BTW,
I am writing the procedure to install RH 8.0 without needing to remove the HD from the Cobalt. Do you mind if I put in this procedure the link to your modified kernels?
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From: Duncan Laurie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [cobalt-developers] RedHat won't reboot Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2003 09:21:37 -0700
Francisco Jorge wrote:Hello,
I have installed RedHat 8.0 on a Cobalt Raq3. It seems to work fine, except for two things:
1) Issuing the 'reboot' command shuts down all services, etc. but then it shows the message "Rebooting system..." and stalls there. I have to manually switch off the appliance in order to reboot it.
2) The display does not work. I have installed the display packages from the Cobalt Restoration CD, but when I try to show something on the display I get this message:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# lcd-write "Red Hat Linux on" " a Cobalt Qube 3" LCD is not present
I think both problems are related with the kernel compilation I have maken, since I used the config file that comes with RedHat.
Any ideas of what I am missing in order to make both functions work properly on the Cobalt?
You will need a patched kernel to get a few things working right, one of them is reboot because the RaQs do not have a standard PC BIOS. If you are interested I have some RH8 kernel RPMS that have been modified to add cobalt support. The binarys are here:
http://cobalt.iceblink.org/redhat/binary/
kernel-cobalt-III-2.4.18-24.8.0.i386.rpm # for RaQ 3, RaQ 4, Qube 3 kernel-cobalt-V-2.4.18-24.8.0.i386.rpm # for RaQ XTR, RaQ 550
This kernel includes the LCD driver necessary for the panel-utils package to work, but you will need to install the lcd device first:
mknod /dev/lcd c 10 156
There is more information on how these kernels were built as well as the required kernel patches available here:
http://cobalt.iceblink.org/redhat/build/readme.build
-duncan
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