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bootfloppies on powerpc prep

[Rubin]

Hi all,

has anybody succesfully tested a boot of debian woody through 
bootfloppies on powerpc prep?

I've succesfully booted the last diskset from testing on a Bull Estrella 
Series 300 (motorola powerstack 4000 II) but it hangs on initialization 
of the Symbios Logic 53C825A which at init, keeps resetting itself into 
oblivion.

I'm also suspecting I might need a bootloader instead of just the 
openfirmware (which is a FirmWorks OpenFirmware 1.2 RH11 - got it from 
Bull); any ideas about that? yaboot seems to load but doesn't do 
anything afterwards (kernels won't boot) and I have not been able to 
find a binary version of quik which might do the trick.

As a side note it looks like the kernel does not pick up any boot 
parameters given at the openfrmware command-prompt.

Also note that the install.txt on the ftp.debian.org is very out of date 
(1999, scarce details about bootfloppy based install). If I get 
succesful with this (as in: actually get debian powerpc to run on it) I 
would like to rewrite this document.

Hope to hear from fellow prep-hackers soon!

Rubin.


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cvs commit to boot-floppies/documentation/cs by vychodiv

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Re: [Fwd: Re: Mac SE/30 install problem]

[Michael Schmitz]

> > > I tried the newest version of the bf on ftp.debian.org on a Macintosh
> > > SE/30. After the line about starting busybox, it went into an infinite
> > > loop displaying "bogl: don't know screen screen type 0".
> > 
> > Known issue; please report this to [EMAIL PROTECTED] I suspect it hits
> > machines with monochrome display (seen the same on my TT in an earlier bf
> > version).
> > 
> > Michael
> 
> debian-boot: Is there a known issue with bogl on monochrome displays? If so
> it has a negative impact on some ataris and macs.

Update: bogl complains about unknown screen type 2 with both 16 and 256
color display on my Falcon. Mono
 
> If bogl is fine, maybe its another kernel "feature" like the problem I had
> intially on my amiga which could be fixed by fixing the kernel.

The pixel format might be the problem:

include/linux/fb.h:#define FB_TYPE_PACKED_PIXELS0
include/linux/fb.h:#define FB_TYPE_INTERLEAVED_PLANES   2

is precisely what I get for mono or color modes, respectively.

Packed pixel format is in use for lots of other hardware so I'd assume it
is supported in some way? 

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Re: bootfloppies on powerpc prep

[Chris Tillman]

On Mon, Apr 29, 2002 at 11:57:56AM +0200, Rubin wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> has anybody succesfully tested a boot of debian woody through 
> bootfloppies on powerpc prep?
> 
> I've succesfully booted the last diskset from testing on a Bull Estrella 
> Series 300 (motorola powerstack 4000 II) but it hangs on initialization 
> of the Symbios Logic 53C825A which at init, keeps resetting itself into 
> oblivion.
> 
> I'm also suspecting I might need a bootloader instead of just the 
> openfirmware (which is a FirmWorks OpenFirmware 1.2 RH11 - got it from 
> Bull); any ideas about that? yaboot seems to load but doesn't do 
> anything afterwards (kernels won't boot) and I have not been able to 
> find a binary version of quik which might do the trick.

Normally I'd say go to packages.debian.org/quik -- but I know it 
doesn't show up because the package archives are i386-centric. If 
you'd like, I could email you one. It's much more finicky that yaboot, 
though, and normally needs to install a boot block from inside linux.

> 
> As a side note it looks like the kernel does not pick up any boot 
> parameters given at the openfrmware command-prompt.
> 
> Also note that the install.txt on the ftp.debian.org is very out of date 
> (1999, scarce details about bootfloppy based install). If I get 
> succesful with this (as in: actually get debian powerpc to run on it) I 
> would like to rewrite this document.

Excellent! We haven't had any prep users volunteer to update it. 

> Hope to hear from fellow prep-hackers soon!
> 
> Rubin.

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Bug#144825: boot-floppies: invalid contents of /debian/dists/woody/main/disks-s390/3.0.22-2002-04-03/tape/parmfile.debian

[Matt Kraai]

On Sat, Apr 27, 2002 at 05:55:43PM +0200, Jochen Hein wrote:
> The file contains:
> dasd=192-191 ro
> 
> When booting Debian/390 with that parmfile, the kernel says:
> invalid range, so the line should read:
> dasd=191-192 ro

I've fixed this.  Does this also need to be done for
parmfile.example1:

 dasd=192-191 ro hostname=debian.domain.com ip=192.168.0.42
 peer=192.168.0.1 dns=192.168.0.2 netinterface=iucv1
 netmodule=netiucv iucv=tcpip:gateway

and parmfile.example2:

 dasd=192-191 ro hostname=debian.domain.com ip=192.168.0.42
 netmask=255.255.255.0 gateway=192.168.0.1 dns=192.168.0.2
 netmodule=lcs chandev=noauto;lcs0,0x1000,0x1001,0,1,0

?

> Oh, and wouldn't it be nice to have a TDF file too?  Something like:
> 
> @TDF
> /tapes/kernel.debian  FIXED RECSIZE 1024
> TM
> /tapes/parmfile.debianTEXT
> TM
> /tapes/initrd.debian  FIXED RECSIZE 1024
> TM
> TM
> EOT

Could you please provide a patch, as I have no idea how this
should work?

Matt



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cvs commit to boot-floppies/documentation/fr by mquinson

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Re: [Fwd: Re: Mac SE/30 install problem]

[Philip Blundell]

On Mon, 2002-04-29 at 13:07, Michael Schmitz wrote:
> Packed pixel format is in use for lots of other hardware so I'd assume it
> is supported in some way? 

