[loongson-dev] Trying to get an OS onto a Yeeloong 2F

2014-08-02 Thread David Crawford
Hi all, I've dug my Yeeloong 2F out of storage and have been trying to get an OS onto it. I've tried Debian, but it fails to install GRUB - then cannot find boot.cfg when it tries to boot. I wasn't able to manually boot it with karg. The only OS's I've managed to get onto it successfully are

Re: [loongson-dev] Trying to get an OS onto a Yeeloong 2F

2014-08-04 Thread David Crawford
itions with commands since Windows 95. :D On Monday, August 4, 2014 10:03:23 PM UTC+10, Anthony Basile wrote: > > On 08/03/14 21:46, Dennis Lan (dlan) wrote: > > On Sun, Aug 3, 2014 at 9:36 PM, Justin Cormack > > > wrote: > >> On Sat, Aug 2, 2014 at 12:13 PM, David Cr

[loongson-dev] Re: Trying to get an OS onto a Yeeloong 2F

2014-08-06 Thread David Crawford
I've tried to install gnewsense tonight. The install went fine, however I get this when booting into the OS: Kernel Panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount fs on unknown-block(8,6) On Saturday, August 2, 2014 9:13:32 PM UTC+10, David Crawford wrote: > > Hi all, > > I've

Re: [loongson-dev] Re: Trying to get an OS onto a Yeeloong 2F

2014-08-06 Thread David Crawford
Hi Sam, For some reason the machine is missing boot.cfg again, it cannot be found at boot. I don't understand how this happened to Debian and gnewsense, they both used to work fine. The full error when I boot via karg is VFS cannot open root device sda6 or unknown block8,6) error -6 Please ap

[loongson-dev] Re: Trying to get an OS onto a Yeeloong 2F

2014-08-07 Thread David Crawford
ah got it! I didn't realise I had to at al and karg :D On Saturday, August 2, 2014 9:13:32 PM UTC+10, David Crawford wrote: > > Hi all, > > I've dug my Yeeloong 2F out of storage and have been trying to get an OS > onto it. I've tried Debian, but it fails to insta