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

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

On Wed, Aug 17, 2005 at 02:24:27AM -0400, SR, ESC wrote:
> Le mer 2005-08-17 a 02:05:14 -0400, Sven Luther <sven.luther@wanadoo.fr> a dit:
> > 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.
> 
> oh yeh. i was just relaying what he said to me, that's all. please
> don't shoot the messenger :). well, it's not really relevant, we can
> do it ourselves then.

Hehe, ...

> > > > 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.
> 
> oh, ok, so it's just a command in OF? so i could do this from CLI in
> OF, anywhere. doesn't have to be serial =) (although there are
> distinct advantages to that).

yep. Ideally you would netboot the kernel with something like :

boot enet:,vmlinuz-coff.initrd

notsure about the exact syntax though.

Friendly,

Sven Luther