On Sat, Nov 17, 2001 at 12:08:45PM +0000, Philip Hands wrote: > Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net> writes: > > > On Fri, Nov 16, 2001 at 02:06:24PM +0000, Philip Hands wrote: > > > > > > I used the CVS version (as at about Nov 6 2001) > > > > > > So, are the official 2.2 r4 CDs unbootable? > > > > on powerpc yes. > > > > > If so, any ideas what I did wrong? > > > > its not your fault its mine, for one i was under the apparently > > mistaken impression that older versions of debian-cd were uses for > > potato anyway (someone i think debian-cd's maintainer told me this). > > That was true up until r3, but I've upgraded open.hands.com > (cdimage.d.o) to testing recently, in order to be able to build woody > CDs on a woody system, so was using the new mkisofs, and saw that the > latest debian-cd supported that, and had the stuff for reducing the > amount of rubbish on CD1, so thought I'd take advantage of the new > stuff. I should probably have asked how sane that was first. the new mkisofs is also a good thing for powerpc, as well as the fixed first stage bootloader in debian-cd (all potato CDs have been unbootable on most machines, except by manually entering commands into OpenFirwmare due to this). > So, rebuilding them with the latest CVS will sort out the problem > then, will it? for the bootability problem yes it should, though i cannot test my changes unfortunatly, since i simply don't have the disk space nor bandwidth. the change was really rather trivial though. > I'll do that, and put the new image up for rsync, so people can test > it. If all's well, I'll do a CD point release (unless people come up > with compelling reasons not to). ok great. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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