Booting 2.2.0-pre6 on a PowerStack-II (Net 4000/200)
Michael Meissner
meissner at cygnus.com
Wed Jan 13 09:43:54 EST 1999
I have two Powerstacks, one of which can boot recent Linuxes, and the
other can't. The one that can boot 2.2.0-pre6 is the original
PowerStack with a 603 processor (67 Mhz, no cache, 48 meg of memory,
note this is a 603, not a 603e if it matters). The one that can't is
a PowerStack-II (Net 4000/200, 200 Mhz 604e processor, 512k sync. L2
cache, 128 meg of memory). I am able to run a version of 2.0.32 that
Gary Thomas built for me last year on both machines without problems
(though that kernel has some problems, which is why I want to run
something newer). I did the following:
make prep_config
make menuconfig
make dep clean zImage modules modules_install floppy
and tried to use the same floppy on both. The only dialog I get on
both the screen and the com1 line are:
loaded at: 00400400 00415FD0
relocated to: 00600000 00615BD0
zimage at: 0040A400 0049A889
avail ram: 00400000 00600000
Linux/PPC load: console=tty0 console=ttyS0,9600n8 root=/dev/sda2 mem=127M
Uncompressing Linux...done.
Now booting the kernel
(I typed in the root=/dev/sda2 mem=127M to the load line when it
paused to specify memory and disk). I really, really would prefer to
run a more recent version of the kernel on the fast machine (for one
thing, the 2.0.32 kernel has a tendency to spam our network every so
often when it loses the loopback routing, and a 200 Mhz ppc can spit
out packets quite fast, thank you very much :-).
Also, I found Alan Cox's patches 2.2.0-pre6-ac1 could not build a prep
based kernel (it kept trying to build the mac adb support and
failing).
Here is the .config file I'm currently using on the slow machine (I've
tried several different config files, including common support, etc.):
#
# Automatically generated by make menuconfig: don't edit
#
#
# Platform support
#
CONFIG_PPC=y
CONFIG_6xx=y
# CONFIG_8xx is not set
# CONFIG_PMAC is not set
CONFIG_PREP=y
# CONFIG_CHRP is not set
# CONFIG_ALL_PPC is not set
# CONFIG_APUS is not set
# CONFIG_MBX is not set
CONFIG_MACH_SPECIFIC=y
# CONFIG_SMP is not set
#
# General setup
#
CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL=y
CONFIG_MODULES=y
# CONFIG_MODVERSIONS is not set
CONFIG_KMOD=y
CONFIG_PCI=y
# CONFIG_PCI_QUIRKS is not set
CONFIG_PCI_OLD_PROC=y
CONFIG_NET=y
CONFIG_SYSCTL=y
CONFIG_SYSVIPC=y
CONFIG_BSD_PROCESS_ACCT=y
CONFIG_BINFMT_ELF=y
CONFIG_KERNEL_ELF=y
CONFIG_BINFMT_MISC=y
# CONFIG_BINFMT_JAVA is not set
# CONFIG_PARPORT is not set
CONFIG_VGA_CONSOLE=y
# CONFIG_FB is not set
# CONFIG_PMAC_PBOOK is not set
# CONFIG_MAC_KEYBOARD is not set
# CONFIG_MAC_FLOPPY is not set
# CONFIG_MAC_SERIAL is not set
# CONFIG_ADBMOUSE is not set
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDE_PMAC is not set
# CONFIG_PROC_DEVICETREE is not set
# CONFIG_KGDB is not set
# CONFIG_XMON is not set
# CONFIG_TOTALMP is not set
# CONFIG_BOOTX_TEXT is not set
#
# Plug and Play support
#
# CONFIG_PNP is not set
#
# Block devices
#
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_FD=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDE=m
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_HD_IDE is not set
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDISK=m
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDECD=m
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDETAPE=m
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEFLOPPY is not set
