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Debian Boot System

A debian boot system for Woody 3.0r1 is now available, either as rescue/root/driver floppy discs or as a jigdo downloadable CD image of the first woody CD.

The following are required for either CD or floppy bootstrap (they are on the CD image, though).
The debian CD jigdo is here:
Otherwise, you'll also require the following floppy discs and packages:
Note: The kernel in this boot system is 2.6, so module-init-tools is required to make it work with modules (for networking).

To set up this system, make sure you manually select the modules for networking from the install system, and make sure you specify a static IP (woody has a kernel check limitation that prevents dhcp from working on 2.6).

Voyager Patches

As of kernel version 2.5.54, no patches are required to compile voyager support.

Compiler warning: The correct compiler for the l2.4 inux kernel is gcc-2.91.66. The compiler delivered by default with RedHat 7.1 is gcc-2.96 and has a bug which misaligns code.  This code misalignment can trip the voyager boot sequence and cause it to hang.  Please make sure you compile with gcc-2.91.66 before reporting any problems (I find it easiest to install kgcc from RedHat 7.0 and alter the kernel Makefile to use it).

Bitkeeper  repositories of both voyager and arch-split are hosted at linux-voyager.bkbits.net

NCR Q720 Driver

Note:  The Q720 driver is rather experimental.  It is an add-on to the 53c7,8xx driver which is unmaintained in the kernel.  It seems to be unable to cope with more than one SCSI device.  If you use one of these for your root disc, you'll probably find that it won't run a SCSI CD as well---use network booting to get a RedHat installation.

NCR Dual 700 Driver

Note: This driver has been in the -ac series of linux kernels since 2.4.4-ac9

This driver is reasonably full featured.  It currently won't pick its ID from the internal CMOS table and always defaults to 7.  It implements disconnects and synchronous transfers but not tag command queueing.  I've written a completely new 53c700 scripts engine and tested it under multiple device high bus load to ensure that it doesn't suffer from the single device limitation of its Q720 cousin.

Version 2.1 has the 53c700 chip engine separated from the D700 driver.  To get this to work under redhat, you need to name both NCR_D700 and 53c700 as scsi hostadapters in the modules.conf file (with the 53c700 appearing first).

Note:  The Config.in portion of this patch includes the Q720 driver.  If you want to apply both driver patches, apply this one first and then apply the Q720 patch, expecting it to reject harmlessly in Config.in.

RPMS and Boot Images for RedHat 7.0

Note: installing a voyager system is extremely tedious.  You must first boot with either the net or local boot image, run through the RedHat installation procedure (which will install the wrong kernel) then boot as a rescue system to install and configure the correct voyager kernel package.  Note: this boot system will not boot or support Quad CPU cards.
 

RPMS and Boot Images for RedHat 7.1 (Seawolf)

See caveats abovel.  To get a network boot to work correctly, add the drivers disk at the earliest time it asks for it (otherwise the fat/vfat modules won't get inserted) and press F2 to add it again when it prompts for SCSI devices.

Updated 28 May 2001 to work with 3360/3430.