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Re: Minimal powerpc kernel, miboot users please test (Was Re: modularized powerpc kernel)



On Wed, Oct 29, 2003 at 10:22:58AM +0100, Gaudenz Steinlin wrote:
> Am Mit, den 29.10.2003 schrieb Sven Luther um 08:17:
> > On Tue, Oct 28, 2003 at 08:41:18PM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote:
> > > On Fri, Oct 24, 2003 at 11:42:22AM +0200, Gaudenz Steinlin wrote:
> > > > Am Fre, den 24.10.2003 schrieb Chris Tillman um 08:15:
> > > > > On Thu, Oct 23, 2003 at 06:14:29PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > > 
> > > > > Aha! I got a working kernel. I guess I know more than I think I do :)
> > > > > 
> > > > > Here is the diff for the config, from your -small config. I really
> > > > > don't know which of these were essential, I ended up with only 59k
> > > > > free space on the floppy. But I guess that's enough.
> > > > For now it is. Altough I think most of the options you enabled are not
> > > > necessary. Could you test, if the keyboard also works for loading the
> > > > initrd when you only enable these two settings:
> > > > > -CONFIG_INPUT_KEYBDEV=m
> > > > > -CONFIG_INPUT_MOUSEDEV=m
> > > > > +CONFIG_INPUT_KEYBDEV=y
> > > > > +CONFIG_INPUT_MOUSEDEV=y
> > > 
> > > I tried several times to make kernels witha smaller set of options,
> > > but they all failed to boot, or else panicked after booting. I guess I
> > > got very lucky the first time. I'm sure we must not need IDE and SCSI
> > > drivers, but I didn't have any luck with the them left out.
> > 
> > BTW, the -powerpc kernel fails to boot on my pegasos system, but this is
> > probably due to devfs. Do you all run devfs with its cryptic device
> > paths, or is there some other trick to it ? The kernel stops after
> > having mounted the root partition, first it takes some time to do the
> > clock stuff, and finally times out, and then halts. I suppose this is
> > due because it doesn't find my non-devfs fstab or something such.
> Did you set CONFIG_DEVFS_MOUNT in your kernel config? You don't need
> that for debian-installer.

Yes, i did. Ok, i will remove it then.

> Normal installations should not run devfs at all (it will not be the
> default for sarge) or use devfsd which takes care of compatibility
> symlinks and permissions.

Ok, that sounds better, but was not my impression from previous
discussion on this.

BTW, i tried a new install today and the configure&mount partition
exhibited some strange (and buggy) behavior. I have 11 partitions, and i
choose the last partition to be ext3 formated and mounted as /. The / is
shown after the first partition though, and this is probably what
happened the last time and what made d-i start formating a partition it
should not. And then autopartkit overwrote my partition table. 

Friendly,

Sven Luther



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