Re: New miboot-enabled d-i daily builds set up
On Mon, May 15, 2006 at 12:35:51AM +0200, Jerome Warnier wrote: Le mercredi 03 mai 2006 à 01:11 +0100, Colin Watson a écrit : Hi, I've set up miboot-enabled daily builds of d-i powerpc floppies, to go with my normal daily builds: http://people.debian.org/~cjwatson/d-i/powerpc-miboot/ Thanks to Sven Luther for the miboot package used to build these. Let me know if there are any problems; I haven't been able to test them myself. I checked it on a PowerMac G3 beige. Here's my results from a Performa 5400 (24 MB RAM): 2006-05-15: Boot ends with Instruction dump: 7ca6 ... ... ... [ a lot of numbers in two lines] Version 2006-05-14 didn't boot at all. 2006-05-14: not tested (suspected the same problem as with 06-05-15) Version 2006-05-13 boots, and it already gets pretty far, but it cannot detect any disk 2006-05-13: Boots OK (didn't put out the floppy automatically though, I had to use a paperclip to get it out). The root image also works good, until hw-detection. Doesn't find my ide disk. ~ # ls /lib/modules/2.6.16-1-powerpc-miboot/kernel/drivers baseieee1394net scsi No ide here! I found the ide drivers on the cd-drivers.img. That should be documented somewhere, since a net-install will fail without hd-support. Also after loading the net-drivers.img the installer failed to detect my ethernet de2104x PCI. I tried to load tulip dc21x4x manually but it failed. This was still an interesting test, since I have not been able to boot 2.6.16 on this machine, but that must be a problem with the initrd created by initramfs (or possibly something with the way quik boots) -- Hans Ekbrand (http://sociologi.cjb.net) [EMAIL PROTECTED] A. Because it breaks the logical sequence of discussion Q. Why is top posting bad? signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: New miboot-enabled d-i daily builds set up
Le lundi 15 mai 2006 à 10:49 +0200, Hans Ekbrand a écrit : On Mon, May 15, 2006 at 12:35:51AM +0200, Jerome Warnier wrote: Le mercredi 03 mai 2006 à 01:11 +0100, Colin Watson a écrit : Hi, I've set up miboot-enabled daily builds of d-i powerpc floppies, to go with my normal daily builds: http://people.debian.org/~cjwatson/d-i/powerpc-miboot/ Thanks to Sven Luther for the miboot package used to build these. Let me know if there are any problems; I haven't been able to test them myself. I checked it on a PowerMac G3 beige. Here's my results from a Performa 5400 (24 MB RAM): 2006-05-15: Boot ends with Instruction dump: 7ca6 ... ... ... [ a lot of numbers in two lines] Version 2006-05-14 didn't boot at all. 2006-05-14: not tested (suspected the same problem as with 06-05-15) Version 2006-05-13 boots, and it already gets pretty far, but it cannot detect any disk 2006-05-13: Boots OK (didn't put out the floppy automatically though, I had to use a paperclip to get it out). The root image also works good, until hw-detection. You're right, I got used to the paperclip stuff with the previous versions, so I didn't even bother to specify it, but it is surely not practical at all. Doesn't find my ide disk. Same thing here, except that I'm not actually sure it is an IDE disk, and not an SCSI one (I think I have both in the machine, and none is detected). ~ # ls /lib/modules/2.6.16-1-powerpc-miboot/kernel/drivers base ieee1394net scsi No ide here! I found the ide drivers on the cd-drivers.img. That should be documented somewhere, since a net-install will fail without hd-support. Thanks, I will try this. Also after loading the net-drivers.img the installer failed to detect my ethernet de2104x PCI. I tried to load tulip dc21x4x manually but it failed. It detects mine (this is the second NIC I talked about in my mail). This was still an interesting test, since I have not been able to boot 2.6.16 on this machine, but that must be a problem with the initrd created by initramfs (or possibly something with the way quik boots) -- Jérôme Warnier FLOSS Consultant http://beeznest.net
Re: New miboot-enabled d-i daily builds set up
Le lundi 15 mai 2006 à 18:16 +0200, Jerome Warnier a écrit : Le lundi 15 mai 2006 à 10:49 +0200, Hans Ekbrand a écrit : On Mon, May 15, 2006 at 12:35:51AM +0200, Jerome Warnier wrote: Le mercredi 03 mai 2006 à 01:11 +0100, Colin Watson a écrit : Hi, I've set up miboot-enabled daily builds of d-i powerpc floppies, to go with my normal daily builds: http://people.debian.org/~cjwatson/d-i/powerpc-miboot/ Thanks to Sven Luther for the miboot package used to build these. Let me know if there are any problems; I haven't been able to test them myself. I checked it on a PowerMac G3 beige. Here's my results from a Performa 5400 (24 MB RAM): 2006-05-15: Boot ends with Instruction dump: 7ca6 ... ... ... [ a lot of numbers in two lines] Version 2006-05-14 didn't boot at all. 2006-05-14: not tested (suspected the same problem as with 06-05-15) Version 2006-05-13 boots, and it already gets pretty far, but it cannot detect any disk 2006-05-13: Boots OK (didn't put out the floppy automatically though, I had to use a paperclip to get it out). The root image also works good, until hw-detection. You're right, I got used to the paperclip stuff with the previous versions, so I didn't even bother to specify it, but it is surely not practical at all. Some more