Bug#323182: debian-installer: boot.img for sarge doesn't, on PPC

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

On Wed, Aug 17, 2005 at 01:51:53AM -0400, SR, ESC wrote:
> > Yep, but nobody came forward and did so. This should h&ave been mentioned in
> > the errata though at least.
> 
> there's people who did for woody, but they feel that they were
> overlooked and hurt from that, and therefore didn't pitch in, and i'm
> no coder, i'm more bofh. maybe i can get him to help, and not do
> "everything".

That is pure bullshit, i have been asking for help on miboot since over a year
befor the release, and only a few cared to help there, as the archives of
debian-boot will show you.Who are those supposed people anyway ? Ethan
probably ? Well, i had to battle during 6 month tro get him to accept theamiga
partitioning support in yaboot, and from what i understood, he wanted us to do
it his true right wxay and nothing else.

> > The current only way to boot an oldworld in a free manner is to drop to the
> > firmware and boot the vmlinuz-coff.initrd from it.
> 
> hmm, do you have some reference docs to do that? that looks
> potentially rather interesting.

You have to drop into the firmware. Docs may probably be found on apple site
for that, but the way i know involves a serial cable.

> > > > Maybe i should build a couple of miboot floppies accompanying the official
> > > > release ?
> > > 
> > > that would be nice, and appreciated. quite often people installing
> > > linux want nothing to do with mock os, or apple. the oldworlds often
> 
> > (Notice i did build some nubus kernel even, but i guess nobody even bothered
> > to test those.)
> 
> it's ok, some people did, in the channel for instance.

but i had zero feedback. I don't even know if they work or not. They probably
don't even.

Friendly,

Sven Luther