Amiga A3000 booting latest kernel
Hi all.
I passively hang out on #debian-68k (/nick DrAmigan).
I recently saw ij give a amiboot line that he said would boot to a 3.2 kernel
amiboot-5.6 -k vmlinux-3.2.0-2-amiga "root=/dev/sda4 video=pal-lace devtmpfs.mount=1"
My A3000 has been pretty lonely for a while, I have etch installed from cds.
cds say 3.1r1 - which I know is a 2.4.27 kernel. I have not stayed anywhere
close to current - nor have I paid much attention as I've been involved in
IBM Blue Gene. I'm no longer involved, so I was curious to see what was
going on in the m68k world.
I asked mirabilos if I could try to boot that kernel, and he pointed me to
the .deb. I downloaded it, put it on my A3000 system. Updated the amiboot
script that I use and decided to see what happened next - in fact mirabilos
asked me to report back. He did however warn me that I was *extremely* old
and that there had been two subsequent releases that I had passed on.
My first attempt was using the command line that ij put in the chat. The
result was:
Linux/m68k Amiga Bootstrap version 5.6
Copyright 1993,1994 by Mamiash Macdonald and Greg Harp
Amiga 3000 CPU: 68040 with internal FPU, ECS
Command line is 'root=/dev/sdb1 video=amifb:vga devtmpfs.mount=1'
Vertical Blank Frequency: 60Hz
Power Supply Frequency: 60Hz
EClock Frequency: 715909Hz
Found 4 AutoConfig Devices
Device 0: addr = 0x00e90000
Device 1: addr = 0x00ea0000
Device 2: addr = 0x40000000
Device 3: addr = 0x00eb0000
Found 2 Blocks of Memory
Block 0: 0x07c00000 to 0x08000000 (4096K)
Block 1: 0x40000000 to 0x48000000 (131072K)
2048 of CHIP memory
The kernel will be located at 07c00000
Kernel is compressed
Uncompressing kernel image ...................................................................
Compressed image too large! Aborting.
Thinking that maybe I'd overflowed some internal buffer on amiboot-5.6, I
then attempted the same command line with amiboot-6.0 (I had found that
somewhere on the net a while back). Unfortunately, it too would not boot.
Linux/m68k Amiga Bootstrap version 6.0snapshot May 11 2005
Copyright 1993,1994 by Mamiash Macdonald and Greg Harp
Amiga 3000 CPU: 68040 with 68882 FPU, ECS
Command line is 'root=/dev/sdb1 video=amifb:vga devtmpfs.mount=1 BOOT_IMAGE=vmlinuz-3.2.0-2-amiga'
Vertical Blank Frequency: 60Hz
Power Supply Frequency: 60Hz
EClock Frequency: 715909Hz
Found 4 AutoConfig Devices
Device 0: addr = 0x00e90000
Device 1: addr = 0x00ea0000
Device 2: addr = 0x40000000
Device 3: addr = 0x00eb0000
Found 2 Blocks of Memory
Block 0: 0x07c00000 to 0x08000000 (4096K)
Block 1: 0x40000000 to 0x48000000 (131072K)
2048 of CHIP memory
The kernel will be located at 07c00000
Decompressing vmlinuz-3.2.0-2-amiga
| 0 gunzip / 32768 file
I would upgrade my machine to something subequent to etch - but don't
know how to do so via network, and I'm not debian literate too boot.
Pointers to purchasable install cds would be appreciated (if they exist).
or a HOWTO on network install.
Thanks in advance,
jerry
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