Old world status & todo (was Re: d-i oldworld mac: floppies fail on 4400/200 and 7200/75

[Holger Levsen <debian@layer-acht.de>]

Hi,

> > > I apologize to Malte.  You were right.  I was wrong.  The kernel on the
> > > floppies seems to be broken.
> Ok.
>
> Now wee need to see why this happens. It seems that nobody was able to
> make it work with the boot floppies built by me, is that exact ? Only by
> those built by Jeremie.

I can confirm this. Yesterday I've tried your boot.img (from April-09) for 
another round, still without success. Jeromies bootfloppy and your root- and 
net-driver-floppy work fine.

Then I installed unstable, which installed kernel-image-2.4.25-powerpc. This 
package installs the kernel to /boot/vmlinux-2.4.25-powerpc, but doesn't 
create a link to /boot/vmlinux. I think this is a bug, because quik (and 
quikconfig) assume that link to exist. If I set this link manually, run 
quikconfig and then quik, all I have to do is to set open firmware values 
with these commands: (to boot and install from floppies I have resetted them 
by pressing alt-apple-r-p)

nvsetenv boot-device ata/ata-disk@0:0
nvsetenv boot-file "/boot/vmlinux"
nvsetenv output-device   screen
nvsetenv input-device    kbd

After this, my system (PowerMac 4400/200, 48mb) boots from hard disc.

As opposed to an earlier statement by myself there seems to be no need for a 
partman-quik: I succeded in installing quik onto a 120gb / (root) partition 
as well as on a 7gb / (root) partition. Does anybody know of limits within 
quik ? I'm very pleased that those nasty IDE limitations (the primary/logical 
partitioning crap as well) doesn't seem to exist, but I would really like for 
sure. 

Anyway, I'm not sure how to incorporate setting the open firmware values. 
Should that be part of a quik-installer ? I guess it should, but would like 
to get comments. Some macs require special open firmware settings, mostly for 
boot-device, see http://penguinppc.org/projects/quik/defaults.shtml and 
http://penguinppc.org/projects/quik/quirks.shtml) and right now I'm wondering 
whether it's possible to detect the mac modell or if it will be neccassary to 
prompt the user.

Should I fill a bug report against kernel-package-2.4.25-powerpc (quik needs 
the link) ? 

Should I fill a bug report against d-i about the successfull install on a 
120gb ide-harddisc and close the bug immediatly ?


regards,
	Holger

> We need to find out why. Jeremie, did you modify
> the kernel config somehow ? Or maybe something is not ok with our builds
> or something.
>
> Friendly,
>
> Sven Luther