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

[Jeff Lasman <jblists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Duncan Laurie wrote:

> 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

Good to see you supporting us on this list, Duncan.  I'd been told in
the past that the Red Hat 2.4 series kernels required a reburn of the
RaQ bios to work.  Is this a step you've left out, or is it just not
true?

Does the mknod command only have to be run once, or must it be in some
kind of startup script?

> 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

Thanks for this documentation as well.  Is there a patching step
missing, or again, is this just something I don't understand well?  I
haven't built kernels since early 1995, and I'm a bit rusty.

Thanks for any clarifications you can give us (or me, anyway <smile>).

Jeff
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