Re: Version(s) working with BlizzardPPC

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

Hi Kulwant

On Sun, 2003-12-14 at 04:20, Kulwant Bhogal wrote:

> > 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.
> 
> Well, I did try that (because all else before that had failed) and I got: 
> 
> Congratulations, You have successfully installed 

Yeah, so we've got one step further! :)

> and after the message about how to revisit the setup process (by running
> /usr/sbin/base-config) I got another kernel panic: 
> 
> Loading /etc/console/boottime.kmap.gz
> 
> kernel access of bad area pc c00dca04 lr c00de9f8 address 70 tsk hwclock/230
> task = c65dc000[230] 'hwclock'
                       ^^^^^^^^^

So you really seem to have a major problem with the hw clock!

Is the contact between the ppc board and the motherboard ok? Where does
the clock actually reside (motherboard or ppc)? Is it some strange
non-standard chip?

> mm-> pgd c6e2c000 last syscall: 6
> 
> GPR00:   00001072  C65DDE10   C65DC000   00000001   00008000  00000000
> C6E09D80    C980000
> 
> GPR08:  0000000B   00000000   C0180000  C67EC08C   2422
> 
> and then it rebooted before I could write down the rest of it.

Can you add -d debug to your bootstrap line, and after the kernel oops
reboot run dmesg > ram:output in the shell (amigaOS side)? Post the
output here. I hope some of the kernel gurus can do something about it.

> So I guess you were right about it leading to strange behaviour of the
> system :-)

Well, this wasn't particularly what I've been thinking about w.r.t.
strange behaviour, because it seemed to crash again during an attempt to
read the hwclock.

> But it appears to be the furthest I have got so far :-)

Well, the goal would be to run, not just crash every other minute..

-- 
Best wishes,
Andi