Re: Second round of powerpc subarch investigation : boot-loaders.
On Fri, Oct 24, 2003 at 02:07:19PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 24, 2003 at 01:26:24PM +0200, Freek Dijkstra wrote:
> > Hi Sven,
> >
> > I recently noted a post stating that the bootloader development team did not
> > have access to an oldword powerpc. I have one of those, and can do some
> > testing this weekend, even if it renders my openfirmware settings obsolete.
> >
> > I'm afraid I'm not an expert, but I got some real great help on this list
> > earlier, and am eager to do something in return. So just mail me privately
> > if there is any testing I can do (I've got a 6500 with internal + external
> > monitor card, internal IDE disk + 2 external SCSI disks. I'm afraid I don't
> > get a OpenFirmware prompt though, but I can read it with the BootVars
> > program or nvsetenv).
>
> It maybe too early, we have a kernel now which should be able to be
> mibootable, but not yet the full debian-installer stuff.
>
> I will make a new kernel build this afternoon, maybe you can try this
> one out, and see if you can boot it. I hope once this kernel reaches the
> archives, we can try building d-i images also or something such, or you
> could do them by hand. I don't really know how miboot works, so i can't
> do it myself.
You could certainly see if the hfs-bootfloppy.bin image within
http://members.cox.net/miBoot.tgz
boots. It should ask for a root disk, at which point you'll just have
to reboot for now. We'll need help testing the debian-installer very
soon! Thanks for your contributions.
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