Re: Red X -- was: Re: new oldworld pmac miboot 2.6 floppies, root size should be ok, net_drivers still too big, please test.

[Sven Luther <sven.luther@wanadoo.fr>]

On Mon, Aug 30, 2004 at 01:58:34AM -0400, Rick Thomas wrote:
> 
> Sven Luther wrote:
> > Rick Thomas wrote:
> > > Is it possible the objcopy is corrupting it?
> > 
> > This is indeed a possibility.
> > 
> > I will disable this again for the 2.4 floppies, and we will see tomorrow what
> > happens.
> > 
> > That said, the 2.6 floppies are too big to work with miboot without the
> > objcopy -O binary call, so we need to investigate this more in detail.
> 
> I downloaded the latest 2.4 floppy images, but it looks like you didn't get around to disabling the objcopy yet.

Yeah, alioth and thus the d-i svn repo was dead yesterday. It is up again, and i will remove it for tomorrow.

> In any case, I still get a red X.
> 
> The objcopy and the bfd library on my most recent debian sarge install are dated May 19th, 2004.  Is it possible that we haven't had a successful powerpc OldWorld floppy boot since that time?

No, i don't think this has an influence.

Friendly,

Sven Luther