Re: m68k netinst cd's
On Wed, 1 Oct 2008, Lance Tagliapietra wrote:
> Summary: debian install CD image for etch-m68k works on my Amiga!
>
> On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 08:57:05AM -0500, Lance Tagliapietra wrote:
> >
> > c) The decompressed kernel did not boot with amiboot-5.6 when specifying
> > the compressed initrd included on the install CD. Tonight I will try to
> > boot the decompressed 2.6 kernel with a decompressed initrd.
>
> Correction - the decompressed kernel *does* boot with amiboot-5.6 when
> specifying the compressed initrd included on the install CD! You just
> have to be very, very patient. I found that I had to wait at a blank
> screen almost 2 minutes from the time I pressed return to tell amiboot
> to boot the linux kernel until the boot messages started scrolling up
> the screen. I never had to wait that long for a kernel to
> start putting boot messages on to the screen before, so I had been
> thinking that it had failed.
How long does it take to decompress the ramdisk under AmigaOS? ;-)
> Also, it seems that boot fails if the initrd is not compressed. So the
> required combination seems to be uncompressed kernel and compressed
> initrd.
Good to know...
> I also observed that a memfile was not needed. The 2.6 kernel properly
> identifies my Zorro II RAM, it seems the Zorro II RAM device support is
> compiled in.
Yes, 2.6 doesn't use Z2 RAM as system memory on Z3 capable machines.
> The clgen kernel support seems to be broken. Adding the video=clgen:
> does not switch video to the EGS Spectrum video output, and using the
> video=clgen... parameters that I use in booting my 2.4 kernel does cause
> the EGS Spectrum video to be used, but the monitor capabilities and
> signal parameters for the 800x600 mode I request do not operate the
> same. The screen was not viewable, the horizontal rate was all messed
> up.
Hmm, I was already afraid clgen got broken somewhere...
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org
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