Hello, On Thu, Aug 19, 2004 at 04:05:39PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > I'm testing the powerpc-small boot floppies and this occurred when I > > Where did you download those from, and when ?
http://people.debian.org/~luther/d-i/images/daily/powerpc-small/floppy/ Downloaded today. > > tried to boot my powermac 7300 with ofonlyboot.img. However, after > > reformatting with superformat and writing the image again, the disk was > > read successfully and ejected. I inserted root.img, which was loaded, > > but after that nothing happened. I ended up with the tuxmac logo and the > > root disk in the drive. > > > > After reading that your mac booted from boot.img, I tried that one > > and with a little more success. After loading the kernel, the system > > switched to text mode and asked for the root floppy. I inserted root.img > > Cool, this is progress. Now if you could test the same with the powerpc/floppy > ones that use the 2.6 kernels ? Are you referring to these? http://people.debian.org/~luther/d-i/images/daily/powerpc/floppy/ I just tried these and they indeed give the red cross error. > > and it loaded for a while, but the end result was something along the > > following lines: > > > > mount_devfs_fs(): unable to mount devfs, err:-2 > > freeing unused kernel memory > > warning, unable to open an initial console > > Kernel panic, no init found > > Mmm, not cool. Could you have more of the info ? If you have a digicam, you > could take a picture or something, if you are not able to get the serial log. See my self-reply. > Did it work using the bootx method ? There's no mac os on the drives anymore, only a very old sarge install that I can't boot anymore because the quik config is broken. Wouter
