On Sat, Jun 05, 2004 at 10:58:25AM +0200, Robert Jordens wrote: > Hello! > > [Sat, 05 Jun 2004] david howe wrote: > > So far I can report that the disk fails to boot the following devices > > New World G3 Pismo Powerbook > > New World G3 Imac > > Old World 9600 ppc > > > > The disk appear as a valid HFS standard disk on a MacOS desktop however > > I can't provide any more info about the boot failures :( > > On my Powerbook neither the Debian installer images, nor this image > boots if I press "c" during install. I have to go through > "Command-Option-o-f", that is OpenFirmware. Then I have to enter > "boot cd:,\boot\yaboot" to get to yaboot. I have yet to see an image > that boots with "c".
Well, on my ibook 800, the beta4 and earlier debian-installer isos booted with just c. > [Sat, 05 Jun 2004] Sven Luther wrote: > > Well, you mean it only refuses to boot when you insert the disk and old > > the 'c' key ? Does yaboot show up ? I guess not, is the iso HFS blessed > > or some other magic ? > > /boot is hfs-blessed, ofboot.b is "UNIX/tbxi" and yaboot is "UNIX/boot". > That is sufficient AFAIK. Ok, cool. > > Also, i doubt it will work out of the box on old world, Robert, what is > > the kernel size, and could you include a miboot image of this if it is > > small enough ? Not sure the kernel or initrd fit on a floppy though. > > Could you help me with that? I neither have the hardware nor the > experience. Well, you would need to use the powerpc-small kernel, and build an initrd which include some additional modules and which loads them, and that this initrd fits on on a floppy (compressed). What size has the initrd right now ? > [Sat, 05 Jun 2004] Sven Luther wrote: > > Downloading, i will make the adaptation for pegasos until monday or > > tuesday. Not sure much need to be changed, just it should include the > > kernels with builtin initrd for chrp-rs6k and prep, i guess not much is > > needed. Well, and a link from the -chrp kernel to the -chrp-rs6k maybe. > > > And, please include partimage if it is not already, it is a very usefull > > tool for backuping/restoring partitions. I plan to make a DVD-RW with > > DFS and a partimage copy of my main partitions. Maybe even an > > automated script to do the restore or such. > > John already included partimage. Cool. It could be listed in the tools in the mail though, it is really a neat program for backup/restores. Friendly, Sven Luther
