Re: No HFS driver, and "change install priority" menu option missing -- and other bugs found while testing 2.4 boot floppies on OldWorld PowerMac
On Thu, Sep 23, 2004 at 01:40:36PM -0400, Rick Thomas wrote:
>
> On Thursday, September 23, 2004, at 11:02 AM, Sven Luther wrote:
>
> >On Mon, Sep 20, 2004 at 05:05:58PM -0400, Rick Thomas wrote:
> >>Package: installation-reports
> >>
> >>In addition to the already noted problems with 2.4 PowerPC boot
> >>floppies, I have two requests for modules to be included on the
> >>root or root-2:
> >
> >Ok, actually following up on this from Oldenbourg with an oldworld
> >box on
> >hand.
>
> Glad you finally got an oldworld powermac box to test things on! (<-8)
:) It doesn't seem to do netloading correctly though.
> I hope Oldenbourg is fun. It's a bit far for me to travel.
Yeah, on both accounts.
> >>1) The "change installation priority" menu item should be available
> >>*very* early in the install process. Best would be immediately
> >>after loading the root-2. Currently, it is not available up thru
> >>partitioning, at least.
> >
> >Hehe. Well, this is a general thingy. The idea is to change this
> >in the kernel
> >command line with DEBCONF_PRIORITY=medium or low. Maybe i should
> >create an
> >'expert' boot/boot-ofonly floppy set ?
>
> Hmmm... In general, I'd much prefer to solve this problem without a
> multiplication of floppies -- one for each possible boot-time
> option! It takes several minutes to download and burn a floppy.
> Multiply that by all the options I need to test, and you're talking
> about a serious investment of time. Can't we come up with some
> more general method of setting boot-time options?
>
> In this particular case, could someone please explain to me the
> logic behind putting the first availability of "change installation
> priority" so late in the game?
Because you will only see it if something else fails in the high priority
thingy. I have modified the daily builds to boot into priority=medium by
default now, so this should solve this.
> >>2) The "hfs" and "hfsplus" (MacOS filesystem formats) filesystem
> >>modules should be available early on. This would make it much
> >>easier to save log files to a floppy or a zip disk. Also, they are
> >>*required* for support of booting with BootX, so that the kernel
> >>and initrd can be copied from /target/boot/ to the appropriate
> >>place on the MacOS partition prior to the reboot.
> >
> >Yeah, but you have to balance the usefullness of that together
> >with the size
> >limit of the floppies.
>
> I understand the size constraints. But isn't that the reason why
> we added the "root-2" floppy? Would adding hfs and/or hfsplus kick
> us over the edge into "root-3" land?
We could indeed add it to root-2, but i would prefer to get the floppy loading
work correctly before i do this rather cosmetic thing working. And hfs/hfsplus
without ide/scsi driver is not really all that usefull, isn't it.
Friendly,
Sven Luther
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