Re: debian installer, uml, kernel 2.6

[Sven Luther <sven.luther@wanadoo.fr>]

On Sun, Dec 19, 2004 at 11:28:52PM -0500, Raylynn Knight wrote:
> On Sat, 2004-12-18 at 15:12, Sven Luther wrote:
> > > I'll try to make time for creating the diff soon.  I may just post a
> > > link on www.nubuslinux.org when I have it completed, but I'll send you
> > > an email as well.  It may take me a while as I am spending this weekend
> > > Christmas shopping with my daughter.
> > 
> > Oh well, good luck, maybe i will get to install bk afterall, altough i don't
> > feel very much to fill their licence agreement, oh well.
> > 
> I didn't care much for that either.  I've been thinking about hosting a
> CVS or SVN repository on nubuslinux.org.

Arch or darcs may be better better solutions here. darcs sound like more
simple to use.

> > > > I will try to make you a custom d-i available also, for you to test.
> > > > 
> > > > How is the initrd situation for the mklinux bootloader, can it boot a vmlinux
> > > > + initrd, or does it need some other special target.
> > > > 
> > > There is a special target 'make zImage.initrd' which combines the
> > 
> > Yeah, ok, known stuff, i use the same on my pegasos/chrp machine.
> > 
> > > vmlinux and ramdisk.image.gz into a 'Mach Kernel' image that the MkLinux
> > > booter can handle.
> > 
> > Yeah, but which of the images do you use ? what is the name of it ? I use the
> > zImage.chrp, so hopefully yours is named zImage.nubus or something ? 
> > 
> A 'Mach Kernel' image is created.

Yep, guessed such. Ideally, we would integrate the appleboot stuff with the
arch/ppc/boot stuff directly, sounds cleaner, but well.

I have built a kernel, and put it at : 

  http://people.debian.org/~luther/Mach Kernel

could you download it an try booting with it just to make sure ? It contains a
random initrd image, so it will fail in the end, but i want to make sure it
will boot or something.

BTW, i can possibly get hands on a 68k mac, but i have some fear that it might
be 040LC based, no chance to run linux on this one, right ? 

Friendly,

Sven Luther