On Thu, Mar 02, 2000 at 01:34:26PM -0500, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > On Thu, Mar 02, 2000 at 01:29:13PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Wed, Feb 09, 2000 at 02:37:40AM -0500, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > > > Success reports welcomed but not expected. Failure reports only if they > > > are > > > particularly entertaining. Expect more in the days to come. > > > > I tried installing this, along with the root.bin from: > > http://web.espy.org/ftp/debian/ramdisk.image.gz, > > which was mentioned in some other message I now can't find. > > > > Well ... I got what you'd call a -partial- success. By skipping 'install > > kernel and modules', which hung the installer if i used any means but > > floppy (ugh...and I have random system hangs when using floppies for > > anything ...) I pretty much got everything else installed fine. > > > > However, when I went to try the first boot, at some time very early in the > > boot process (it even happened with 'single') the machine would loop > > endlessly printing what looked like 2 or 3 lines of errors from kmod... > > one might have been the 'waitpid' thing in the source, it had some > > parentheses and numbers and commas... unfortunately it was scrolling too > > fast to read. > > > > I thought this was odd given that the rootdisk booted nicely. > > > > Also: the modules in your directory were 2.2.14, while the kernel is > > 2.2.15pre3? So installing modules to see if that would help ... wouldn't. > > Or so I assume? > > Actually, the kernel and modules are both 2.2.15pre3. I just kept the > package version at 2.2.14 for simplicity. > > I'll have a new build in a few days, with luck.
I have still problems with the keyboard recognition in the apus boot floppies. I don't understand how it works, and was ignored on debian-boot. I did the changes hartmut suggested, and even looked at the resulting bootstrap binary, and see no reason why it still searches for amiga/amiga/amiga-fr.bmap instead of amiga/amiga-fr.bmap. I am bafled. Still you should now be able to build the apus boot floppies directly from the boot-floppies from cvs and an actual ftp debian mirror. Friendly, Sven LUTHER
