On Sun, Mar 11, 2001 at 06:53:58PM -0700, Debra Lowther wrote: > > Andrew wrote: actually i wrote this passage. > > just my crazy suggestion, if you can't get the keyboard to work right > > for the rootdisk prompt, what about changing it to wait 10 or 15 > > seconds for a rootdisk insertion and then continuing? would that be > > difficult/messy to implement? > > Why does this sound way too easy? I'm gonna have to check that > out. The other thing is that theoretically, we should be able to > get the hardware to tell us that a floppy has been inserted. > Possibly only on mac hardware, but hey. Or we could just poll the > drive or something. Hmmm, lots of crazy ideas... detecting floppy insertion might be a nicer solution but i suspect it would involve significant modification of the mac floppy driver in the kernel, whereas simply adding a timeout to this root disk prompt should <uninformed> be relativly easy </uninformed> > I really like the Debian idea and I'd like to be able to make a > contribution, maybe this is an opportunity right off the bat. I'm no > bootstrap specialist, that's for sure, but I can certainly put together > some documentation for those that follow once we figure out what to say. if you have a talent for writing docs thats what is really needed, im absolutely horrible at it and have to use a cattle prod to force myself into it from time to time. and then people flame me and say my docs are totall horse sh** so... > Then after the root finishes loading from boot-floppy-oldworld, the > second splash screen says the Rescue floppy version is really 2.2.19, > built on 2000-11-22 by Daniel Jacobowitz. Should these version numbers be > in sync? no, because andrew did not fix the keyboard problem, he just dug up an old boot floppy from version 2.2.17 of the boot floppies, its used with a 2.2.19 root floppy though. > Where would I find the source for the current boot floppy, and the > archived source for the previous version? My idea was to diff the two and > find out where the changes took place, which would point us in the right > direction.I did verify the difference is in the zImage, not the dummy > System/Finder which are present on the boot disks. i have no idea if the old source is archived anywhere. current source can be grabbed from CVS: # If you are using anonymous (readonly) access: export CVSROOT=:pserver:anonymous@cvs.debian.org:/cvs/debian-boot cvs login # You will be prompted for a password -- just hit `Enter'. then: cvs co boot-floppies > BTW, I also tried BootX 2.2.1 but it crashed each time it tried to > restart into Linux. I believe there's a newer version in the Apple > developer CVS library, but I couldn't find it. probably because BootX is not an Apple utility its a program written by BenH to boot linux kernels from macos only on oldworld macs. you might be thinking of the bootloader for OSX which apple named BootX just to be confusing, it does not boot linux. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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