Re: quik... quik... quik... [was: Re: [OpenFirmware2.4] Can't boot on cdrom]
On Wed, Feb 08, 2006 at 12:52:19PM +0100, Arnaud Vandyck wrote:
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> Sven Luther wrote:
> > On Wed, Feb 08, 2006 at 11:10:27AM +0100, Hans Ekbrand wrote:
> >>Try installing with floppies?
> >>
> >>http://people.debian.org/~luther/d-i/sid/images/daily/powerpc/floppy/boot.img
> >>http://people.debian.org/~luther/d-i/sid/images/daily/powerpc/floppy/root.img
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> These ones doesn't work at the moment, it's impossible to load the
> net/cd-driver floppies, but I did try to install Sarge AND Woody and
> they both fail with quik. Reading around on the internet, it seems I
> have THE machine that causes problems! G3 beige with Open Firmware 2.4.
>
> So, with Woody AND Sarge (booting with BootX), I could install a
> complete Debian installation but it's impossible to boot on the new
> installation!
Can you provide a full installation report describing how it fails, and
possible logs, and send it to the installer bug reports (debian-installer the
meta-package is named i think). Try to use the template linked from
w.d.o/devel/debian-installer.
> >>In case quik turns out not to work on those beige G3 (seems it does
> >>work on some but not on others), you could use miboot for booting into
> >>the installed system too.
>
> So booting from a floppy?
Yes.
> >>If miboot works OK, on that model (on my perfomas the cpu will run at
> >>1/10th speed when booted by miboot), I could make you a miboot
> >>boot-floppy to boot into the installed system
>
> Great! the root partition is /dev/hda2 and the image is located in
> /boot/vmlinux I think (of course I can not boot anymore so I don't know
> the exact image name! 2.6.8 or something!).
>
> > Maybe we could make have miboot to be listed in mkvmlinuz's bootloader, and
> > have code in /etc/kernel/postinst.d to automatically create the miboot floppy
> > for you on installs.
>
> That could be a solution. If I understand, you mean I have to put a
> floppy in the G3 to boot and that's all. So the boot would be 'automatic'?
Yep. i would keep a second floppy handy as rescue in case of problems and
such.
> > Now that miboot is being freed, this would be a neat solution.
> >
> > Any volunteer to recode the boot sector based on the information Piotr
> > provided ?
>
> The boot sector written on the harddrive? Do you have an url to learn
> how to do that, how to write the program? I'm ready to learn everything
> if I could boot the f#@ G3?!
no, on the floppy. It is composed of a bunch of numeric fields, and then a
half sector of 68k asm Piotr reverse engineered.
More to this in a couple of days.
Friendly,
Sven Luther
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