On Mon, Aug 23, 2004 at 11:32:30PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > On Mon, Aug 23, 2004 at 10:25:46PM +0200, Martin Geier wrote: > > On Mon, Aug 23, 2004 at 12:35:12PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > > On Sun, Aug 22, 2004 at 09:13:32PM +0200, Martin Geier wrote: [snip] > > Are the debian-installer-floppies using kernel 2.6? Shall I try out > There is both the powerpc-small/floppy ones, which are based on 2.4, and the > powerpc/floppy which are based on 2.6. So it seems that only the 2.4-based are running... > > 2.6 on woody (mh, i would have to upgrade a lot of things...). Then I > > could verify if the fbdev works... > That would be great. Could you please send me the .config of the powerpc-small/floppy-kernel? Then I'll build an "equal" kernel and look what happens.
> > > > ./2004-08-22/powerpc-small/floppy/ofonlyboot.img: Smiling-Mac-icon, > > > > then > > > > the Mac-tux-icon and floppy-activity. Sometimes the screen gets > > > > black except > > > > the tux in the middle, which now has (I think) inverted colors. > > > > Finally > > > > the floppy comes out. Inserting the root-floppy and pressing enter > > > > initiates again floppy-activity, but I can't see anything :( > > > This seems to work, but you don't have fbdev console. Can you try > > > setting up a > > > serial console to understand what is happening ? > > Mm, i'll try that. Is the kernel configured to print its console to the > > serial > > console? [also see below] Or do you expect an OF error message? > I don't really know, my experience with oldworld is exclusively second hand. > you would have to give the console=ttyS1,9200 or whatever is the speed/serial > console for your hardware. The right driver is builtin for this to work > without problem. Hmm, I don't now how to supply kernel parameters when booting from floppy on ppc. There is nothing like a commandline. Can you specify kernel parameters when building the floppy-images? Is the any possibility to reach the debian-installer via network? > > Do you know what a red-cross means? Something like "error while > > decompressing"? > Really, no idea. I have never seen miboot working first hand. The new floppies are using miboot? Do you know what the old ones used? Another idea: Is it possible to start the new debian installer from a running woody-system? Greetings, Martin -- /ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ\ | PGP-Key 0x43D23ABE available via www.de.pgp.net, see header for fpr | \___________________________________________________________________/
