Re: Proposed build system: PREP
On Mon, Oct 06, 2003 at 12:20:50PM +0100, Leigh Brown wrote:
> Sven Luther said:
> > On Mon, Oct 06, 2003 at 11:43:59AM +0100, Leigh Brown wrote:
> >> Sven Luther said:
> >> > Could you test the prep kernel at :
> >> > http://people.debian.org/~luther/powerpc/2.4.22, and instruct us about
> >> :
> >> >
> >> > 1) The different method of booting from a prep system.
> >> >
> >> > 2) if there are auto-booting CDroms, or if you just have to enter
> >> the
> >> > right value from the OF (in case you have an OF).
> >> >
> >> > 3) the output of your /proc/cpuinfo.
> >> >
> >> > 4) do you believe they are smp prep systems ?
> >> >
> >> > And if you would volunteer to test some of our debian-installers
> >> setups
> >> > when they are ready, it would be real nice.
> >>
> >> Hi Sven,
> >>
> >> I know there are several RS/6000 PReP systems around, and that there
> >
> > Mmm, i thought all RS/6000 where chrp, and using the chrp-rs6k kernel.
>
> The ones I listed are *definitely* all PReP.
>
> [...]
> > Mmm, So, to get the iso to autoboot on those, an option to mkisofs would
> > be enough, but i guess this is not compatible to pmac autobooting, is it ?
>
> Actually, I think mkisofs supports both a PReP and Mac boot loader on
> the same CD. It doesn't support PReP and CHRP on the same CD, but I
> have a patch to make it do so lying around somewhere. So, I think it's
> possible to have a single CD that can boot PReP, CHRP and Mac, but I'm
> not 100% sure.
Interesting, let's look into this once we are a bit more advanced in the
debian-installer image generation.
Friendly,
Sven Luther
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