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDESCSI is not set
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_CMD640 is not set
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_RZ1000 is not set
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEPCI is not set
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SL82C105 is not set
# CONFIG_IDE_CHIPSETS is not set
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_LOOP=m
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_NBD=m
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_MD is not set
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_RAM=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_INITRD=y
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_XD is not set
CONFIG_PARIDE_PARPORT=y
# CONFIG_PARIDE is not set
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_HD is not set
#
# Networking options
#
CONFIG_PACKET=y
# CONFIG_NETLINK is not set
# CONFIG_FIREWALL is not set
# CONFIG_NET_ALIAS is not set
CONFIG_FILTER=y
CONFIG_UNIX=y
CONFIG_INET=y
# CONFIG_IP_MULTICAST is not set
# CONFIG_IP_ADVANCED_ROUTER is not set
# CONFIG_IP_PNP is not set
# CONFIG_IP_ROUTER is not set
# CONFIG_NET_IPIP is not set
# CONFIG_NET_IPGRE is not set
# CONFIG_IP_ALIAS is not set
CONFIG_SYN_COOKIES=y
# CONFIG_INET_RARP is not set
CONFIG_IP_NOSR=y
CONFIG_SKB_LARGE=y
# CONFIG_IPV6 is not set
# CONFIG_IPX is not set
# CONFIG_ATALK is not set
# CONFIG_X25 is not set
# CONFIG_LAPB is not set
# CONFIG_BRIDGE is not set
# CONFIG_LLC is not set
# CONFIG_ECONET is not set
# CONFIG_WAN_ROUTER is not set
# CONFIG_NET_FASTROUTE is not set
# CONFIG_NET_HW_FLOWCONTROL is not set
# CONFIG_CPU_IS_SLOW is not set
#
# QoS and/or fair queueing
#
# CONFIG_NET_SCHED is not set
#
# SCSI support
#
CONFIG_SCSI=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SD=y
CONFIG_CHR_DEV_ST=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SR=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SR_VENDOR=y
CONFIG_CHR_DEV_SG=y
# CONFIG_SCSI_MULTI_LUN is not set
CONFIG_SCSI_CONSTANTS=y
CONFIG_SCSI_LOGGING=y
#
# SCSI low-level drivers
#
# CONFIG_SCSI_7000FASST is not set
# CONFIG_SCSI_ACARD is not set
# CONFIG_SCSI_AHA152X is not set
# CONFIG_SCSI_AHA1542 is not set
# CONFIG_SCSI_AHA1740 is not set
# CONFIG_SCSI_AIC7XXX is not set
# CONFIG_SCSI_ADVANSYS is not set
# CONFIG_SCSI_IN2000 is not set
# CONFIG_SCSI_AM53C974 is not set
# CONFIG_SCSI_MEGARAID is not set
# CONFIG_SCSI_BUSLOGIC is not set
# CONFIG_SCSI_DTC3280 is not set
# CONFIG_SCSI_EATA is not set
# CONFIG_SCSI_EATA_DMA is not set
# CONFIG_SCSI_EATA_PIO is not set
# CONFIG_SCSI_FUTURE_DOMAIN is not set
# CONFIG_SCSI_GDTH is not set
# CONFIG_SCSI_GENERIC_NCR5380 is not set
# CONFIG_SCSI_INITIO is not set
# CONFIG_SCSI_NCR53C406A is not set
# CONFIG_SCSI_NCR53C7xx is not set
CONFIG_SCSI_NCR53C8XX=y
CONFIG_SCSI_NCR53C8XX_DEFAULT_TAGS=8
CONFIG_SCSI_NCR53C8XX_MAX_TAGS=8
CONFIG_SCSI_NCR53C8XX_SYNC=10
# CONFIG_SCSI_NCR53C8XX_PROFILE is not set
CONFIG_SCSI_NCR53C8XX_IOMAPPED=y
# CONFIG_SCSI_NCR53C8XX_SYMBIOS_COMPAT is not set
# CONFIG_SCSI_PAS16 is not set
# CONFIG_SCSI_PCI2000 is not set
# CONFIG_SCSI_PCI2220I is not set
# CONFIG_SCSI_PSI240I is not set
# CONFIG_SCSI_QLOGIC_FAS is not set
# CONFIG_SCSI_QLOGIC_ISP is not set
# CONFIG_SCSI_SEAGATE is not set
# CONFIG_SCSI_DC390T is not set
# CONFIG_SCSI_T128 is not set
# CONFIG_SCSI_U14_34F is not set
# CONFIG_SCSI_ULTRASTOR is not set
# CONFIG_SCSI_DEBUG is not set
# CONFIG_SCSI_MESH is not set
# CONFIG_SCSI_MAC53C94 is not set
#
# Network device support
#
CONFIG_NETDEVICES=y
