Re: Installation on Amiga 1200
Moin,
On Sat, Mar 21, 2015 at 11:32:17AM +0100, Sebastian Bergmann wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I recently dusted off my Amiga 1200 [1] and am now trying to get
> Linux to run on it.
>
> Thanks to Google, I came across a post [2] by Adrian Glaubitz that
> explains the installation of Debian. I followed the instructions but
> the m68k-base.tgz and vmlinuz-3.2.0-4-amiga files were no longer
> available at the URLs mentioned. I contacted Adrian off-list and got an
> immediate response (thanks again!) pointing me to [3].
>
> Using amiboot, I am able to boot the kernel. [4] is a video of the
> boot process. I am running into a kernel panic as the root filesystem
> cannot be found / mounted.
>
> This is probably due to the fact that I slightly deviated from the
> instructions: I did not create an affs partition on the same CompactFlash
> card on which I created the ext4 and swap partitions. That card only has
> these two partitions (see [5]). I copies amiboot as well as the kernel
> and initrd images to my Amiga's internal harddisk (also a CompactFlash
> card). Upon booting Linux, the CompactFlash card with the ext4 and
> swap partitions is in the CompactFlash reader that is attached via
> PCMCIA.
>
> Question (finally): does the setup I described above work? If so,
> what would be the correct argument for root=?
Call me old fashioned, but I prefer to read text over watching videos or
trying to figure out your bootargs from a photo.
According to the photo, your Linux partition is on sdc1 so you should use:
root=/dev/sd1
I assume that this was taken on a PC, so on the Amiga the harddisk may have
a different name, depends on how many disks you have on the system. If it is
the only (or first) disk, it should be sda1, if it is the second disk, its
sdb1, etc. Just try with a few different root arguments, or better, use
dmesg (and debug=mem as additional bootarg) to figure out the name of your
disk. Maybe you can catch it in the kernel output during bootup?
This is a little bit outdated, but you can still find dmesg here, I think:
https://people.debian.org/~cts/debian-m68k/etch/
> PS: What a great way of introducing myself to the list :-( First my
> mail client sends an unfinished version of the mail to the list and
> then my GPG plugin comes up with the brilliant idea to encrypt the
> mail using my public key.
With GPG you are on the right track, and I was already wondering if I had
lost my key...
Christian
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