On Aug 18, 2006, at 2:31 PM, Aurélien GÉRÔME wrote:
Well, aside the issue of booting, the kernel runs just fine and so does the user space... As you can look at <http://www.us.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/errata>, I think it is partially admitted in "Oldworld powerpc boot floppies will not work as miboot is not included".
I think that is just referring to the fact that miboot is not (yet) "free" so it can't be included in an official debian distribution. As noted, wouter provides floppy images with a working miboot and a working kernel (almost -- modulo the video problems I've mentioned.)
I don't think the errata takes any notice of the fact that, quite independent of "freeness" considerations, there is *no* working boot loader for the 2.6.16 kernel on an OldWorld Mac. I've tried both bootx and quik and neither of them work on my beige G3. In it's current state, even if it were free, miboot would not be a workable solution because it only works from floppies.
Rick