Bug#64500: subject boot-floppies don't want to install kernel & modules on ppc/apus.

[Sven LUTHER <luther@lambda.u-strasbg.fr>]

Package: boot-floppies
Version: 2.2.13
Severity: critical

the install os kernel & modules i not working on ppc/apus.

i did it, and got the following log :

  - installing kernel & modules from
    /target/home/debian/dists/potato/disks-powerpc/current
  - running cmd `mount -r -t ext2 /dev/loop0 /floopy'
  - mounting /dev/loop0 on /floppy failed : Invalid argument
  - Unable to mount the Rescue floppy, you may have inserted the wrong 
    floppy, please try again.

Also i tried it by hand :

  $ mount -t ext2 -o loop=/dev/loop0 rescue.bin /floppy
  Mounting root.bin on /floppy failed : Block device required.

The same goes with an (uncompressed) root.bin.

I have loop builtin the kernel and still it does not work, also the /dev/loop0
has the same properties as on the i386 box i have also.

The strangest thing is that once i hand installed the modules and completed
the install (no need for a kernel because it resides on the amigaos side of
the harddisk, there not being any lilo like stuff for apus) i tried again the
same command :

  $ mount -t ext2 -o loop=/dev/loop0 rescue.bin /floppy

And it worked without problem.

As the apus boot floppies porter, i should solve this problem, but i don't
know what to do about it (also i am just now recovering from a total partiton
table screw up by a previous boot-floppy experiment, don't know still what
happenend then). But if no solution is found to this, i plan to add a "install
OS modules" option in the dbootstrap menu, that will install only the modules
from the drviers.tgz tarball which is built anyway.

Friendly,

Sven LUTHER