Re: Linux 2.2.13 on an original PowerStack-I
From: Michael Meissner <hidden>
Date: 1999-11-15 02:31:26
On Wed, Nov 10, 1999 at 12:42:25AM -0500, Michael Meissner wrote:
I have an original PowerStack-I (66 Mhz 603 with no cache) that has been sitting idle since about January, and I thought I would turn it into a web server. I did the usual boot with my carefully preserved FD_SETUP, base tools, build tools, FD_BOOT diskettes, and set up a R4 system, and tried to boot with the 2.2.13 kernel I'm running on my PowerStack-II (a 'UTAH' 200 Mhz 604e, 512K Cache). It seemed to fail miserably looking for hda/hdb. Is there a known patch to make the older PowerStack-I boot? I vaguelly recall having this problem except reversed in the January time frame (standard kernel would boot on the older machine but not boot on the newer machine, but there was a patch available to make it boot on the new machine which broke the old machine -- evidently that patch went into the tree). Ideally, I could run the same kernel on both machines, but I could live with different kernels.
Just in case anybody else has the same problem, I figured out what my problem is -- I forgot to compile in the NCR53C8XX driver. I compiled in the SYM53C8XX driver on the 604e, but the 603 only has a 53c810 onboard. Whoops. -- Michael Meissner, Cygnus Solutions PMB 198, 174 Littleton Road #3, Westford, Massachusetts 01886 email: meissner@cygnus.com phone: 978-486-9304 fax: 978-692-4482 ** Sent via the linuxppc-dev mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/