On Sun, 21 Feb 2010 04:29:47 -0500 Daniel Clark <dcl...@pobox.com> wrote:
> Karl Goetz wrote: > > On Tue, 16 Feb 2010 21:28:24 +0200 > > Lars Nooden <lars.cura...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > >> The installation process seems to be a bit different for the > >> Yeeloong than for the FuLoong. > >> > >> Using initrd and vmlinux from this address: > >> > >> http://archive.gnewsense.org/gnewsense-metad/installer/current/mipsel/loongson/netboot/ > >> > >> The first three steps are the same when installing from USB > >> > >> enter pmon > >> load (usb0,0)/boot/vmlinux-2.6.31.6-libre1 > >> initrd (usb0,0)/boot/initrd.gz > >> > >> However, on the Yeeloong, the following works but on the FuLoong, > >> it seems to freeze up: > >> > >> g console=tty no_auto_cmd > >> > >> How should the netboot install proceed on the FuLong? > >> > >> Regards > >> /Lars > > > > we don't support it. afaik you need to rebuild linux (although > > perhaps the .32 or .33 will run on fuloong). > > kk > > They both will, but afaik .32 needs to be compiled for it > specifically; .33 might do it in a nicer way (since support got > upstream instead of being a seperate branch hack.) Should be obvious > from the "make menuconfig" menus. > > Lars - Please update with what you get done with this; I'll be hacking > on it a bunch myself when my Lemote order gets to me in a few weeks. If it turns out to be installable on fuloong, perhaps a wiki page, or updates to the yeeloong wiki page would be handy. > Note that there is a blob in PMON to do some VGA initialization; we're > trying to get that removed - it's unclear at this point if that will > stop VGA from working altogether or only stop PMON stuff from > displaying on the screen; but Fuloong has a serial port, so should be > useful as a server even without any VGA output. if it can be removed/zeroed and still have a working system, that would be really handy. kk -- Karl Goetz, (Kamping_Kaiser / VK5FOSS) Debian contributor / gNewSense Maintainer http://www.kgoetz.id.au No, I won't join your social networking group
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