Re: Updated Debian Ports installation images 2025-12-06
Hi Christian,
On Fri, 2025-12-26 at 11:10 +0100, Christian Groessler wrote:
> I still have boot problems with this latest image. See [1] for my old
> email about that.
>
> Not with this new (2025-12-06) version, but already since some versions
> before, it became worse. In that I don't see any kernel messages after
> the boot loader jumped to it, neither on VGA nor on serial console.
You should ask Helge Deller for advise as he is the expert for Linux on PA-RISC
and also the upstream maintainer of the PA-RISC Linux kernel code.
> I haven't come around to build installation media myself as mentioned in
> the thread [1].
Building your own installation media is a bit involved, here is an outdated guide for it:
https://wiki.debian.org/PortsDocs/CreateDebianInstallerImages
I'm not 100% sure what the best approach for building debian-installer with your own
custom kernel is. But I guess you could just swap the kernel image in the installer
images tarball with your own one and maybe unpack the debian-installer initrd.gz and
replace the modules directory in /lib/modules/.
> But now I want to tackle that problem again (no kernel messages) in
> order to finally have Linux running on my C3750 art some point in time.
> I want to boot my test kernels over the network.
>
> My questions are:
>
> - which kernel version and config to use? I've tried latest Linus
> version and 'generic-64bit_defconfig', but this gives compilation errors.
What errors are you seeing? The vanilla kernel should build fine.
Here is a quick guide on how to cross-build a Linux kernel for SPARC, the same applies
to PA-RISC, just download the corresponding toolchain for hppa instead of sparc64:
https://lists.debian.org/debian-sparc/2025/10/msg00103.html
> - how would I build a bootable LIF file after I'm able to compile a
> kernel? In the first step without userland, just to see the kernel messages.
No idea. Ask Helge ;-).
Adrian
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