RE: hd-media initrd not working on Amiga

2021-10-01 Thread Carlos Milán Figueredo
From: Johny Five Sent: lunes, 27 de septiembre de 2021 0:46 > Fire up the amiboot > During the setup there will be error as CD-ROM not detected. > Load CD-ROM drivers from removable media - YES > Manually select a CD-ROM module and device - YES > Module needed for accessing the CD-ROM: none > Devi

RE: hd-media initrd not working on Amiga

2021-09-27 Thread Carlos Milán Figueredo
Hi Johny, From: Johny Five Sent: lunes, 27 de septiembre de 2021 0:46 > dd if=debian.iso of=/dev/sdc bs=512 status=progress Really worth trying! I think I can use xstreamtodev[1] as a dd replacement for AmigaOS. It is included as part of NetBSD/amiga installation utilities. Let me know if the

Re: hd-media initrd not working on Amiga

2021-09-26 Thread Johny Five
Hi Carlos, Stefan with Carsten showed me this trick during last m68k meeting back in 2018 at Essen. On the harddrive/cf card simply write the content of the iSO file to some partition. You can use swap partition - only it will be rewritten during the fist actual boot of Linux. You can do it virt

Re: hd-media initrd not working on Amiga

2021-09-12 Thread Finn Thain
On Sun, 12 Sep 2021, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > > I think this procedure will be hard for most Amiga users. It would be > > better if this could be done from AmigaOS. Is it possible to provide > > in the hd-media image support for mounting AFFS partitions so the ISO > > can be placed

RE: hd-media initrd not working on Amiga

2021-09-12 Thread Carlos Milán Figueredo
Hi Adrian! On 9/12/21 15:25, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > Yes, that needs to go in, too. I will provide you with a test image > anyway, so that you can verify it works as expected. Great, I will be glad to test it :) > Yes, there is also an affs-modules kernel modules package [1] we can >

Re: hd-media initrd not working on Amiga

2021-09-12 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Hello! On 9/12/21 15:09, Carlos Milán Figueredo wrote: > By comparing the two of them, wouldn't we need this one as well? > > loop-modules-${kernel:Version} > > If we are to mount the ISO as installation media and it is loop mounted, > probably that one will be needed as well. Yes, that needs t

RE: hd-media initrd not working on Amiga

2021-09-12 Thread Carlos Milán Figueredo
Hi Adrian! On 9/12/21 12:33, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > We're missing several d-i kernel module package here: >> https://salsa.debian.org/installer-team/debian-installer/-/blob/master/build/pkg-lists/hd-media/m68k.cfg >> > Those are: > - fat-modules-${kernel:Version} > - ext4-modules-${k

Re: hd-media initrd not working on Amiga

2021-09-12 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Hello Carlos! On 9/12/21 03:35, Carlos Milán Figueredo wrote: > 1. The pata_gayle IDE driver is not available on the hd-media. I must proceed with the legacy gayle driver. > 2. At the "iso-scan" stage in d-i, the kernel is not able to mount any filesystem yet, not

hd-media initrd not working on Amiga

2021-09-11 Thread Carlos Milán Figueredo
Hi Debian m68k people, I finally have my 68060 accelerator for an Amiga 1200 and I would like to retake installing Debian m68k on it. However, I do not have a CD drive so I must use other install method. The most convenient one seems to be the hd-media initrd.gz, that looks for a installation I