Re: howto create boot-floppy-hfs.img for oldworld macs ?

[Holger Levsen <holger@layer-acht.org>]

hello,

i read 
http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2004/debian-boot-200402/msg01478.html 
now,  and indeed, I got a Peforma 4400, so I have to boot from floppy or 
fiddle a lot with hardware or hw & open firmware :( so I would rather like to 
get floppies working.


regards,
	Holger

Am Dienstag, 24. Februar 2004 19:18 schrieb Holger Levsen:
> Hello,
>
> I got an Apple Powermac 4400 and want to create a bootfloppy with a custom
> kernel for it but I fail.
>
> I manage to build a debian kernel package on another ppc machine with
> make-kpgg, but the vmlinux which is built is to big for a floppy:
>
>    3218566 2004-02-20 23:12:32 ./boot/vmlinux-2.4.23-ben1
>    1077339 2004-02-20 23:12:32 ./boot/vmlinux.coff-2.4.23-ben1
>
> What is that vmlinux.coff ?
>
> Then I use hcopy from package hfsutils to copy kernel on woodys
> boot-floppy-hfs.img-floppy.
> When I boot the 4400 I see an image of a mac overlapped with the pinguin
> ;-) but after the disk is read the screen becomes black and the logo
> inverted. (The original boot-floppy-hfs.img-floppy boots the kernel just
> fine but chrashes when trying to mount the root filesystem.)
> Sometimes the logo get crossed by a red "X", what does that mean ?
>
> Then I tried building a kernel with "make bzImage" but neither of these
> files booted correctly:
>
> holgi@matrix:/usr/src/kernel-source-2.4.23-benh$ ls arch/ppc/boot/images/
> -la insgesamt 8876
> drwxrwxr-x    2 root     root         4096 21. Feb 01:00 .
> drwxrwxr-x   11 root     root         4096 21. Feb 00:06 ..
> -rw-rw-r--    1 root     root          293 12. Okt 15:41 Makefile
> -rw-r--r--    1 root     root      1259719 21. Feb 01:00 miboot.image
> -rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root      1294427 21. Feb 01:00 vmlinux.coff
> -rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root      1365146 21. Feb 01:00 vmlinux.elf-pmac
> -rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root      1259442 21. Feb 01:00 vmlinux.gz
> -rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root      1360869 21. Feb 01:00 zImage.chrp
> -rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root      1360869 21. Feb 01:00 zImage.chrp-rs6k
> lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           12 21. Feb 01:00 zImage.pmac ->
> vmlinux.coff
> -rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root      1311434 21. Feb 01:00 zImage.prep
>
> How can a build a boot-floppy for an oldworld mac ?
>
> thank you very much for your help!
>
> And btw, I volunteer to help test debian-installer on oldwolrd-macs, too.
> But there are no boot floppies yet, does anybody know wether someone is
> working on them ?
>
> regards,
> 	Holger