Re: Booting Kernel on Amiga 3000
Hi Finn,
On Fri, Sep 9, 2022 at 9:24 AM Finn Thain <fthain@linux-m68k.org> wrote:
> On Fri, 9 Sep 2022, Stephen Walsh wrote:
> > Here's a test of kernel 5.16, intrid 5.16. It exited to busybox saying
> > it couldn’t find /dev/sda2 (root fs)
> >
> > ...
> > [ 116.980000] scsi 1:0:0:0: tag#16 abort command
> > [ 117.000000] scsi 1:0:0:0: tag#16 New error handler wants HOST reset, cmd b22a6b61
> > [ 117.000000]
> > [ 117.010000] scsi 1:0:0:0: tag#16 CDB: Inquiry 12 00 00 00 24 00
>
> That seems to be an unrelated issue. To pursue that one, I would
> cross-compile a monolithic Amiga kernel from kernel.org source and use git
> bisect to find the regression (assuming it's a regression). But not
> everyone is comfortable building Linux from source and even if you were
> the early crash would prevent you from debugging the scsi issue anyway. So
> you need a way to boot 5.19 without oops. Can you achieve that by altering
> the RAM configuration?
A monolithic Amiga kernel does not need an initrd, so it won't suffer
from the early crash.
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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