On Sat, Aug 07, 2004 at 10:18:09PM +0200, Christian Leimer wrote: > Sven Luther wrote: > > > On Sat, Aug 07, 2004 at 05:02:31PM +0200, Holger Levsen wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >> > Well, i have no idea what you are trying to do, but my guess is that > >> > you are not looking in the right place. The miboot 2.4 floppies are at > >> > : > >> > > >> > > http://people.debian.org/~luther/d-i/images/daily/powerpc-small/floppy/ > >> > >> hmm.... the boot.img from 2004-08-06, 21:24 (still) doesn't boot and the > >> root.img is too big to fit on a floppy :-( > > > > :/ We need to find out why this happens. Do you know how to build it > > :yourself ? > > > > Hi! > > I today copied the vmlinux.coff kernel from > kernel-build-2.4.25-powerpc-small to a hfs floppy and was able to boot from > openfirmware with: boot fd:vmlinux(renamed kernel). The kernel loads but > hangs because of no root fs. So whoever is building the boot floppies
The initrd should have the root fs modules, so this should not be a problem. I have no idea how you specify a initrd with the OF, but my guess is that you need to produce a kernel with builtin initrd, like we do for chrp or prep. The best guess would be to use a 2.6.7-powerpc kernel, and use : mkvmlinuz 2.6.7-powerpc to generate vmlinuz-2.6.7-powerpc, which you can then boot from the OF. This is rather untested though, but mkvmlinuz supports the generation of the .coff image. Maybe d-i should provide such .coff images, since so it is not needed to have either bootx nor miboot. But since this is only available from the serial console, it cannot be a generic solution for old world. > should take this kernel and add some root or ram stuff to make a di boot > floppy. Also it seems that the ofonly and the normal kernels are equal. > Should this be so? And they still dont work error: unrecognized Client > Programm formatstate not valid. Maybe some sort of wrong format it should > be xcoff or? No idea about this. > If a new kernel is ready some time I can test if needed. Hope this helps, Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
