Re: bootstra.tos broken on 68040/68060 real hardware

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On Fri, 17 Jul 2026 at 03:51, Michael Schmitz <[email protected]> wrote:

> AFAIR the CT60 came with a patched version of ataboot/bootstrap that would
> have contained the cache flush patch.
>
That's true but as mentioned, it wouldn't let you boot anything which
requires more than ~6.5 MB of ST RAM for the staging area.

> The CT60 web pages appear to have gone away - can't check what version
> could be downloaded there anymore.
>
They didn't: http://didier.mequignon.free.fr. Its CT60 section offers
2.2.25 (vanilla debian) and 2.4.25 (patched/ with the one off bugfix).

> Does the installer find the IDE disk drive at all? I wonder if the ISO
> scanning issues are down to the kernel using a different host adapter
> driver (pata_falcon, not falconide) these days?
>
I wanted to post a separate email about it but since you have asked... ;)
No, it doesn't (at least the image with 6.6.15 I tried). I had to extract
and inject libata.ko.xz + pata_falcon.ko.xz from cdrom to hd-media
initrd.gz, that made /dev/sda accessible. However not mountable because it
seems that the kernel doesn't contain modules for msdosfs? So that's
another task to tick off.

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px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><=
div><p><span style=3D"background-color:transparent">The CT60 web pages
      appear to have gone away - can&#39;t check what version could be
      downloaded there anymore.</span></p></div></blockquote><div>They didn=
&#39;t:=C2=A0<a href=3D"http://didier.mequignon.free.fr">http://didier.mequ=
ignon.free.fr</a>. Its CT60 section offers 2.2.25 (vanilla debian) and 2.4.=
25 (patched/ with the one off bugfix).</div><blockquote class=3D"gmail_quot=
e" style=3D"margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204)=
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    <p>Does the installer find the IDE disk drive at all? I wonder if
      the ISO scanning issues are down to the kernel using a different
      host adapter driver (pata_falcon, not falconide) these days?</p></div=
></blockquote><div>I wanted to post a separate email about it but since you=
 have asked... ;) No, it doesn&#39;t (at least the image with 6.6.15 I trie=
d). I had to extract and inject=C2=A0libata.ko.xz + pata_falcon.ko.xz from =
cdrom to hd-media initrd.gz, that made /dev/sda accessible. However not mou=
ntable because it seems that the kernel doesn&#39;t contain modules for msd=
osfs? So that&#39;s another task to tick off.</div></div><div><br></div><sp=
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