On Thu, Mar 30, 2006 at 04:35:53PM +0200, Michael Schmitz wrote: > > > FWIW, I've got a bunch of old Macs here (including Nubus), and one RS/6000 > > > B50 that can be used for testing CD booting if necessary. > > > > That would be interesting, since the B50 is exactly what those corean guys > > have all this trouble dealing with. > > Odd. We installed from a floppy using the woody netinstall CDs by just > following the instructions found at > http://www.kutilek.de/technik/debian-rs6k.en.php
You reqlise that sarge was released almost a year ago now, and that debian-installer has almost nothing to do with the woody boot-floppies, right ? :) There is no floppy support on either sarge or etch debian-installer for powerpc prep or chrp boxes right now, only the unofficial powermac oldworld miboot floppies. > and I don't recall anything difficult(*). The only OF capable graphics > card I have is an IMSTT card which refused to work in the B50 so we did it all > using serial console. > > I should be able to provide a system.map of the booting kernel so people > can figure out what's missing in the stock kernels. The problem was not the kernel, but it seems that yaboot-installer or prep-installer, or plain dd was not able to create a booting system. Solution is to fix partman-prep, and see if yaboot-installer behaves then, or to see if the excessive ramdisk size created by initramfs-tools caused the compressed kernel + builtin initrd to cause trouble with the OFs installer. Or maybe simply that the addnote thingy is broken or something ? I don't really know. I am able to make the prep machines bootable with simply dding the kernel with builtin ramdisk the prep partition Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
