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MacOS Ramdisk causes failure

Anonymous — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 20:39:40 -0000

Quadra 700
68M ram
32M MacOS Ramdisk

If the system has a ramdisk enabled in MacOS, Emile will crash to an unhappy mac somwhere during init.

Disabling the ramdisk clears this issue.

Possible solutions:
1> Do not map macos ramdisk to available memory pool
2> Unmap macos ramdisk during init (preferable)

Debian Installer boots but keyoard was'nt recognised

Peter Huyoff — Thu, 10 Nov 2005 18:29:09 -0000

I've tried to boot emile-debian-installer-0.9 from disk
1. My Machine is an Powerbook190 with 36MB RAM. It
boots succesfully, ejects disk 1 and requests for disk
2. After this, no reaction happens on any key.

Peter

Mac IIvx sad mac.

Michael Tomkins — Tue, 14 Dec 2004 00:21:39 -0000

Mac IIvx loads the floppy and about a second into boot
the sad mac icon appears and the booting stops. Has
launcher info and physical memory mapping output before
crash happens.

Mac IIvx 20Mb/1G will be able test on 68Mb soon.

Quadra 605 disk ejecting

Michael Tomkins — Tue, 14 Dec 2004 00:15:01 -0000

Debian install disk boots until VFS eject prompt, then
the ramdisk is read and then the disk keeps on ejecting
(I don't think any of the ramdisk is read it hasn't got
the time to).

System Quadra 605 36Mb/4G

Zapping PRAM

Laurent Vivier — Wed, 23 Jun 2004 19:38:30 -0000

if PRAM is zapped and MacOS is not restarted before
booting with EMILE, the first stage is loaded and Mac
hangs (the screen is cleaned)

tested on quadra 610

buggy characters

Laurent Vivier — Tue, 22 Jun 2004 22:46:07 -0000

Some buggy characters can appears in hexadecimal numbers:

Early Macintosh Image LoadEr
EMILE v0.5CVS (c) 2004 Laurent Vivier
This is free software, redistribute it under GPL
Physical memory map:
0: 0x04000000 -> 0x04ff8000 mapped at 0x00000000˙˙˙p@§.
-> 0x00ff8000
1: 0x00050000 -> 0x01000000 mapped at 0x00ff8000 ->
0x01fa8000
2: 0x04ff8000 -> 0x05000000 mapped at 0x01fa8000 ->
0x01fb0000
vmlinux root=/dev/ramdisk ramdisk_size=2048
console=ttyS0,9600n8 console=tty0
Loading kernel...
Kernel image loaded at 0x16cc4
Kernel image size is 562176 Bytes
Available Memory: 32448 kB
Allocating 1314816 bytes for kernel
Uncompressing kernel to
0xa00d4.........................................
Loading RAMDISK...
RAMDISK loaded at 0x1e2130
RAMDISK size is 654848 Bytes

Physical address of kernel will be 0x04001000
Ok, booting the kernel.

refuses to boot on SE/30

pvz — Tue, 15 Jun 2004 12:08:46 -0000

Emile refuses to boot from floppy on an SE/30.
The screen shows a "sad mac" with the following two
rows of digits under it:
0000000F
0000000C

This occurs with the original emile 0.4 bootdiskette
and with one I made myself with a more recent
kernelimage (2.2.25, march 2004) using the emile-tools.

32bit mode

Laurent Vivier — Tue, 15 Jun 2004 11:08:26 -0000

EMILE hangs just before starting kernel when 32bit mode
is enabled on machine with less than 16MB (perhaps on
other too...)

tested on LCIII with 8MB.

noFPU compatibility

Laurent Vivier — Tue, 15 Jun 2004 11:06:33 -0000

EMILE works and load correctly on machine without FPU.
But kernel is not able to start correctly, it hangs on
first screen after "K".

Seen on LCIII.

Crash if SCSI disk attached

Laurent Vivier — Thu, 13 May 2004 09:00:38 -0000

Release 0.3 boots on Quadra 610 only if no SCSI disk is
attached to the bus.
In other case, it displays sad macintosh on black screen.