Toolchain

[archicharmer]

It is shameful that i haven't guessed to install gcc with the help of command "apt-get install" But i have an excuse: i don't know name of packages in debian-linuxes (i'm Red Hat Linux User!)

SCPH-77008a SLIM, kloader2.4.

Load in QEMU with mipsel-lenny;
apt-get install debootstrap*
mkdir chroot-debian-lenny
debootstrap lenny chroot-debian-lenny; cd chroot-debian-lenny
tar -czvf ps2-debian-lenny.tgz *
scp ps2-debian-lenny.tgz username@my-real-linux-host-ip:~
|:by this command i can not only "copy to" but and "copy from":|

Untaring to my flash drive - it EVERY TIME untar files with errors. And i decided to create loop inside QEMU and untar to it. Then loop scp to real-linux. And then dd if=loop of=/dev/sdb1 (all sdbs disappeared from dev. Do command ./MAKEDEV /dev/sdb)

Then in Paragon Partition Manager 9.0 i created addition fat32 partiton (sda2)
vmlinux2.6_v1.gz and initrd.usb2.gz are placed to this partiton.

newroot=/dev/sda1 is added to kernel parameter in kloader. All ready to launch.

The result of all this is lines:
ps2_ohci: Unlink after no-IRQ? Controller probably using the wrong IRQ
mount /dev/sda1 on /newroot
mount: special device /dev/sda1 does not exist

Lines are imposed against each other, so i saw these line hardly

[Mega Man]

OK, I forgot to add IRQ support for slim PSTwo. Direct interrupts are not working on slim. I need to use RPC like Linux 2.4. I will update the kernel.

[archicharmer]

Test of vmlinux2.6_v2.gz and lenny's initrd.gz

The screen full of lines with:
Starting system log daemon: syslogd, klogd./modules.dep: No such file or directory
and invite:

---------------------------|(!!) Low memory|--------------------------------
|**This system has relatively little memory, so it will enter low memory mode.*|
|Among other things, this means that this program will proceed in English. You*|
|**********should set up swap space as soon as possible.**************|
|************************************************* *********|
|************************(Continue)***************************|
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------

Also before all these lines there was line about that /lib/modules/2.6.35.4/modules.dep No such file or directory. Or again lines are imposed against each other.

[Mega Man]

This is the scroll bug in the graphic driver. You can clean up the screen by pressing ALT + F2 and ALT + F1.
The memory can't be increased. Only swap memory can be activated.
The modules for 2.6.35.4 are not yet available, because the porting is in an early stage.
I updated the kernel to include USB support for slim PSTwo:
Linux 2.6 v3

[archicharmer]

vmlinux2.6_v3.gz, initrd.usb2.gz, kloader2.4

Keyboard "Logitech" works again.
Now, i can not understand everithing on the screen. Lines are imposed against each other and Alt+F1(2) not work. Also Alt+Number_key not work too even with numpad ciphers. Pieces of chaos on screen:
....[sda] Assuming drive cache: write through
.......
Mounting /dev/sda1 on /newroot
...EXT3-fs (sda1): barriers not enabled
.......
...EXT3-fs (sda1): error: unrecognized mount option "relatime" or missing value
.....
Also after "running bash", where i can entering commands, i just pressing Enter and:
/> @@@@@@@@@@@@: command not found @@@@@@@@@@@@@

vmlinux2.6_v3.gz, initrd.gz (from mipsel-lenny)

I can continue with installing, but i don't want do it until will be not any error.

[Mega Man]

Maybe you formatted /dev/sda1 as ext3 instead of ext2. I am not sure what is happening here, because the parameter relatime is not part of initrd.usb.gz. Maybe it is enough if you create the directory "oldroot" on /dev/sda1.
You can install gcc and binutils with:

apt-get install gcc binutils

[Dadas]

Deba5er's usb install worked with kernel 2.6 v3, however, when fluxbox was launched, screen gone black, that is probably thanks to buggy graphics driver
but YAY, it is awesome!

[wisi]

@ Dadas
The screen probably has gone blank because of the different graphic mode used in the /usr/local/bin/win3 script.
I don't think that this topic is about using kernel 2.4.17. I think it is about the toolchain used to port linux 2.6 to PS2.

Edit:
Sorry my fault. I didn't know porting Linux 2.6 has gone so far as to be able to start Fluxbox.
Great work MegaMan. I will test it when I have time.

[Dadas]

Screen gone black while using 2.6 kernel, not 2.4

[archicharmer]

It is so loooooong to compile mips64r5900el-toolchain in qemu-mipsel...
All so slow... PS2Linux faster! Even on SLIM!
I even has not compiled binutils to the end, i compiling it for ~2 hours!

It will be SO WASTE if gcc will not compiled.