Re: d-i daily build fails when building initrd (PowerMac7,3)
> > > That would be interesting, since the B50 is exactly what those corean guys
> > > have all this trouble dealing with.
> >
> > Odd. We installed from a floppy using the woody netinstall CDs by just
> > following the instructions found at
> > http://www.kutilek.de/technik/debian-rs6k.en.php
>
> You reqlise that sarge was released almost a year ago now, and that
> debian-installer has almost nothing to do with the woody boot-floppies, right
> ? :)
I do in fact realize that. I had two students install these B50 boxes and
that's what worked in the end. IIRC we tried to boot from sarge netinstall
CD and that didn't even begin to boot.
> There is no floppy support on either sarge or etch debian-installer for
> powerpc prep or chrp boxes right now, only the unofficial powermac oldworld
> miboot floppies.
And the CDs are supposed to boot on the RS6000?
> > I should be able to provide a system.map of the booting kernel so people
> > can figure out what's missing in the stock kernels.
>
> The problem was not the kernel, but it seems that yaboot-installer or
With our install it was the kernel. Your mail did not specify detail
beyond 'korean guys' which did not ring a bell.
> prep-installer, or plain dd was not able to create a booting system.
yaboot works for booting these machines; a simple default config created
using yabootconfig did the job. The kernel resides in / instead of /boot
but that should not matter.
> Solution is to fix partman-prep, and see if yaboot-installer behaves then, or
> to see if the excessive ramdisk size created by initramfs-tools caused the
> compressed kernel + builtin initrd to cause trouble with the OFs installer.
My bet would be on the latter. That should be fairly easy to test.
> Or maybe simply that the addnote thingy is broken or something ? I don't
> really know.
>
> I am able to make the prep machines bootable with simply dding the kernel with
> builtin ramdisk the prep partition
So no yaboot used, and no size limits whatsoever?
Michael
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