On Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 02:12:26PM +0200, Gaudenz Steinlin wrote: > Chris Tillman wrote: > >On Sat, Sep 20, 2003 at 02:38:45PM +0200, Gaudenz Steinlin wrote: > > > >>Hi > >> > >>I just updated my webpage[1] with the debian-installer images for > >>powerpc. The images contain the d-i udebs (modules) that are currently > >>in the archive. Please test the installer and report bugs. There are > >>probably plenty of them. > >> > >>gaudenz > >> > >>[1] http://www.soziologie.ch/users/steinlin/d-i/ > > > > > >I tried this one out on my iMac, but didn't get too far. The boot > >stops right after finding and mounting the ramdisk image; it says > >Warning: console cannot be opened. > I sometimes noticed a similar error message "Unable to open initial > console". I thought it was because the unix.o kernel module did not > load. But I haven't seen it with the actual d-i build. > > > >I noticed that the vmlinux you have on the site downloaded to my > >machine in text/plain format. Do you think that might corrupt it? The > >images on the debian ftp server are named *.bin so that programs > >download them in binary format. > I changed the MIME Type of the files so they are correctly reported as > application/octet-stream rather than text/plain to the browser. > Additionaly I discovered a mistake, the link below netboot-initrd.gz > pointed to the file net-initrd.gz which is outdated. Please download again.
great. > Please check these md5sums: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/www/d-i$ md5sum vmlinux netboot-initrd.gz > 78610a19ad171b066f20808ccaf6a86b vmlinux > 300e92ffdb06fefa90f420d8936f8b83 netboot-initrd.gz > > > > >I didn't try it by netbooting, but instead by putting the files > >(vmlinux, yaboot, yaboot.conf, net-initrd.gz) on an hfs partition > >and then pointing OpenFirmware to them directly: > > > >boot hd:10,yaboot > > > >Will the net-initrd.gz work in this case? > Yes it should. "net" in this case means that only the net-retriever is > included in the initrd and you can only download additional udebs from > the net. > You don't have to use the yaboot.conf on my site in this case. You can > simply add a new section in your existing yaboot.conf. In fact the > yaboot.conf files on my site are special versions for cd or netbooting. > Did you include the "initrd-size=4000000" and append="init=/linuxrc" > parameters into your yaboot.conf? I had initrd-size=8000. I think that's k, I don't have 4G of memory here :) And I didn't have the init=/linuxrc , that's probably what stopped it. I'll let you know. -- Debian GNU/Linux Operating System By the People, For the People Chris Tillman (a people instance) toff one at cox dot net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
