sh, but NOT WORK when > > > booting as per usual? That makes zero sense... > > > > It does make senes. With init=/bin/sh, th

Re: Mac 7200 (PPC) sees Promise controller.. BUT NO DRIVES

2003-04-12 Thread Donovan Baarda
On Sun, 2003-04-13 at 01:28, Jessica Blank wrote: [...] > Point is, why is the box going to runlevel 0 or 6 in the first place? > Those are the only runlevels on my box where it runs the RTC scripts... :/ IIRC, the sysvinit stuff _used_ to go through every runlevel on the way to the runlevel you w

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2003-04-12 Thread Jessica Blank
My box sees the drives now!! Now, why can't I get RTC to work? On Sat, 12 Apr 2003, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > On Sat, 2003-04-12 at 19:59, Jessica Blank wrote: > > Interesting notes: > > > > init=/bin/sh DOES get me to a shell! And everything works fine. > > > > HOWEVER: Booting WITHOUT in

Re: Mac 7200 (PPC) sees Promise controller.. BUT NO DRIVES

2003-04-12 Thread Jessica Blank
Now, all of this begs the question... since my Mac started working again after I disabled BOTH RTC settings... yet previously, I'd been using 2.4 kernels (non-Ben-patched/virgin/stock/unaltered/Linus's-tree/whatever-you-call-it) with the PPC RTC option on, and it booted fine... ...what did you do

Re: Mac 7200 (PPC) sees Promise controller.. BUT NO DRIVES

2003-04-12 Thread Jessica Blank
Err. Ignore the bit about the dmesg. I gotta get my keyboard working first ;) On Sat, 12 Apr 2003, Jessica Blank wrote: > Wonkalicious. Now it boots just fine... when I disabled both RTC and > PPC_RTC (or RTC_PPC or whatever it was), the thing boots just fine O_o > > However... after having disab

Re: Mac 7200 (PPC) sees Promise controller.. BUT NO DRIVES

2003-04-12 Thread Jessica Blank
Wonkalicious. Now it boots just fine... when I disabled both RTC and PPC_RTC (or RTC_PPC or whatever it was), the thing boots just fine O_o However... after having disabled ADB_KEYBOARD, the keyboard does NOTHING! Like, zilch, zero, zip, nada... I can't even log in. I can, of course, ctrl-openappl

Re: Mac 7200 (PPC) sees Promise controller.. BUT NO DRIVES

2003-04-12 Thread Brad Boyer
On Sat, Apr 12, 2003 at 12:46:46PM -0600, Jessica Blank wrote: > Ahh. Color me stupid, but what is i2c again? Here's a document about the standard that's pretty generic: http://www.semiconductors.philips.com/buses/i2c/facts/ Summary: it's a simple, 2 line serial bus for connecting chips.

Re: Mac 7200 (PPC) sees Promise controller.. BUT NO DRIVES

2003-04-12 Thread Jessica Blank
On Sat, 12 Apr 2003, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > > I could find no CONFIG_ADB_KEYCODES. (I rgrep -r -i'd for it). I am > > presuming you meant CONFIG_ADB_KEYBOARD, and proceeding along those > > lines... > > Yup. > > > > Was ist das "Cuda"? > > Cuda is the "system controller" chip of those o

Re: Mac 7200 (PPC) sees Promise controller.. BUT NO DRIVES

2003-04-12 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
> I could find no CONFIG_ADB_KEYCODES. (I rgrep -r -i'd for it). I am > presuming you meant CONFIG_ADB_KEYBOARD, and proceeding along those > lines... Yup. > Was ist das "Cuda"? Cuda is the "system controller" chip of those old machines, it does, among other, the real time clock, the poweroff/

Re: Mac 7200 (PPC) sees Promise controller.. BUT NO DRIVES

2003-04-12 Thread Jessica Blank
On Sat, 12 Apr 2003, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > > Eh? Why does the keyboard WORK with init=/bin/sh, but NOT WORK when > > booting as per usual? That makes zero sense... > > It does make senes. With init=/bin/sh, the keyboard works with > the kernel built-in keymap. Later on, your userland s

