On Mon, Aug 16, 2004 at 02:07:37AM -0400, Rick Thomas wrote: > > On Friday, August 13, 2004, at 09:53 AM, Sven Luther wrote: > > > >Can you please retry the miboot boot floppies tomorrow ? I fixed the > >daily-builds to rebuild the actual miboot floppies. > > > >Now, the only problem remaining would be the root floppy being too > >big, and > >the actual 2.6 kernel based miboot floppies. > > > >Friendly, > > > >Sven Luther > > Hi Sven!
Thanks Rick for testing it. I will build 2.6.8 miboot kernels today, could you possibly give it a try to see if it boots this evening or something such ? > Sorry for the delay on getting this done. > > I downloaded the boot and root (and other) images from > http://people.debian.org/~luther/d-i/images/daily/powerpc-small/floppy/ > See appendix 1. > > After some fooling around with a dirty floppy drive and some poor > quality floppy disks (I *hate* dealing with floppy disks! The > floppy drives on Old Macs are almost invariably in poor shape. > This is one reason I strongly recommend that people use BootX > instead if they have the option.) I eventually succeeded in writing > (and verifying) the images to physical floppies. > > First observation: > The root image is larger than (1474560=1440*1024) bytes, so dd gets > an error trying to write it to /dev/fd0. See appendix 2. > > Second observation: > When I loop mount the root.img, all the stuff necessary for booting > seems to be there (confirmed later by actually booting off of it) > See appendix 3. > > Third observation: > I booted from the boot floppy. It read the floppy, did the normal > kernel initialization stuff and finally ejected the boot floppy > with the message "Insert root floppy"..."press ENTER". Which I > did. It printed "RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0" then > read for a while then stopped reading (no noise from the floppy > drive). And it hung. I gave it several minutes. Nothing > happened. No error messages on the console -- nothing. See my > next opservation for one possible explanation of this behavior. I don't think this is it. I believe that maybe it failed because it is trying to read post the end of the floppy or something. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
