SUCCESS!! Was Re: Mac 7200 (PPC) sees Promise controller.. BUT NO DRIVES
My box sees the drives now!!
Now, why can't I get RTC to work?
On Sat, 12 Apr 2003, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> On Sat, 2003-04-12 at 19:59, Jessica Blank wrote:
> > Interesting notes:
> >
> > init=/bin/sh DOES get me to a shell! And everything works fine.
> >
> > HOWEVER: Booting WITHOUT init=/bin/sh (even with the 601 bug thingy turned
> > on, which I really doubted would solve the problem anyhow), I get the same
> > problem... oh, and for some reason the keyboard is also screwed up.
> > Instead of:
>
> The keyboard problem is a config problem as well. Either you enabled
> ADB keycodes and are using linux keycodes, or the opposite.
>
> ADB keycodes is deprecated now.
>
> > Setting the System Clock using the Hardware Clock as reference...
>
> So the problem is really with the real time clock, or with the
> Cuda driver. It works fine on the 8500 I have here (approximately
> same hardware), though. Can you disable both CONFIG_RTC and
> CONFIG_PPC_RTC ? That will prevent sync'ing the clock but should
> allow it to boot.
>
> Also, is your kernel compile with CONFIG_SMP ? (I beleive it isn't
> but still...)
>
> Ben.
>
> > (and there she hangs)
> >
> > On Sat, 12 Apr 2003, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> >
> > > On Sat, 2003-04-12 at 17:28, Jessica Blank wrote:
> > >
> > > > > Make sure you have CONFIG_PPC_RTC and _not_ CONFIG_RTC and let me
> > > > > know. If the kernel tries to access the legacy RTC chip on the ISA
> > > > > bus, it will hang.
> > > >
> > > > Yeah, that's how I did it.
> > > >
> > > > Actually, I was currently trying (just for grins and giggles) to compile
> > > > it with BOTH. (ctrl-Cs that one.. thanks for the warning).
> > > >
> > > > Point is, why is the box going to runlevel 0 or 6 in the first place?
> > > > Those are the only runlevels on my box where it runs the RTC scripts... :/
> > >
> > > I never really bothered about the init scripts, but it always
> > > run that script for me as well when booting to level 2...
> > >
> > > > I am currently trying my umpteenth 2.4.20-ben10 kernel compile, this time
> > > > with the workaround for 601 bugs (my box has a 601 processor) enabled.
> > > > However, I doubt that will fix it, since I didn't need to enable it for
> > > > plain old stock 2.4.20 to boot :/
> > > >
> > > > Is there anything I can provide to you to help?
> > >
> > > Well, afaik, this kernel works on 7200... so it's difficult to say
> > > remotely what's up. Tried booting with init=/bin/sh to see if you
> > > get a prompt at all ?
> > >
> > > Ben.
> > >
> > >
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> Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
>
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