On Wed, Jun 04, 2008 at 12:14:13AM +0100, Nigel wrote: > Hello, > > I thought I'd give Debian a go on my Amiga A1200 (with 68030 CPU/MMU, > 68882 FPU & 32MB RAM). > > I downloaded a kernel (kernels/vmlinuz-2.6.24-1-amiga) and initrd > (hd-media/initrd.gz) from > http://people.debian.org/~smarenka/d-i/images-m68k/daily/ > > Transferred (the decompressed) kernel and initrd to my A1200 and booted > with: > > amiboot -d -k vmlinuz-2.6.24-1-amiga -r initrd.gz root=/dev/ram video=pal Interesting, I thought fb=false was also required for amiga. I suppose that got fixed. > And my A1200 booted into the installer. (I am impressed!) > > The installer proceeds in low memory mode, I select region then country > and reach the "Detecting hardware to find drives" screen. Once the > progress bar completes I get a blank blue screen, and after a minute or > so the message "Floating point exception" is displayed > /sbin/debian-installer exits, init restarts it and the "Detecting > hardware to find drives" is repeated. This loops around and around and > blocks the install. I guess we're going to need to figure out that FPE. > I suspect my problem is caused by my choice of kernel and initrd coming > from a "daily" directory. So my question is: > > Q) Am I using the correct kernel+initrd / install procedure to install > Etch on my A1200? I would say yes. The etch release media wasn't tested (by me) after the etch-m68k release (where the distribution name got changed). The daily installer with suite etch-m68k is the best tested combination of d-i since before etch released. (I just haven't done it lately.) You need to add suite=etch-m68k and modules=etch-support on the kernel command line to get etch, see also <http://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/M68k#issues>. (Okay, I haven't verified that modules=etch-support is the correct solution yet, but it sounds right.) Unfortunately, none of this gets your past the FPE. I haven't figured out what package generates the "Detecting hardware to find drives" screen. I'd like to see what it's doing when the FPE gets called. Thanks, Stephen -- Stephen R. Marenka If life's not fun, you're not doing it right! <stephen@marenka.net>
Attachment:
signature.asc
Description: Digital signature