Re: Bug#382129: Beta3 won't boot on OldWorld PowerPC Mac
On Aug 18, 2006, at 7:59 AM, Aurélien GÉRÔME wrote:
Hi,
On Sun, Aug 13, 2006 at 03:19:18AM -0400, Rick Thomas wrote:
Has *anybody* had any success getting the "Linux version 2.6.16-2-
powerpc (Debian 2.6.16-17)" kernel to boot an OldWorld machine with
BootX? Or *any* kernel after 2.6.15?
I think the anwser is plainly no. :(
Perhaps the Debian PTBs should simply admit that PowerPC OldWorld
Macintosh is an unsupported sub-arch for Debian etch? /-8
Well, you would be better off using miBoot anyway. I think I will
produce miBoot floppies for the last Debian kernel for you to try...
One thing I've discovered: The miboot floppy at http://
people.debian.org/~wouter/d-i/powerpc-miboot/daily/powerpc/floppy/
contain the "2.6.16-2-powerpc-miboot (Debian 2.6.16-7)" kernel, which
is the same base version (different config, presumably) as the kernel
on the beta3 CDs. And that kernel (the one on the miboot floppy)
boots just fine(*) on my beige G3. So the problem seems to be a
configuration issue, not anything fundamental.
(*) Well... almost "just fine". There is a small problem with the
video parameters -- some columns of the text on the screen seem to
flicker. If I could figure out how to modify the kernel command line
arguments (specifically the video options) on the floppy, I might be
able to fix that. Interestingly, "works just fine" only applies to
the "boot" floppy. The "ofonlyboot" floppy does not work -- it gets
the same symptoms as I described in Bug#369760, and as someone else
has described in Bug#380187.
What has changed between the Sarge kernel (which boots just fine) and
this one that would have such a catastrophic effect?
Maybe the image is too heavy, some kernel defines changed, or BootX
cannot find the sections of the image anymore? We cannot fiddle with
BootX source code to see what happens, but we will be able with miBoot
source code when it will be ready. :)
Currently, miboot (leaving aside issues of "freeness") only works for
floppies? Do you think there is any chance of it's working for
booting off of CDs or hard-disks, once we can fiddle with the source
code?
Cheers,
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