On Thu, Aug 19, 2004 at 04:25:43AM -0400, Rick_Thomas wrote: > On Wed, 2004-08-18 at 05:48, Sven Luther wrote: > > On Wed, Aug 18, 2004 at 11:25:58AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > > > I have uploaded oldworld 2.6 miboot floppies at : > > > > > > http://people.debian.org/~luther/d-i/miboot > > > > > > Could people please test them, as i don't have the hardware for it. > > > > > > These should all be the right size, except the net_drivers floppy. I need > > > to > > > move some stuff from it to the cd_drivers or something such. > > > > > > But still i would be interested if : > > > > > > 1) the boot or ofonlyboot floppies actually boot a kernel. > > > > > > 2) the root floppy gets loaded and actually does something usefull. > > > > > > 3) it is possible to use the cd_drivers floppy to do a cd install with > > > them. > > > > > > All tests except 3) should be doable without touching the harddisk. > > > > Well, i moved some part of the net boot stuff to the cd-drivers floppy, but > > this is not a nice solution, since it is confusing to need the cd-drivers > > floppy for a net install. > > > > Still, this means we now have floppies of an appropriate size, and can do > > test > > again, once we are sure they work, we will tidy up the rest of it, altough i > > welcome suggestions on how to best solve this (my first approach of floppy > > stuff having been earlier this morning). > > > > Friendly, > > > > Sven Luther > > > > > Hi Sven, > > Progress, of a sort... > > I was really hopeful because when I booted either of the "boot" or > "ofonlyboot" floppy, I got the TuxMac icon for a while and the Mac made
Cool, this means the miboot generation code is fixed. > happy floppy disk reading noises. However, the noises eventually > stopped and a red "X" appeared over the TuxMac. Then nothing. I had to > manually eject the floppy from the drive. What we need would be a way to get a log of it or something. I have a suspsicion that the pmac floppies being modular maybe one of the causes of this, not sure though, possibly another modular important piece of the kernel. It really is a kernel issue though, can you boot the 2.6.7 kernel with bootx or quik ? Remember me what happened with the 2.4 powerpc-small based floppies ? > Both "boot" floppy disks did the same thing. I tried re-writing them on > a different drive, and I tried booting on a different machine. All > writes were verified with "cmp" to guard against old/dirty/recalcitrant > floppy drives and floppy disks. Same results every time. Ok, but still a progress over previously. > Sorry I don't have a better report... > > Keep on keepin' on! > > Rick > > > PS: Would it be possible to make and read a "net-drivers2" floppy, as > an alternative to putting net drivers overflow on the CD-drivers floppy? > > Just a thought... Yeah, that will be done once we fixed the above issue. Friednly, Sven Luther
