Re: VME PPC booting (was: boot-floppies 3.0.21 for testing)
Maitland Bottoms <bottoms@debian.org> writes:
> Hmm. I have troubles with my Motorola MVME23xx card. When the
> bootfull.bin goes into the boot floppies Debian installation session,
> the serial console output only has short bursts of a few characters at
> a time, and it takes an unacceptably long time to paint a dialog
> screen.
>
> I notice some instructions about PReP "bootargs". Setting that in the
> firmware does not seem to be noticed by the Linux kernel when it
> boots.
>
> I had to compile my own kernel for the MVME 23xx - it and some notes
> on its use are at:
>
> http://people.debian.org/~bottoms/Debian-VME-PPC.html
>
> That information might find its way into the Release notes, or
> Installation guide, or as appropriate for getting Debian installed on
> PReP style VME cards.
>
> I joined the debian-boot mailing list, maybe I can help with some more
> testing...
Ok, well, you need to file a bug against whatever kernel-image-*
package MVME is using. This is what we build against:
ifeq "$(architecture)" "powerpc"
kver := 2.2.20
pcmcia_kver := 2.2.20-pmac
apuskver := 2.2.10
# NewWorld powermacs really need a 2.4 kernel
kver_newpmac := 2.4.16
endif
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...Adam Di Carlo..<adam@onshore-devel.com>...<URL:http://www.onshored.com/>
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