Re: Version(s) working with BlizzardPPC

[Andreas <aw...@sw...>]

Hi Kulwant

On Sat, 2003-12-13 at 17:08, Kulwant Bhogal wrote:

> Yes, but I haven't been through all of the old kernels yet. I'm hoping to
> give that a go this weekend. Will report my findings. 
> 
> > Btw., which kernel did you use to install the system?
> 
> 2.4.20.

Interesting. Since it fails during writing to the harware clock, this
means you never got past the first phase of the installation?

> > Maybe you want to turn off the /etc/init.d/hwclock.sh script to
> > temporarily stop the system from writing to the clock registers during
> > startup/shutdown. It gets called in rcS.d as well as in rc6.d if I'm
> > right.
> 
> Haven't got a clue how to do that - not even where to start. Could you post
> step by step instructions please?

Hmm, since normal booting doesn't work for you, boot with the install
image:

 1) go directly to the step of the installer where you can mount
partitions. There, you choose your root partition. IIRC it gets mounted
under /target/.

 2) go to the step where you can open a shell. Then
     # cd /target/
     # cd etc/rcS.d/
     # mv S50hwclock.sh offS50hwclock.sh

    "S50hwclock.sh" is in fact a link to "../init.d/hwclock.sh".

     To prevent troubles during shutdown, do something similar for
rc6.d:

     # cd ../rc6.d/
     # mv K25hwclock.sh offK25hwclock.sh

BTW: I have no idea why it tries to write to the clock at boot time at
all.

If it doesn't work yet, you could also rename the hwclockfirst.sh call,
although it doesn't seem to write to the clock.

     # cd etc/rcS.6/
     # mv S18hwclockfirst.sh offS18hwclockfirst.sh

But I would heavily advise against it, because then nothing is setting
the system clock (system clock != hardware clock), which could lead to
strange behaviour of the system.

-- 
Best wishes,
Andi