On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 12:31:49AM +0200, Laurent Vivier wrote: > > Le 24 oct. 06 à 09:47, Laurent Vivier a écrit : > >> Brad Boyer wrote: >>> On Sat, Oct 21, 2006 at 12:19:09PM +0200, Laurent Vivier wrote: >>>> Yes. But a "dummy" driver returning "noErr" doesn't work. >>>> I think it must call at least "AddDrive". >>> >>> Based on a look at the Driver technote from Apple, it looks like the >>> driver from the disk is used to access disk blocks in the ROM code, >>> so >>> you need a full driver to be able to use the disk. Although you could >>> leave out the write support in this case, I presume. >> >> I agree. >> The good thing: I think what is preventing to booting from a non-Apple >> drive is >> in the driver. So, by writing a driver, I can boot from my Yamaha CD- >> RW drive >> and use a CD-RW to develop the driver. > > > I've a bootable CD without Apple copyrighted materials (all free !!!) Woo hoo! > but it cannot boot from non-apple drive. Still great progress! > it is here : > > http://vivierlaurent.free.fr/debian-50-m68k-NETINST-1_emile-1.iso > > The disk content is from: > > http://people.debian.org/~smarenka/d-i/m68k/cds/daily/debian-50-m68k-NETINST-1.iso > > And it is only bootable, but cannot install debian because it doesn't > find the bits for testing/m68k. > (Stephen: where can I find them ?) We're (okay, actually Michael Casadevall) is working on lenny for m68k. Meanwhile, if it boots, you should be able to install etch-m68k by putting suite=etch-m68k on the kernel arg line. Great stuff! > in the TODO list: > > - switch to 32bit mode on boot > - detect the CDROM SCSI ID (currently if it is fixed to 3). > > The sources are not in the CVS tree for the moment (coming soon...). You do great stuff. We've got to get it into d-i. Mea Culpa! Peace, Stephen -- Stephen R. Marenka If life's not fun, you're not doing it right! <stephen@marenka.net>
Attachment:
signature.asc
Description: Digital signature