On Mon, 4 Mar 2019, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
Hello David!
I'm afraid your machine has not enough memory to run Linux. I don't think
you won't get far with just 14 MiB of memory and I wouldn't be surprised
if that's the reason the kernel won't boot for you.
Hi Adrian,
Ah, thanks for this. That's a shame. So Debian has evolved beyond the
ability to run on any stock Atari hardware bar the TT? The Falcon is
physically unable to address more than 14Mb without getting out the
soldering iron and replacing the CPU and bus.
Doing some more digging I see Michael Schmitz mentioned the same in
passing last year
(https://lists.debian.org/debian-68k/2018/09/msg00003.html), but the
positive there is it sounds like the kernel itself (from 2018) ought to be
able to boot, but I may need a sysvinit release. Would that be Pre-Jessie?
Also it sounds like Geert was able to build a working 3.16 kernel in 2015
(https://lists.debian.org/debian-68k/2016/06/msg00059.html), so that may
be an option.
Thanks again,
--
David.
d.henderson...@cantab.net