Re: why isn't quik in boot floppies?
Chris Baker <electro@1939worldsfair.com> writes:
> Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net> writes:
>
> > On Sat, Nov 11, 2000 at 07:07:43PM -0800, Chris Baker wrote:
> > > Hello all,
> > >
> > > I'm trying to do a clean install of potato on my pb3400c. Everything
> > > goes well until I try to make linux directly bootable from hard disk,
> > > and it says, "installing quik is not yet possible for debian/powerpc."
> > >
> > > Well, I know it's possible, since I was booting with it before I
> > > (stupidly) wiped my install. So what do I have to do to make this
> > > work?
> > >
> > > Any and all help appreciated,
> > >
> >
> > are you sure your using current boot floppies? quik used to work
> > fine.
>
> Oops. It appears that there was an error downloading the base system
> via http. It wanted a larger file than was on the server, and I
> didn't see the error message.
>
> I moved everything to a local nfs server, and the base system
> installed properly, including quik, so that wasn't the problem.
>
> Now when I boot I get:
>
> copying OF device tree...done
> Initing fake screen
> DEFAULT CATCH!, code=FF00300 at %SRR0: 00201008 %SRR1: 00003070
> ok
> 0 >
I built a kernel without CONFIG_BOOTX_TEXT, and it works fine now. It
might be cool to have some official debian kernels without this option
set.
Thanks to all,
cbb
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