Re: Problems booting Debian on new hardware

[Alan B. <A.L...@lb...>]

hi,

> Few days ago I bought "new" PPC board (sig ;)) and I wanted to launch
> Debian but it failed :( I get strange kernel opses and panics and I don't
> know what to do. The main differences beetween new and the old 
> board are: SCSI (old one hadn't),
> RAM 192MB vs 80MB (I have 160MB of swap only), 68k - 040 vs 060. I've got
> no SCSI devices connected so far. 
> I removed "noscsi" from bootstrap line but I'm not sure if I should
> configure something at Blizzard SCSI menu (the one which appears after

add 'nobats' to your bootstrap line. also, use kernel 2.4.4 or 2.4.13

> hiting ESC at startup). The problem is that I even couldn't install Debian
> booting the "root.bin" image from potato CD (with more than 64MB of RAM).
> At the moment I have 3 different SIMMs: 128MB, 64MB, 16MB. I noticed that
> the more ram I have the better are chances to crash. With 64MB I can work
> for a while, with 80MB or 192MB it probably won't boot (I also removed

what speed do you have set on the board ('escape menu')? what speeds are 
the SIMMs. you are better off using matched sizes and speeds!

> bootstrap? BTW: what ammount of RAM is known to work fine on BlizzPPC
> running Debian??

i have 96 (64+32, same speed ;-) ), other have just 64, others have 128Mb.

IIRC, the Blizzard can only handle 128Mb maximum!!

> so far. My candidates for bad behavior of Debian: SCSI - something
> misconfigured, RAM - amount of maybe, RAM speed rather not, 160MB of swap
> vs 192MB of RAM? Any comments, ideas?

your SCSI properly terminated too?

alan