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From: Florian Boelstler <lists@bo...> - 2009-06-28 15:11:17
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Hi, Carlos Castro schrieb: > Hello, > I'm available to test the new kernel on the PB 500 ppc. Good to know! So far the PowerBook 500 is also not properly integrated in the 2.6 branch yet. I will merge all relevant patches, which were done by Tobias on that topic as soon as one of my PowerBooks is at least partly booting. Cheers, Florian |
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From: Ben isnottelliong <ben@po...> - 2009-06-28 01:18:29
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Hi, PowerPup here. I finally got my 4gig hard drive to work with my 6100 mac. (Using the Drive Setup hack.) Anyway, I'm trying to get a linux 2.4 kernel to boot up in order to run the debian installer. Using BootX 1.1.3 (Only version I can get to work on my 6100.) I've been able to boot the 2.4.27 and 2.4.32 kernels. Only the 2.4.27 kernel will get passed the "arch:exit" when I try to boot with the ramdisk image, and then I get the following error: RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0 Freeing initrd memory: 2603k freed. VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) read only mount: Mounting none on /dev failed : No such device Kernel panic: Attempted to kill init! <0>Rebooting in 180 seconds.. My 6100 has a Newer Technologies NuPowr G3 card, with an AV video card. Using Mklinux bootloader. I've only got the debian woody installer mach kernel to boot. and it only ends up at a grey screen. Any ideas and help on a good combination of kernel and ramdisk image would be greatly appreciated. PowerPup. _________________________________________________________________ Lauren found her dream laptop. Find the PC that’s right for you. http://www.microsoft.com/windows/choosepc/?ocid=ftp_val_wl_290 |
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From: Joseph Adams <joeyadams3.14159@gm...> - 2009-06-28 06:42:15
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Florian Boelstler has been porting the 2.6 kernel to Nubus-based PowerMacs, his status being: >A default kernel configuration file, which I currently use for >development is found in the "configs" subdirectory in git [1] > >For the curious this is a short summary regarding the current state of >the kernel: >* Performa 5200 works (ide / framebuffer console / ADB OK, network might >work depending on your NIC) >* PowerBooks 1400 and 5300 crash during boot >* Support for miBoot and BootX bootloaders (miBoot tested only; support >for MkLinux missing) >* sysfs is currently disabled and therefore the partition of the root fs >has to be given in major/minor number format on the kernel cmdline, e.g. >root=3:6 > >Cheers, > > Florian If you are time-wealthy, you may be better off helping him test and such so we can get the 2.6 kernel and a recent Linux distro (e.g. Debian Lenny) working on the 6100. I'm in the same boat hardware-wise. I have a Power Macintosh 6100/66 with 72MB RAM and a G3 card. However, I really won't have time to tinker with it any time soon. Joey 2009/6/27 Ben isnottelliong <ben@...>: > Hi, PowerPup here. I finally got my 4gig hard drive to work with my 6100 > mac. (Using the Drive Setup hack.) > > Anyway, I'm trying to get a linux 2.4 kernel to boot up in order to run the > debian installer. > Using BootX 1.1.3 (Only version I can get to work on my 6100.) I've been > able to boot the 2.4.27 and 2.4.32 kernels. Only the 2.4.27 kernel will get > passed the "arch:exit" when I try to boot with the ramdisk image, and then I > get the following error: > > RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0 > Freeing initrd memory: 2603k freed. > VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) read only > mount: Mounting none on /dev failed : No such device > Kernel panic: Attempted to kill init! > <0>Rebooting in 180 seconds.. > > My 6100 has a Newer Technologies NuPowr G3 card, with an AV video card. > > Using Mklinux bootloader. I've only got the debian woody installer mach > kernel to boot. and it only ends up at a grey screen. > > Any ideas and help on a good combination of kernel and ramdisk image would > be greatly appreciated. > > > PowerPup. > > ________________________________ > Lauren found her dream laptop. Find the PC that’s right for you. > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Nubus-pmac-users mailing list > Nubus-pmac-users@... > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nubus-pmac-users > > |
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From: Florian Boelstler <lists@bo...> - 2009-06-28 12:00:39
