Correction for the PA-RISC/Linux Boot HOWTO at ESIEE's web site.

I'm booting a 715/80 workstation using a PC with SuSE 7.2. Trying to follow the examples to configure bootp/tftp at

http://mkhppa1.esiee.fr/parisc-linux-boot/parisc-linux-boot/preparation.html

I could not get it to boot.

This distribution sets the daemons as follows:

tftp    dgram  udp  wait  root  /usr/sbin/tcpd  in.tftpd -s /tftpboot
bootps  dgram  udp  wait  root  /usr/sbin/bootpd  bootpd -c /tftpboot

This a chroot setup, so the example /etc/bootptab in the web page will not work.

The configuration that worked for me is the following:

parisc:hd=/:\
                :ht=ethernet:\
                :ha=0800093BF206:\
                :ip=192.168.0.8:\
                :bf=lifimage:\
                :sm=255.255.0.0:\
                :to=7200:

Where the bootable kernel image was the lifimage created using "make palo" (The web page description is ambiguous as to what image to use: vmlinux or lifimage)

Also the purpose of the parameter "rp" in the example bootptab is not clear in the example. Its purpose is to specify a root filesystem to mount, but the lifimage has that parameter set from palo Makefile.

     Rafael

Hi All,

On my palinux box I got this gcc error while compiling a source code.

$ gcc -c -g -O3 c2.c
c.c: In function `string_match_1':
c.c:406: Internal error: Segmentation fault
Please submit a full bug report,
with preprocessed source if appropriate.
See <URL:http://www.gnu.org/software/gcc/bugs.html> for instructions.

Where should I submit this? since it happen on a palinux box I dunno if the gcc maitainer does have such a box?

Thanx in advance,
Phi

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iirc, the error output tells one where to submit the bug report. Perhaps that has changed.

J. David Anglin is HPPA co-maintainer and he watches this list. And yes - he has several parisc boxes.

thanks,
grant

File it in gnats:
<http://gcc.gnu.org/cgi-bin/gnatsweb.pl>.

The more information that you can provide the better. One of the first things to do is generate preprocessed source, then run cc1 under a debugger to find where the segementation fault occurred.

However, I don't yet have a working palinux system and neither does Jeff Law as far as I am aware. If the problem is generic, then with luck it can be fixed fairly easily. However, the odds are that the problem is specific to palinux.

One of the problems that we face is that the deb version of gcc has been quite heavily hacked for parisc-linux, and thus it isn't supportable. I hope that we can get one of the standard releases or the mainline code working as soon as possible. There are still problems with gdb and binutils on palinux (eg., passing floats in dynamic calls, etc).

Dave

J. David Anglin                                  [email protected]
National Research Council of Canada              (613) 990-0752 (FAX: 952-6605)

Hi all,

As Rafael Herrera did, I would like your feedback from my new
version of PA-RISC/Linux Boot HOWTO.
http://mkhppa1.esiee.fr/parisc-linux-boot/parisc-linux-boot/index.html

-I added a complete chapter about compiling a kernel for HP PA-RISC system. -I did a complete review of the text b/c of the progress of the port -I added a note for users that are not using Debian that you should blame the absence of standard for the default parameters more than the guy who did this howto :-)
(b/c there are a lot of distro for Linux and that's great but I can't do a step by step for each of them :-) )

Please, if you have any comment to make about this text, could you reply to me because I would like update the version of Linuxdoc with a minimum of errata.

Thomas.
ESIEE Team