Re: unable to boot Motorola Powerstack II

2007-01-03 Thread Sven Luther
On Wed, Jan 03, 2007 at 12:14:09AM +0100, Matthias Koch-Schirrmeister wrote: > Am Dienstag, 2. Januar 2007 20:49 schrieb Sven Luther: > > > you somehow don't get prep-installer, please fill a bug report. > > I'm considering that, but first I want to make sure that the major problem is > not my l

Re: unable to boot Motorola Powerstack II

2007-01-02 Thread Rick Thomas
On Jan 2, 2007, at 6:14 PM, Matthias Koch-Schirrmeister wrote: this sounds like the older sarge installer images, not latest etch. According to my filesystem info, I downloaded this from the debian site on December 20th. If possible, please try a "daily" installer image from: http://cd

Re: unable to boot Motorola Powerstack II

2007-01-02 Thread Matthias Koch-Schirrmeister
Am Dienstag, 2. Januar 2007 20:49 schrieb Sven Luther: > you somehow don't get prep-installer, please fill a bug report. I'm considering that, but first I want to make sure that the major problem is not my lack of understanding basic ppc or OF concepts (since 1988, this is my first step away fr

Re: unable to boot Motorola Powerstack II

2007-01-02 Thread Sven Luther
On Tue, Jan 02, 2007 at 01:59:18PM +0100, Matthias Koch-Schirrmeister wrote: > Am Dienstag, 2. Januar 2007 09:56 schrieb Sven Luther: > > Last post here except one, due to my self-imposed ban asked by Fabio's > > mediation attempt. > > Let's hope this will be sorted out in a way that's acceptable

Re: unable to boot Motorola Powerstack II

2007-01-02 Thread Matthias Koch-Schirrmeister
Am Dienstag, 2. Januar 2007 09:56 schrieb Sven Luther: > Last post here except one, due to my self-imposed ban asked by Fabio's > mediation attempt. Let's hope this will be sorted out in a way that's acceptable to all parties involved. > Normally the installer should have done prep-install, and

Re: unable to boot Motorola Powerstack II

2007-01-02 Thread Sven Luther
Last post here except one, due to my self-imposed ban asked by Fabio's mediation attempt. I will restrain to private replies in the future, with the exception of mails in this sub-thread, where i clearly can be helpful. On Tue, Jan 02, 2007 at 01:30:44AM +0100, Matthias Koch-Schirrmeister wrote: >

Re: unable to boot Motorola Powerstack II

2007-01-01 Thread Matthias Koch-Schirrmeister
Am Dienstag, 2. Januar 2007 01:30 schrieb Matthias Koch-Schirrmeister: > Last output was something like: The exact message was (translated from German back into English): "No boot loader was installed. Either you have determined not to install one, or your architecture does not support boot load

Re: unable to boot Motorola Powerstack II

2007-01-01 Thread Matthias Koch-Schirrmeister
Am Donnerstag, 21. Dezember 2006 18:21 schrieb Alex: > I can confirm the suggestion by Sven. The machine boots perfectly but > just not from anything else. Hi there, first of all, I wish everybody a happy new year 2007. OK, I've been able to boot now from a local tftp server as suggested. The s

Re: unable to boot Motorola Powerstack II

2006-12-21 Thread Alex
Sven Luther wrote: On Tue, Dec 19, 2006 at 09:03:22PM +0100, Matthias Koch-Schirrmeister wrote: Hi everybody, I'm trying to boot Debian sarge 3.1 rc4 on an elderly Motorola Powerstack II 604e (PReP/Utah). According to the Debian pages, this system should be supported. I downloaded the current

Re: unable to boot Motorola Powerstack II

2006-12-20 Thread Sven Luther
On Tue, Dec 19, 2006 at 09:03:22PM +0100, Matthias Koch-Schirrmeister wrote: > Hi everybody, > > I'm trying to boot Debian sarge 3.1 rc4 on an elderly Motorola Powerstack > II 604e (PReP/Utah). According to the Debian pages, this system should be > supported. > > I downloaded the current floppy i