On Wed, Dec 20, 2006 at 01:43:23AM -0500, Rick Thomas wrote: > Actually, you (and I) *can* boot our oldworld PowerMacs from the 2.4 > miboot floppyset. And we can install Sarge from there. We can even > use it to install a 2.6.8 kernel. > > Not to put words into his mouth, but I think that is what Holger is > saying. For the purpose the Sarge floppyset serves, it's enough to > have just a 2.4 kernel for the installer. > > On the other hand, what Sven is saying seems (again, not to put words > in his mouth) to be that, as long as we're going to encourage the > user to install a 2.6 kernel eventually, it would be cleaner/nicer/ > more-elegant to start them off with a 2.6 kernel from the beginning > in the installer. > > Holger seems to reply "Why bother?" > > My thought (admittedly a bit of a stretch) is that there *may* be > hardware out there (SATA disks?) that a user can plug into an > OldWorld PowerMac PCI slot that is not supported by the 2.4 kernel, > but is supported by the 2.6 kernel, and why should we artificially > limit our user base to exclude such users? > > So I mostly agree with Sven on this one, but I don't think it's worth > a lot of emotion. There are plenty of bigger issues regarding > OldWorld PowerMacs that need looking into. Until recently, just > getting Etch to boot *at-all* on OldWorld was one of them!
Notice that with the etch release around the corner, installing sarge is not all that important. I have kind of lost oversight of what is going on in the etch/oldworld arena. There where various bugs for various kernel versions and boot methods, some of them with a fix. What is really needed is for confirmation with the current kernels that : 1) miboot booting works (or not). 2) bootx booting works (or not). 3) quik booting works (or not). Rick, you have been rather active in this, could i ask you to make a survey with the current 2.6.18 kernels in both etch and testing, and tell us what works and what doesn't. And file a bug report against the kernel packages (linux-2.6, title prefaced [powerpc,oldworld]). Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
