On Sun, Sep 04, 2005 at 06:54:57AM -0300, Rogério Brito wrote: > I know that this may be off-topic for the bug, but just for archiving > purposes, I'm also sending it to the BTS. > > On Sep 03 2005, Sven Luther wrote: > > There has been some discussion about using hfs formatted floppies with > > the kernel on it without miboot though. > > Are you talking about the discussion we had on debian-powerpc a few days > ago? If yes, then you perhaps misunderstood what I said. > > I said that I the method I use is to take the HFS floppy from woody and > replace its kernel with a new generated, bleeding-edge kernel (taken > directly from Andrew Morton experimental tree). > > I just checked and, yes, the fake Finder and System folders *are* > miboot. > > For more details, please see the comments I made to myself on > <http://www.ime.usp.br/~rbrito/diary/>.
Ok, are you saying that you managed to build miboot floppies using the old woody miboot floppies, (i think woody came with do-it-yourself-miboot stuff, not sure). This would then be a 2.6 kernel. Could you post me the config file for this kernel ? Could you also try the same kernel with the miboot from http://people.debain.org/~luther/miboot Then do : gzip -9 vmlinux dd if=/dev/zero of=miboot_floppy bs=1024 count=1440 hformat -l "miboot floppy" miboot_floppy echo device miboot_floppy > miboot.conf echo kernel vmlinux.gz root=0200 load_ramdisk=1 prompt_ramdisk=1 devfs=mount debconf/priority=medium >> miboot.conf miboot -c miboot.conf If this works, it would be nice to do the following : objcopy -O aixcoff-rs6000 -R .stab -R .stabstr -R .comment -add-section=image=vmlinux.gz dummy.o vmlinux.gz just after the gzip step, where dummy.o is taken out of arch/ppc/boot/openfirmware, you need to do a make zImage to compile it. mkvmlinuz -a used by d-i currently does this second step, which may be cause fo this problem. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
