Hi!
I'm currently trying to install an Amiga 3000 T with Debian. I'm not new
to Linux nor to Debian, but I'm failing.
- Woody installer:
- Woody's install kernel (2.2.18 or 2.2.20 IIRC) seems to be a
*bit* unstable. After the installation started off
successfully, d(e)bootstrap and their childs may SIGSEGV'ed or
SIGBUS'ed...
- Potato installer:
- Basically, it finds it's ramdisk ('Found compressed ramdisk at
block 0', but it halts there. That's tha last line.
Some time ago, the root image was large (~10MB or the like),
but I've checked that, it's only ~3MB. I've even tried to make
it smaller (dropped some of the free space...), but the result
is still the same.
Well, then I started to play around:
- Woody's root.bin with kernel-image-2.4.20-amiga kernel:
- Doesn't work at all, because amiboot-5.6 cannot boot that
kernel. It's too large. I wonder if *anybody* has ever booted
this image...
- Potato install kernel + Woody root.bin
- Oopses some time after I've started to install the base
system while accessing 0x00000023 (-> seems to reference some
struct element...)
So far, I see no proper way to install an Amiga (even what I reached is
halfly handmade - I'm installing rescue and drivers by directly calling
./install in a affs partition because it didn't like my floppies...).
Unfortunately, the install kernel doesn't have the ariadne2 driver
compiled in. If it had, I'd had a try and use nfs-root to do a fully
manual installation... Unfortunately, I don't have a ia32 hosted
m68k-linux toolchain yet... If anybody could build me a *current* 2.4.x
kernel from m68k CVS with A3000 support (with scsi and fb) plus affs,
ext2, ramdisk, nfs, nfsroot, loop, that'd maybe help...
If anybody installed an Amiga 3000 lately, I'm *really* interested on
how s/he achieved that!!!
Thanks, JBG
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