Hi everyone, for people wanting to test this on real-metal Ataris, I’ve made https://www.freewrt.org/~tg/f/vmlinuz-3.8.0-rc3+m68k-queue+atari-84299-g3f4758a cross-compiled from Geert’s m68k-queue as of today, • because the Debian kernel follows upstream and thus lacks drivers for EtherNAT and EtherNEC, • stripped down to fit on a floppy (gzip’d), • stripped down to possibly boot on a TT with 4 MiB ST-RAM, • with /proc/config.gz for easy use.
It does boot with https://www.freewrt.org/~tg/f/20121227/m68k-base.e2z (byteswap: on) as hard disc, or the mirnitrd, in ARAnyM. (At boot, some components, including udev, seem to make noise about no floppy disc inserted; my guess is that they don’t manage to handle UUID=… in fstab when the filesystem is directly on the raw hard disc /dev/nfhd8 (or /dev/hda) instead of a partition /dev/nfhd8p1 (or /dev/hda1). gemini8 (Bcc’d) from #atari-home (OFTC) will try to install this on an Atari TT like this: • prepare HDD with three partitions: TOS, LNX, LNX (sizes would be, roughly, a couple of Megs, then say a gig – this will be our root filesystem on Linux later – then whatever MiNT needs – this will be our swapspace on Linux later) • install the minimal TOS with ataboot.ttp / bootstra.ttp on the first ‣ e.g. http://archive.debian.org/debian/dists/sarge/main/installer-m68k/current/images/tools/atari/ ‣ note that ct060 systems need a different one • install MiNT on the third one (ext2fs, incidentally) • from MiNT, put an ext2fs on the second one, which will be our / on Linux, and un-tar https://www.freewrt.org/~tg/f/20121227/m68k-base.tgz on it (DO NOT forget the ‘p’ option, like “tar xzpf /path/to/foo.tgz”) • from MiNT, edit /etc/fstab on the second partition to refer to the correct path for the root filesystem (which is the second partition), e.g. via UUID= (if MiNT can show that, e.g. with tune2fs -l) or by guessing /dev/hda2 could be right… or via label • from MiNT, edit /etc/hostname and /etc/hosts • from MiNT or TOS, edit the bootstrap arguments to read *at least* root=/dev/hda2 devtmpfs.mount=1 (here, too, guess the correct partition ☺ as we don’t use an initrd on Debian/m68k, UUID/LABEL will *not* work there, but don’t worry, you’ve got quite some chances) • boot via TOS (partition 1) into Linux (partition 2) • use atari-fdisk to change the type of partition 3 into SWP • swapon it and add it to /etc/fstab • configure the network, apt-get update && apt-get --purge dist-upgrade • win! (note, we haven’t yet actually done this yet) Later TO-DO: investigate whether the HDD can be made “bootable” for LNX, i.e. skip the TOS step. The kernel image comes with ext2, ext4 (does not use it for ext2/ext3, so ext2 will not get accidentally upgraded in case someone needs to access it from MiNT again, until you upgrade it to ext4 manually), NFSv3 client, msdos/vfat, iso9660 filesystems, IDE and SCSI HDD and CD-ROM (but not sg) support, and no dmraid or LVM, nor any modules. Making it was a thing of: • git clone git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/geert/linux-m68k.git (then go shopping) • cd linux-m68k; git checkout m68k-queue; git gc --aggressive --prune=now (then drin a coffee) • scp linux-m68k:/boot/config-3.2.0-4-atari .config • make ARCH=m68k menuconfig (takes a̲n̲ ̲h̲o̲u̲r̲, or so, for looking through all of it; do make sure to enable the Atari ISA ROM port adapter, EtherNAT and EtherNEC support, and some other platform devices) • make -j8 ARCH=m68k all && size vmlinux (takes o̲n̲e̲ ̲m̲i̲n̲u̲t̲e̲ and yields a vmlinux.gz file, which is what you need) HTH & HAND, //mirabilos -- ☎ <Natureshadow> Ich glaub ich hab mir grad mit dem [Ham]Burger die Nase abge‐ putzt… <mirabilos> Ich glaub ich hab ne neue eMail-Signatur <Natureshadow> Scheiße, warum passiert mir sowas immer, wenn ich mit dir spre‐ che? *hust* Das war Schnodderburger… *hust* -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
