On Fri, Oct 07, 2005 at 04:03:10AM -0300, Rogério Brito wrote: > On Oct 06 2005, Sven Luther wrote: > > Notice that miboot is not in the archive, altough it may go into > > contrib if we fix the boot block problem. > > I'd be happy if it were included in non-free, if that's possible. Is it?
Not with the boot sector situation non-clear, but we can try it. > > One thing that needs testing is trying to remove the actual code from > > the boot block and see if it works. benh seemed to say that it may, > > which would solve the licencing issues. > > I'm really quite short of time right now (preparing lots of midterms and > then marking them up---ugh!) to rewrite anything... Yeah, as anyone. but the code just need to be removed, or rewritten with 0s, i guess you could do it with dd or something :) > > > I agree completely, Sven, but getting things working first is, > > > perhaps, one of Hans's priorities... > > > > This was an argument when the d-i floppies where broken, but not > > anymore :) > > Ok, I can be a guinea pig for the current d-i floppies, if you want me > to. But if they are working, why did you ask me for my own .config file? > Do you still build the floppies based on 2.4 kernels? Nope, only 2.6, but i like to compare the .configs, to fine tune or as reference if i need to remove other stuff. > If you want me to test any particular image, please let me know. I'd > like to have other things working for PowerPC too, like mondo/mindi > (which, AFAIK, is only available for i386 right now). Not my department, but good luck. > > > I'll see that. Do you use an initrd? I avoid that like the plague, > > > but I understand that for a distribution kernel, that's the way to > > > go. > > > > Sure, they are initrd images, i had trouble enough to squeeze them > > into floppies like this, can't add stuff to them, but maybe we can > > design a way to make them as small as possible. > > Right. I think that this may be doable. But i was not really able to squeeze more of it out, mybe because i include all old-world fbdevs and you use only yours ? > > We use those floppies exclusively for d-i booting right now, so them > > being initrd-kernels is not a problem, but we will see, if there is > > really machines that don't support quick, we need to : > > I have no access to any other ppc machine besides this one, > unfortunately, which means that testing quik on it is the best that I > can do (and quik is really temperamental---doesn't follow symlinks, > wants its kernel on an ext2 fs etc). Well. > When you wrote that, did you think of using quik to boot from a floppy? > That's something that just now occurred to me. Nope, but d-i is supposed to be able to install quik so you should not need to worry about miboot floppies ever after, but quik is broken on some obscure hardware combinations, so a miboot-installer for those would be handy. > > > Ok, back to the topic, I will post my .config, so you can have it. > > > > Cool, > > Did you get it? There's nothing magical about it. I will, BTW, try to > build a newer kernel, but it seems that the compilation bombs when I > disable PMU support (this machine, AFAIK, only uses CUDA). Yep, same here. > Perhaps BenH would have any comments on this? I may, of course, provide > further details if desired. not had time to look at it, it is neatly archived for when the moment comes though. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
