Hi all, has anybody succesfully tested a boot of debian woody through bootfloppies on powerpc prep?
I've succesfully booted the last diskset from testing on a Bull Estrella Series 300 (motorola powerstack 4000 II) but it hangs on initialization of the Symbios Logic 53C825A which at init, keeps resetting itself into oblivion. I'm also suspecting I might need a bootloader instead of just the openfirmware (which is a FirmWorks OpenFirmware 1.2 RH11 - got it from Bull); any ideas about that? yaboot seems to load but doesn't do anything afterwards (kernels won't boot) and I have not been able to find a binary version of quik which might do the trick. As a side note it looks like the kernel does not pick up any boot parameters given at the openfrmware command-prompt. Also note that the install.txt on the ftp.debian.org is very out of date (1999, scarce details about bootfloppy based install). If I get succesful with this (as in: actually get debian powerpc to run on it) I would like to rewrite this document. Hope to hear from fellow prep-hackers soon! Rubin. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
