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Jerry Heyman

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Oct 15, 2006, 10:53:32 AM10/15/06

Howdy,

Been working out my problems through the debian-m68k mailing list (and the
irc channel), and just found the reference to this newsgroup.

I'm running an Amiga A3000 w/68040 upgrade, 135MB, A2065 + other things
(see http://bellsouthpwp.net/h/e/heymanj/Amiga/HomeNetwork.html).

After much pain, I've installed the base of woody (3.1r1) and am attempting
to boot using amiboot-5.6. I installed to the 2nd SCSI hard drive and used
the entire drive during installation.

CLI> amiboot-5.6 -k vmlinux-2.4.27 root=/dev/sdb1

Is the command I'm trying to run, and I'm informed that amiboot is unable
to find vmlinux-2.4.27. I didn't write down the kernel version during the
base install, so I'm not 100% sure that is the kernel that *was* installed.

Can someone give me a little help here? What kernel version for 3.1r1, and
correct my amiboot line if I've managed to forget any options...

Thanks in advance.

jerry
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Dirk Heinrichs

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Oct 16, 2006, 4:50:50 AM10/16/06

Jerry Heyman wrote:

> CLI> amiboot-5.6 -k vmlinux-2.4.27 root=/dev/sdb1
>
> Is the command I'm trying to run, and I'm informed that amiboot is unable
> to find vmlinux-2.4.27.

amiboot needs the kernel (and initrd, if you use one) on an affs partition.
I usually put it in the same directory (or drawer, in AmigaOS speech) as
amiboot itself.

You should be able to do so by booting again from the debian cd, mount your
amigaos partition and copy the kernel and initrd from the cd as a starting
point. Once you have compiled your own kernel, remember to always compile
in support for affs (modules is sufficient) and copy it over to your affs
partition before you reboot.

HTH...

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