Re: Amiga4000 refuses to Debian! :-(

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Hi Bj=F6rn

Am Freitag, 04.07.03 um 20:17 Uhr schrieb Bj=F6rn Johansson:

>
> Hi!
>
> I'm having trouble booting up Debian here. I'm quite sure that
> there is something with my hardware which the APUS kernels
> don't like. After inserting the HighwayUSB I could still boot
> up Linux, but then it didn't work anymore. So what I did was
> that I turned off the computer, cleaned the fan on the ppc,
> but Debian still won't boot up.

I really doubt it's something about the fan. And if, the problem should=20=

kick in not right from the start, it needs some time heat up I guess.

Are you sure the contacts of the powerpc board to the motherboard are=20
ok, i.e. the card is sitting *really* good?? Most problems I had were=20
always caused by bad contacts of the ppc board! Some pushing did the=20
trick.

> Here's what dmesg says:
>
> Searching for SAVEKMSG magic...
> Found 879 bytes at 0x001e0010
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
> Memory BAT mapping: BAT2=3D64Mb, BAT3=3D32Mb, residual: 31Mb
> Total memory =3D 127MB; using 512kB for hash table (at c0300000)
> Linux version 2.4.18-apus (root@tibook) (gcc version 2.95.4 20011002=20=

> (Debian prerelease)) #1 Wed Sep
> 4 23:01:36 UTC 2002
> Amiga hardware found: [A4000] VIDEO BLITTER AUDIO FLOPPY A4000_IDE=20
> KEYBOARD MOUSE SERIAL PARALLEL
> A3000_CLK CHIP_RAM PAULA LISA ALICE_PAL ZORRO3
> On node 0 totalpages: 32640
> zone(0): 32640 pages.
> zone(1): 0 pages.
> zone(2): 0 pages.
> Kernel command line: root=3D/dev/hda10 video=3Dpm2fb:mode:1024x768-70=20=

> video=3Damifb:off 60nsram -d
> debug=3Dmem

Hmm, does your memory really do 60ns? And btw. just out of interest,=20
what is the video=3Damifb:off for?

> APUS: BATs=3D1, BUS=3D67MHz, RAM=3D60ns, PCI bridge=3D1
> time_init: decrementer frequency =3D 16.503453 MHz
> Console: colour dummy device 80x25
> last_ipl[2] already set to 2f, now 2d!
> 9706: -6 6 -6 6 -6 6 -6 6 -6 6 -6 6 -6 6 -6 2
> last_ipl[2] already set to 2f, now 2d!
> 42451: -6 6 -6 6 -6 6 -6 6 -6 6 -6 6 -6 6 -6 2
> <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<

Since it stops after the famous ide debug output, might it be something=20=

about the ide stuff? Try to go back to 2.4.17 maybe, this kernel always=20=

worked flawlessly with my A4000!

> Is there anyone here who has a clue on what's going on?
> Btw. I have ordered a new fan which I will be inserting
> next week, this might fix the current problem, but then
> again, it might not.

Well, as I've alredy said, I doubt it has something to do with the fan,=20=

But a new fan is always a good thing, since the original doesn't seem=20
to be really a quality one.

> Bj=F6rn Johansson "Debian rocks!!"

Well, we all know :)

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Best wishes,
Andi=