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Re: MkLinux Control Panel Compatability with Sonnet Crescendo C61-G3-1M-266 card; Beowulf Cluster

> From: "David A. Gatwood" <email@hidden>
> Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2001 11:11:02 -0700
> To: "Louis A. Reed" <email@hidden>
> Cc: email@hidden, email@hidden
> Subject: Re: MkLinux Control Panel Compatability with Sonnet Crescendo
> C61-G3-1M-266 card
>
> On Friday, August 10, 2001, at 06:58 AM, Louis A. Reed wrote:
>
>> as I am still using the 601 processor, but would like to be able to boot
>> into Linux using the MkLinux Control Panel after the G3 card is running
>> (i.
>> e. after the Sonnet extension has already loaded, if a workaround can be
>> figured out to get the MkLinux Control Panel to load after loading the
>> Sonnet extension.
>>
>> I know that David Gatwood mentioned when he was starting to work at
>> Apple
>> that one of the projects that he would be trying to work on involved
>> this,
>> and I wonder if any progress had been made along these lines. I had not
>> seen anything on the list regarding this matter in a while, but it is
>> possible that I missed it.
>
> Haven't had time to breathe since then, since I'm working extra days to
> make up for a vacation. :-)
>
>
>> Any info concerning the use of the
>> MkLinux bootloader in conjuction with the Sonnet Crescendo G3 Card
>> would be
>> greatly appreciated.
>
> See what happens with that monolithic kernel and BootX with the
> Crescendo card. I was able to at least get into the MkLinux kernel with
> the crescendo active, but I think it crashed either in video
> initialization or possibly even earlier while setting up BATs. Not sure.
>
>
> David
>
David,

I tried every kernel I know that is compatible with the NuBus PowerPC Macs
including the MkLinux kernels, Takashi Oe's Monolithic NuBus Kernel
(versions 2.4.5 and 2.4.6pre3, I believe), tried using different versions of
BootX including 1.2b1, 1.2b3 (this one just plain crashes, period), Modified
BootX by Ludovic Ishiomin, which was modified in order to boot MkLinux
(Version 1.2b1-ludo - 30/11/1999), and they all give me nothing but a screen
with some colored lines- occasionally with a little bit of the early boot
messages about TCP, etc. interspersed with the colored lines. I realize
that you are very busy, but if you have time to look at this issue when
things settle down, I know a lot of people would be very happy about it.

Incidentally, Michael Roeder has a lot of information with links to other
sites about putting together a Beowulf Cluster. His site is at:
<http://www.infernosoft.com/beowoof/index.html>

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 >Re: MkLinux Control Panel Compatability with Sonnet Crescendo C61-G3-1M-266 card (From: "David A. Gatwood" <email@hidden>)



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