Re: debian-cd lacks boot support for mips and mipsel

[heinold@physik.tu-cottbus.de (H.Heinold)]

On Fri, Dec 14, 2001 at 12:19:00PM +0100, Santiago Garcia Mantinan wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> While trying to add the mips and mipsel architectures to the
> cdimage-unofficial.debian.net site I found that this arches don't have the
> scripts to make the cds bootable, so I'm not able to make bootable cds for
> them at the moment. This two are the only arches targetted for woody for
> wich I was not able to make bootable cds at the moment.
> 
> I was wondering if there are unofficial patches not commited on debian-cd
> cvs for making this cds bootable or if anybody knowing how to make cds for
> mips/mipsel bootable could create them.
> 
> Thanks in advance!
> 
> Regards...
> -- 
> Manty/BestiaTester -> http://manty.net
> 
> PS: CC me as I'm not on the list

Hm,

I think we cant make cd bootable. The sgi prom as far as I know only
boot cd's with the efs-Filesystem. The recommend way to boot an sgi
computer for installing is via tftp. 

-- 
Henning