Bug#264964: OldWorld PowerMac Debian-Install floppys
On Mon, Aug 16, 2004 at 02:07:37AM -0400, Rick Thomas wrote:
>
> On Friday, August 13, 2004, at 09:53 AM, Sven Luther wrote:
> >
> >Can you please retry the miboot boot floppies tomorrow ? I fixed the
> >daily-builds to rebuild the actual miboot floppies.
> >
> >Now, the only problem remaining would be the root floppy being too
> >big, and
> >the actual 2.6 kernel based miboot floppies.
> >
> >Friendly,
> >
> >Sven Luther
>
> Hi Sven!
Thanks Rick for testing it. I will build 2.6.8 miboot kernels today, could you
possibly give it a try to see if it boots this evening or something such ?
> Sorry for the delay on getting this done.
>
> I downloaded the boot and root (and other) images from
> http://people.debian.org/~luther/d-i/images/daily/powerpc-small/floppy/
> See appendix 1.
>
> After some fooling around with a dirty floppy drive and some poor
> quality floppy disks (I *hate* dealing with floppy disks! The
> floppy drives on Old Macs are almost invariably in poor shape.
> This is one reason I strongly recommend that people use BootX
> instead if they have the option.) I eventually succeeded in writing
> (and verifying) the images to physical floppies.
>
> First observation:
> The root image is larger than (1474560=1440*1024) bytes, so dd gets
> an error trying to write it to /dev/fd0. See appendix 2.
>
> Second observation:
> When I loop mount the root.img, all the stuff necessary for booting
> seems to be there (confirmed later by actually booting off of it)
> See appendix 3.
>
> Third observation:
> I booted from the boot floppy. It read the floppy, did the normal
> kernel initialization stuff and finally ejected the boot floppy
> with the message "Insert root floppy"..."press ENTER". Which I
> did. It printed "RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0" then
> read for a while then stopped reading (no noise from the floppy
> drive). And it hung. I gave it several minutes. Nothing
> happened. No error messages on the console -- nothing. See my
> next opservation for one possible explanation of this behavior.
I don't think this is it. I believe that maybe it failed because it is trying
to read post the end of the floppy or something.
Friendly,
Sven Luther
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