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New MessageNetwork boot kernel image available (modified 0 times) scratchy
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I've updated the Debian installation instructions on my webpage with a link to the binary kernel image I use for network booting. This kernel has support for both root filesystem and swap on NFS. It is based on the patch on Vit_sfba's page and the NFS swap patch. So, it includes all of Bigbrd's original work, Vit_sfba's fixes and additions, and the IR keyboard rollover fix.

It has been configured with DHCP client support and has the NE2000 driver compiled in. And, it just *barely* fits in 640K!

The main page can be found here:

http://www.anycities.com/user/webpal/

02-15-2003 12:01:01

New MessageRE:Network boot kernel image available (modified 0 times) justdavesj
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Thanks Scratchy. That's just what I was working on this minute. I guess I can just download yours.

dave

02-15-2003 12:33:32

New MessageRE:Network boot kernel image available (modified 0 times) justdavesj
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Scratchy-

Your new kernel boots up and then hangs when "looking up port of RPC". I assume this means that my server isn't serving up the file system information. I am using a linux box and wonder what package I need to use to set this up. Any information would be appreciated.

thanks again!

dave

02-15-2003 14:05:19

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Hmmm... I am running that exact same kernel on my system. I've noticed that my system hangs for quite a while on those RPC messages (I get two), but eventually continues booting. The hang time is less than 30 seconds, I think. Following is the tail end of my dmesg output:

NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0.
NetWinder Floating Point Emulator V0.95 (c) 1998-1999 Rebel.com
Looking up port of RPC 100003/2 on 192.168.0.1
Looking up port of RPC 100005/1 on 192.168.0.1
VFS: Mounted root (nfs filesystem).
Freeing init memory: 76K
Adding Swap: 32764k swap-space (priority -1)

Did you wait long enough? Does your Webpal have at least 8 MB of memory (4 MB will not work)? Are you running nfsd on the server?

02-16-2003 02:14:23

New MessageRE:Network boot kernel image available (modified 0 times) justdavesj
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It's the nfsd that I am trying to setup. I have a Freesco box running a 2.0.38 kernel that I want to use for the server. How is this setup?

thanks

dave

02-16-2003 10:12:40

New MessageRE:Network boot kernel image available (modified 0 times) justdavesj
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Actually, I already have samba running. Could this be used to serve up the filesystem to the webpal?

thanks

dave

02-16-2003 21:02:04

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I've never set up nfsd from scratch. I've just turned on the functionality in Red Hat (which is very straight-forward). But, if you want to set it up from scratch, you might check out the following page:

http://nfs.sourceforge.net/nfs-howto/

It seems to have a lot of detailed information.

I'm not aware of any direct Linux kernel support for root on Samba.

02-17-2003 23:16:06

New MessageRE:Network boot kernel image available (modified 0 times) n1gp
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Been trying to get 16bit video working with no success.

I have 64MB installed, I changed the params video to video=acorn:dram:2048k

changed your dotconfig (.config)
from:
CONFIG_FBCON_CFB8=y
# CONFIG_FBCON_CFB16 is not set
to:
# CONFIG_FBCON_CFB8 is not set
CONFIG_FBCON_CFB16=y

rebuilt a new kernel.

Booting up looks OK but when I try to display a jpeg using
"fbi" http://bytesex.org/fbi.html, it still uses dithering
(8bit?)

Also changed XF86Config "depth" from 8 to 16, it does try to
use the cfb16 driver, but crashes with a signal 11.

Has anyone else had any luck getting a higher color depth
than 8 bit?

Rick

02-18-2003 01:08:51

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