help: wanabuild 7048-133 (PReP) boot floppies?
Gerhard Kroder wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> finally i'm trying to get woody on my 43P-133, using current boot disk
> set
[...]
> But during boot
> up from boot.bin floppy the system hangs in scsi timeouts, just short
> after "Now booting kernel".
[...]
> >SCSI host 0 abort (pid 0) timed out -resting
> >SCI bus is beeing reset for host 0 channel 0
> >ncr53c8xx_reset: pid 0 reset reset flags=2 serial_numbers=456 serial_number_at_timeout=456
OK, since nobody could help (is this worth a bug report or where else to
"complain", and if, is it release critical for ppc?), i'm thinking about
building bootfoppies on my own. But there are some things i don't know,
need some help. Esp. i'm not a developer, so lota things are not
familiar to me, though i know to programm C on linux a little and use
Debian for quite a while. Please be patient with me.
Some basic questions on this:
Neither Debian Install Manual for PPC nor IBM7248-HOWTO are very clear
about what happens at booting (from floppy). Both tell to use provided
disks. "carolina-image" IMHO just is a kernel to boot, which loads
rootfs from next floppy. Actually, what is the real boot-from-floppy
process, before loading kernel? Is a bootloader integrated, as with
i386?
(Why) is debian rescue floppy image not able to boot the systmen? What
is boot.bin floppy image for or doing?
Deb docs tell to use dd with bs=1024, IBM7248-HOWTO tells to use bs=36.
Somewher i read about bs=512. Which is right/better, is this critical at
all?
Ok, now something on building. Afaik i need to setup a "cross compiling
environment" to produce any of these boot-disks from my i386 woody. How
do i do this? There is a kind of HOWTO for this around, isn't? Pleas
give me a pointer. What files/sources do i need for building prep
bootdisks?
Any thing else to mention, things i'v forgotten?
Last, but not least, i gave carolina_bootimage_2.2.18_with_fb a try,
workes fine instead of boot.bin. Currently i try to continue install
process with root.bin... I'll give a report on that on boot-disk
mailinglist.
TIA
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MfG
Gehard Kroder
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