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Joseph Adams schrieb: > Florian Boelstler has been porting the 2.6 kernel to Nubus-based > PowerMacs, his status being: > [...] > If you are time-wealthy, you may be better off helping him test and > such so we can get the 2.6 kernel and a recent Linux distro (e.g. > Debian Lenny) working on the 6100. Regarding the 2.6 kernel I didn't port the PDM-based stuff yet, since I don't own any of those machines. It's on my todo-list of course :) Judging from the interrupt-handler code this should be as "easy" as the Performa-related code. It's quite similar. I remember some other parts in the source related to PDM, which are currently commented out. > I'm in the same boat hardware-wise. I have a Power Macintosh 6100/66 > with 72MB RAM and a G3 card. However, I really won't have time to > tinker with it any time soon. I'll try to provide an initial version of the 2.6-based image soon. I'll be happy if users of the PDM-based Macs feed back some results. Cheers, Florian |
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From: Carlos Castro <cgecastro@gm...> - 2009-06-28 14:40:53
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Hello, I'm available to test the new kernel on the PB 500 ppc. Problems on the 2.4 kernel where missing interrupts (i think) would not find adb better scsi hard drive driver no built-in network card support support for video 640x400 thousnds of colors (not important) Cheers Carlos |
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From: Florian Boelstler <lists@bo...> - 2009-06-28 15:11:17
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Hi, Carlos Castro schrieb: > Hello, > I'm available to test the new kernel on the PB 500 ppc. Good to know! So far the PowerBook 500 is also not properly integrated in the 2.6 branch yet. I will merge all relevant patches, which were done by Tobias on that topic as soon as one of my PowerBooks is at least partly booting. Cheers, Florian |
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From: Florian Boelstler <lists@bo...> - 2009-06-28 11:50:09
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Ben isnottelliong schrieb: > Hi, PowerPup here. I finally got my 4gig hard drive to work with my 6100 > mac. (Using the Drive Setup hack.) > > Anyway, I'm trying to get a linux 2.4 kernel to boot up in order to run > the debian installer. > Using BootX 1.1.3 (Only version I can get to work on my 6100.) I've been > able to boot the 2.4.27 and 2.4.32 kernels. Only the 2.4.27 kernel will > get passed the "arch:exit" when I try to boot with the ramdisk image, > and then I get the following error: > > RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0 > Freeing initrd memory: 2603k freed. > VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) read only > mount: Mounting none on /dev failed : No such device > Kernel panic: Attempted to kill init! > <0>Rebooting in 180 seconds.. It seems that this kernel is built without devfs-support, which is required by the Debian Sarge installer. > My 6100 has a Newer Technologies NuPowr G3 card, with an AV video card. AFAIR there have been no reports from other users who own a 6100 with a G3 upgrade since the project focused on G3 upgrades. Did you build your own 2.4.32-based kernel? Or is it the ready-made miBoot ISO image / BootX kernel from the download section on the project site? The project page lists a special miBoot-version provided by Jeff Carr, which is supposed to work with the AV video card. (I just realized that all direct download links from our web space are broken. I'll try to put all bootloaders in the download section) > Using Mklinux bootloader. I've only got the debian woody installer mach > kernel to boot. and it only ends up at a grey screen. Not sure whether this helps, but did you try to make use of the "arielfb" frame buffer driver? Please see nubus-pmac.sf.net for some details. I guess most of the provided ISO images are hard-coded to video=nbpmacfb. It can be configured from the miBoot boot menu though. Cheers, Florian |
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From: Florian Boelstler <lists@bo...> - 2009-06-28 15:30:56
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I just was browsing through some 2.4 pre-releases, which never made it on the project site: http://nubus-pmac.sourceforge.net/nubus-pmac/test/2.4.35/ Unfortunately SourceForge seems to have turned directory listings turned off, so here are the direct links: http://nubus-pmac.sourceforge.net/nubus-pmac/test/2.4.35/Mach Kernel http://nubus-pmac.sourceforge.net/nubus-pmac/test/2.4.35/miboot-2.4.35.1.iso http://nubus-pmac.sourceforge.net/nubus-pmac/test/2.4.35/miboot.image http://nubus-pmac.sourceforge.net/nubus-pmac/test/2.4.35/miBoot-2.4.35.1-nfs-floppy.img http://nubus-pmac.sourceforge.net/nubus-pmac/test/2.4.35/vmlinux.gz May be it's worth a try on the 6100. Cheers, Florian |
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From: Guy A Paddock (RIT Student) <gap7472@ri...> - 2009-06-29 17:54:28
