On Fri, Dec 03, 2004 at 12:10:31PM -0000, Leigh Brown wrote: > Sven Luther said: > > On Wed, Dec 01, 2004 at 01:25:46PM -0000, Leigh Brown wrote: > [...] > >> You can't boot from the CD's because they haven't been built to > >> work on AIX firmware. To work on AIX firmware, they require > >> the -U option to be specified in the mkisofs command. > > > > Huh, and you tell us only now :) > > No :-) > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc/2004/01/msg01031.html > > > Let's fix that, or will it break other subarches booting ? > > I don't believe so, but testing might be an idea ;-)
Colin mentioned that the -U option has to be used with great care though. > Can we also add /ppc/bootinfo.txt onto the image? This will > allow RS/6000's to autoboot, and, on newer ones, to display a > nice message indicating what O/S is on the CD. Ok. What should be the content pf this file then ? Friendly, Sven Luther
