If anyone is interested, I installed Etch on an emulated DECstation using GXemul: http://people.zoy.org/~walken/gxemul-etch/HOWTO.html
I have two quick questions: * I see the Decstation 3max is listed as supported hardware at http://d-i.alioth.debian.org/manual/en.mipsel/ch02s01.html How much testing do Debian kernels get on such hardware ? I'm asking because I've been unable to run the regular Debian kernels, I had to use my own compiled from the linux-mips tree. One important difference seems to be that linux-mips has an updated version of the dz serial driver - when booting the Debian kernel outputs a few confused messages such as: DECstation DZ serial driver version 1.02 ttyS%d0 at I/O 0x0 (irq = 15) is a DZ ttyS%d1 at I/O 0x0 (irq = 15) is a DZ ttyS%d2 at I/O 0x0 (irq = 15) is a DZ ttyS%d3 at I/O 0x0 (irq = 15) is a DZ the correct messages would be: ttyS01 at 0xbfe00000 (irq = 15) is a DC7085 DZ ttyS02 at 0xbfe00000 (irq = 15) is a DC7085 DZ ttyS03 at 0xbfe00000 (irq = 15) is a DC7085 DZ Anders Gavare (the GXemul author) also says the crash early after the debian kernel mounts the cramfs seems to be related to the serial port. I know there are many differences between debian and linux-mips kernels, so there might be other issues, but maybe it'd be worth trying a debian kernel patched with the linux-mips dz driver. I have not tried this yet (my only mips hardware is a wgt634u access point, and it's not very fast :) BTW the easiest way to start the debian installer kernel within gxemul is to get the image from http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian/dists/testing/main/installer-mipsel/beta3/images/decstation/r3k-kn02/boot.img and run it with gxemul -X -e3max boot.img * As I was using a custom kernel for the installation with DEVFS and DEVFS_MOUNT options compiled in, I still had to go to the shell early in the installation to mount the devfs. Anyone know what I did wrong that prevents devfs from getting mounted before the installation starts ? Thanks, -- Michel "Walken" Lespinasse "Bill Gates is a monocle and a Persian cat away from being the villain in a James Bond movie." -- Dennis Miller -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
