Hello, ...
after totally reformatting/repartitioning my harddisk, i had another try at
installing the latest boot floppies (should be 2.2.13, the one from current in
the debian archive). and there are still problems ...
* amiga-fdisk decided to become read only, i don't know what is happening
here, could be hardware related, so i simply used an amigaos tool to set
up partitions and change the partition type to what linux expects.
* when trying to install the kernel and modules, it didn't work. The
following stuff are logged :
- installing kernel & modules from
/target/home/debian/dists/potato/disks-powerpc/current
- running cmd `mount -r -t ext2 /dev/loop0 /floopy'
- mounting /dev/loop0 on /floppy failed : Invalid argument
- Unable to mount the Rescue floppy, you may have inserted the wrong
floppy, please try again.
* and at this stade i get a new menu, but proposing only floppy install
(/dev/fd0 & /dev/fd1) but no more harddisk or mounbted installs.
I reported this already some weeks ago, should i fill a bug report ?
Also a bit more investifation showed :
$ mount -t ext2 -o loop=/dev/loop0 root.bin /floppy
Mounting root.bin on /floppy failed : Block device required.
i uncompressed the root.bin file naturally.
So what is wrong here ? the root.bin file should be ok, since i booted with
it. loop device is included in the kernel, not a module.
The same goes for the resceu.bin file. BTW, is it correct for it to be an x86
boot disk or something like that on a ppc plateform ?
I can do nothing here, because i have no installed system, i can not self
compile the boot floppies, to see what is wrong, notr can i recompile the
kernel. I will try a hand installation nextly, simply untaring the base
tarball, and skipping all the boot floppies stuff, but i guess most users will
not be happy with that, as well as i remember that it is not ok to do it this
way.
Friendly,
Sven LUTHER
