Re: linux-image-2.6-17-mac tries
On 11/11/06, Eugen Paiuc <eug_paiuc@bluewin.ch> wrote:
On Fri, 2006-11-10 at 23:11 -0800, Brian Morris wrote:
> > On such system I hade install emile - from my bootable cdrom - and now
> > Debian can boot himself directily from his disk - no more need of useing
> > of Penguin -.
>
> you are using emile then with 2.6 kernel ?
The system has 2.6.17-2-mac , and was installed directly - w/ floppies
-
from a modified cdrom debian-testing-m68k-binary1.iso,
- style emile bootable mac cdrom :) - au passage je vous salut ! -
this means i take it, you boot installer via emile but you boot 2.2 kernel
for installer. then you install the testing cd, including the 2.6.17 kernel.
you say with floppies, confuses me. with the new cd booting that is still
sarge only. according to laurent the direct method not working yet.
however you then installed emile so you are normally booting with emile
off the hard drive, or did you just use for installer ?
> can you tell if the system is any more stable, or any issues improve ?
Watchdog time out is still present, cause of to hwclock access issue,
> (be sure to update when the new build comes through)
> can you try 2.6.18 from unstable ?
>From yesterday the system has 2.6.18-2-mac -2.6.18_4 -,
but the hwclock access issue is still present
in my experience there are at least three levels of severity to
this hardware clock issue. in the least case it seems to
only offset the time zone and only in some contexts not all.
so for instance time stamp of file is OK. in the worse case
the whole system thinks it is 1969 and this disrupts timestamps
for update files as well as can cause crash from overflow in
trying to calculate time intervals.
> I never did get 17 to work at all
> for me, because of disk driver problems (my quadra630 has ide and
> my macII has an older scsi controller.
>
> how are you connecting when you use ethernet,
the system is stable only with ethx desabled !
you mean you have nothing connected to it at all when
you boot, if you want to test it you should have a link of
some kind. starting with the simplest thing was my way,
so the direct connection. which seemed at least semi stable
on my system. conversely if you are not using it and it
is not connected to anything live then it should be off.
i don't know what stable means like that. is it a 0/1 isssue.
was reported by someone else here they could run for a little
while then crash. if it is borderline then some adjustments could
help, at least there is something to work with. if your system
really does not boot with eth on at all that is worse, and may
be a sign you have some other problems somewhere.
makes me think though, since i have no useable keyboard
and must log in via ethernet. what if i physically pull my
card.
> do you have a local
> hub or switch. have you tried directly connecting two linux boxes with
> a cross-over cable (anybody), this forces a simpler half-duplex connection.
> (although on my newer machines full duplex is faster with these i have
> not seen it, and it may be more stable. at least the one time i tried to
> use the hub was the one time i got a crash after about 1 hour uptime)
This system is standalone, for the moment, I use only cdrom for his
needs.
I tried on, a kernel compilation directly from
linux-2.6_2.6.18-orig.tar.gz,
but it is stoped in about 6 minutes with same errors. By the way, there
is a
basic kernel's config for (quadra840av) macs ?
you have a config that comes with binary kernel package, in the boot
directory. i think that also you need a patch file or/and a kernal build
package. i am just learning this myself so ...
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