More on Netra X1
Hi all.
I just subscribed to the list. (that's why I'm starting a new thread :))
I recently put my bofhish hands on a NetraX1, and I'm trying to turn it
into the cheapest rackable linux box around :)
I scavenged thru this list archives and many others' ones and I wish to
thank all those who are working to make linux run on this little 64bit
machine.
I made some attempts to boot a kernel (using stuff from
http://auric.debian.org/~bcollins), and I'm in the same situation as
Adam McKenna was on 25 June.
Some days later, Richard Mortimer said he had a non networked Suse 7.1
up and running. He did not specified if Suse has a prebuiltin support in
installation or if he used Ben Collins' stuff.
Adam asked how did he get past the console problem and after some mails
I understood that Richard never had one. Am I right? (he said "I added
console=ttya as boot parameter" then David Miller said "There's no need
for that" then Richard replied "you're right, it works without").
It seems that as for 7 July also Ben Collins has no more problems except
from the network card.
I have to be 3 weeks late, since I'm still struck with the console
problem :)
I tried console=<many things> (ttya, ttyb, ttyS0)
I also guessed from other situation that /dev/console in the ram disk
root could be missed, but it's there (assuming that tftpboot.img
contains the same things as root.tar.gz (still speaking about Ben's
stuff)).
I also tried to boot with Ben's kernel but with an NFS root, but I did
not succeed (with linux.a-out it hangs on "Booting linux", with
tftpboot.img it ignores the nfsroot parameter)
Could anyone help me?
thanks.
--
. Simone Caldana - System and Network Manager at Vitaminic spa .
. simone.caldana@vitaminic.net http://simone.caldana.org .
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