Bug#396458: powerpc d-i miboot floppy doesn't boot

["rob rob" <stinkysnooky@hotmail.com>]

Package:kernel-image-2.6.17-2-powerpc-miboot-di
Version:1.22

Hi,
tried booting the powerpc debian installer floppy disk for etch/sid but it 
just got spat out. I used:
dd if=boot.img of=/dev/fd0 bs=1024; sync
to put the image on disk and booted with the option key pressed, but didn't 
get any debug.
The boot.img from etch installer beta3 with 
kernel-image-2.6.16-2-powerpc-miboot-di worked, however the net-drivers.img 
was too big and I had to break up the install at that point
While investigating that problem Benjamin Herrenschmidt sent this 
interesting mail with a patch, which may solve the problem:
http://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc/2006/09/msg00337.html

I have a powerpc power macintosh 6500/225.

Thanks in advance. Yours, Rob Homsi

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