Re: No prep kernels in daily installer images?

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

On Fri, Dec 01, 2006 at 08:48:04PM +0100, Ulrich Teichert wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> today, I downloaded the latest netinst and business card image daily
> uilds of the debian installer for powerpc. Is it right that there are no
> prep kernels on it? On my recently acquired powerstack I can't boot
> install/powerpc/vmlinux, nor the ppc64 kernel (well, this expected, yes).
> However, there are prep udebs on the CD, so do I miss something obvious?

Prep support is missing in 2.6.16 and 2.6.17 debian kernels. It is present in
2.6.18 kernels, with the -prep flavour, thanks to the work i did. I have not
had time to test them, so feedback on this would be welcome, but at least they
build.

Please try the weekly cd builds (altough i never did manage to boot from cd),
or better yet the netboot daily builds :

  http://people.debian.org/~wouter/d-i/powerpc/daily/prep/netboot/vmlinuz-prep.initrd

You do have a powerstack II (in a beige housing) or a powerstack I (in a hifi
radio like black housing) ? 

Also, note that you will need the -prep flavour, and no more the powerpc
flavour, since prep did not yet migrate to ARCH=powerpc (together with apus,
who is also disabled).

Friendly,

Sven Luther