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If we add a .htaccess file to the root folder (http://nubus-pmac.sourceforge.net), we can get directory listings back (see the note at the bottom of the page). --Guy -----Original Message----- From: Florian Boelstler [mailto:lists@...] Sent: Sunday, June 28, 2009 11:30 AM To: For users of Linux on NuBus PowerMacs Subject: Re: [Nubus-pmac-users] installing debian sarge on 6100? I just was browsing through some 2.4 pre-releases, which never made it on the project site: http://nubus-pmac.sourceforge.net/nubus-pmac/test/2.4.35/ Unfortunately SourceForge seems to have turned directory listings turned off, so here are the direct links: http://nubus-pmac.sourceforge.net/nubus-pmac/test/2.4.35/Mach Kernel http://nubus-pmac.sourceforge.net/nubus-pmac/test/2.4.35/miboot-2.4.35.1 .iso http://nubus-pmac.sourceforge.net/nubus-pmac/test/2.4.35/miboot.image http://nubus-pmac.sourceforge.net/nubus-pmac/test/2.4.35/miBoot-2.4.35.1 -nfs-floppy.img http://nubus-pmac.sourceforge.net/nubus-pmac/test/2.4.35/vmlinux.gz May be it's worth a try on the 6100. Cheers, Florian ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------ _______________________________________________ Nubus-pmac-users mailing list Nubus-pmac-users@... https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nubus-pmac-users |
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From: Florian Boelstler <lists@bo...> - 2009-06-29 21:17:54
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Guy A Paddock (RIT Student) schrieb: > If we add a .htaccess file to the root folder > (http://nubus-pmac.sourceforge.net), we can get directory listings back > (see the note at the bottom of the page). Thanks for the pointer! We do have directory listings again, starting from the subdirectory "nubus-pmac": http://nubus-pmac.sourceforge.net/nubus-pmac/ Florian |
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From: Joseph Adams <joeyadams3.14159@gm...> - 2009-06-29 20:38:44
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I tested that iso on my 6100 (I actually copied the files off of it onto an external SCSI drive to avoid wasting a CD-R). After showing some juicy logging info when diagnostics is turned on (due to me coincidentally holding down command-shift-option-delete-5 to boot the external drive), it displays 3 tux logos indicating different boot options. By hitting the right arrow a few times, it shows that the Debian Sarge installer boot option is selected. After pressing enter, a lot of good stuff seems to happen (brackets added by me): About to boot kernel miboot.image kernel arguements [sic] are (ramdisk_size=16384 video=ariel2fb l2cr=0xA9000000 keyboard_sends_linux_keycodes=1 [white runoff from the yaboot screen] #check_kernel_file: file_open(miboot.image) returned -43 Trying to open kernel [<-]:Linux Kernels:miboot.image : file_open returned 0 kernel equals [box] Found compressed XCOFF kernel (zImage : :Linux Kernels:miboot.image) section 0: .text section 1: .data section 2: .bss section 3: .note.GN section 4: image Main stuffs base: 0x4103000 Unzipping kernel... Kernel using 2491Kb out of 3376Kb reserved Fixed kernel entry: 0x0 Loading ramdisk (1158Kb) kernel map built, 1153 entries, loading bootsrap [sic]... Boostrap [sic] moved from 0x65670 to 0x66000 strap entry : 0x660d0 strap dest : 0x683000 strap phys entry : 0xfd0d0 strap size : 0x9000 Making kernel copy map... list of 1153 copies for 1153 pages last copy page dest : 0x481000 Calling 68k bootstrap... Unmounting volumes... Preparing display... Entering 68k supervisor... Shutting down devices... No name registry ! remapping internal PDM video...waiting a little bit so you can read all that stuff ... After that, the screen is filled with black-and-white garbage, and there are no apparent signs of life after that. The numlock, capslock, and scroll lock lights remain off, and the capslock light does not turn on when the capslock key is pressed. I did try the miBoot route back when I had a Debian Woody system already installed and working via MkLinux. I had the same problem with the included kernel image, but when I substituted some other kernel (possibly the Debian Woody kernel), it actually did boot up. However, it was faily compared to using MkLinux, though I don't remember the symptoms. They might have been IO errors, X not starting, networking not working, and maybe even a kernel panic. Hope that helps! Joey On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 11:29 AM, Florian Boelstler<lists@...> wrote: > I just was browsing through some 2.4 pre-releases, which never made it > on the project site: > > http://nubus-pmac.sourceforge.net/nubus-pmac/test/2.4.35/ > > Unfortunately SourceForge seems to have turned directory listings turned > off, so here are the direct links: > > http://nubus-pmac.sourceforge.net/nubus-pmac/test/2.4.35/Mach Kernel > http://nubus-pmac.sourceforge.net/nubus-pmac/test/2.4.35/miboot-2.4.35.1.iso > http://nubus-pmac.sourceforge.net/nubus-pmac/test/2.4.35/miboot.image > http://nubus-pmac.sourceforge.net/nubus-pmac/test/2.4.35/miBoot-2.4.35.1-nfs-floppy.img > http://nubus-pmac.sourceforge.net/nubus-pmac/test/2.4.35/vmlinux.gz > > May be it's worth a try on the 6100. > > Cheers, > > Florian > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > _______________________________________________ > Nubus-pmac-users mailing list > Nubus-pmac-users@... > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nubus-pmac-users > |