On Fri, Apr 29, 2005 at 07:32:32PM +0200, Haakon Innerdal wrote: > Hi gentlemen, > > Is there any special magic to apply if I want to run a 2.6.x-amiga kernel? > (2.6.8-4 was the latest I tried) > > First of all, the default built kernel 2.6.8-amiga, is to big for > amiboot-5.6. > Any custom built kernel that is accepted in terms of size, only results in > a grey screen, not booting.
Try booting with an uncompressed kernel. This might actually explain why I had problems with the latest kernels, I forgot to replace the uncompressed one with the newly installed kernel... > My environment: > A4000 with phase5's CyberStorm MK2 68060 accel > standard aga > startup: > amiboot-5.6 -d -k vmlinuz-2.6.8-amiga root=/dev/hda9 video=amifb:pal > > the 2.4.27 kernel works great, both debian supplied, and self compiled. > (debian m68k/patches) > > Should I try to ensure that the 2.6-kernel is built with gcc-2.95? is it > even possible to build 2.6.x with gcc-2.95? (I could try, but each kernel > build is taking about half a day...) IIRC I built 2.6 with gcc-3.3. Try using a cross compiler, instead of 6 hours it takes only 6 minutes to compile a kernel on my notebook. See kegel.com/crosstool > almost last Q: would a Picasso IV card be a good investment? my goals is > to get reasonable graphics in both amiga-os, and in m68k/xfree, other good > (cheap) options? I just bought a PIV and a PII+ to replace my broken CV643D, but I haven't had the time yet to test either of the cards. The PIV is the best graphics card that exists for Amiga, IMHO, and I think the Linux support is pretty good. It's been a while that I saw a PIV running and it was printing a lot of DEBUG messages, but that probably has been disabled in the kernel, and it should work very well. I liked the CV643D a lot, especially after I managed to get it to work in my Amiga2000, but I haven't used video on the Amiga much for a couple of years, I have a network and use mostly the notebook or an athlon as a display. Christian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
