success sort of with 2.2.10

success sort of with 2.2.10

[Steven Hanley]

All

well 2.2.10 will get past the blank screen on my 7220, 2.2.18pre18 and
2.2.17 (came with debian) both dont.

Now it has frozen booting the kernel at the line after detecting hdc
the output looks like
hda: QUANTUM FIREBALL ST2100A, ATA DISK drive
hdc: MATSHITA CR-585, ATAP CDROM drive
ide0 at 0x01020000-0x1020007,0x1020160 on irq 13

is that the right output? on my x86 it says ide0 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14

the addresses are very different, however this could just be because the ppc
uses a very different address space model or some such.

I just compiled the 2.2.10 kernel I am using and I left out pci ide support,
but it has the built in powermac ide support still selected, so this could
be the problem. It has been a long time since I had 2.2.10 on this powermac
last so I dont have my old .configs around anymore.

Anyway once I have found a way to make the thing get past this point in the
kernel booting, I will have to start going through the kernels from 2.2.10
up and see which do and dont work. Now for that I need some way to get the
different revisions. Are there any places other than bitkeeper that will let
me do this? like a cvs tree? Paulus' rsync I dont think will let me get
anything but the latest version that he has up there.

Also should I maybe try out 2.2.4someversion ?

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Re: success sort of with 2.2.10

[Ethan Benson]

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On Sat, Nov 11, 2000 at 07:08:41PM +1100, Steven Hanley wrote:
> 
> All
> 
> well 2.2.10 will get past the blank screen on my 7220, 2.2.18pre18 and
> 2.2.17 (came with debian) both dont.

well that rules out quik breakage at least.  progress! ;-)

> Anyway once I have found a way to make the thing get past this point in the
> kernel booting, I will have to start going through the kernels from 2.2.10
> up and see which do and dont work. Now for that I need some way to get the
> different revisions. Are there any places other than bitkeeper that will let
> me do this? like a cvs tree? Paulus' rsync I dont think will let me get
> anything but the latest version that he has up there.

one thing i just remembered, did you compile 2.2.17 withOUT
CONFIG_BOOTX_TEXT  ?  BootXText screws up quik booting on some
machines apparently.   turning it off has made quik boot properly for
others.  

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Re: success sort of with 2.2.10

[Steven Hanley]

On Fri, Nov 10, 2000 at 11:51:07PM -0900, Ethan Benson wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 11, 2000 at 07:08:41PM +1100, Steven Hanley wrote:
> >
> > All
> >
> > well 2.2.10 will get past the blank screen on my 7220, 2.2.18pre18 and
> > 2.2.17 (came with debian) both dont.
>
> well that rules out quik breakage at least.  progress! ;-)

yes it is good progress to have the fb penguin and some boot messages show
up :)

> one thing i just remembered, did you compile 2.2.17 withOUT
> CONFIG_BOOTX_TEXT  ?  BootXText screws up quik booting on some
> machines apparently.   turning it off has made quik boot properly for
> others.

yes it is compiled out, I didnt know it may cause problems, but I thought
that now I didnt need bootx any more I could get rid of it anyway.

Now when I add the pci ide suport I get a repeatable kernel panic on boot
every time I boot. I typed out the dump, but wont look at tracking it down
just yet, first I will try to work out a way to get hold of a 2.2.14 paulus
tree or similar and see what that does.

	See You
	    Steve

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