[parisc-linux] New testing ISO available with recent boot-floppies

[parisc-linux] New testing ISO available with recent boot-floppies

[Thibaut VARENE]

Hi fellows !

Thanks to the precious help of Richard Hirst, I finally succeeded in 
building a recent Woody Net Install iso, with the latest boot-floppies 
(3.0.23) and kernel (2.4.18-pa25) available.

It contains everything you need to boot a box and install from network, 
but mind that it is an TEST ISO, with development kernel, and that it 
has not yet been tested.

It is expected to boot the most recently supported hardware.

Please report any successful boot on newly supported machines.

You can download it from these locations:
ftp://ftp.parisc-linux.org/cd-
images/testing/palinux-2.4.18-pa25-20020524-netinst.iso
http://pateam.esiee.fr/download.html

Enjoy !


Thibaut VARENE
PA/Linux ESIEE Team
http://pateam.esiee.fr/

Re: [parisc-linux] New testing ISO available with recent boot-floppies

[Thibaut VARENE]

Le samedi 25 mai 2002, =E0 02:24 , Duraid Madina a =E9crit :

> Does this new ISO include Grant's patch from yesterday, allowing =
booting
> on PA-8700 machines?
>
> If so, I will be sure to test it out!
>
> 	Duraid
>
>
Well, Grant told me that his patch is not comitted yet, and not ready to=20=

be.
When it will be ready, we'll consider rebuilding the ISO :o)


Thibaut VARENE
PA/Linux ESIEE Team
http://pateam.esiee.fr/

Re: [parisc-linux] New testing ISO available with recent boot-floppies

[Richard Hirst]

On Sat, May 25, 2002 at 02:19:38AM +0200, Thibaut VARENE wrote:
> It contains everything you need to boot a box and install from network, 

Just to clarify that, it is a 70MB ISO which includes everything you
need to install a minimal system from CD. If you want anything useful (C
compilers, X, etc) you need to install additional packages from the
network.

Richard

Re: [parisc-linux] New testing ISO available with recent boot-floppies

[Thibaut VARENE]

On Sat, 25 May 2002 02:33:18 +0200
"Thibaut VARENE" <varenet@esiee.fr> wrote:

> 
> Le samedi 25 mai 2002, à 02:24 , Duraid Madina a écrit :
> 
> > Does this new ISO include Grant's patch from yesterday, allowing booting
> > on PA-8700 machines?
> >
> > If so, I will be sure to test it out!
> >
> > 	Duraid
> >
> >
> Well, Grant told me that his patch is not comitted yet, and not ready to 
> be.
> When it will be ready, we'll consider rebuilding the ISO :o)
> 

The new ISO is now ready, with -pa26 kernel.

Duraid reported a successful boot with his rp2430 (A400-6X), but the same *warnings* than for the previous ISO are still applicable :)
Any feedback would be welcomed anyway !

You can download it from this location:
http://pateam.esiee.fr/download.html
And it should be made available shortly on ftp.parisc-linux.org. :)

Enjoy !


Thibaut VARENE
PA/Linux ESIEE Team
http://pateam.esiee.fr/

Re: [parisc-linux] New testing ISO available with recent boot-floppies

[joel.soete]

Hi Thibaut,

To BAD: I made a mistake and I had to re-install my b2000.

On the other hand it is a good oportunity to test the last CD-rom.

It boot well and recognise well the ide cdrom. Nice :-)

But on the b2000 (I have no idea for b2600) the cdrom is an ide model and so
appears to be /dev/hda pseudo device.
So before install of the kernel and the base system, I had to execute a shell
and launch cd /dev; MAKEDEV hda to add require /dev/hda* then the rest works well.

Could it not be possible to add those /dev/hd[abcd]* into the initial ramdisk
(it should not take too much additional space?)?

