Re: [Debian-ppc64-devel] Successful installation in an OpenPower 720 Express
Hi Sven, *.
Sven Luther wrote:
On Wed, Sep 14, 2005 at 03:32:48PM +0200, Harald Görl wrote:
2. A directory /ppc/chrp/ and a "yaboot" executable at the place which
is given in bootinfo.txt. In this example in /ppc/chrp/. If you place
the yaboot executable in another dir, that is fine but you MUST have
this directory /ppc/chrp/ which could also be empty.
Well, i guess you could call it whatever you want, provided you use that name
in the bootinfo.txtx above ?
Yes, i think that's correct.
3. A directory for yaboot configuration, which is /etc/ with the yaboot
config "yaboot.conf" in it, containing something like this:
init-message = "\nWelcome to Debian/GNU Linux on OpenPower\nPress <TAB>
Key for boot options.\n"
timeout=600
default=linux
image=/vmlinux
label=linux
initrd=/initrd.gz
read-only
That we have, no problem. It needs to go into /etc/yaboot.conf, not into
/install/yaboot.conf like it does right now ?
The yaboot version i use is looking at /etc/, but i never tried /install...
So we need to add the bootinfo.txt file, and have the boot-device there point
to yaboot (probably <boot-script>boot &device;:\install\yaboot</boot-script>
should be just fine, copy the /install/yaboot.conf to /etc too, just in case,
and make sure we add the -U call to mkisofs.
Yes, that would be fine i think.
Mmm, i indeed checked the debian-cd code, and -U is not in there. That said,
-U is :
-U Allows "Untranslated" filenames, completely violating the
iso9660 standards described above. Forces on the -d, -l, -N,
-allow-leading-dots, -relaxed-filenames, -allow-lowercase,
-allow-multidot and -no-iso-translate flags. It allows more than one
’.’ character in the filename, as well as mixed case filenames.
This is useful on HP-UX system, where the built-in CDFS filesystem
does not recognize ANY extensions. Use with extreme caution.
Do we really need that ? And will it not break any other subarches we try it
on ?
No "really good" answer for that, sorry. The "-U" came from an old
description from penguinppc.org, i think. I will try it without it...
Harald
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