Re: Test-DFS for PowerPC

[Sven Luther <sven.luther@wanadoo.fr>]

On Sat, Jun 05, 2004 at 09:32:10PM +0200, Robert Jordens wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> [Sat, 05 Jun 2004] Sven Luther wrote:
> > And finally, i have 0.6.4-rj3, and it refuses to boot on my ibook,
> > either by using the c key or by launching yaboot from the OF. IT speaks
> > about MAC-PART or something such not finding a filesystem.
> 
> Bad, bad, bad. You are doing "boot cd:,\boot\yaboot" from OF, right?
> (its not \install as on regular debian cds).

Yeah, directly copied from your other mail. I had trouble finding the
back-/ at first, as it seems to be inexistant on french mac keyboards, ,
but then i noticed that the OF is in qwerty layout anyway :)

> > BTW, where does the kernel on the iso comes from ? 
> 
> Selfmade since we can't build things like ide/cdrom... as modules
> because the primary initrd does not contain any modules. The config is
> on the image, it's debian 2.6.6 sources, config modelled after
> pmac_defconfig and the stuff from John's i386 config added.

Why not add those modules to the initrd and have it loaded, like the
mkinitrd generated initrd does ? Indeed it should even be possible to
use mkinitrd for this purpose, and add an own startup script or
something such. Not sure how mkinitrd would take to having ocaml
programs (or scripts) though, but i have the feeling that it should make
no difference.

> [I'll answer the rest later.]

Ok.

Friendly,

Sven Luther