Re: powermac 9500 ethernet and 2.4 booting problems
On Tue, Sep 17, 2002 at 07:59:25AM +0200, Michel Lanners wrote:
> On 16 Sep, this message from Chris Tillman echoed through cyberspace:
> > On Mon, Sep 16, 2002 at 06:32:04PM -0400, Andy Bastien wrote:
> >> Second question: I can't boot 2.4.anything. I've tried both Debian's
> >> 2.4.18-powermac and several iterations built from the 2.4.19 source,
> >> and they all do the same thing. I never get out of MacOS; after
> >> clicking on the "Linux" button in BootX (either app or extension), the
> >> hard drive runs for a few seconds, and the system locks up. My
> >> favorite theory is that the Imagine 128 video card is at fault; can
> >> anyone verify or discount this? I've tried all sorts of combinations
> >> of frame buffer settings, with and without "Force video settings" and
> >> "No video driver" in BootX. Other than the two ethernet cards that
> >> I've mentioned there is nothing but the onboard SCSI and ethernet in
> >> the system (and both of those seem to work well enough).
> >
> > I tried with my 9500. The video card is an ATI Mach64 GX, but I get
> > similar results. With linux.bin from the new-powermac folder, which is
> > kernel-image-2.4.18-newpmac, it doesn't boot. With the linux.bin from
> > the powermac folder (2.2.20), it does. With kernel-image-2.4.18-powerpc,
> > it boots but the video isn't driven; I can ssh in but the blackened
> > MacOS startup logo is still displayed on the tube (using the BootX
> > extension at startup). I don't see any video errors in the dmesg log,
> > though.
> >
> > The kernel-image-2.4.18-powerpc also does not have hfs compiled in.
> >
> > Neither kernel-image-2.4.16-newpmac nor kernel-image-2.4.19-powerpc
> > would boot.
>
> Are the configs of these kernels available? We should check whether they
> have everything neeeded for BootX booting compiled-in. AFAICT the only
> option related to BootX is:
>
> CONFIG_BOOTX_TEXT=y
>
> This is from my 2.4.19-presomething kernel that _does_ boot my 7600 with
> BootX.
That would explain that part. The config for the 2.4.16 doesn't have
BOOTX in it, while the 2.4.19 says
CONFIG_BOOTX_TEXT is not set
The 2.4.19 was obtained from the Debian archive using
apt-get kernel-image-xxx
I reverted the config for boot-floppies back to 2.4.18 for now.
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