Re: ANN: initial sparc potato boot floppies ready for testing
Eric Delaunay wrote:
>
> Well, my first try is not successful at all :((
>
> Hardware: SparcClassic (sun4m), 24MB RAM, 207MB harddisk.
>
> 1. booting from network (tftpboot.img)
> --------------------------------------
> Report: image downloaded, then messages are displayed very slowly (could be
> PROM console ?). However the kernel reports cgthree detected and switching to
> fb0 (85x39).
> ...
> Switching to colour frame buffer device 85x39
> fb0: cgthree at 0.60000000
> ...
> I further get some kernel oops but the welcome box from dbootstrap is
> displayed.
> ...
> Starting pid 6, console /dev/tty1: '/etc/init.d/rcS '
> Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 0xfdde0000
> tsk->mm->context = 00000002
> tsk->mm->pgd = f016f800
> ...
> Running /etc/init.d/rcS
> ...
> more oops
> ...
> /etc/init.d/rcS done.
> starting dbootstrap
Well, I investigated a bit more, and it seems the oopses are coming from all
accesses to /dev/ttyN in /etc/init.d/rcS. Since the video appears to be PROM
console, I guess VT is not initialized properly, so the oopses.
I tried a serial console install both on my sparc2 and my SparcClassic and
these oopses are not shown. But I cannot go further because I still cannot
mount an nfs partition.
Btw, I would want to build my own bootdisks based on your 2.2.14 kernel, so
where can I download these kernel-image packages?
Another potential pb:
# ll sparc-2.2.14-potato-boot/sun4c
total 1306
drwxr-xr-x 2 eric perso 1024 Jan 7 22:44 disks-1.44
-rw-r--r-- 1 eric perso 1328759 Jan 7 00:39 linux-a.out
^^^^^^^
should be a multiple of 4 if you want to netboot from it (eventually after you
will add rarp & nfsroot to the kernel).
Regards.
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Eric Delaunay | S'il n'y a pas de solution, c'est qu'il n'y
delaunay@lix.polytechnique.fr | a pas de problème. Devise Shadok.
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