GVP Contollers and Linux

[jjans]

Any of you guys (&gals) ever successfully installed a unix/linux/BSD OS on to a GVP controller based Amiga?

I cannot get Debien, RedHat or BSD to recognise my hard drives on my A530/A500 during an install test of the kernal.

It really bugs me.
I really do not know why I need Linux on my Amiga. It's just because ...

 :-?

[adolescent]

GVP Series II is supported by Linux, so you can try loading that driver and see.  But, unless you've swapped your 68EC030 for a 68030 you won't be able to use Linux anyway as it requires a MMU.

[jjans]

adolescent wrote:
GVP Series II is supported by Linux, so you can try loading that driver and see.  But, unless you've swapped your 68EC030 for a 68030 you won't be able to use Linux anyway as it requires a MMU.

Yes I installed a real 68030, an FPU. That's a real good point and I should have mentioned that earlier.

I think I am doing some wrong in regards to loading the proper driver.

[jeffimix]

Have you tried the GVP G-Force 030 driver? They should probly be similiar pieces of hardware I'd imagine.

[jjans]

I thought I was, but then again, I think I may have to re-compile the kernal with it. The docs I had were a little confusing in that regard.

I should be able to recompile using any Linux shouldn't I? (ie Linux installed on a PC platform?).
Or do I have to compile it using gcc from within the native AmigaOS?

[Piru]

Any linux system can crosscompile kernel for other platform (and with slower m68k's it is a must, else you'll spend a week compiling a kernel).

Setting up the crosscompiler environment can be some work though. I've never done it, I rather compile the kernel natively.

[jeffimix]

GCC is perhaps the only compiler that can port itself too