installing lenny on m68k/amiga
Hi,
I have tried to setup debian on my Amiga again with CD image from Nov 24
2008 and the Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 "0" - Unofficial m68k NETINST Binary-1
from 20080401-05:07. With both of them it is not possible to install debian
without performing some changes on the CD.
The first issue is a missing .info file in the tools directory. The november
CD has an amiga.info file, but it is inside the amiga drawer, it has to be
one drawer up to be visible. The netinst CD does not have the amiga.info
file anymore:
/media/cdrom/install/tools>ll
total 6
dr-xr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2008-04-01 07:08 amiga
dr-xr-xr-x 2 root root 2048 2008-04-01 07:08 atari
It should be located in the tools directory. This is mostly cosmetic, but
still annoying, especially when it has been a while that you used AmigaOS.
The more severe problem is the kernel. I don't know if this is true for all
2.6 kernels or if it is a problem of the size of the kernel, but amiboot can
not decompress the kernel on the CD, please put an uncompressed kernel image
on the CD, at least for Amiga. For the other arches an uncompressed image
would significantly speed up the boot procress.
The lenny kernel (2.6.24) does not seem to have a driver for my Blizzard2060
SCSI card, 2.6.26 also does not recognize my SCSI card.
isofs is not built in, so that the installer can not access the installation
CD. I think that was the point where I also gave up last time.
I finally used an old sarge CD to install the Amiga again, on an IDE flash
disk (100MB for AmigaOS, 900MB for Linux), and updated to etch-m68k. No
changes needed on the CD, the 2.4 kernel recognized the IDE disk, the SCSI
disk, the Aridane2 card, but of course not the video card. Fortunately the
PicassoIV has a built in scandoubler, so that I get at least some video. I
would suggest to change StartInstall to use the following:
video=amifb:pal-lace
With this I get a 640x512 resolution, instead of 640x256, looks a lot better
(but flickers if you do not have a flicker fixer).
I did not manage to get xorg going, does anybody have a config which works
with amigafb?
(II) FBDEV(0): using default device
(II) Running in FRAMEBUFFER Mode
(**) FBDEV(0): Depth 4, (--) framebuffer bpp 4
(==) FBDEV(0): Default visual is StaticColor
(==) FBDEV(0): Using gamma correction (1.0, 1.0, 1.0)
(II) FBDEV(0): hardware: Amiga OCS (video memory: 256kB)
(II) FBDEV(0): checking modes against framebuffer device...
(II) FBDEV(0): mode "640x512" test failed
(II) FBDEV(0): mode "640x256" not found
(II) FBDEV(0): checking modes against monitor...
(--) FBDEV(0): Virtual size is 640x512 (pitch 640)
(**) FBDEV(0): Built-in mode "current": 14.2 MHz, 15.6 kHz, 50.0 Hz (I)
(II) FBDEV(0): Modeline "current" 14.19 640 726 802 908 512 541 545 625 interlace bcast -hsync -vsync -csync
[...]
(EE) FBDEV(0): FBIOPUT_VSCREENINFO: Invalid argument
(EE) FBDEV(0): mode initialization failed
Fatal server error:
AddScreen/ScreenInit failed for driver 0
Now I would not mind testing the new clgen driver for my PicassoIV... where
is the patch? I wouldn't mind a blz2060 driver either...
BTW both the IDE flash disk and the SCSI disk are very slow, I get read
speeds of only 1MB/sec. I don't remember what I had earlier, but it must
have been faster?
Christian
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