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Offline jjansTopic starter

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m68K Linux
« on: May 10, 2004, 05:48:23 PM »
I was wondering if anyone here has ever successfully installed either Debian m68K, or NETBSD onto an A500 with accelerator 68030 and FPU. Mine specifically is a GVP A530 with 8MB Ram and 2 MB chip.

Debian installation (Amiboot) freezes when running the installer script, and hangs in a white screen after detecting all hardware during the -debug as per instructions at Debian manual

As for BSD, I partitioned a 1 GB hard disk as per BSD manual . I cannot get my multiboot (pressing left and right mouse buttons during boot) to detect the newly partitioned linux drive. I successfully transfered the miniroot.fs as per the manual using xstreamtodev from AmigaDos. I did have to add the --device=gvpscsi.device arg to xstreamtodev to get it to work.

From what I can tell, I meet the minimum hardware requirements in regards to CPU and FPU. (I recently installed a real MC68030 and 68882.

I am thinking that the problem may be with my GVP SCSI Controller. Any ideas?

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Re: m68K Linux
« Reply #1 on: May 10, 2004, 06:17:46 PM »
Dont know about nNetBSD, but as far as linux/m68k goes... http://www.no.linux-m68k.org/faq/amigahw.html

I would contact one of the developers, Geert Uytterhoeven is quite responsive  :-)
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Re: m68K Linux
« Reply #2 on: May 10, 2004, 06:34:22 PM »
From the NetBSD/Amiga page:
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There has been a report that the GVP '030/50MHz accelerator only works when all memory banks are switched to "Extended" (J12?).


I hope this helps.
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Re: m68K Linux
« Reply #3 on: May 10, 2004, 08:26:45 PM »
Thanks, I'll give it a go...
\\"Most Xenonites fly imports. Unfortunately yours is a domestic model. Don\\\'t be surprised if the gears work in reverse\\" - Volhaul\\\'s Revenge: Close Encounters of the Sludge Kind.

GVP A530, VXL 30/32, Supra 500XP, A590, A1000.