Can't boot from hd on RS/6000

2001-08-23 Thread Jens Kutilek
l... Elf32 kernel loaded... ... and then nothing else happens. I also tried copying the kernel directly to /dev/sda1, then it boots, but doesn't find the root fs/init. What can I do? I also tried quik, but it didn't work either. Jens. -- Jens Kutilek* ISITRAIN Schulung und Systemlösu

Re: Can't boot from hd on RS/6000

2001-08-24 Thread Jens Kutilek
3-1.2.4, but mkofboot didn't work. No output was displayed, nothing happened, I could only ctrl-c the program. Anyway, now I can boot from hd with the kernel in /dev/sda1 and the OF setting boot-file root=/dev/sda1, and that will be ok. bye, Jens. -- Jens Kutilek* ISITRAIN Schulung und System

Re: Can't boot from hd on RS/6000

2001-08-24 Thread Jens Kutilek
> Anyway, now I can boot from hd with the kernel in /dev/sda1 and the OF > setting boot-file root=/dev/sda1, and that will be ok. Sorry, root=/dev/sda3 I meant. Jens

Re: Can't boot from hd on RS/6000

2001-08-24 Thread Jens Kutilek
le to > at least root=/dev/sda3 Yes, that works, and that's fine by me ;-) (My boss threatened to switch to SuSE if I can't get it to boot ...) bye, Jens. -- Jens Kutilek* ISITRAIN Schulung und Systemlösungen GmbH Web-Design * Postfach 1125, 38174 Wendeburg www.isitrain.de * Telefon 05303-941014, Fax 05303-941016

Re: Can't boot from hd on RS/6000

2001-08-24 Thread Jens Kutilek
> Do you have any numbers on the lcd display on the front of the B50? When Linux has booted to the login prompt, the display constantly displays "". What could that mean? This is only with kernel 2.4, when using kernel 2.2 the display was off after booting. bye, Jens.

Re: Can't boot from hd on RS/6000

2001-08-24 Thread Jens Kutilek
nfig called mkofboot to format the bootstrap parttition, the program stopped. Then I tried to run mkofboot -v, but I didn't get output, it stopped like before. The process was marked sleeping. How can I get more info from the program about what's wrong? I'll try again on monday. By

Re: Can't boot from hd on RS/6000

2001-08-28 Thread Jens Kutilek
/6000 model 7046 B50 (chrp) if that is of any help for fixing this in yabootconfig. Jens -- Jens Kutilek* ISITRAIN Schulung und Systemlösungen GmbH Web-Design * Postfach 1125, 38174 Wendeburg www.isitrain.de * Telefon 05303-941014, Fax 05303-941016

Re: Can't boot from hd on RS/6000

2001-08-28 Thread Jens Kutilek
config--\ > Yaboot doesn't set up the yaboot.conf properly, I have to add "nonvram" > manually, now it works fine and doesn't hang on mfokboot :-) And of course this is explained in the documentation, sorry ... Jens -- Jens Kutilek* ISITRAIN Schulung und Syst

Re: potato chrp ISO?

2003-06-06 Thread Jens Kutilek
Hi, Am Freitag, 06.06.03, um 14:09 Uhr (Europe/Berlin) schrieb Krisztian Mark Szentes: Is there a potato netinst CD ISO mirror (or something like) around? Or has someone a newer chrp kernel image ready for woody? Or can I jigdo the pieces together? You could try the installation instructio

Re: potato chrp ISO?

2003-06-09 Thread Jens Kutilek
Von: Krisztian Mark Szentes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Datum: Sa, 7. Jun 2003 10:13:41 Europe/Berlin Betreff: Re: potato chrp ISO? On Friday 06 June 2003 16:24, Jens Kutilek wrote: You could try the installation instructions I have written on <http://www.kutilek.de/technik/de

Re: yaboot trouble on CHRP (was: potato chrp ISO?)

2003-06-10 Thread Jens Kutilek
Am Dienstag, 10.06.03, um 21:32 Uhr (Europe/Berlin) schrieb Krisztian Mark Szentes: {... booting trouble on an RS/6000 B50...} With the correctly sized /dev/sda1 of 4 Megabytes and yaboot (written by mkofboot) it gives: boot: failsafe Please wait, loading kernel... Elf32 kernel loaded..

Re: potato chrp ISO?

2003-06-10 Thread Jens Kutilek
Am Dienstag, 10.06.03, um 20:11 Uhr (Europe/Berlin) schrieb Krisztian Mark Szentes: Solution: I had to resize the first partition (41 prep boot) to EXACTLY 4 Megabytes. I had 32 Mb because I always used a boot partition which accomodated several kernel images and I thought is should be at leas

libc6 2.1.3-19 causes segfaults?

2001-09-13 Thread Jens Kutilek
machine is an IBM RS/6000 B50. bye, Jens --  Jens Kutilek Web-Design  ISITRAIN Schulung und Systemlösungen GmbH Telefon: (05303) 941014, Telefax: (05303) 941016 E-Mail: {HYPERLINK "mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]"[EMAIL PRO

X on Quicksilver G4

2001-11-29 Thread Jens Kutilek
Last week I got my brand new G4 ;-) I installed Debian woody over the net, which worked like a charm, but now I'm stuck with the X configuration for the Nvidia card. I compiled a new kernel using the benh source, and included the rivafb driver. When I boot, i have to add "video=ofonly", otherwis

Re: X on Quicksilver G4

2001-12-02 Thread Jens Kutilek
Am Samstag den, 1. Dezember 2001, um 18:08, schrieb Michel Dänzer: rivafb doesn't work on PPC out of the box yet. Ani Joshi has patches, AFAIK Ben was going to include them in his tree but I don't know if they are in yet. It seems they were not in. I applied the patch, and it helped a lot. Now

kswapd crashed - what's wrong here?

2001-12-03 Thread Jens Kutilek
I'm running Debian 2.2 on a RS/6000 f50, kernel 2.4.8. I noticed that kswapd was marked zombie in the process list: root 4 0.0 0.0 00 ?ZSep13 55:27 [kswapd ] Why would it crash, and what can I do? I noticed nothing irregular yet. The machine has been up since Sep

Re: RS/6000 43P-140 install

2001-12-06 Thread Jens Kutilek
Am Mittwoch den, 5. Dezember 2001, um 09:48, schrieb Benny Siegert: 2.4 kernel. Do not even _try_ to use a 2.2 kernel with a RS/6000. It depends on the processor type. I've had a SuSE 6.x (kernel 2.2) running on a RS/6000 B50 (PPC 604r) for a year (now Debian potato, kernel 2.4). Have both of y

Kernel for PowerMac G4 with Nvidia Graphics

2002-02-02 Thread Jens Kutilek
For those interested, I've put on my web server a kernel package that actually runs on a Quicksilver PowerMac G4 with Nvidia graphics. It's based on 2.4.18-pre7-ben0 and contains a patched drivers/video/riva/. It has sound, ethernet, ppp and aic7xxx support but not much more. http://kutilek.de/dow

Re: Kernel for PowerMac G4 with Nvidia Graphics

2002-02-03 Thread Jens Kutilek
Hi, What about the source for the package? I kind of feared the 25 MB upload, but now it's there ... http://www.kutilek.de/download/debian/ The patch to the riva driver came from Ani Joshi, http://www.geocrawler.com/lists/3/Debian-Linux/239/0/6777197/ In 2.4.18-pre1, rivafb support for Geforc