Re: Debian on mac68k
On 10/27/16 5:11 PM, Finn Thain wrote:
>
> On Thu, 27 Oct 2016, Mac User wrote:
>
>>
>> My Mac IIfx hangs at the Penguin screen booting
>> "vmlinux-4.1.35-mac_scsi+" (same as
>> "vmlinux-4.1.35-mac_scsi-egret+").
>>
>
> Did you check that the Serial Switch control panel is in "compatible"
> mode, as per the Penguin docs?
Sorry, my mistake. Both kernels above boot on my IIfx with
the Serial Switch set to "compatible".
>
> Maybe the problem is my use of the kernel.org cross-compiler instead of my
> usual cross-compiler. Do any of the past v4.1.y builds from sourceforge
> still work on this Mac?
>
>> I tried booting "vmlinux-4.1.35-mac_scsi+" three times on my
>> LC III; two times there was a kernel panic, once it hung at the
>> "ABCFGHIJK" screen.
>
> Did you boot MacOS with extensions disabled? An intermittent failure like
> that is indicative of an unhandled interrupt.
>
> Please add "earlyprintk" to your kernel arguments. This will produce
> useful log messages which occur after "ABCFGHIJK", but which are lost if
> there is a crash before any other console becomes ready.
>
I'll try that on my LC III. My IIfx is temporarily offline (I'm
trying to get a SCSI JackHammer card to work, but it's not recognised
by Linux or A/UX (but that's another story).
-Stan
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