Re: 53c770 driver

[Michel <dae...@st...>]

Michael Nielsen wrote:
> 
> fh...@at... wrote:
> 
> > In <200...@ge...>, on 11/29/00
> >    at 02:00 AM, "Michael Nielsen" <mi...@an...> said:
> >
> > >This message was sent from Geocrawler.com by "Michael Nielsen"
> > ><mi...@an...>
> >
> > >I have been trying to test the driver, but
> > >unfortunately I seem to have some problems in
> > >booting the kernel that contains this code
> > >2.4.0-test?? (aka unstable).
> >
> > Most likely the kernel will not boot with the driver but
> > I would be interested in the dmesg output.
> >
> > What you have to do is put debug=mem in  your boothack
> > command line and install the AmigaOS dmesg command.
> > Sorry I don't know where it is; possibley Aminet or sourceforge. Then boot
> > APUS.  Let the system hang for a bit.  Reboot and
> > open a CLI and type dmesg.  You should see some gibberish from the kernel.
> > You can save the message to a file by typing
> > dmesg > dmesg.txt.  Then mail the dmesg.txt file to me.
> 
> I will do that, though I'm using the version that has a bootmesg program
> available, it seems to pick up som gibberish, which I cannot understand..   
> Is there any guide to what this acutally means ??

It's a code which shows how far the boot process proceeds before the kernel
starts. It was used in the beginning of Linux/APUS when the kernel didn't come
up all of the time.

I've now uploaded dmesg to the Boothack module so you can grab it if you don't
have it already.


> - I am intending to involve my self with the apus project, once I get up to
> speed on the kernel source..

That would be great, what area(s) would you like to work on?


> It really bugs me that I cant get the unstable one to boot :-<, I've
> recompiled and build kernels 100's of times in the last year, but the APUS
> one seems to dislike me :-<.

Post the problems you encounter on this list.


Michel


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