Re: debian-hppa on a C8000

Hi Frank,

> Great! Actually this is pretty easy to set up as soon as you have found
> out all needed details. :-) You only need a lifimage (with palo, Linux
> kernel and initramfs), a NFS root FS for the host and - as said - the
> following infrastructure services in addition:
> 
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> 
> I hope I didn't forget anything important. In case of questions just
> make contact.

Oh boy, and you call this all "pretty easy to set up"? It may be easy in 
terms of complexity, but the effort isn't negligible.

And the first difficulty is that my C8000 doesn't boot with the new 
kernel (vmlinuz-4.19.0-4-parisc64-smp). It stops after this message:

   Branching to kernel entry point 0x000e0000. If this is the last
   message you see, you may need to switch your console. This is
   a common symptom -- search the FAQ and mailing list at parisc-linux.org

Of course it has nothing to do with the console setting. Maybe it's 
caused by the fact that it's a 4 core machine with two 1 GHz dual core 
PA-8800 processors. And even kernel vmlinux-3.16.0-4-parisc64-smp 
doesn't boot absolutely reliable. Sometimes it crashes after "Reached 
target Graphical Interface" and "Started Update UTMP about System 
Runlevel Changes". And sometimes it boots up and the connected monitor 
wakes up from power save mode, but the screen stays black. I guess, both 
is related to the ATI graphics card driver which is not in the focus of 
the debian-hppa project.

Lothar