Re: bootfloppies on DECstation 5000/125

2002-03-06 Thread Karsten Merker
On Fri, Feb 22, 2002 at 06:16:24PM +0100, Jan-Benedict Glaw wrote: [boot-floppies showing crashes on MIPS R3000-based machines] It *will* fail. R3k needs a little patch to ./include/asm-mips/pgtable.h to successfully handle swap access. Otherwise, the kernel will Oops in seconds:-( I have

Re: bootfloppies on DECstation 5000/125

2002-02-22 Thread Florian Lohoff
On Thu, Feb 21, 2002 at 06:29:01PM +0100, Jan-Benedict Glaw wrote: Another question: install-info (or Perl?) is still broken. Any hints on debugging this? update-menus is broken - c++ exeption handling. We had a perl bug once which seemed to be R4600 based - It seemed to have disappeared.

Re: bootfloppies on DECstation 5000/125

2002-02-22 Thread Jan-Benedict Glaw
On Fri, 2002-02-22 17:37:56 +0100, Karsten Merker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Thu, Feb 21, 2002 at 05:43:48PM +0100, Karsten Merker wrote: On Thu, Feb 21, 2002 at 03:46:57PM +0100, Jan-Benedict Glaw wrote: Well, I've now compiled my own kernel (linux_2_4) with

Re: bootfloppies on DECstation 5000/125

2002-02-21 Thread Jan-Benedict Glaw
On Wed, 2002-02-20 15:16:53 +0100, Jan-Benedict Glaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Tue, 2002-02-19 19:58:56 +0100, Karsten Merker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Tue, Feb 19, 2002 at 06:21:59PM +0100, Jan-Benedict Glaw wrote: I've just

Re: bootfloppies on DECstation 5000/125

2002-02-20 Thread Jan-Benedict Glaw
On Tue, 2002-02-19 19:58:56 +0100, Karsten Merker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Tue, Feb 19, 2002 at 06:21:59PM +0100, Jan-Benedict Glaw wrote: I've just tested the boot floppies. System is a DS 5000/125 with serial keyboard LK401AA attached, 16MB RAM. 1.

Re: bootfloppies on DECstation 5000/125

2002-02-20 Thread Florian Lohoff
On Wed, Feb 20, 2002 at 03:16:53PM +0100, Jan-Benedict Glaw wrote: tcsetpgrp failed, errno=9 Hmmm - terminal/console stuff man tcsetpgrp How does the box die - Does it still receive interrupts ? Ethernet/ping ? Flo -- Florian Lohoff [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: bootfloppies on DECstation 5000/125

2002-02-20 Thread Jan-Benedict Glaw
On Wed, 2002-02-20 18:24:49 +0100, Florian Lohoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Wed, Feb 20, 2002 at 03:16:53PM +0100, Jan-Benedict Glaw wrote: tcsetpgrp failed, errno=9 Hmmm - terminal/console stuff man tcsetpgrp Well, I know this - but who _uses_ this?

Re: bootfloppies on DECstation 5000/125

2002-02-20 Thread Florian Lohoff
On Wed, Feb 20, 2002 at 07:29:41PM +0100, Jan-Benedict Glaw wrote: man tcsetpgrp Well, I know this - but who _uses_ this? I guess ncurses, glibc, busybox, getty, login, bash, ssh, telnet, telnetd. Flo -- Florian Lohoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] +49-5201-669912 Nine

bootfloppies on DECstation 5000/125

2002-02-19 Thread Jan-Benedict Glaw
Hi! I've just tested the boot floppies. System is a DS 5000/125 with serial keyboard LK401AA attached, 16MB RAM. 1. Booting via graphical console (PMAGB-B) results in an Oops in default_be_board_handler(). 2. Booting via serial line, I get as far as formatting the freshly partitioned 3.1GB

Re: bootfloppies on DECstation 5000/125

2002-02-19 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Karsten Merker [EMAIL PROTECTED] [20020219 19:58]: Martin, what is your experience with your 5000/125 after we got your problem with the cursor keys resolved? Unlike Jan-Benedict, I have been able to format my root partition (500 MB) without any problems. My overall experience wasn't much

Re: bootfloppies on DECstation 5000/125

2002-02-19 Thread Jan-Benedict Glaw
On Tue, 2002-02-19 19:58:56 +0100, Karsten Merker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Tue, Feb 19, 2002 at 06:21:59PM +0100, Jan-Benedict Glaw wrote: [Freeze during HDD I/O] The system freezes here, without an Oops:-( Looks like the kernel has a general problem on

Re: bootfloppies on DECstation 5000/125

2002-02-19 Thread Jan-Benedict Glaw
On Tue, 2002-02-19 20:17:15 +0100, Martin Michlmayr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]: * Karsten Merker [EMAIL PROTECTED] [20020219 19:58]: Martin, what is your experience with your 5000/125 after we got your problem with the cursor keys resolved? exact message here).