Re: booting the install on the H50
On Mon, 17 Jul 2006 12:34:21 +0300, AlexB <bozy@pisem.net> wrote:
>On Fri, 14 Jul 2006 19:20:09 +0200, dtutty@porchlight.ca wrote:
>
>>Hello,
>>
>>My H50 vendor wants to ensure that the unit will boot the Debian 3.1
>>install before he ships the unit. He says he can't get it to and
>>suspects he is not making the CD correctly since his running systems are
>>windows.
>>
>>In reading the Installation manual for both 3.0 and 3.1 it says that
>>"Currently, the only PowerPC subarchitectures that support CD-ROM
>>booting are PReP and New World PowerMacs." Elsewhere it says that "for
>>CHRP, floppy support is currently broken".
>>
>>So what do I tell my vendor? How does he boot a stand-alone H50 if
>>neither CD-ROM or floppy will boot?
>>
>>This is a PowerPC 604e processor, 256 MB ram, floppy drive, SCSI CDROM
>>and SCSI sda 9.? GB, using Open Firmware.
>>
>>Thanks,
>>
>>Doug.
>First, try to read relevant Debian bug info about booting on IBM CHRP machines:
>
>http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=322745
>
>It has almost all information needed to get Debian 3.1 'stable' image to boot.
>Please note that 'testing' or 'unstable' Debian CDs do not have this problem!
>
>I have seen a better instruction somewhere (the one I followed to make a boot CD
>for my 7025-F50) but cannot find it right now. I will try to reproduce the
>instruction on how to do it. First, mount your boot CD (or CD image using mount
>-o loop debian-stable.iso /mnt). Then, create a /tmp/deb directory. Then:
> cp -a /mnt/* /tmp/deb; cp /mnt/.* /tmp/deb
>
>The latter cp command copies .diskinfo file, so installer will recognize disk
>later on.
>
>then:
>
>mkdir /tmp/deb/etc
>cp /tmp/deb/install/yaboot.con* /tmp/deb/etc/yaboot.conf
>
>this will copy yaboot.conf file to the place where yaboot expects it (/etc on
>the CD, not /install)
>
>then:
>vi /tmp/deb/etc/yaboot.conf
>
>then:
>mkdir /tmp/deb/ppc
>
>and save file, attached to this message as /tmp/deb/ppc/bootinfo.txt
>this file is needed by IBM Open Firmware to find yaboot boot loader
>automagically.
>
>now, change all occurences of cd: to cdrom: , as IBM open firmware had cdrom:
>alias by default for CD drive. Save the file.
>
>then, create new ISO image with -l option (so long file names will be allowed):
>mkisofs -r -J -l -o debian-new.iso /tmp/deb
>
>then, burn the new ISO image to the CD by using cdrecord in Linux or any CD
>burning program in Windows (I prefer Nero Burning ROM).
>
>This CD should boot on your H50.
oops.. this list does not allow attachments. get the file from
http://powerpc.unicom-cy.com/~bozy/bootinfo.txt
Alex
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