Re: bootstra.tos broken on 68040/68060 real hardware
Michael Schmitz <[email protected]> Fri, 17 Jul 2026 16:08:37 +1200
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This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------gHDlxm0B3ZihDvMJtq5IrcvP Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Miro, On 17/07/2026 1:15 PM, Miro Kropáček wrote: > 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. I see - I must admit I never tried booting large kernels and initrds since my CT60 stopped booting in a reasonable video mode. I'll have to give that another try sometime. > > 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). Good to know - not sure what else I had bookmarked that failed to load then. > > 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. The vfat.ko module would also be needed then. I would have thought that's already in the initrd though. Try loading that module explicitly and see what log messages you get. I don't remember having to use any special module options. Cheers, Michael > > -- > http://mikro.atari.org --------------gHDlxm0B3ZihDvMJtq5IrcvP Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit <!DOCTYPE html> <html> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"> </head> <body> <p>Miro,</p> <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 17/07/2026 1:15 PM, Miro Kropáček wrote:<br> </div> <blockquote type="cite" cite="mid:CAN5rfbTKDykGjbnWsTOE8e_7MdHnRCMs19JrPj+g2h_firVSFg@mail.gmail.com"> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"> <div dir="ltr"> <div dir="ltr"><span style="background-color:transparent">On Fri, 17 Jul 2026 at 03:51, Michael Schmitz <<a href="mailto:[email protected]" moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext">[email protected]</a>> wrote:</span></div> <div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"> <div> <p><span style="background-color:transparent">AFAIR the CT60 came with a patched version of ataboot/bootstrap that would have contained the cache flush patch.</span></p> </div> </blockquote> <div>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.</div> </div> </div> </blockquote> I see - I must admit I never tried booting large kernels and initrds since my CT60 stopped booting in a reasonable video mode. I'll have to give that another try sometime. <blockquote type="cite" cite="mid:CAN5rfbTKDykGjbnWsTOE8e_7MdHnRCMs19JrPj+g2h_firVSFg@mail.gmail.com"> <div dir="ltr"> <div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"> <div> <p><span style="background-color:transparent">The CT60 web pages appear to have gone away - can't check what version could be downloaded there anymore.</span></p> </div> </blockquote> <div>They didn't: <a href="http://didier.mequignon.free.fr" moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext">http://didier.mequignon.free.fr</a>. Its CT60 section offers 2.2.25 (vanilla debian) and 2.4.25 (patched/ with the one off bugfix).</div> </div> </div> </blockquote> Good to know - not sure what else I had bookmarked that failed to load then. <blockquote type="cite" cite="mid:CAN5rfbTKDykGjbnWsTOE8e_7MdHnRCMs19JrPj+g2h_firVSFg@mail.gmail.com"> <div dir="ltr"> <div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"> <div> <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'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.</div> </div> </div> </blockquote> <p>The vfat.ko module would also be needed then. I would have thought that's already in the initrd though. </p> <p>Try loading that module explicitly and see what log messages you get. I don't remember having to use any special module options.</p> <p>Cheers,</p> <p> Michael</p> <blockquote type="cite" cite="mid:CAN5rfbTKDykGjbnWsTOE8e_7MdHnRCMs19JrPj+g2h_firVSFg@mail.gmail.com"> <div dir="ltr"> <div><br> </div> <span class="gmail_signature_prefix">-- </span><br> <div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"> <div dir="ltr"> <div><a href="http://mikro.atari.org" target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext">http://mikro.atari.org</a></div> </div> </div> </div> </blockquote> </body> </html> --------------gHDlxm0B3ZihDvMJtq5IrcvP--