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

Johnnie Peters jpeters at phx.mcd.mot.com
Thu Jan 21 02:31:26 EST 1999


I will pull this down today and give it a try.

Johnnie


Gary Thomas wrote:

> On 20-Jan-99 Johnnie Peters wrote:
> >
> > I will volunteer to try the patches on:
> >
> > Blackhawk
> > Comet
> > Utah
> > Mequite
> > MTX
> > VME2600/2700/3600
> >
> > just as soon as they are available.
> >
>
> 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.
>
> This includes the changes to fix boot problems on my Utah box,
> as well as the changes to get the PS/2 mouse working again.
>
> I also did some restructuring of the PPC main configuration menu
> so that Pmac questions are ignored if you aren't configuring for
> a PowerMac.  I also added a configuration option to set the default
> kernel boot line, passed to the bootstrap code.
>
> Note: I have had persistent problems with the cache test in the
> NCR driver.  It seems to work fine if I just ignore it, so I also
> left it that way.  I also had to "tone down" the driver a lot,
> the default of WIDE+20Mhz just doesn't cut it on my drives :-)
>
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