Re: Booting PPC/Nubus
> boot-floppy-hfs.img is one of the set of installation disks, the lastest
> potato version can be found at the following:
>
> <http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/potato/main/disks-powerpc/current/powermac/images-1.44/>
>
> The current CVS boot-floppies are woody and are not yet ready for
> primetime. In the long run you will probably want to create a
> subarchitecture for powerpc, the current ones include apus, prep,
> chrp, and pmac (power mac).
>
This idea probably should be communicated to the nubus-pmac people..
> You don't get boot-floppy-hfs.img until you've made it all the way through
> the build (make check; make release). It is an miboot-based floppy, so
> that's probably why it's crashing. miboot doesn't support nubus.
>
> In particular, look in powerpc-specials/miBoot/mkboot.sh to see how
> boot-floppy-hfs.img is built.
>
> miboot is from <http://penguinppc.org/~benh/>.
>
> Happy Trails!
>
> Stephen
>
Just the kind of message I was hoping for - thanks a lot. I'll play around with the
source tree tomorrow and keep the list posted with arising problems ;)
Fritz
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