Bug#377152: debian-installer: BootX of (hd-media|cdrom) vmlinux and initrd.gz fails; miBoot works

[Moritz Muehlenhoff <jmm@inutil.org>]

On Thu, Jul 06, 2006 at 10:42:59PM -0400, Daniel Dickinson wrote:
> Package: debian-installer
> Severity: important
> Tags: powerpc debian-installer
> 
> 
> For Old World PowerPC Macintosh BootX hangs at the 'MMU:exit' line of
> the kernel boot for both hd-media and cdrom kernel and initrd images,
> but the miBoot floppy works.  All methods use a variant of
> 2.6.16-2-powerpc, but the miBoot uses a different .config.
> 
> For BootX booting, the 2006-03-30 images are the last ones that
> work.  2006-04-01 was the first use of 2.6.16-1-powerpc kernels and
> initrds, however, as with the current situation, the miBoot floppies
> worked (until the abi change, as change over to wouter doing the builds).
> 
> I didn't detect this situation because I only used BootX for a Beta2
> install, and subsequently used the miBoot floppies.

Does this error still occur with more recent kernel versions?

Cheers,
        Moritz