On Tue, 1 Feb 2000, Mr. James W. Laferriere wrote:
>
> Hello All, can anyone point me in the right direction to
> creating a booting kernel on this beast . I have without
> difficulty created one for the as-200-4/100 that I have also
> & I followed the recipe I do for that one (minus diff. cpu) .
> I am also having on heck of a time with the builtin 21040 ether
> chip on this beast , the redhat generic uses the De4x5.c driver
> & I get ~50% packet losses with it . The same cable & hub work
> flawlessly with my sparc . My config is after my .sig .
> There is more below .
>
> Linux version 2.2.13-0.9 (root@pappy) (gcc egcs-2.91.66 19990314/Linux
> (egcs 1.1.2 release)) #3 Tue Feb 1 15:05:50 PST 2000
> Booting os Sable using machine vector Sable from SRM
> Command line: root=/dev/sda3 bootdevice=sda2 bootfile=vmlinux.gz
> t2_init: HBASE was 0x2000
> Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
> Calibrating delay loop...
>
> Solid stop at that point ( Halt or reset ) is all there is .
> The stock redhat does this .
>
> Linux version 2.2.13-0.9 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc egcs-2.91.66
> 19990314/Linux (egcs 1.1.2 release)) #3 Thu Dec 9 17:03:57
> Booting GENERIC on Sable using machine vector Sable from SRM
> Command line: root=/dev/sda3 bootdevice=sda2 bootfile=vmlinuz-2.2.13-0.9
> t2_init: HBASE was 0x2000
> Setting RTC_FREQ to 1024 Hz (25)
> Turning on RTC interupts .
> Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
> Calibrating delay loop... 545.26 BogoMIPS
> .........
>
> The only differances I see here is the messages about the
> RTC . But the rtc is enabled in the config (I know it is) .
> Tia, JimL
the RTC is enabled, but just the lightweight-version, i.e. without
rtc-interrupts (which would break mostly everything for smp).
This is the first time I read of a machine running only with full-RTC ... ?
with kind regards (mit freundlichem Grinsen),
Ruediger Oertel ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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does "DONT PANIC" give a hint ?
