Sven Luther wrote: > 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. >
Hi again! Take a look at: http://people.debian.org/~luther/d-i/images/2004-08-08/build_powerpc-small_floppy_boot.log And you can see that the floppy was built with a 2.4 kernel. And I think that it should stay so and not take an 2.6 kernel, because I never was able to boot on later after sarge installed on my Umax(oldworld clone mac). Also look at line nine from the end of the file its: hcopy -r ./tmp/powerpc-small_floppy_boot-ofonly/vmlinux.gz :vmlinuz it seems that a gziped vmlinux file becomes vmlinuz. Do I understand that right? But It should be a coff file, dont know if compressed or not. So the error formatstate blabla at openfirmwae is a result of loading a gz file. Maybe someone (how to find out how?)can change the build script to make a coff file and the I can test if the resulting floppy will work. Since d-i rc1 is out now there should be a boot floppy for people how dont have macos to boot from cd on an oldworld. Ciao Chris. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
