Bug#264964: OldWorld PowerMac Debian-Install floppys
On Mon, 2004-08-16 at 14:08, Sven Luther wrote:
>
> Can you try the following boot img :
>
> http://people.debian.org/~luther/miboot/boot-2.6.img
I tried it. After the usual struggle to get a clean and verified write
to a physical floppy... It wouldn't boot. The reason seems to be that
the usual miboot components are missing... As can be seen from the
following listing...
Enjoy!
Rick
============= listing follows =======================
# mount -v -t hfs -o loop boot-2.6.img /mnt/floppy/
mount: going to use the loop device /dev/loop0
/tmp/DebianFloppys/boot-2.6.img on /mnt/floppy type hfs
(rw,loop=/dev/loop0)
# ls -lAR /mnt/floppy/
/mnt/floppy/:
total 1211
dr-xr--r-- 2 root root 6 Aug 16 19:40 .finderinfo
dr-xr--r-- 2 root root 6 Aug 16 19:40 .resource
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 300 Aug 16 19:40 .rootinfo
-rwxr--r-- 1 root root 1239735 Aug 16 19:40 vmlinuz
/mnt/floppy/.finderinfo:
total 0
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 300 Aug 16 19:40 vmlinuz
/mnt/floppy/.resource:
total 0
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Aug 16 19:40 vmlinuz
# umount /mnt/floppy/
# mount -v -t hfs -o loop boot.img /mnt/floppy/
mount: going to use the loop device /dev/loop0
/tmp/DebianFloppys/boot.img on /mnt/floppy type hfs (rw,loop=/dev/loop0)
# ls -lAR /mnt/floppy/
/mnt/floppy/:
total 1166
dr-xr--r-- 2 root root 8 Aug 16 02:48 .finderinfo
dr-xr--r-- 2 root root 8 Aug 16 02:48 .resource
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 300 Aug 16 02:48 .rootinfo
-rwxr--r-- 1 root root 0 Aug 16 02:48 Finder
-rwxr--r-- 1 root root 0 Aug 16 02:48 System
-rwxr--r-- 1 root root 1193284 Aug 16 02:48 zImage
/mnt/floppy/.finderinfo:
total 0
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 300 Aug 16 02:48 Finder
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 300 Aug 16 02:48 System
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 300 Aug 16 02:48 zImage
/mnt/floppy/.resource:
total 78
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Aug 16 02:48 Finder
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 79593 Aug 16 02:48 System
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Aug 16 02:48 zImage
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