Re: Mac 7200 (PPC) sees Promise controller.. BUT NO DRIVES

2003-04-12 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
> Eh? Why does the keyboard WORK with init=/bin/sh, but NOT WORK when > booting as per usual? That makes zero sense... It does make senes. With init=/bin/sh, the keyboard works with the kernel built-in keymap. Later on, your userland scripts are loading a keymap, which is probably designed for th

Re: Mac 7200 (PPC) sees Promise controller.. BUT NO DRIVES

2003-04-12 Thread Jessica Blank
On Sat, 12 Apr 2003, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > On Sat, 2003-04-12 at 19:59, Jessica Blank wrote: > > Interesting notes: > > > > init=/bin/sh DOES get me to a shell! And everything works fine. > > > > HOWEVER: Booting WITHOUT init=/bin/sh (even with the 601 bug thingy turned > > on, which I r

Re: Mac 7200 (PPC) sees Promise controller.. BUT NO DRIVES

2003-04-12 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Sat, 2003-04-12 at 19:59, Jessica Blank wrote: > Interesting notes: > > init=/bin/sh DOES get me to a shell! And everything works fine. > > HOWEVER: Booting WITHOUT init=/bin/sh (even with the 601 bug thingy turned > on, which I really doubted would solve the problem anyhow), I get the same >

Re: Mac 7200 (PPC) sees Promise controller.. BUT NO DRIVES

2003-04-12 Thread Jessica Blank
Interesting notes: init=/bin/sh DOES get me to a shell! And everything works fine. HOWEVER: Booting WITHOUT init=/bin/sh (even with the 601 bug thingy turned on, which I really doubted would solve the problem anyhow), I get the same problem... oh, and for some reason the keyboard is also screwed

Re: Mac 7200 (PPC) sees Promise controller.. BUT NO DRIVES

2003-04-12 Thread Jessica Blank
I was thinking of the init=/bin/sh idea. Will try. On Sat, 12 Apr 2003, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > On Sat, 2003-04-12 at 17:28, Jessica Blank wrote: > > > > Make sure you have CONFIG_PPC_RTC and _not_ CONFIG_RTC and let me > > > know. If the kernel tries to access the legacy RTC chip on the

Re: Mac 7200 (PPC) sees Promise controller.. BUT NO DRIVES

2003-04-12 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Sat, 2003-04-12 at 17:28, Jessica Blank wrote: > > Make sure you have CONFIG_PPC_RTC and _not_ CONFIG_RTC and let me > > know. If the kernel tries to access the legacy RTC chip on the ISA > > bus, it will hang. > > Yeah, that's how I did it. > > Actually, I was currently trying (just for grin

Re: Mac 7200 (PPC) sees Promise controller.. BUT NO DRIVES

2003-04-12 Thread Jessica Blank
On Sat, 12 Apr 2003, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > On Sat, 2003-04-12 at 17:14, Jessica Blank wrote: > > Well... okay. This is interesting. > > > > Ben, your kernel patches simply don't like my machine. Maybe I'm doing > > something wrong, but I've configured around a billion trillion bajillion

Re: Mac 7200 (PPC) sees Promise controller.. BUT NO DRIVES

2003-04-12 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Sat, 2003-04-12 at 17:14, Jessica Blank wrote: > Well... okay. This is interesting. > > Ben, your kernel patches simply don't like my machine. Maybe I'm doing > something wrong, but I've configured around a billion trillion bajillion > kernels in my life (since age 15) and I see nothing missing

Re: Mac 7200 (PPC) sees Promise controller.. BUT NO DRIVES

2003-04-12 Thread Jessica Blank
Well... okay. This is interesting. Ben, your kernel patches simply don't like my machine. Maybe I'm doing something wrong, but I've configured around a billion trillion bajillion kernels in my life (since age 15) and I see nothing missing. Plain old non-Ben-patched 2.4.20 kernels seem to boot fin

Re: Mac 7200 (PPC) sees Promise controller.. BUT NO DRIVES

2003-04-11 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
> Dear God, HFS is _STILL_ experimental!? Yes. Until someone show up to really maintain it and fix some of the most annoying bugs, it will stay that way. > What ticks me off is the utter lack of attention paid to non-x86 platforms > by Linus and crew. Shouldn't your superb patches be integrated

