Re: Can't startx

[Matthias M. <dj...@gm...>]

Am 24.08.2006 um 13:22 schrieb Andreas:

> Hello,
> last weekend I was sitting infront of my AMIGA and gave the 2.6  
> kernel a
> try. It failed, because bootstrap canceled with a message, that it  
> can not
> allocate memory. I than compressed the kernel image with gzip. With  
> that, I
> guess bootstrap gave the same message after decompressing the  
> kernel. Don't
> remeber exactly what was printed out.

Yep, thats the point, you need a new bootstrap.


> So far I have no working kernel found. I tried several kernels in  
> the past
> and I remeber that several different problems occured. Maybe, if  
> one of you
> has a working APUS system, could you please tell me, what files you  
> are
> using too boot it. What problems did you have and how did you solve  
> them?
> Any hint is welcome at the current stage. I could then do some more  
> advanced
> testing with this info.
> I remember that certain drivers sometimes caused the boot process  
> to halt,
> like SCSI driver. Are there options available to disable such  
> drivers for
> testing?
> I have a A4000T (Amiga Technologies), CSPPC (DCE),  
> Cybervision64/3D, Ariadne
> 2, Algor. There are 8MB of RAM on the mainboard and 64MB on the  
> CSPPC. I
> have WarpUP installed. If you need more info, feel free to ask, but  
> response
> time from my side will unfortunately be quite slow, since I  
> currently see my
> AMIGA only once a month or so :-(.

On my machine, I have also an A4000T with CSPPC/CVPPC, I can only run  
2.4.20 (the latest 2.4.27 won't boot here; getting error on scsi).  
Note that the kernel won't boot correctly if you have any Flash card  
in your Amiga like Algor/Algor Pro or Kickflash. Remove your Algor  
and it should work.

Cheers,
Matthias