On Fri, Nov 05, 2004 at 08:46:46PM +0100, Niklaus Giger wrote: > Hi > > I have the following four systems where I could test the patches.
Ok, that would be great, > PowerBook Alu 1 GHz 15" > PowerBook Pismo G3 400 Mhz > PowerMac G3 blue/white Not sure if the prismo is already a newworld, i guess it is. > Pegasos I (Here I never managed to install a stock Debian kernel, I have a > custom compiled kernel based on the Gentoo 2.6.8-pegasos-r2, then used a > chroot to install a minimal Debian system and managed to install Debian on > it. But the way was quite complicated). When I tried 10 days ago to boot your > kernel from > http://people.debian.org/%7Eluther/d-i/images/daily/powerpc/cdrom-minimal/2.4/vmlinuz-chrp.initrd > I was unable to boot into it. Don't worry, the pegasos 1 will not run yaboot without an OF upgrade anyway. But you can look at the special pegasos 1 netinst iso at : http://people.debian.org/~luther/pegasos/sarge-pegasos1-netinst-2004.10.25.iso And follow the README there. > What are the steps which you would like to test? E.g. on each system I have > one spare partition but I cannot afford to format the whole disk. I have > however a external FireWire-HD which I could wipe out each time. > Did you apply the patch for an external firewire > http://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc/2004/11/msg00056.html ? no, don't think so, is this a linux or yaboot patch ? > Is it sufficient to just install the minimal Debian system? No, actually i am only interested in yaboot booting, not real installs the following test scenarios are possible : burn http://people.debian.org/~luther/yaboot/monolithic/mini.iso And boot from it (holding down the c key). Once you are in debian-installer, the yaboot cd test is complete, and you can send a report to the bug number. The next test would be to install the patched yaboot package on a running system, run ybin, and reboot. Keep a bootable media at hand, to restore the machine in case of trouble, altough i belive there will be no such problem. This would complete the disk record. The last test asked by Ethan is a net install, but there i cannot help much, since i am not familiar with netbooting on pmacs. basically you have to setup a tftp server, put the yaboot and yaboot.conf there, as well as the kernel and initrd, and press n on the booting machine. Not sure about the specifics so this may be wrong. > Do I have to write a install report for each installation for each machine? Well, just do them all and sumarize in one follow up mail to the bug report: Thanks for your help, Friendly, Sven Luther
