Hi Eero and Stefan, > On 7 Mar 2019, at 23:09, Eero Tamminen <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, > > On 3/6/19 12:04 AM, David Henderson wrote: >>>> I've not investigated how to load the initrd into alt RAM, though, as I've >>>> not resorted to that in Hatari yet. >>> >>> Doesn't bootloader do that automatically or have some option for it? >> Looking at the help text, it would appear you have to explicitly tell it to >> load to ST-RAM, so alt-ram is probably the default. > > According to some other docs I read, things are loaded to TT-RAM, but > *uncompressed* to ST-RAM. > > So it's better to use uncompressed vmlinuz and initrd files. That way they > don't need to be uncompressed and load (much) faster.
Either way, I couldn’t get the Debian 10 ISO version to boot in Hatari. Obviously it was too big for the real Falcon. > Give Hatari "--trace os_base" option to get the TOS boot program output to > terminal. <snip detailed explanation of Hatari debugging> Thanks, Eero, but kernel debugging via Hatari is a bit beyond me a the moment. > On 9 Mar 2019, at 00:34, Stefan Niestegge <[email protected]> wrote: > > I installed Debian from that netinstall. Only thing to do to get it install > was getting IDE port running by modprobe falconide or patafalcon. Don't > And removing -s from the bootargs puts the kernel into TT ram which > speeded up things a lot. > > I recorded the full uncut boot process: > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Sriz45Z4oM > > So, a trimmed down version would probably be somewhat faster. > My Falcon runs at 90 MHz and has 14MB/512MB ST/TT RAM. > Thanks Stefan, That’s interesting and does suggest perhaps it’s a processor issue. Obviously I can’t address that sort of memory, but even adding AltRAM to Hatari when otherwise set to maximum Falcon compatibility hangs in the same way. I’ve put together a video showing my experiments with Debian 10 too:- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Za5K73HodEY <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Za5K73HodEY> I think changing my partition scheme and having a go with Debian 9 are next on my list. (BTW, not shown on my videos was my other line of enquiry: putting Debian Potato on as well — that installed, but would frequently BUSERR out, often when just doing simple things [like ls -l]. Same on Hatari. Perplexing.) Regards, David.
