| From: | Andrew Barker |
| Date: | 5 Apr 2000 at 16:52:51 |
| Subject: | Re: HELP!! LinuxPPC+WarpUp |
Alan Buxey wrote:
>
> hi,
>
> > If you are using the BPPC without SCSI, then you MUST hold 's' on boot to
> > disable the nonexisting SCSI controller. That is, unless you compile a kernel
> > without SCSI
>
> .......or use the latest bootstrap + vmlinux - the latest bootstrap has
> warpup/powerup and scsi/noscsi detection routines.
I had to revert back to the other bootstrap becuase it caused Linux
to show something like a page fault (loads of numbers ;-().
I've now installed Linux Red Hat, and need to get xstart working now.
A brilliant web page helped me out a lot:
http://users.iol.it/marco.dvv/marcus/htal.html
> > Another reason might be that you have the 60ns switch set as a kernel command
> > line. It doesn't work here.
>
> '60nsram' works fine at end of command line with latest bootstrap
Also for users with a 4-way ide interface the 'ide=doubler' allows you
to use
other ide hds on the chain ;-)
>
> alan
Regards
Andy Barker