Tiger MPX

[Jarmo Tulonen]

Hello

I'm still struggling with the Tyan Tiger MPX (aka S2466).
I tested this time with the programs I downloaded from
ftp.lnxi.com, compiling from the tar packet and using
etherboot 5.1.5 as payload. It loads the kernel from the
tftp server but when it should jump to the kernel, it just dies.
I also tried with the pre-made rom image from the
rpm-package, with the same result.
If I load etherboot from floppy, it gets the kernel from
the tftp server and starts it up ok.
Any ideas how to proceed ?

Regards : Jarmo

[Ronald G. Minnich]

I have not yet bought an MPX, but when I get one I will give this a try. 
Steve James is the expert on this i think.

ron

Jarmo Tulonen  writes:
> Hello
>
> I'm still struggling with the Tyan Tiger MPX (aka S2466).
> I tested this time with the programs I downloaded from
> ftp.lnxi.com, compiling from the tar packet and using
> etherboot 5.1.5 as payload. It loads the kernel from the
> tftp server but when it should jump to the kernel, it just dies.
> I also tried with the pre-made rom image from the
> rpm-package, with the same result.
> If I load etherboot from floppy, it gets the kernel from
> the tftp server and starts it up ok.
> Any ideas how to proceed ?

I can think of two possibilities.
1) You don't have serial console support in your kernel,
   or it is not properly configured so you do not see what is going on.
2) You may have run into the recent mkelfImage bug, that I just fixed.

Eric

[Jarmo Tulonen]

On Thursday 06 February 2003 22:20, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> Jarmo Tulonen  writes:
> > Hello
> >
> > I'm still struggling with the Tyan Tiger MPX (aka S2466).
> > I tested this time with the programs I downloaded from
> > ftp.lnxi.com, compiling from the tar packet and using
> > etherboot 5.1.5 as payload. It loads the kernel from the
> > tftp server but when it should jump to the kernel, it just dies.
> > I also tried with the pre-made rom image from the
> > rpm-package, with the same result.
> > If I load etherboot from floppy, it gets the kernel from
> > the tftp server and starts it up ok.
> > Any ideas how to proceed ?
>
> I can think of two possibilities.
> You don't have serial console support in your kernel,
> or it is not properly configured so you do not see what is going on.
> You may have run into the recent mkelfImage bug, that I just fixed.
>
> Eric

Hello

I just got it to work. My problem was that I was generating
the kernel image with mkelf-linux and not with mkelfImage.
(Actually I did try also mkelfImage at some phase but then I didn't
have the console=ttyS0 option appended. So it worked but I 
didn't know it :-)

Thank you for your reply

Jarmo

Jarmo Tulonen  writes:
> Hello
>
> I just got it to work. My problem was that I was generating
> the kernel image with mkelf-linux and not with mkelfImage.

Yes.... mkelf-linux works but it does not understand LinuxBIOS at all...
> (Actually I did try also mkelfImage at some phase but then I didn't
> have the console=ttyS0 option appended. So it worked but I 
> didn't know it :-)
>
> Thank you for your reply

Eric