Re: Booting 2.2.0-pre6 on a PowerStack-II (Net 4000/200)

[Gary Thomas <gdt@linuxppc.org>]

Before it quit, did it tell you how much memory it thought it had?
Perhaps the OFW memory sizing stuff is wrong...  Although I thought
I had forced it to think that there was 32M if there was no OFW.

On 04-Feb-99 Michael Meissner wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 01, 1999 at 04:18:25PM -0000, Gary Thomas wrote:
>> 
>> On 01-Feb-99 Michael Meissner wrote:
>> > On Wed, Jan 20, 1999 at 03:21:36PM -0000, Gary Thomas wrote:
>> >> I have put up all my patches against 2.2.0p7 at:
>> >>   ftp://ftp.linuxppc.org/gary/diffs-2.2.0p7-Jan20
>> >> These are diffs against the virgin 2.2.0-pre7.
>> > 
>> > Over the weekend, I moved the PowerPC to my home, and confirmed Gary's patches
>> > do allow me to boot on my Utah machine.  Note, the patch for
>> > drives/char/pc_keyb.c won't apply to 2.2.1, but its a simple matter to adjust
>> > the patch.
>> > 
>> 
>> I'll re-post these for 2.2.1 later [possibly today], along with a
>> couple of others I have.
> 
> Note, I went into the office yesterday, and tried my boot disk with Gary's
> changes on the older PowerStack-1 I have in the office (603, no L2 cache, 48
> meg of non-pairity memory), and it wouldn't boot due to insufficient memory.
> As I mentioned, it does boot fine on my PowerStack-II (Utah, 604e, 128 meg of
> memory, 512K L2 cache).
> 
>> 
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