Re: your daily build of powerpc floppies
On Fri, Dec 10, 2004 at 08:14:42PM +0100, Ralf Schlatterbeck wrote:
> Thanks for the quick reply.
>
> On Fri, Dec 10, 2004 at 07:16:58PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote:
> > On Fri, Dec 10, 2004 at 07:02:25PM +0100, Ralf Schlatterbeck wrote:
> > > I recently discovered your daily build of floppies.
> > > I can boot them on my oldworld 7600 powermac
> >
> > What graphic card do you have on this box ?
> The built-in graphics. No extra card.
Ok, do you know what graphic chips is used in it, and what driver is used on
it? more /proc/fb on the second console should give you that info.
> > > After booting the debian-installer starts and I get
> > > a black screen. I can switch to the second console to
> > > get a shell.
> >
> > Which floppies are you using ? floppies or floppies-2.4 ?
> floppies, not floppies-2.4 (for the daily build, for the
> release-candidate installer I tried both)
Cool.
> > Can you give the exact URL ?
> Daily build as of today:
> http://people.debian.org/~luther/d-i/images/daily/powerpc/floppy/[br]oot.bin
Ok.
> > > Is there a way for giving boot-parameters so that d-i
> > > starts up in another mode (maybe no framebuffer)?
> >
> > Yes, check the installation manual, i believe it contains the info :
> >
> > http://d-i.alioth.debian.org/manual/en.powerpc/ch05s02.html
> >
> > DEBIAN_FRONTEND=text
> >
> > and :
> >
> > debian-installer/framebuffer=false
> >
> > may work.
>
> Excuse my ignorance,
> how do I specify boot parameters with the hfs boot floppies?
Ah, indeed, you need ot build a new miboot floppy, not evident. Rick and the
other oldworld guys have in the past looked at how to do this. If you want, i
can build you a specialized boot floppy, so you can try this out.
BTW, did you try the ofonly boot floppy ?
> > > Note that these floppies are my hope of getting sarge on
> > > my powermac. The release-candidate 2 floppies are ejected
> > > directly after boot.
> >
> > Did you try both the floppies and the floppies-2.4 ?
> >From the release-candidates, yes. From your daily build, no.
> Will be the next thing I'll do.
Ok.
> > > I can boot woody floppies just fine.
> >
> > Ok, usual story. But we don't know if it is the install itself, the different
> > miboot or different kernel version which cause the problem.
> For the release candidates I'm sure it's not the kernel: The floppy is
> immediately ejected.
Oh, i know why that is, the rc2 floppies where built without miboot, since
miboot is non-free, so there is no chance that those floppies will work.
> > Make sure to write to debian-boot next time, and to fill an installation
> > report once you are finished ...
> I have cc-ed this msg to debian-boot.
Thanks, debian-powerpc may also be a good idea.
Friendly,
Sven Luther
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