Beta CD

Hello fellow PA-RISCers,

An preliminary beta CD for PA/Linux has been uploaded to puffin.external.hp.com. If people could try it and forward any complaints or suggestions to me, it would be greatly appreciated. The URL for the image is: ftp://puffin.external.hp.com/pub/parisc/cd-images/palinux-0.5.iso.gz

- Paul

The kernel dumps on an HP755. Actually, how do you make these CD's? I know how to use mkisofs to crerat a filesystem CD, but how you make it bootable with a kernel image?

Thanks,

Phillip Beal
Electrical and Computer Engineering
S+LUG Vice-President

I just borrowed a CDROM drive for my 715/75 so I could try it on there [Actually this is the palinux-0.5.iso.gz that I commented on, not the final version]. I wasn't successful:

Sometimes the boot hangs after "ASP version 1 at 0xf0800000 found", waits a few seconds and then HPMCs.

The scsi driver always has serious problems with the CD drive but does detect other devices on the bus.

The kernel always crashes after "Serial driver version 5.01...", (if it gets that far) with

Data access rights fault in kernel: Code=26 regs=c5f9c940 (Addr=00000003)

YZrvWESTHLNXBCVMcbcbcbcbOGFRQPDI
PSW: 00000000000001000000000000001010

r0-3     00000000 c0217800 c011e9f8 c5ff64a0
r4-7     c5ff6200 c023ab20 00000008 f0823800
r8-11    00000003 00000007 c019134c c02b20a0
r12-15   fffffffc c023a800 c023a800 c02c31cc
r16-19   c023a800 c023a800 c02b2024 00000000
r20-23   c5ff6234 f0823807 f0823800 0000000a
r24-27   ffffffff c5ff64a0 c5ff6200 c0258000
r28-31   ffffffff 000002c0 c5f9cb80 c012dfc0
sr0-4    00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
sr4-8    00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000

IASQ: 00000000 00000000 IAOQ: c011e710 c011e714
IIR: 0f881093 ISR: 00000000 IOR: 00000003
ORIG_R28: 00000058

I'll investigate further when I have the time.

Richard

the CD worked great on the 715 I tried, and I actually didn't have a serial console machine, so I used my Palm Pilot and a link cable. Still worked like a charm. How did you get the kernel image into the boot sector of the CD? I'd like to try to build some CD's of the kernels I'm building to test in some mahcines that are not on the same network as the machine that I'm building everything from.

And I don't mind posting my CD images somewhere if they work...but most of my testing is on a 735 or 755.

Thanks,

Phillip Beal
Electrical and Computer Engineering
S+LUG Vice-President

= How did you get the kernel image into the boot
= sector of the CD? I'd like to try to build some CD's of the kernels I'm = building to test in some mahcines that are not on the same network as = the machine that I'm building everything from.

The magic for making bootable CDs is documented in the PALO README.html which you have on your system already since you're building kernels.

	-P