# CONFIG_ARCNET is not set
# CONFIG_DUMMY is not set
# CONFIG_EQUALIZER is not set
CONFIG_NET_ETHERNET=y
# CONFIG_MACE is not set
# CONFIG_BMAC is not set
# CONFIG_NET_VENDOR_3COM is not set
# CONFIG_LANCE is not set
# CONFIG_NET_VENDOR_SMC is not set
# CONFIG_NET_VENDOR_RACAL is not set
# CONFIG_RTL8139 is not set
# CONFIG_YELLOWFIN is not set
# CONFIG_ACENIC is not set
# CONFIG_NET_ISA is not set
CONFIG_NET_EISA=y
# CONFIG_PCNET32 is not set
# CONFIG_AC3200 is not set
# CONFIG_APRICOT is not set
# CONFIG_CS89x0 is not set
CONFIG_DE4X5=y
# CONFIG_DEC_ELCP is not set
# CONFIG_DGRS is not set
# CONFIG_EEXPRESS_PRO100 is not set
# CONFIG_LNE390 is not set
# CONFIG_NE3210 is not set
# CONFIG_NE2K_PCI is not set
# CONFIG_TLAN is not set
# CONFIG_VIA_RHINE is not set
# CONFIG_ES3210 is not set
# CONFIG_EPIC100 is not set
# CONFIG_ZNET is not set
# CONFIG_NET_POCKET is not set
# CONFIG_FDDI is not set
# CONFIG_HIPPI is not set
# CONFIG_DLCI is not set
CONFIG_PPP=m
# CONFIG_SLIP is not set
# CONFIG_NET_RADIO is not set
# CONFIG_TR is not set
CONFIG_SHAPER=m
# CONFIG_HOSTESS_SV11 is not set
# CONFIG_COSA is not set
#
# Amateur Radio support
#
# CONFIG_HAMRADIO is not set
#
# ISDN subsystem
#
# CONFIG_ISDN is not set
#
# CD-ROM drivers (not for SCSI or IDE/ATAPI drives)
#
# CONFIG_CD_NO_IDESCSI is not set
#
# Console drivers
#
#
# Character devices
#
CONFIG_VT=y
CONFIG_VT_CONSOLE=y
CONFIG_SERIAL=y
CONFIG_SERIAL_CONSOLE=y
# CONFIG_SERIAL_EXTENDED is not set
# CONFIG_SERIAL_NONSTANDARD is not set
# CONFIG_UNIX98_PTYS is not set
CONFIG_MOUSE=y
#
# Mice
#
# CONFIG_ATIXL_BUSMOUSE is not set
# CONFIG_BUSMOUSE is not set
# CONFIG_MS_BUSMOUSE is not set
CONFIG_PSMOUSE=y
# CONFIG_82C710_MOUSE is not set
# CONFIG_PC110_PAD is not set
# CONFIG_QIC02_TAPE is not set
# CONFIG_WATCHDOG is not set
# CONFIG_NVRAM is not set
# CONFIG_RTC is not set
#
# Video For Linux
#
# CONFIG_VIDEO_DEV is not set
#
# Joystick support
#
# CONFIG_JOYSTICK is not set
#
# Ftape, the floppy tape device driver
#
# CONFIG_FTAPE is not set
#
# Filesystems
#
# CONFIG_QUOTA is not set
CONFIG_AUTOFS_FS=y
# CONFIG_ADFS_FS is not set
# CONFIG_AFFS_FS is not set
# CONFIG_HFS_FS is not set
# CONFIG_FAT_FS is not set
# CONFIG_MSDOS_FS is not set
# CONFIG_UMSDOS_FS is not set
# CONFIG_VFAT_FS is not set
CONFIG_ISO9660_FS=y
# CONFIG_JOLIET is not set
# CONFIG_MINIX_FS is not set
# CONFIG_NTFS_FS is not set
# CONFIG_HPFS_FS is not set
CONFIG_PROC_FS=y
# CONFIG_QNX4FS_FS is not set
# CONFIG_ROMFS_FS is not set
CONFIG_EXT2_FS=y
# CONFIG_SYSV_FS is not set
# CONFIG_UFS_FS is not set
#
# Network File Systems
#
# CONFIG_CODA_FS is not set
CONFIG_NFS_FS=y
CONFIG_NFSD=m
# CONFIG_NFSD_SUN is not set
CONFIG_SUNRPC=y
CONFIG_LOCKD=y
CONFIG_SMB_FS=m
CONFIG_SMB_WIN95=y
# CONFIG_NCP_FS is not set
#
# Partition Types
#
# CONFIG_BSD_DISKLABEL is not set
# CONFIG_MAC_PARTITION is not set
# CONFIG_SMD_DISKLABEL is not set
# CONFIG_SOLARIS_X86_PARTITION is not set
# CONFIG_UNIXWARE_DISKLABEL is not set
# CONFIG_NLS is not set
#
# Sound
#
# CONFIG_SOUND is not set
--
Michael Meissner, Cygnus Solutions (Massachusetts office)
4th floor, 955 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
meissner at cygnus.com, 617-354-5416 (office), 617-354-7161 (fax)
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