Re: Trouble with BLADE_0.3 and new Cabriolet system

William Volkman (wkv@rmii.com)
Fri, 24 Nov 1995 03:33:12 -0700 (MST)

Hi,
Ok I downloaded your preliminary 1.3.44 kernel and I was
able to boot and begin installation. I also tried David's
kernel and it booted ok however my mother board dosn't have
SCSI, it *ONLY* has EIDE (only one connector however) so his
kernels were not of much use. The firmware version announced
by the ARC console is 4.35 (incase that's of any use).

There was one odd occurance with your preliminary kernel, when
I had mounted a floppy, copied a file off of it, dismounted
it and tried to mount another it gave me a message something
like an inode in use but device not ready and I had to reboot
to be able to use the floppy again.
>
> > Milo tells me I have
> > 32Mb however I've got 4 SIMMS of 16Mb each so should be 64Mb?
>
> Hmm.. Is MILO hardcoded for this? Try giving it the MEMORY_SIZE define
> (or whatever the name was - type "help" at the prompt).

I tried setting MEMORY_SIZE to 64 but the system hung after
decompressing (just after the jumping to virtual address ...)
but before printing anything. Unfortunatly I don't remember
the decoder magic for SIMMs so maybe the shop that got them
for me only gave me SIMMs of 8Mb each. I'll verify those
tomorrow.
>
> > I don't have a hard-drive connected to it yet as I thought I
> > would be using a SCSI Buslogic 946C however Milo complains
> > that it doesn't know how to configure the host adapter and
> > hangs if I try to load the linux kernel.
>
> Hmm? The cabrio has a built-in NCR SCSI chipset, and that's the only
> thing the MILO binaries probably support.

My cabriolet doesn't have the on-board SCSI and David, if
your listening, could you include support for IDE drives in
your kernel images please?

If I try to rebuild MILO to include the driver for the
BusLogic do you think it has a chance of working?

Thanks,
Bill V.