Re: Debian Installer beta2 working on an OldWorld PowerMac-6500/225
Thanks! Sven,
I've subscribed to the debian-boot list so I can listen in to the
discussion. (Who know? Maybe even participate a bit!)
BootX compatibility is fairly important to me because I've got some
really old hardware with fairly broken Open Firmware. (PowerMac 6500,
and Beige G3). Quik *can* be made to work on this hardware, but if
anything goes wrong it's a long and arduous process getting the OF
settings back to a working condition. Also, I need to be able to
dual-boot Debian and MacOS9.
As I understand your reply: Soon (Monday is the first time I'll be
able to play again... Is that too soon?) I should be able to download a
new iso from the "daily build" area that will allow me to tell it to
skip the boot-loader installation part and get on with things. (I'll
have to simulate ["manually" using BootX] the normal functions of a boot
loader...) this will get me un-stuck and allow me to move on to the
next phase of the installation. Will it be obvious how to tell it to
skip the boot-loader install? Or do I need some special magic?
Please let me know if there is anything I can do to help!
Thanks,
Rick
Sven Luther wrote:
>
> On Thu, Jan 22, 2004 at 02:15:20AM -0500, Rick Thomas wrote:
> > Hardware:
> >
> > PowerMac 6500/225 with 128MB of RAM and a 6GB SCSI disk
> > partitioned as 2.5GB for MacOS, 3.0 GB for Linux root (an
> > "all-in-one" filesystem) and 500 MB for Linux swap. It also has a
> > SCSI CD-RW drive and a floppy drive.
> >
> > Software: MacOS 9.1 with Roxio "Toast" for the CD-RW drive.
> >
> >
> >
> > Following the call for testers in Debian Weekly News - January
> > 20th, 2004, I decided to give it a try.
> >
> > The Beta2 d-i for PowerPC doesn't support OldWorld PowerMacs, but
> > armed with my trusty copy of BootX, I figured I could do anything
> > yaboot could do. Amazingly, I succeeded in getting it to boot and
> > run the installer! (Some problems remain, but I'm sure they can
> > be solved...)
>
> Cool.
....... snip .............
> > I'm currently stuck almost at the end of the install, because it
> > insists on trying to install yaboot. This is impossible on an
> > OldWorld Mac. I may have to do a loopback mount of the ISO so I
> > can do a little surgery on the install scripts to allow me to
> > gracefully bail out of the yaboot install when I burn the next CD.
>
> This will be solved in the next d-i uploads.
>
> I have uploaded yesterday a nobootloader package, which enable you to
> work without any bootloader, but ultimately, a quik-installer would be
> needed. Maybe Jeremie is already working on that ?
>
> Also, this means that it is possible to boot with bootx on oldworld, and
> that the default -powerpc-small that was selected in kernel-installer
> is probably not the right solution. A "kernel to use" kind of question
> might be welcome, and maybe there could also be some kind of
> auto-probing for which kernel was booted.
>
> BTW, these kind of things have more their place on the debian-boot
> mailing list, so i forward this there.
>
> Friendly,
>
> Sven Luther
>
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