On Wed, Aug 11, 2004 at 11:55:28AM -0400, Rick Thomas wrote: > > On Wednesday, August 11, 2004, at 05:25 AM, Sven Luther wrote: > > >On Wed, Aug 11, 2004 at 01:57:22AM -0400, Rick Thomas wrote: > >>Package: installation-reports > >> > >>I retrieved the floppy images at > >> > >> http://people.debian.org/~luther/d-i/images/daily/powerpc- > >>small/floppy/ > >> > >>so I could try out a floppy-boot install from them. > >> > >>I got never even got off the ground... > >> > >>1) The "boot.img' floppy seems to have nothing on it but the > >>'vmlinuz' kernel. There's no system folder or any of the other > >>boilerplate necessary for a bootable floppy. I understand that > >>there are technical licensing problems with miboot. Nevertheless, > > > >Can you check in the logs to see what happened ? Mmm, indeed : > > > >http://people.debian.org/~luther/d- > >i/images/daily/build_powerpc-small_floppy_boot.log > > > >shows : > > > ># We'd like to use miboot, but it isn't in the archive yet ... > >#miboot -c ./tmp/powerpc-small_floppy_boot/miboot.conf > ># ... so instead we do some grungy HFS hacking. > > > >I wonder who did that modification, and i probably pulled it in when > >upgrading :/ > > > >>there at least ought to be a README file somewhere that gives the > >>adventurous user, willing to ignore the licensing problems, the > >>necessary magic incantations to transform this neutered thing into > >>a live/virile/bootable floppy by mixing it with miboot (however > >>obtained) under the light of a full moon at midnight. > > > >What i would really like is to have miboot go at least to contrib > >if not main. > >The step to do this is for someone else than me though, or i would > >not be able > >to do the reimplementation. The idea is to look at the miboot boot > >block > >format, and extract the first header part (which is ok to reuse) > >and the > >little bit of code afterward, which are rumored to be trap calls > >to the mac > >rom, in m68k assembly. And describe what it is doing, so a clean-room > >reimplementation can be done from it. > > > >>2) The 'root.img' file is bigger than will fit onto a 1.44 MB > >>floppy. Worse, for all it's size, it seems to contain nothing but > >>a 'lost+found' directory -- no install scripts or anything else! > >> > >>Is there a different place I should be getting the floppy images from? > > > >Nope, someone broke them, and svn seems broken right now :/ > > > >BTW, can you look at the kernel found here : > > > >http://people.debian.org/~luther/d- > >i/images/daily/powerpc/netboot/vmlinuz-coff.initrd > > > >and try to boot it from the serial console OF and write an > >installation report ? > > > >Friendly, > > > >Sven Luther > > > I'll look into making a null-modem (8-pin mini-din on both ends!) > cable so I can use one machine as a serial console for the other. > If I can do that, I'll give your suggestion a try. > > In the mean time, would it work with BootX?
No, don't think so, but the plain vmlinux/initrd.gz work with bootx. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
