Hello, I grabbed kernel-image-2.6.8-amiga_2.6.8-1_m68k.deb from http://people.debian.org/~cts/debian-m68k/kernel-image/ and tried it out on my Amiga 2000 with GVP 030 card w/16M + scsi.
I was not successful with this kernel. Notes so far: 1. I installed the archive via dpkg -x as root user from the / directory. Is this the recommended way? 2. Amiboot would not decompress the kernel without error. I had to gzip -d the kernel image in /boot and copy to the Amiga paritition to boot. I did learn here that kernels are compressed with gzip during the normal make process. I'll grab the specific Amiboot error message next time. I do remember reading about this issue before, hence why I tried the uncompress kernel image. 3. I first tried to boot with the console on my EGS Spectrum card. This did not work, and I later noticed that the clgen support is via a module that I did not have in my /etc/modules. I'll try that again later. 4. The kernel did boot, but since the clgen module was not loaded, my X console support was not available. 5. The tftp support was not thier either, as I could not get my X-Terminal to find its boot files from the Amiga. Possibly not any networking? I use a 2065 card, which is set up as a module from /etc/modules to indicate loading. I would have expected this module to load. Telnet in didn't work either. 6. The boot continued to a console login window. When I tried to enter username/password, I discovered that the key mappings were, um, bizarre. Now, note that I'm trying to boot the 2.6.8 into a working 2.4.27 environment. Perhaps there is a new keymap file I need to select (hint please)? 7. It seems that partitions did mount correctly though. 8. Because of keyboard issues a 3 finger salute was required to return to AmigaDos to try again. --Lance LanceTag at Luminet dot net