Re: Mac 7200 (PPC) sees Promise controller.. BUT NO DRIVES

2003-04-11 Thread Jessica Blank
On Fri, 11 Apr 2003, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > On Fri, 2003-04-11 at 17:54, Jessica Blank wrote: > > On Fri, 11 Apr 2003, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > > > > On Fri, 2003-04-11 at 17:48, Jessica Blank wrote: > > > > > > > These messages weren't FROM the boot. I already tried compiling th

Re: Mac 7200 (PPC) sees Promise controller.. BUT NO DRIVES

2003-04-11 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Fri, 2003-04-11 at 17:54, Jessica Blank wrote: > On Fri, 11 Apr 2003, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > > On Fri, 2003-04-11 at 17:48, Jessica Blank wrote: > > > > > These messages weren't FROM the boot. I already tried compiling the > > > ide-disk and ide-mod modules into the kernel... they di

Re: Mac 7200 (PPC) sees Promise controller.. BUT NO DRIVES

2003-04-11 Thread Jessica Blank
Ben: Found your patches, installing 'em, compiling IDE into the kernel itself (i.e. not as a module). Will send dmesg if that dunna fix my problem. Thanks! On Fri, 11 Apr 2003, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > On Fri, 2003-04-11 at 17:48, Jessica Blank wrote: > > > These messages weren't FROM the

Re: Mac 7200 (PPC) sees Promise controller.. BUT NO DRIVES

2003-04-11 Thread Jessica Blank
On Fri, 11 Apr 2003, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > On Fri, 2003-04-11 at 17:48, Jessica Blank wrote: > > > These messages weren't FROM the boot. I already tried compiling the > > ide-disk and ide-mod modules into the kernel... they did not work. So, > > getting sick and tired of rebooting the ma

Re: Mac 7200 (PPC) sees Promise controller.. BUT NO DRIVES

2003-04-11 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Fri, 2003-04-11 at 17:48, Jessica Blank wrote: > These messages weren't FROM the boot. I already tried compiling the > ide-disk and ide-mod modules into the kernel... they did not work. So, > getting sick and tired of rebooting the machine around 50 times, I decided > to compile them as modules

Re: Mac 7200 (PPC) sees Promise controller.. BUT NO DRIVES

2003-04-11 Thread Jessica Blank
On Fri, 11 Apr 2003, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > On Fri, 2003-04-11 at 16:24, Jessica Blank wrote: > > I am having a big problem here. > > > > My nice little "CD burning server", under my bed, is crippled because the > > large (40GB) IDE drive in it simply does not detect. > > > > This is a KN

Re: Mac 7200 (PPC) sees Promise controller.. BUT NO DRIVES

2003-04-11 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Fri, 2003-04-11 at 16:24, Jessica Blank wrote: > I am having a big problem here. > > My nice little "CD burning server", under my bed, is crippled because the > large (40GB) IDE drive in it simply does not detect. > > This is a KNOWN WORKING drive. I just pulled it out of a working system. >

Re: Mac 7200 (PPC) sees Promise controller.. BUT NO DRIVES

2003-04-11 Thread Jessica Blank
It was pulled out of a PeeCee Debian box. And to answer your question: Yes. My "Partition Types" setup (for the record, I am using KERNEL VERSION 2.4.20...) looks like this: x x [*] Advanced partition selection x x [ ] Acorn partition support x x [ ] Alpha OSF partition suppo

Re: Mac 7200 (PPC) sees Promise controller.. BUT NO DRIVES

2003-04-11 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Fre, 2003-04-11 at 16:24, Jessica Blank wrote: > > My nice little "CD burning server", under my bed, is crippled because the > large (40GB) IDE drive in it simply does not detect. > > This is a KNOWN WORKING drive. I just pulled it out of a working system. [...] > Apr 11 10:19:28 gandalf ker

Mac 7200 (PPC) sees Promise controller.. BUT NO DRIVES

2003-04-11 Thread Jessica Blank
I am having a big problem here. My nice little "CD burning server", under my bed, is crippled because the large (40GB) IDE drive in it simply does not detect. This is a KNOWN WORKING drive. I just pulled it out of a working system. I've tried compiling IDE Disk Support and the Promise controller