Re: debian installer, Nubus PPC (was uml, kernel 2.6)

[Raylynn Knight <audilvr@speakeasy.org>]

On Sun, 2004-12-19 at 08:57, Sven Luther wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I have gotten the sources via bk, applied them to the debian
> kernel-source-2.4.27 package, and build a package with it. I need to patch
> kernel-package for it to work, but i tried building the kernel already like
> that. 
> 
Great, I'll provide you with another patch soon.  I've added support for
additional Ethernet cards to the drivers and made some other minor
changes.  I'm unfamiliar with bk and haven't figured out how to push the
changes into the repository.

> Mmm, just discovered that you have to go looking into arch/ppc/appleboot, and
> not the arch/ppc/boot/images, for the images. What is the name of the target
> image file there ? I suppose that you need to use either : zvmlinux or
> miboot.image ? What about the piggyback tool ? Is it used to include the
> initrd in the kenrel ? 
> 
> Mmm, i just found out about : "Mach Kernel", this is probably the one we want.
> 
You found the correct one.  
> BTW, what about miboot ? Can miboot or bootx be used to boot nubus kernel ?
> The sourceforge project home page seem to say so, did you have any experience
> with this kind of stuff ? 
> 
I haven't been able to get miboot or bootx to work with any of the 5
different supported models I have.  I have a PowerBook 1400 and have
seen mailing list posts claiming that BootX worked with that platform,
but BootX always errors out when I attempt it.

Ray