Stefan Am 09.03.2019 um 13:34 schrieb Stefan Niestegge:
Hello all, Am 05.03.19 um 22:08 schrieb David Henderson:A Debian 10 ISO is available here: https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/ports/10.0/m68k/iso-cd/ Booting involves copying an appropriate initrd and kernel onto your HD and running BOOTSTRAP.PRG, either taking its arguments from BOOTARGS file. I've not investigated how to load the initrd into alt RAM, though, as I've not resorted to that in Hatari yet. Cheers,I installed Debian from that netinstall. Only thing to do to get it install was getting IDE port running by modprobe falconide or patafalcon. Don't And removing -s from the bootargs puts the kernel into TT ram which speeded up things a lot.
Thanks for confirming this still works.
I recorded the full uncut boot process: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Sriz45Z4oM So, a trimmed down version would probably be somewhat faster. My Falcon runs at 90 MHz and has 14MB/512MB ST/TT RAM.
Kernel and simple (pre-systemd) userland still fit into 14 MB: schmitz@hobbes:~$ uname -aLinux hobbes 5.0.0-rc3-atari-fpuemu+ #943 Fri Jan 25 19:14:11 NZDT 2019 m68k GNU/Linux
schmitz@hobbes:~$ free
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 10408 8244 2164 0 600 2048
-/+ buffers/cache: 5596 4812
Swap: 2097144 2304 2094840
The initrd used by the installer to supply modules and busybox won't
fit, sorry. From what I recall, preparing an installation using
emulation and booting that on a stock Falcon has the system run out of
memory before swap space can be activated (Christian tried that for me a
while ago). So that's not an option either.
Cheers, Michael
greets, Stefan "Beetle" Niestegge