On Mon, Apr 29, 2002 at 11:57:56AM +0200, Rubin wrote: > 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.
Normally I'd say go to packages.debian.org/quik -- but I know it doesn't show up because the package archives are i386-centric. If you'd like, I could email you one. It's much more finicky that yaboot, though, and normally needs to install a boot block from inside linux. > > 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 Also note that the install.txt on the ftp.debian.org is very out of date 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. Excellent! We haven't had any prep users volunteer to update it. > Hope to hear from fellow prep-hackers soon! > > Rubin. -- *------v--------- Installing Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 --------v------* | <http://www.debian.org/releases/woody/installmanual> | | debian-imac (potato): <http://debian-imac.sourceforge.net> | | Chris Tillman [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | May the Source be with you | *----------------------------------------------------------------* -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
