On Wed, Oct 05, 2005 at 07:50:20AM -0300, Rogério Brito wrote: > On Oct 04 2005, Sven Luther wrote: > > On Mon, Oct 03, 2005 at 01:01:19PM +0200, Hans Ekbrand wrote: > > > On Wed, Sep 28, 2005 at 06:17:28AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > > > On Wed, Sep 28, 2005 at 12:00:44AM +0200, Hans Ekbrand wrote: > > > > > > Nope, you need the miboot package from p.d.o/~luther/miboot, and its > > > > > > dependencies, and do (taken from the d-i build) : > > Were are the dependencies for your miboot package, BTW?
apt-cache show miboot :) I think they are rsrce and mac-tools or something such, one is for hformat and stuff, the other for playing with the macos ressources. > > > > > OK. I do have miboot installed, so that should not pose any problem. > > > > > But why would not the procedure outlined above work (I copied it from > > > > > one of Rogério Britos posts to the list)? > > I don't know if I mentioned this before, but I'm building now my kernels > with kernel-package and what I've been compressing to get onto the > miboot floppy is the one that ends on the /boot directory (stripped or > not, I can't remember---and I'm not using a ppc right now). > > > > > Rogerio is not creating a floppy disk from scratch, he is > > Indeed. > > > > > overwriting the kernel on an existing miboot floppy, and can thus > > > > not set the KERNEL_CMDL among other stuff. > > But just editing the System.bin file with appropriate commands work > quite well (for instance, for enabling the l2 cache via the l2cr > parameter). > > I see no problems with that if you just want to get something > functional. OTOH, it probably doesn't help for further development of > boot images, I agree. It is not particularly more easy than the other method though, wich can be more nicely automated though. > > > I am also operating on existing miboot floppy, so I can do it the way > > > Rogerio did. > > > > Why not try and do it the right way ? You understand that what you do > > supposes that someone else did the above thingy to create the original > > floppy, no ? So since you can create it directly, why not do that ? > > Perhaps because he wants to understand the issue first and then do > things "the right way"? Bah. > > This is done at miboot floppy generation time, not at kernel > > compilation time. Something akin to your perl script is neatly > > packaged in the miboot and dependencies packages, so why not use it ? > > I think that he is concerned first in getting something working and then > doing variations on that. If the official miboot floppies are now fixed, then he can do it like that also :) > > > I modularized a bit too much though, so the kernel didn't do the > > > partition check and never found the partition to mount / on. But > > > that is solvable, compiling again as I write this. This time I even > > > include a driver for the nic and support for / on NFS. If that > > > kernel fits the floppy, that would be really cool IMHO. > > I have many things compiled into my own (oldworld) ppc kernel, including > two filesystems (ext2, ext3), the nic driver and other things. Please make sure to look at the powerpc-miboot config and provide changes if needed. > > Indeed. Feel free to mail me (or a bug report maybe ?) your config > > with a bit of descriptiion of what you tried to achieve, there is no > > reason the debian kernel could not fit your need, i believe. > > Have you checked the config file that I posted to Andrew Morton some > time ago? It should be on the lkml archives (again, I would send it now > if I were in front of my PowerMac). Please provide a bug report against linux-2.6 with them, it is too complicated to look for stuff on random lists, and i don't archive lkml locally anymore, since mutt barfed on my 40K email big mbox :) Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
