Re: CHRP boot disks
On Mon, Nov 20, 2000 at 07:00:27PM -0500, Rolf Brudeseth wrote:
> >Are them 100% broken?
> >I see the boot disk is ext2, and AFAIK openfirmware can only read FAT
> >disks (I haven't been able to use the ext2 disk, I had to copy the
> >kernel).
Beats me. I don't know anything about chrp :)
> >Why is serial console support missing? The most common CHRP systems are
> >not shipped with frame buffers (I've lost a whole day before noticing
> >that :-( ).
d'oh! I wish I had noticed this message BEFORE I spent all day
rebuilding kernels. I'll try to get this fixed for 2.2r2.
> Where is the CHRP boot disk image?
>
> I looked here but could not find one:
> http://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/potato/main/disks-powerpc/current/chrp/images-1.44/
>
> It can not be rescue.bin because that image will not fit on a dos-format'ed floppy.
>
> Is there a CHRP (and PREP) boot image with support for BOOTP?
Yes, there is a prep disk, in the prep directory...
Rescue.bin is intended to be dd'd onto a floppy. I think. I don't
know much about CHRP booting, I'm afraid.
Dan
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