Re: Debian PReP boot-floppies.
Stephan Marguet <marguet@esrf.fr> writes:
> We are currently trying to install debian on a diskless MVME 2400
> system using the debian boot-floppies you have created. Unfortunately,
> after the kernel discovers it is on a serial console, bootfull.bin's
> install prog proceeds rather slowly, at the rate of perhaps 15 chars
> appearing at once every 10 seconds or so. Is there a way I can eliminate
> this problem? Or perhaps I can create my own bootfull.bin using one of
> our working kernels? Any help/information/documentation you can provide
> would be much appreciated. We have read everything at
> ports/powerpc/inst/prep and yet we are still at a loss. boot.bin
> specifies root=/dev/fd0 and fails when we try to do root=/dev/nfs,
> nfsroot=, ip=, etc. rescue.bin does not execute, giving illegal error.
> This is true for both the 2.2 and the 3.0 releases of these files. Thank
> you in advance for your time and understanding,
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