Cannot boot any cd/floppy/kernel on OF prep machine

2004-06-03 Thread Jerome Walter
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Re: Cannot boot any cd/floppy/kernel on OF prep machine

2004-06-03 Thread Jerome Walter
Sven Luther wrote: On Thu, Jun 03, 2004 at 03:09:53PM +0900, Jerome Walter wrote: I am currently trying to install a Woody on an Bull Estrella 300 machine, running a Prep Motorola 604e Utah processor (/proc/cpuinfo) and OpenFirmware. Having also an Estrella 200 running fine with it (Estrella

Re: Cannot boot any cd/floppy/kernel on OF prep machine

2004-06-03 Thread Jerome Walter
Sven Luther wrote: On Thu, Jun 03, 2004 at 04:34:17PM +0900, Jerome Walter wrote: Sven Luther wrote: Sorry, i won't snip dmesg ... Huh ? i think you reached the limit of my english knowledge with this one. Perhaps because it is not english... I got used to [snip] parts of too

Re: Cannot boot any cd/floppy/kernel on OF prep machine

2004-06-03 Thread Jerome Walter
Sven Luther wrote: On Thu, Jun 03, 2004 at 06:35:01PM +0900, Jerome Walter wrote: Ok, i have it booting by tftp, i found a db9/db25 adapter to plug a serial console. Now how do i specify the console thing ? if i set file to be downloaded as 'vmlinuz console=ttyS0,tty0' the space i

Re: Cannot boot any cd/floppy/kernel on OF prep machine

2004-06-04 Thread Jerome Walter
Jerome Walter wrote: Sven Luther wrote: BTW, i found a kernel which is working quite fine on an rs/6000 page. The author patched it and made a perl script so that we could change the boot parameters with no difficulty and i have both serial and console working with this one. Page is http

Re: Cannot boot any cd/floppy/kernel on OF prep machine

2004-06-04 Thread Jerome Walter
Sven Luther wrote: On Fri, Jun 04, 2004 at 11:12:57AM +0900, Jerome Walter wrote: Sven Luther wrote: On Thu, Jun 03, 2004 at 06:35:01PM +0900, Jerome Walter wrote: [snip] BTW, i found a kernel which is working quite fine on an rs/6000 page. Do you also have the .config file for it

Re: Cannot boot any cd/floppy/kernel on OF prep machine

2004-06-07 Thread Jerome Walter
Meelis Roos wrote: controller though. I don't know about an fbdev driver for the cirrus logic, and am not sure we include the vga console. That said, a serial GU> GU> The Cirrus Logic should be supported by clgen. Used to work on PReP a long time GU> ago. VGA console works fine on my Motoro

Re: Cannot boot any cd/floppy/kernel on OF prep machine

2004-06-07 Thread Jerome Walter
Sven Luther wrote: On Sun, Jun 06, 2004 at 12:32:35PM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: On Thu, 3 Jun 2004, Sven Luther wrote: On Thu, Jun 03, 2004 at 04:34:17PM +0900, Jerome Walter wrote: 00:12.0 VGA compatible controller: Cirrus Logic GD 5446 pcnet and sym53c8xx drivers are included

Re: Kernel panic

2004-06-21 Thread Jerome Walter
Jens Schmalzing wrote: Thanks for the advice. How do I make an initrd? Use the mkinitrd command from the initrd-tools package. Make sure you configure your bootloader to actually use the initrd. Hi, As we are to deal with the question: how to make a kernel including the initrd ? I am try

Re: Booting installer on RS/6000 43p-140

2004-07-12 Thread Jerome Walter
quot; with both cd and netboot vmlinuz-prep.initrd. Is there a reason for it to display this on the serial console and not the following ? For memory, my machine is a Bull Estrella 300 (Prep Utah PowerStack II Pro4000 to /proc/cpuinfo and has OpenFirmware). Regards, Jerome Walter

Re: Booting installer on RS/6000 43p-140

2004-07-12 Thread Jerome Walter
Sven Luther wrote: On Mon, Jul 12, 2004 at 04:04:13PM +0900, Jerome Walter wrote: Sven Luther wrote: http://people.debian.org/~luther/debian-installer/daily-powerpc-built/daily/powerpc/netboot/vmlinuz-prep.initrd Still not working on my old Prep. None of them ? None. I get stuck to

Re: Booting installer on RS/6000 43p-140

2004-07-12 Thread Jerome Walter
Sven Luther wrote: On Mon, Jul 12, 2004 at 05:40:38PM +0900, Jerome Walter wrote: [snip] I get stuck to "Now booting kernel..." with both cd and netboot vmlinuz-prep.initrd. [snip] Are you able to netboot ? IF so i could prepare you a custom kernel or something, and you could se

Modules missing in vmlinux-prep.initrd (netboot)

2004-08-30 Thread Jerome Walter
Before filing a bug report, i am calling for advice: do i miss something ? Is there something i need to do to get the modules ? And by the way, as i am writing, how can i get expert mode from netboot installation ? TIA to all people that give me advice. Best regards, Jerome Walter -BEGI

Re: Modules missing in vmlinux-prep.initrd (netboot)

2004-08-30 Thread Jerome Walter
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Sorry Sven, i missed the "reply to all" :/ Sven Luther wrote: | On Mon, Aug 30, 2004 at 03:50:39PM +0900, Jerome Walter wrote: | |>-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- |>Hash: SHA1 |> |>Hi, |> |> |>Ok, Sven, i got you