On Fri, Oct 24, 2003 at 02:07:19PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > On Fri, Oct 24, 2003 at 01:26:24PM +0200, Freek Dijkstra wrote: > > Hi Sven, > > > > I recently noted a post stating that the bootloader development team did not > > have access to an oldword powerpc. I have one of those, and can do some > > testing this weekend, even if it renders my openfirmware settings obsolete. > > > > I'm afraid I'm not an expert, but I got some real great help on this list > > earlier, and am eager to do something in return. So just mail me privately > > if there is any testing I can do (I've got a 6500 with internal + external > > monitor card, internal IDE disk + 2 external SCSI disks. I'm afraid I don't > > get a OpenFirmware prompt though, but I can read it with the BootVars > > program or nvsetenv). > > It maybe too early, we have a kernel now which should be able to be > mibootable, but not yet the full debian-installer stuff. > > I will make a new kernel build this afternoon, maybe you can try this > one out, and see if you can boot it. I hope once this kernel reaches the > archives, we can try building d-i images also or something such, or you > could do them by hand. I don't really know how miboot works, so i can't > do it myself.
You could certainly see if the hfs-bootfloppy.bin image within http://members.cox.net/miBoot.tgz boots. It should ask for a root disk, at which point you'll just have to reboot for now. We'll need help testing the debian-installer very soon! Thanks for your contributions. -- Debian GNU/Linux Operating System By the People, For the People Chris Tillman (a people instance) toff one at cox dot net