Thanks in advance for your additionnal help and thanks again for great job,
    Joel
  
Quoting Thibaut VARENE <varenet@esiee.fr>:

> On Sat, 25 May 2002 02:33:18 +0200
> "Thibaut VARENE" <varenet@esiee.fr> wrote:
> 
> > 
> > Le samedi 25 mai 2002, à 02:24 , Duraid Madina a écrit :
> > 
> > > Does this new ISO include Grant's patch from yesterday, allowing
> booting
> > > on PA-8700 machines?
> > >
> > > If so, I will be sure to test it out!
> > >
> > > 	Duraid
> > >
> > >
> > Well, Grant told me that his patch is not comitted yet, and not ready
> to 
> > be.
> > When it will be ready, we'll consider rebuilding the ISO :o)
> > 
> 
> The new ISO is now ready, with -pa26 kernel.
> 
> Duraid reported a successful boot with his rp2430 (A400-6X), but the
> same *warnings* than for the previous ISO are still applicable :)
> Any feedback would be welcomed anyway !
> 
> You can download it from this location:
> http://pateam.esiee.fr/download.html
> And it should be made available shortly on ftp.parisc-linux.org. :)
> 
> Enjoy !
> 
> 
> Thibaut VARENE
> PA/Linux ESIEE Team
> http://pateam.esiee.fr/
> 
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Re: [parisc-linux] New testing ISO available with recent boot-floppies

[Robert Stanford]

I tried the iso on my K580 (PDC console only) and no joy. Is there any
chance of enabling the PDC console (and/or device node in the ramdisk)
in the default kernel or does this introduce issues for other machines?

Robert Stanford


*CUT*
------------------------------------------------------------------------

Boot IO Dependent Code (IODC) revision 1


HARD Booted.
palo ipl 1.0 root@palinux Mon Apr  1 10:02:53 MST 2002

Boot image contains:
    0/vmlinux32 3699025 bytes @ 0x458800
    0/vmlinux64 4733474 bytes @ 0x7e0000
    0/ramdisk 2656804 bytes @ 0xc64000

Information: No console specified on kernel command line. This is
normal.
PALO will choose the console currently used by firmware (serial).Current
comman:
0/vmlinux ramdisk_size=8192 root=/dev/ram initrd=0/ramdisk console=ttyS0
TERM=v2
 0: 0/vmlinux
 1: ramdisk_size=8192
 2: root=/dev/ram
 3: initrd=0/ramdisk
 4: console=ttyS0
 5: TERM=vt102

Edit which field?
(or 'b' to boot with this command line)? 4
console=ttyB0
Current command line:
0/vmlinux ramdisk_size=8192 root=/dev/ram initrd=0/ramdisk console=ttyB0
TERM=v2
 0: 0/vmlinux
 1: ramdisk_size=8192
 2: root=/dev/ram
 3: initrd=0/ramdisk
 4: console=ttyB0
 5: TERM=vt102

Edit which field?
(or 'b' to boot with this command line)? b

Command line for kernel: 'ramdisk_size=8192 root=/dev/ram console=ttyB0
TERM=vt'
Selected kernel: /vmlinux from partition 0
Selected ramdisk: /ramdisk from partition 0
Warning: kernel name doesn't end with 32 or 64 -- Guessing... 
This box can boot either 32 or 64-bit kernels...Both kernels available,
choosine
Entry 00100000 first 00100000 n 6
Segment 0 load 00100000 size 2028032 mediaptr 0x1000
Segment 1 load 002f0000 size 299424 mediaptr 0x1f1000
Segment 2 load 0033c000 size 393548 mediaptr 0x23b000
Segment 3 load 003a0000 size 8192 mediaptr 0x29c000
Segment 4 load 003a8000 size 32768 mediaptr 0x29e000
Segment 5 load 003d1538 size 102176 mediaptr 0x2a6538
Loading ramdisk 2656804 bytes @ 3fd66000...
Branching to kernel entry point 0x00100000.  If this is the last
message you see, you may need to switch your console.  This is
a common symptom -- search the FAQ and mailing list at parisc-linux.org