On Mon, Aug 30, 2004 at 01:58:34AM -0400, Rick Thomas wrote: > > Sven Luther wrote: > > Rick Thomas wrote: > > > Is it possible the objcopy is corrupting it? > > > > This is indeed a possibility. > > > > I will disable this again for the 2.4 floppies, and we will see tomorrow > > what > > happens. > > > > That said, the 2.6 floppies are too big to work with miboot without the > > objcopy -O binary call, so we need to investigate this more in detail. > > I downloaded the latest 2.4 floppy images, but it looks like you didn't get > around to disabling the objcopy yet.
Yeah, alioth and thus the d-i svn repo was dead yesterday. It is up again, and i will remove it for tomorrow. > In any case, I still get a red X. > > The objcopy and the bfd library on my most recent debian sarge install are > dated May 19th, 2004. Is it possible that we haven't had a successful > powerpc OldWorld floppy boot since that time? No, i don't think this has an influence. Friendly, Sven Luther
