2010/9/6 Gunther Furtado <gunfurt...@gmail.com>: > Hi, > > My iMac's[1] cd driver is very selective these now-a-days. It only > allows me to boot from original apple distributed media. So I was kind > of push to netbooting. > > It all went great when I installed form lenny repository[2] booting > was successful (using this[3] and then disabling firewall). But using > the very same set of instructions with the files from sid > repository[4] (I believe they are the same ones from the squeeze > repository) it didn't even boot! Something about "Can't read Elf > e_ident/e_type/e_machine info". Googling around I found[5] that the > same files work OK if you boot from the hd. > > Should I be doing something differently? > > I will try the daily images[6] to see if whatever it was wrong is fixed. > > cheers, > > [1] http://support.apple.com/kb/SP131 > [2] > http://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/lenny/main/installer-powerpc/current/images/powerpc/netboot/ > [3] http://wiki.ppckernel.org/w/Mac_Netboot > [4] > http://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/sid/main/installer-powerpc/current/images/powerpc/netboot/ > [5] http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=45220 > [6] http://d-i.debian.org/daily-images/powerpc/daily/powerpc/netboot/ >
As I understand from [7], the vmlinux is to big to yaboot and there is nothing I can do about it. Is that correct? [7] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/yaboot/+bug/26426 cheers, -- "...agora, só nos sobrou o futuro...", visto em www.manuchao.net Gunther Furtado Curitiba - Paraná - Brasil gunfurt...@gmail.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-powerpc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/aanlktimomwsnted9kw4nl1gwl5k3sd+un9taq7_c8...@mail.gmail.com
