Re: [cobalt-developers] RedHat won't reboot

[Duncan Laurie <duncan@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Francisco Jorge wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have installed RedHat 8.0 on a Cobalt Raq3. It seems to work fine, 
> except for two things:
>
> 1) Issuing the 'reboot' command shuts down all services, etc. but then 
> it shows the message "Rebooting system..." and stalls there. I have to 
> manually switch off the appliance in order to reboot it.
>
> 2) The display does not work. I have installed the display packages from 
> the Cobalt Restoration CD, but when I try to show something on the 
> display I get this message:
>
> [root@cobalt root]# lcd-write "Red Hat Linux on" " a Cobalt Qube 3"
> LCD is not present
>
> I think both problems are related with the kernel compilation I have 
> maken, since I used the config file that comes with RedHat.
>
> Any ideas of what I am missing in order to make both functions work 
> properly on the Cobalt?

Hi Francisco,

You will need a patched kernel to get a few things working right.  One 
of those things is reboot because the RaQs do not have a standard PC 
BIOS.  If you are interested I have some RH8 kernel RPMS that have been 
modified to add cobalt support.  The binarys are here:

http://cobalt.iceblink.org/redhat/binary/

kernel-cobalt-III-2.4.18-24.8.0.i386.rpm    # for RaQ 3, RaQ 4, Qube 3
kernel-cobalt-V-2.4.18-24.8.0.i386.rpm      # for RaQ XTR, RaQ 550

This kernel includes the LCD driver necessary for the panel-utils 
package to work, but you will need to install the lcd device first:

mknod /dev/lcd c 10 156

There is more information on how these kernels were built as well as the 
required kernel patches available here:

http://cobalt.iceblink.org/redhat/build/readme.build


-duncan