Nope, I don't think bogl supports packed pixels at all.  Christian and I
discussed this before if I remember right.

p.


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Re: Installing Woody in a I2O controller

[Fabio Brito]

Em Sábado 27 Abril 2002 18:29, Chris Tillman escreveu:
> On Sat, Apr 27, 2002 at 03:02:20PM -0300, Fabio Brito wrote:
> You meant Alt-F1, right? BTW, there is a main menu item now for you to see 
> your partitions. Did you get this message after selecting 'Initialize a 
> Partition', or just when trying to get back to the menu?
> 

Oh Yes!!! ALT+F1, sorry the mistake, i was very tired. :)
I got it after selecting 'Initialize a Partition'.

I used the bf2.4 flavour. Thank you to Chris Tillman and Eduard Bloch for the 
tips.

I'll try these tonight. I'm reporting soon.

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Re: [Fwd: Re: Mac SE/30 install problem]

[Philip Blundell]

On Mon, 2002-04-29 at 18:11, Christian T. Steigies wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 29, 2002 at 07:06:03PM +0100, Philip Blundell wrote:
> > On Mon, 2002-04-29 at 13:07, Michael Schmitz wrote:
> > > Packed pixel format is in use for lots of other hardware so I'd assume it
> > > is supported in some way? 
> > 
> > Nope, I don't think bogl supports packed pixels at all.  Christian and I
> > discussed this before if I remember right.

Jeez, how dumb am I?  I was thinking of planar pixels.  Packed pixels
should indeed be fine.
 
> I don't remember, but you may be right ;-)
> But what do we do about this now? Build a seperate bf set for those
> old-hardware machines (a lot of them seem to surface recently), remove
> language chooser again for m68k? Drop m68k?

Assuming that it isn't possible to fix bogl for whatever reason, the
best option would be to write a small helper program that does

fd = open("/dev/fb0", O_RDWR);
ioctl(fd, FBIOGET_FSCREENINFO, &fix);
close(fd);
if (fix->type == BAD) exit(1);
exit(0);

and add logic to /sbin/udbootstrap to invoke this thing and make it fall
back to non-UTF8 mode in the bad cases.

p.


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Bug#143404: More information

[Meelis Roos]

I just had the same problem with my Digital Celebris GL 5133 ST.

SYSLINUX makes the floppy drive emit strange noise and the boot fails
(debian old & new, redhat, slackware 8.1-current). Openbsd floppy boot
crashes with protection error. Freebsd & DOS boot fine.

Swapped 3 floppy drives, 2 floppy cables, 5 floppy disks and 2 computers
of the same type. Still the same! Looks like an incompatibility between
syslinux and digital celebris BIOS.

I copied the kernel to raw floppy (with dd), rdev it to /dev/fd0 and got
the installer to work.

Still, after the install it insists of looking for a root device at
00:00 and fails. It seems to completely ignore what I pass to
root=/dev/blaah. root is on /dev/sda2, scsi adapter and sda1 and sda2
partitions are detected just fine but somehow it insists on using 00:00
as the root device (missing filesystem drivers?). Still digging at it.

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Re: Installing Woody in a I2O controller

[Fabio Brito]

Em Sábado 27 Abril 2002 20:14, Eduard Bloch escreveu:
> The normal bf2.4 installation kernel should have support for i2o_scsi.
> Did you try it?

Yes, but i got a kernel panic :)

> 
> Yes. Would you like to play a beta tester?

Yes, however i have short time to do this. But we can try.

> 
> > Can somebody help me to install woody in this system?
> 
> Go to the second console, partition, then mount future root on /target/.
> Return to the installer and continue with the kernel&modules
> installation step.
> 

I'm trying with your root floppy now. I'll report any success/fail later.

Thank you.

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dual boot setup

[Steve Bauer]

any idea on where i can go to learn how to setup a dual 
boot?  i'd like to setup debian - a friend recommend i check it 
out.
 
i'm currently running w98 ontop of w95 on a dell xps 
r400.
 
thanks,
 
steve

Bug#144825: boot-floppies: invalid contents of /debian/dists/woody/main/disks-s390/3.0.22-2002-04-03/tape/parmfile.debian

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Mon, Apr 29, 2002 at 07:56:09AM -0700, Matt Kraai wrote:

> I've fixed this.  Does this also need to be done for
> parmfile.example1:
> 
>  dasd=192-191 ro hostname=debian.domain.com ip=192.168.0.42
>  peer=192.168.0.1 dns=192.168.0.2 netinterface=iucv1
>  netmodule=netiucv iucv=tcpip:gateway
> 
> and parmfile.example2:
> 
>  dasd=192-191 ro hostname=debian.domain.com ip=192.168.0.42
>  netmask=255.255.255.0 gateway=192.168.0.1 dns=192.168.0.2
>  netmodule=lcs chandev=noauto;lcs0,0x1000,0x1001,0,1,0
> 
> ?

Yes, it can't hurt.  These numbers are usually changed by the administrator
to match the system being installed, but a more correct example is helpful.

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Re: dual boot setup

[Chris Tillman]

On Mon, Apr 29, 2002 at 01:44:02PM -0700, Steve Bauer wrote:
> any idea on where i can go to learn how to setup a dual boot?  i'd like to setup 
>debian - a friend recommend i check it out.
> 
> i'm currently running w98 ontop of w95 on a dell xps r400.
> 
> thanks,
> 
> steve

It's all in the manual (link in my .sig).

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