news on this side: it seems that once the cd-drivers floppy is loaded, it can (and actually does) eject the floppies after reading them. Could it be that the eject utility is located on this floppy image? In this cas, it would probably be a good idea to move it to the root floppy (at least on OldWorld PPC, or only on PPC floppies). Doesn't find my ide disk. Same thing here, except that I'm not actually sure it is an IDE disk, and not an SCSI one (I think I have both in the machine, and none is detected). It seems I have at least a SCSI one, but it does not work nicely (again, once the cd-drivers floppy is loaded): it gets detected multiple times, and at least the first one doesn't work like expected, it is impossible to partition and format. ~ # ls /lib/modules/2.6.16-1-powerpc-miboot/kernel/drivers baseieee1394net scsi No ide here! I found the ide drivers on the cd-drivers.img. That should be documented somewhere, since a net-install will fail without hd-support. Thanks, I will try this. Also after loading the net-drivers.img the installer failed to detect my ethernet de2104x PCI. I tried to load tulip dc21x4x manually but it failed. It detects mine (this is the second NIC I talked about in my mail). This was still an interesting test, since I have not been able to boot 2.6.16 on this machine, but that must be a problem with the initrd created by initramfs (or possibly something with the way quik boots)
Re: New miboot-enabled d-i daily builds set up
Le mercredi 03 mai 2006 à 01:11 +0100, Colin Watson a écrit : Hi, I've set up miboot-enabled daily builds of d-i powerpc floppies, to go with my normal daily builds: http://people.debian.org/~cjwatson/d-i/powerpc-miboot/ Thanks to Sven Luther for the miboot package used to build these. Let me know if there are any problems; I haven't been able to test them myself. I checked it on a PowerMac G3 beige. Version 2006-05-14 didn't boot at all. Version 2006-05-13 boots, and it already gets pretty far, but it cannot detect any disk (I thing there is only one, connected to the embedded Symbios Logic 53c875). It tries to reset the SCSI bus several times, but gets anyway to the message rejection I/O to offline device about sda. I loaded the net-drivers[1] and it downloaded the required d-i modules through my Internet connection, so the network (including DHCP) is working fine. Also, how hard would it be to provide CDROM images? It's increasingly difficult to find working floppies nowadays. I have tons of broken ones, though. [1] I have a second NIC in the machine and both got detected fine. Cheers, -- Jérôme Warnier FLOSS Consultant http://beeznest.net
Re: New miboot-enabled d-i daily builds set up
Thanks a lot for your work On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 01:11:48AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: Hi, I've set up miboot-enabled daily builds of d-i powerpc floppies, to go with my normal daily builds: http://people.debian.org/~cjwatson/d-i/powerpc-miboot/ Thanks to Sven Luther for the miboot package used to build these. Let me know if there are any problems; I haven't been able to test them myself. On a alubook 5,8, testing the debian-testing-powerpc-businesscard.iso -- 1: It boots correctly 2: Choose language/Country: Works (for German) 3: Choose keyboard: Does work with restrictions for a German one: German umlauts are unavailable on the (ncurses) installer menu: Umlauts work on the console. 4: The installer hung for minutes, giving me no messages whatsoever on tty4 for the reason of this issue: Then, after - for my taste - a much too long time it gave me back a crashed installerscreen to choose the network card. At this point I couldn't even change to tty4 or tty(2?). After a few minutes of waiting I pressed the power button for a new try. The reason for the crash *might* have been either that I chose the wrong network card (eth1) or the fact that I tried umlauts on the choose hostname screen: The latter meant I typed an umlaut which ended in something like F1 or E4 and similarly wrong output. Then trying the key on the right side of the Apple key then unexpectedly worked as an ENTER key, thus setting the Rechnername (something like machine name in English?) with these wrong umlaut substitutes. 5: The installer did not not recognise an attached SCSI disk, that was connnected to the machine via Firewire 400. I expected the disk on sda, and I tried to see it with mac-fdisk and with a simple ls /dev/ and then typing TAB to see the optional devices ... I chose Festplatten erkennen, something like detect hard discs, to no avail ... /dev/hda inside the machine, was detected correctly with all partitions, as it seems ... 6: Network (Internet) connection, manually configured because I do not use DHCP on the router, seems to work After the partitioning screen I rebooted (just to be sure it didn't change anything ... :) More tests on the business card iso? Let me know if yes, please .. Best Regards Wolfgang -- Wolfgang Pfeiffer: /ICQ: 286585973/ + + + /AIM: crashinglinux/ http://profiles.yahoo.com/wolfgangpfeiffer Key ID: E3037113 http://keyserver.mine.nu/pks/lookup?search=0xE3037113fingerprint=on -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: New miboot-enabled d-i daily builds set up
