Re: mipsel install failure in gxemul-ated decstation
Michel Lespinasse wrote:
> Hi Martin,
>
> On Mon, Aug 28, 2006 at 05:10:06AM -0700, Michel Lespinasse wrote:
> > Also just as a sanity check I did confirm today that the installation on
> > decstation works fine if I use the sarge 31r2 image instead. So gxemul
> > does seem to be useable enough if you have the right image.
>
> I figured out what that issue was. Turned out the kernel I was using
> actually had an embedded initrd in it with the sarge installer on it.
> So I thought I was running the etch installer that came with the CD image,
> but I was actually running the sarge installer from the initrd that had
> been embedded with my kernel, and that installer got confused when it
> actually mounted the etch CDROM and tried to start installing packages
> from there.
>
> In other words, it was all my fault. Now I'm trying to figure out how to
> convince gxemul to start a debian kernel with the debian initrd...
I wonder why this is a problem, the DECstation installer images already
contain the initrd. If gxemul is good enough at emulating a DECstation
harddisk/cdrom you can boot from the mini.iso installer image. If the
emulator supports netboot, then the boot.img should work.
The separate kernel and initrd binaries are only needed to build bigger
CD images. The delo package contains the 'delo' and 't-rex' commands
to create bootable images.
Thiemo
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