On Wed, Jun 06, 2001 at 11:05:03PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: > On Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 12:57:12AM -0400, Adam Di Carlo wrote: > > > - had to edit the 'system' file on the miboot floppy with ResEdit > > to add video=3Datyfb:vmode:11 for my hardware > > > > Is there any workarund for this? Any way at all to set ker > > args differently to cope with video hardware? > > not really. miboot has no useful interface. I think I remember yellowdoglinux working on a graphical interface to miboot, I wonder if anything came of it? > > - (dbootstrap 0.1.9) emits: > > Failure trying to run: dpkg --force-auto-select --forceoverwrite -= -skip- > > This error repeats many times. > > i believe this is powerpc-utils fault it unecessarily diverts > /etc/init.d/hwclock.sh which doesn't work right in debootstrap. i > have filed a bug to get the diversion removed since we have a working > RTC on powerpc now (meaning we can just use hwclock like everywhere > else). I believe debootstrap 0.1.10 has a workaround fix which essentially includes a --force-confold to the above line. This is indeed a powerpc-utils--related problem. powerpc-utils is prompting about a new conffile but stdin is /dev/null, so it fails to configure. > > > - 'make system bootable' (quik variant) failed to actually make the > > system bootable from the internal hard disk; I booted right into > > MacOS > > > > I'm going to check in a bit more to all this. > > need more info here, i want to clean up the quik install function a > bit... It would be nice to know what nvsetenv calls were made, this should be in /var/log/messages (via INFOMSG). It might also be useful to have the output of nvsetenv on your machine. Thanks, Stephen -- Stephen R. Marenka If life's not fun, you're not doing it right! <stephen@marenka.net>
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