Re: Etch install on A1200. Floating point exception
On Wed, 4 Jun 2008, Stephen R Marenka wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 04, 2008 at 07:58:20PM +0100, Nigel wrote:
>
> > I've discovered the FPE is coming from db_progress.
> >
> > The line
> > db_progress START 0 $DEV_COUNT iso/scan/progress_title
> > as invoked from the script /var/lib/dpkg/info/iso-scan.postinst causes
> > the FPE.
> >
> > And on my A1200 DEV_COUNT=0 (a divide by zero)?
> >
> > So it seems there are 2 problems here
> >
> > 1 - iso-scan.postinst and db_progress do not handle the situation of no
> > devices found
>
> Which brings to mind the question of whether hd-media has *ever* been
> tested on amiga. :)
>
> > 2 - vmlinuz-2.6.24-1-amiga does not see my A1200's IDE hard disk
>
> Odd. I'm rather sure some of our amiga's are using IDE. (amiga guys?)
>
> > Regarding the second issue, when booting with the vmlinuz-2.6.24-1-amiga
> > kernel the boot messages relating to the ide interface are as follows:
> >
> > Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2
> > ide: Assuming 50MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
> > ide0: Gayle IDE interface (A1200 style)
> > Driver 'sd' needs updating - please use bus_type methods
> > mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
> >
> > As you can see no hda is detected by 2.6.24 kernel, which I suspect
> > accounts for the zero causing the FPE later on.
> >
> > Interestingly booting an older vmlinuz-2.6.18-4-amiga kernel does
> > discover hda.
> >
> > Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2
> > ide: Assuming 50MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
> > ide0: Gayle IDE interface (A1200 style)
> > hda: ST9235AG, ATA DISK drive
> > ide0 at 0x80da0000 on irq 2
> > hda: max request size: 128KiB
> > hda: 409760 sectors (209 MB) w/64KiB Cache, CHS=985/13/32
> > <snip>
> > RDSK (512) hda1 (DOS^A)(res 2 spb 1) hda2 (DOS^A)(res 2 spb 1) hda3
> > (DOS^A)(res 2 spb 1) hda4 (DOS^A)(res 2 spb 1) hda5 (DOS^A)(res 2 spb 1)
> > hda6 (DOS^A)(res 2 spb 1) hda7 (DOS^A)(res 2 spb 1)
> > mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
> >
> > However I'm unable to mount initrd using vmlinuz-2.6.18-4-amiga so using
> > this older kernel for installation is not an option.
>
> Make me wonder if your controller isn't enabled or is a module in
> 2.6.24, while being built-in in 2.6.18. Although from looking at the
> 2.6.25 configs, it looks like GAYLE is builtin.
GAYLE is indeed a chip on the Amiga computer. I don't recall what
it handles.
Sincerely,
(Mr.) Gayle Lee Fairless
not a part of the Amiga although I own a few!
>
> Hopefully one of our amiga guys can help out here.
>
> You might also try the nativehd (gotta get a better name) initrd. It
> installs from the net instead of an iso.
>
>
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