serial console, was Re: d-i built (but not tested)

2011-08-12 Thread Finn Thain
On Thu, 11 Aug 2011, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 01:48:31PM +1000, Finn Thain wrote: > > > > First thing I found was that the mac kernel has the serial console > > disabled. Is that normal for di kernels? > > d-i kernels are no different from 'regular' kernels (they're re

Re: d-i built (but not tested)

2011-08-12 Thread Finn Thain
On Thu, 11 Aug 2011, Stephen R. Marenka wrote: > On Thu, August 11, 2011 8:51 am, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > > On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 01:48:31PM +1000, Finn Thain wrote: > > > I was under the impression that we had at least one flavour which > > would allow you to install by downloading stuff fr

Re: d-i built (but not tested)

2011-08-12 Thread Finn Thain
On Thu, 11 Aug 2011, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 01:48:31PM +1000, Finn Thain wrote: > > I was under the impression that we had at least one flavour which would > allow you to install by downloading stuff from the internet, as in the > netboot option, without requiring the

Re: d-i built (but not tested)

2011-08-12 Thread Christian T. Steigies
On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 10:55:52PM +1000, Finn Thain wrote: > > On Thu, 11 Aug 2011, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > > > On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 01:48:31PM +1000, Finn Thain wrote: > > > > I was under the impression that we had at least one flavour which would > > allow you to install by downloading s

Re: d-i built (but not tested)

2011-08-12 Thread Finn Thain
On Fri, 12 Aug 2011, Christian T. Steigies wrote: > > The hd-media flavour goes through "detecting hardware to find hard > > drives" and "searching drives for an installer ISO image" stages and > > seems to detect the partitions fine (on the quadra that is -- it > > doesn't use the mac_scsi dr

Re: several messages

2011-08-12 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Finn Thain dixit: >Would users normally expect a debian kernel to include serial console >support? (I mean built-in, not modular, so that you can pass >"console=ttyS0" on the kernel command line to see what the kernel gets up Yes. >I tried loading an etch-m68k CD-R but Wouter's cdrom flavour

Re: serial console, was Re: d-i built (but not tested)

2011-08-12 Thread Brad Boyer
On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 10:37:20PM +1000, Finn Thain wrote: > It is wierd, but I think that the powerbook PMU chip will respond to > certain CPU exceptions this way. I've seen powerbooks respond to initramfs > like this before but I don't think I ever found out why. The basic idea is that any ti

Re: PMU, was Re: d-i built (but not tested)

2011-08-12 Thread Finn Thain
On Fri, 12 Aug 2011, Brad Boyer wrote: > On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 10:37:20PM +1000, Finn Thain wrote: > > It is wierd, but I think that the powerbook PMU chip will respond to > > certain CPU exceptions this way. I've seen powerbooks respond to > > initramfs like this before but I don't think I e

Re: PMU, was Re: d-i built (but not tested)

2011-08-12 Thread Brad Boyer
On Sat, Aug 13, 2011 at 11:37:58AM +1000, Finn Thain wrote: > On Fri, 12 Aug 2011, Brad Boyer wrote: > > The basic idea is that any time the PMU thinks you aren't following the > > right communication protocol (including the timing between messages) it > > will just shut off because it thinks the