Hi, > > > I apologize to Malte. You were right. I was wrong. The kernel on the > > > floppies seems to be broken. > Ok. > > Now wee need to see why this happens. It seems that nobody was able to > make it work with the boot floppies built by me, is that exact ? Only by > those built by Jeremie.
I can confirm this. Yesterday I've tried your boot.img (from April-09) for another round, still without success. Jeromies bootfloppy and your root- and net-driver-floppy work fine. Then I installed unstable, which installed kernel-image-2.4.25-powerpc. This package installs the kernel to /boot/vmlinux-2.4.25-powerpc, but doesn't create a link to /boot/vmlinux. I think this is a bug, because quik (and quikconfig) assume that link to exist. If I set this link manually, run quikconfig and then quik, all I have to do is to set open firmware values with these commands: (to boot and install from floppies I have resetted them by pressing alt-apple-r-p) nvsetenv boot-device ata/[EMAIL PROTECTED]:0 nvsetenv boot-file "/boot/vmlinux" nvsetenv output-device screen nvsetenv input-device kbd After this, my system (PowerMac 4400/200, 48mb) boots from hard disc. As opposed to an earlier statement by myself there seems to be no need for a partman-quik: I succeded in installing quik onto a 120gb / (root) partition as well as on a 7gb / (root) partition. Does anybody know of limits within quik ? I'm very pleased that those nasty IDE limitations (the primary/logical partitioning crap as well) doesn't seem to exist, but I would really like for sure. Anyway, I'm not sure how to incorporate setting the open firmware values. Should that be part of a quik-installer ? I guess it should, but would like to get comments. Some macs require special open firmware settings, mostly for boot-device, see http://penguinppc.org/projects/quik/defaults.shtml and http://penguinppc.org/projects/quik/quirks.shtml) and right now I'm wondering whether it's possible to detect the mac modell or if it will be neccassary to prompt the user. Should I fill a bug report against kernel-package-2.4.25-powerpc (quik needs the link) ? Should I fill a bug report against d-i about the successfull install on a 120gb ide-harddisc and close the bug immediatly ? regards, Holger > We need to find out why. Jeremie, did you modify > the kernel config somehow ? Or maybe something is not ok with our builds > or something. > > Friendly, > > Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
