On Wed, Feb 08, 2006 at 12:52:19PM +0100, Arnaud Vandyck wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Sven Luther wrote: > > On Wed, Feb 08, 2006 at 11:10:27AM +0100, Hans Ekbrand wrote: > >>Try installing with floppies? > >> > >>http://people.debian.org/~luther/d-i/sid/images/daily/powerpc/floppy/boot.img > >>http://people.debian.org/~luther/d-i/sid/images/daily/powerpc/floppy/root.img > > These ones doesn't work at the moment, it's impossible to load the > net/cd-driver floppies, but I did try to install Sarge AND Woody and > they both fail with quik. Reading around on the internet, it seems I > have THE machine that causes problems! G3 beige with Open Firmware 2.4. > > So, with Woody AND Sarge (booting with BootX), I could install a > complete Debian installation but it's impossible to boot on the new > installation!
Can you provide a full installation report describing how it fails, and possible logs, and send it to the installer bug reports (debian-installer the meta-package is named i think). Try to use the template linked from w.d.o/devel/debian-installer. > >>In case quik turns out not to work on those beige G3 (seems it does > >>work on some but not on others), you could use miboot for booting into > >>the installed system too. > > So booting from a floppy? Yes. > >>If miboot works OK, on that model (on my perfomas the cpu will run at > >>1/10th speed when booted by miboot), I could make you a miboot > >>boot-floppy to boot into the installed system > > Great! the root partition is /dev/hda2 and the image is located in > /boot/vmlinux I think (of course I can not boot anymore so I don't know > the exact image name! 2.6.8 or something!). > > > Maybe we could make have miboot to be listed in mkvmlinuz's bootloader, and > > have code in /etc/kernel/postinst.d to automatically create the miboot > > floppy > > for you on installs. > > That could be a solution. If I understand, you mean I have to put a > floppy in the G3 to boot and that's all. So the boot would be 'automatic'? Yep. i would keep a second floppy handy as rescue in case of problems and such. > > Now that miboot is being freed, this would be a neat solution. > > > > Any volunteer to recode the boot sector based on the information Piotr > > provided ? > > The boot sector written on the harddrive? Do you have an url to learn > how to do that, how to write the program? I'm ready to learn everything > if I could boot the f#@ G3?! no, on the floppy. It is composed of a bunch of numeric fields, and then a half sector of 68k asm Piotr reverse engineered. More to this in a couple of days. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