On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 03:58:26PM +0200, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: Thanks a lot for your work On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 01:11:48AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: Hi, I've set up miboot-enabled daily builds of d-i powerpc floppies, to go with my normal daily builds: http://people.debian.org/~cjwatson/d-i/powerpc-miboot/ Thanks to Sven Luther for the miboot package used to build these. Let me know if there are any problems; I haven't been able to test them myself. On a alubook 5,8, testing the debian-testing-powerpc-businesscard.iso The report below seems to be true also for the debian-testing-powerpc-netinst.iso -- [ ... ] 4: The installer hung for minutes, giving me no messages whatsoever on tty4 for the reason of this issue: Then, after - for my taste - a much too long time it gave me back a crashed installerscreen to choose the network card. At this point I couldn't even change to tty4 or tty(2?). After a few minutes of waiting I pressed the power button for a new try. The reason for the crash *might* have been either that I chose the wrong network card (eth1) or the fact that I tried umlauts on the choose hostname screen: The latter meant I typed an umlaut which ended in Not being sure any more which installer screen it really was (choose hostname, or choose machine name. No matter which one it was: the installer crashed with the businesscard.iso ... The reason, as I wrote before, could also have been that I chose the wrong NIC ... please see below .. something like F1 or E4 and similarly wrong output. Then trying the key on the right side of the Apple key then unexpectedly worked as an ENTER key, thus setting the Rechnername (something like machine name in English?) with these wrong umlaut substitutes. This time it crashed after first choosing the (wrong) eth1 NIC when trying to configure the network, then manually configuring the NIC and then typing the Rechnername (machine name) with Umlauts. And it took about 7 minutes until I had back the crashed installer screen (some possible timeout netcfg set too high?) ... But I could go back to tty2 and reboot from there ... When configuring the network with the wrong NIC (eth1) and then *not* setting the machine name with umlauts does not crash the installer screen here: I simply change the NIC to eth0 and everything moves on as expected ... Not being sure whether all this really helps 'tho .. 5: The installer did not not recognise an attached SCSI disk, that was connnected to the machine via Firewire 400. I expected the disk on sda, and I tried to see it with mac-fdisk and with a simple ls /dev/ and then typing TAB to see the optional devices ... I chose Festplatten erkennen, something like detect hard discs, to no avail ... This time I switched off and on again the SCSI disk: When switching it on I got on tty4: kernel: ieee1394: Error parsing configrom for node 0-00:1023 kernel: ieee1394: Node changed: 0-00:1023 - 0-02:1023 /dev/hda inside the machine, was detected correctly with all partitions, as it seems ... Ditto with debian-testing-powerpc-netinst.iso, as it seems .. Regards Wolfgang -- Wolfgang Pfeiffer: /ICQ: 286585973/ + + + /AIM: crashinglinux/ http://profiles.yahoo.com/wolfgangpfeiffer Key ID: E3037113 http://keyserver.mine.nu/pks/lookup?search=0xE3037113fingerprint=on -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: New miboot-enabled d-i daily builds set up
On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 06:02:10PM +0200, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 03:58:26PM +0200, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: Thanks a lot for your work On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 01:11:48AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: Hi, I've set up miboot-enabled daily builds of d-i powerpc floppies, to go with my normal daily builds: http://people.debian.org/~cjwatson/d-i/powerpc-miboot/ Thanks to Sven Luther for the miboot package used to build these. Let me know if there are any problems; I haven't been able to test them myself. On a alubook 5,8, testing the debian-testing-powerpc-businesscard.iso The report below seems to be true also for the debian-testing-powerpc-netinst.iso Just realised I'm in the wrong thread: my test reports in the current thread are referring to the isos in http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily-builds/daily/arch-latest/powerpc/iso-cd/ My apologies for the confusion Regards Wolfgang -- Wolfgang Pfeiffer: /ICQ: 286585973/ + + + /AIM: crashinglinux/ http://profiles.yahoo.com/wolfgangpfeiffer Key ID: E3037113 http://keyserver.mine.nu/pks/lookup?search=0xE3037113fingerprint=on -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: New miboot-enabled d-i daily builds set up
Colin Watson wrote: Hi, I've set up miboot-enabled daily builds of d-i powerpc floppies, to go with my normal daily builds: http://people.debian.org/~cjwatson/d-i/powerpc-miboot/ Thanks to Sven Luther for the miboot package used to build these. Let me know if there are any problems; sorry , boot.img can't change the initial gui to console. tested on 7200/90 regards, eugen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
