Re: installing lenny on m68k/amiga
On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 15:16, Christian T. Steigies <cts@debian.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 02:11:18PM +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
>> On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 13:35, Christian T. Steigies <cts@debian.org> wrote:
>> > On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 09:19:28PM +0100, Christian T. Steigies wrote:
>> >> 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 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 tried again using 2.6.18-4-amiga instead, but it seems I am using the
>> > wrong ramdisksize. I started with 9000, now I am at 1000000, but I always
>> > gget messages like these, with "want" = 4 * "limit" + 8
>> >
>> > ram0: rw=0, want=12891144, limit=3222784
>>
>> These numbers are in 512-byte sectors, so it's a 1.6 GiB ramdisk?
>> Sounds a bit too big to me...
>
> I tried 9000, 40000, with the same result.
That's in Kibibytes, and far from 1.6 GiB ;-)
>> Perhaps the initrd is corrupt? Can you mount it with -o loop after
>> decompressing?
>
> root@aahz:/amiga/lenny/amiga>ll initrd
> -r--r--r-- 1 root root 6124544 2008-04-01 03:49 initrd
> root@aahz:/amiga/lenny/amiga>file initrd
> initrd: ASCII cpio archive (SVR4 with no CRC)
>
> I can not mount it. So if the uncompressed size is 6MB, the ramdisksize
> should larger than 12000, 9000 is too small? I tried with 20000 with an
> uncompressed ramdisk, same problem, it tries to access at 4*limit+8.
> I guess the initrd is broken, there seems to be some garbage at the
> beginning. Stephen, do you have a newer version of initrd?
Ah, it's a cpio archive. You can unpack it with `pax -r' and check how
much space you really need.
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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