Re: G5 report problematic succes
On Sat, Apr 03, 2004 at 02:28:08AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 01, 2004 at 07:12:58PM +0200, Eric Deveaud wrote:
> > I tried the dailly buil from 03/28, 03/29, 03/30 and 03/31
> > none was abble either to boot from cd either to not hangs
>
> Yeah, i guess the yaboot on the CDs don't know about the power4
> kernels, so you probably used the powerpc config, which will not work.
> The power4 initrd and vmlinux should be on the CD though, and with a
> bit of yaboot magic you can boot them (maybe even by calling them
> directly from yaboot ?)
>
> This is the next step who needs fixing, but none of the powermac
> debian-installer guys seemed to be interested in that,
Like I said at the time, I just wasn't interested in doing it *first*.
It's on my list.
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Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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