Hello, I try to replace the "amiboot-5.6" by one from my a2000, the result is better : I can launch "StartInstall" but it hangs after the first messages, I add "debug=mem" to the command line and get : =========================================================================== Searching for SAVEKMSG magic... Found 3545 bytes at 0x001dc010 >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Linux version 2.4.27-amiga ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 2.95.2 20000220 (Debian GNU/Linux)) #1 Fri Jan 21 11:26:32 CET 2005 Enabling workaround for errata I14 Amiga hardware found: [A4000] VIDEO BLITTER AUDIO FLOPPY A4000_IDE KEYBOARD MOUSE SERIAL PARALLEL A3000_CLK CHIP_RAM PAULA LISA ALICE_PAL ZORRO3 initrd: 07e070ca - 07f80000 On node 0 totalpages: 32640 zone(0): 32640 pages. zone(1): 0 pages. zone(2): 0 pages. Kernel command line: root=/dev/ram ramdisk_size=15000 debian-installer/framebuffer=false debug=mem Console: colour dummy device 80x25 Calibrating delay loop... 99.53 BogoMIPS Memory: 125368k/130560k available (1536k kernel code, 3540k data, 116k init) kmem_create: Forcing size word alignment - mm_struct kmem_create: Forcing size word alignment - filp kmem_create: Forcing size word alignment - dquot Dentry cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 5, 131072 bytes) Inode cache hash table entries: 8192 (order: 4, 65536 bytes) kmem_create: Forcing size word alignment - inode_cache Mount cache hash table entries: 512 (order: 0, 4096 bytes) kmem_create: Forcing size word alignment - bdev_cache kmem_create: Forcing size word alignment - cdev_cache kmem_create: Forcing size word alignment - kiobuf Buffer cache hash table entries: 4096 (order: 2, 16384 bytes) Page-cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes) POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX Zorro: Probing AutoConfig expansion devices: 2 devices Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.4 Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039 Initializing RT netlink socket Starting kswapd kmem_create: Forcing size word alignment - file_lock_cache VFS: Disk quotas vdquot_6.5.1 Journalled Block Device driver loaded devfs: v1.12c (20020818) Richard Gooch ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) devfs: boot_options: 0x0 Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 80x25 fb0: Amiga AGA frame buffer device, using 1280K of video memory clgen: Driver for Cirrus Logic based graphic boards, v1.9.9.1 clgen: no supported board found. pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured Amiga-builtin serial driver version 4.30 ttyS00 is the amiga builtin serial port Amiga mouse installed. kmem_create: Forcing size word alignment - blkdev_requests FD: probing units found fd0 Unable to get major 2 for floppy RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 15000K size 1024 blocksize loop: loaded (max 8 devices) Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00beta4-2.4 ide: Assuming 50MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx ide0: Gayle IDE interface (A4000 style) hda: ST34342A, ATA DISK drive hdb: WDC WD200BB-32CXA0, ATA DISK drive ide0 at 0x80dd2020 on irq 12 hda: attached ide-disk driver. hda: 8404830 sectors (4303 MB) w/128KiB Cache, CHS=8894/15/63 hdb: attached ide-disk driver. hdb: 39102336 sectors (20020 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=38792/16/63 Partition check: /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0: RDSK p1 p2 p3 p4 p5 p6 /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target1/lun0: RDSK p1 p2 p3 SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00 kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k scsi_hostadapter, errno = 2 kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k scsi_hostadapter, errno = 2 Initializing Cryptographic API NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0 IP: routing cache hash table of 512 buckets, 4Kbytes TCP: Hash tables configured (established 8192 bind 8192) NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0. RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0 Freeing initrd memory: 377k freed VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly. Warning: unable to open an initial console. Kernel panic: Attempted to kill init! <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< ==========================================================================
Regards JP. Pozzi > [Ordinarily I wouldn't top post, but I'd like to keep all this together > as I'm cc'ing debian-68k.] > I think your StartInstall should look something like the follwing > (where initrd.gz comes from nativehd, if you don't have a cdrom) if > everything is in the same directory. > amiboot-5.6 -d -k vmlinuz-2.4.27-amiga -r initrd.gz > root=/dev/ram debian-installer/framebuffer=false > On Tue, Mar 22, 2005 at 12:00:17AM +0100, Moi meme wrote: > On Wed, 2005-03-16 at 20:53 -0600, Stephen R Marenka wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 17, 2005 at 12:06:43AM +0100, JPP wrote: > > > On Tue, 2005-03-15 at 13:10 -0600, Stephen R Marenka wrote: > > > > > I will test the m68K/Amiga Install, but I didn't have any CD on the > > > A4000 and I don't know the exact parameters to launch from HD with a > > > ramdisk. > > > > Fantastic! > > > > There are scripts at > > <http://people.debian.org/~smarenka/d-i/bootloaders/amiga/>. I hope to > > have them integrated into the download area at some point. (They are on > > the cd, fwiw.) > > > > If that's not enough let me know. > > > > Thanks, > > > > Stephen > > I get all the stuff, install it all on the a4000 in a cold tempered > directory and ... arrange all things and it does not work, > when I launch "StartInstall" I get an error : > EXECUTE: Invalid directive > Error -1 > EXECUTE failed returncode 10 > > I try to have all more simple and put all stuff (amiboot, vmlinuz... > and initrd.gz) and alter StartInstall accordingly. > > I trace the process with snoopdos and I see that a command is > created and deleted in the "T:" directory, I think the execute error > is caused by some problems with that command, but I can't see it. > > I enclose the snoopdos trace if it can be used ... > > So no success until now ... I will try to get the amiboot from my > a2000 (it seems to be the same program : 36860 bytes). The a2000 > is running a 2.6.10 kernel and can't be disturbed now as one of my > sons is using the internet connection. > > Regards > > JP Pozzi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

