On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 10:29:32PM +0100, Steve Gane wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I'm trying to use Apex 1.4.18 to boot my 64M FatSlug, but I'm not having > much luck. > I'm using the "proper" Debian/NSLU2 Etch. > > I can build Apex on a PC, swap it, prepend a header, pad it with FF, and > write it to mtdblock2. > (http://www.nslu2-linux.org/wiki/Debian/CompileApex and > http://wiki.buici.com/wiki/NSLU2_Memory_Expansion_--_Fat_Slug helped a lot!) > I have a serial port to observe the boot. > > But whatever I do, it always reports 32 MiB: > - Whether I build Apex with 0x2000000 or 0x4000000 memory bank size > - Whether or not I do "sdram-init; memscan -u 0+256m" or "sdram-init; > memscan -u 0+64m" > sdram-init always detects 1 pair of 128 Mib chips = 32 MiB > memscan always says there's only 32MB. > > I used to boot with a hacked Redboot (that set the SDRAM config for 64M) > with the old > bootstrapped Debian; now I can't install stuff because I don't have > enough memory :-(
So...if you are trying to run a four-chip solution, you may be disappointed. So far, no one has had luck with it. I have the chips on hand to debug this, but I haven't had the time to build a slug with them. I don't think that the memory bank size is really important as the sdram init code is supposed to figure that all out. Tell me exactly how your hardware is put together. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
