Re: powerpc d-i build
On Sun, Oct 26, 2003 at 03:11:49PM +0100, Thorsten Sauter wrote:
> * Sven Luther <sven.luther@wanadoo.fr> [2003-10-26 10:56]:
> | Well, please enable build of powerpc images on something else than just
> | pmac then. It doesn't make sense to keep using a maybe older build
> | system but which is only able to build for a limited set of
> | architectures/subarchitectures, while development has gone into adding
> | support in the new branch. If we reasoned like this, we would still be
> | using boot-floppies today.
>
> what it needed to support more sub-architectures? I guess the
> initrd-image is always the same, isn't it?
We need the stuff on my harddisk that autopartkit ate :))
Seriously i recupered the important stuff (i stopped the formatting
before it could do too much damage, and i recreated the partition table
by hand, so i could salve the important stuff, but i have yet to
reinstall my powerpc kernel.
Once that is done, i can upload the new kernel packages, and we will
have support for all subarches, once it pass the NEW queue that is.
Goswnin's tree builds fine for powerpc cdrom target, there is more work
needed for miboot floppies though.
I need to find how to manage embedding initrd kernels, it doesn't seem
to work. I am able to embedd the boot-floppy initrd without problem, as
well as unpack the initrd and put it on a partition and boot into that.
Strange, but i will look into this once i have a working setup again.
But i repeat, debian-installer is absolutely non releasable as long as
it will allow autopartkit to eat the existing partitions silently.
> The only changes we need, is to include more kernels (or merged
> kernel+initrd files) on the cdrom.
I need to rebuild and upload those, yes.
> Maybe we must also include different files (mkisofs options) to allow
> other machines to boot from such a cdrom.
Yep, but this is low priority, i think.
Friendly,
Sven Luther
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