11.4.4 Linux 2 on Afterburner

Linux 2 on Afterbruner 040

Here you found some different comments to LINUX on an Afterburner Falcon

I have tried the 2.0.18 kernel from TSX-11 on the Falcon with varrying
degrees of lack of success. I cannot boot the kernel.
If anyone out there has information they think might help please get in
touch with me, especially if you also have an Afterburner.

BOTTARGS for all attempts looks like :
-s -k kernel -r ramdiskfs

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Case 1:

Afterburner patches in Auto:
MMU_040.PRG
FPU_040.PRG

launching ATABOOT18 results in:

CPU: 040, FPU: 040, 13MB ST-RAM, 16 TT-RAM
Kernel starts to boot, changes resolution to 640x480x4, recognizes various hardware, initializes SCSI etc.
reports close to 30MB of RAM
gets through the PPP stuff
and then hangs indefinately after the SLIP kernel stuff.

Note:
I have also tried the atari.something 2.x kernel from ftp.phil.uni-sb.de with exactly the same results though there is less stuff compiled into the kernel. Everything still stops after the SLIP message.

Case 2:

Afterburner patches in AUTO:
BMMU_040.PRG Black Scorpion MMU init and RAM init program
FPU_040.PRG

launching ATABOOT18 results in:

CPU: 040, FPU: 040, 13MB ST-RAM, 15MB TT-RAM
I get to the BOOTING LINUX (or is it BOOTING KERNEL?) message and everything hangs up. Once the resolution almost finished changing but normally everything stops dead.

General Notes:

Using the Black Scorpion MMU program is the ONLY way for me right now to get the AB040 to work without any problems with TOS and TT-RAM. The TT-RAM is installed correctlyand ROM is copied into TT-RAM resulting in 15.5 MB TTRAM. The provided MMU_040.PRG and RAM_040.PRG/FAFA16.PRG patches DO NOT WORK correclty causing miserable crashes almost immediately after booting.

There MIGHT be a problem with my AB040 board and the TT-RAM though when running with the Black Scorpion MMU/RAM patch everything works perfectly under regular TSO (but ONLY with NVDI).

I have tried playing with various combinations of the other MMU and RAM programs which did nothing to help the situation.

I am 100% sure that the RAM jumpers on the board are correctly set. (JP1 and JP2 both at 2-3) as specified in the French installaiton docs. The RAM is installed and used perfectly well under TOS with the BS MMU patch.

Article from: jackk@asi.fr (Jack Kitowicz)
Found in: fr.comp.sys

Linux runs on Afterburner well. Minor problem for beginners is that the precompiled kernels (found in distributions and on various ftp sites) do NOT run on Afterburner. To get a kernel that actually runs on it, visit my WWW site and download one of them from there (there are always the latest stable (ATM 2.0.33) and development (ATM 2.1.85) precompiled kernels available on my page). Later, when you compile kernels by yourself, please exclude support for 030 and 060 machines - such a kernel then run on AB040.

You also need an ataboot (Atari bootstrap) version 3.1 or higher (the ataboot is available on my WWW page as well).

That's all. Enjoy the power of Afterburner and the speed and stability of Linux-m68k. Watch the debian site (www.debian.org), sometimes this summer there might appear a final Debian-m68k distribution...

E-mail: stehlik@cas3.zlin.vutbr.cz