RE: amiga 'native OS' install
> -----Original Message-----
> From: schmitz@lbl.gov [mailto:schmitz@lbl.gov]On Behalf Of Michael
> Schmitz
> Sent: 21 January 1999 23:31
> To: m68k-build@nocrew.org
> Cc: debian-boot@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: amiga 'native OS' install
>
>
> Nick Holgate wrote:
> >
> > > For all m68k machines, booting from an existing operating
> system is the
> > _only_
> > > option. There's a LILO for Amiga and even for Atari but no
> one has written
> > > the scripts to use these boot methods for Debian/68k yet.
> > >
> >
> > Not quite true, 'boot-floppies' has full 'vmelilo' support for the
> > BVME4000/6000, MVME162, MVME166 and MVME167. These boards do not have an
> > existing operating, just comparatively simple boot strap loader
> ROMs, that
> > support booting from SCSI hard disks, SCSI floppy disk (TEAC
> FC-1) and TFTP.
> > Additionally BVME boards can boot from 'El-Torito' bootable CD-ROMs in a
> > SCSI CD-ROM drive. I added partial SCSI floppy support to
> 'boot-floppies' a
> > while back, i.e. partial as in can do everything except make a bootable
> > floppy at install time.
>
> I've not seen the VME stuff enabled in the 2.1.4 boot floppies source so
> I didn't touch it. In the current 2.1.4 bootfloppies binaries, there is
> consequentially _no_ VME support.
>
> I'm aware there are references to vmelilo in the boot-floppies source,
> but there's no kernel image package for VME, and there's no one that
> could possibly test those things among the m68k developers. If you have
> access
> to VME hardware, please get in contact with Chris or me so we can
> get a VME
> kit built and tested.
>
> Without being able to test the VME installation, I do see no
> point including
> the VME boot floppies in the distribution. This is Debian, not Eagle.
>
I _am_ an m68k developer, I have VME hardware, vmelilo is my package, I have
the VME kernels packaged and James Troup has suggested that I upload them as
he has not got round to it yet, I will be testing in the next couple of
days.
Nick
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