Re: Red X saga -- success!!! (up to a point...)
On Thu, Sep 02, 2004 at 03:57:27AM -0400, Rick Thomas wrote:
>
> On Wednesday, September 1, 2004, at 04:45 AM, Sven Luther wrote:
>
> >Ok, try out :
> >
> > http://people.debian.org/~luther/miboot/floppy-2.6-2004.09.01
> >
> >I have checked the ofonlyboot, boot and root floppies.
>
> I tried this -- the usual 30 seconds or so of floppy noises
> followed by "Red X" for both the boot and ofonlyboot floppies.
Oh, well.
> also
> http://people.debian.org/~luther/miboot/floppy-2.4-2004.08.31
> same result - 30 seconds or so or floppy reading then "Red X" for
> both the boot and ofonlyboot floppies.
>
>
> I'm going to test the "daily" 2.4 floppies at
> http://people.debian.org/~luther/d-
> i/images/daily/powerpc/floppy-2.4/
> then go to bed.
>
> ... pause while I go into the other room to try things out ...
>
> Wonder of wonders! It boots and reads the "root" and two drivers
> floppies! It got as far as finding the network interface card and
> the CD-rom drive and reading the d-i udebs from the CD. It even
> tried to run the partitioner, but there it failed to find my hard
> disk.
Cool. Now, 2.6 is still broken, and we may need to fix miboot to make it work.
This probably means someone with non-X MacOS, as well as some obsolet version
of codewarrior, probably a post-sarge thing anyway.
We need to investigate what your ide/scsi controller is, and if it is
available on the floppies.
> Oh well -- too much success in one day is bad for your karma... (<-8)
Hehe.
> We'll work on why it didn't find my hard disk another day. It's
> almost 4 AM and I'm going to bed!
Good night then.
> Here's where I got the successful boot floppy from:
>
>
> >Index of /~luther/d-i/images/daily/powerpc/floppy-2.4
> >
> > Name Last modified Size Description
> >------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >
> > Parent Directory 26-Aug-2004 21:35 -
> > asian-root.img 01-Sep-2004 21:26 1.1M
> > boot.img 01-Sep-2004 21:27 1.4M
> > cd-drivers.img 01-Sep-2004 21:27 1.4M
> > net-drivers.img 01-Sep-2004 21:27 1.4M
> > ofonlyboot.img 01-Sep-2004 21:27 1.4M
> > root.img 01-Sep-2004 21:28 1.2M
> >------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >Apache/1.3.26 Server at people.debian.org Port 80
Yep, these are the ones.
Friendly,
Sven Luther
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