On Mon, 2004-05-10 at 15:24, Stephen R Marenka wrote: > On Mon, May 10, 2004 at 10:59:53AM +0200, Kars de Jong wrote: > > On Mon, 2004-05-10 at 10:25, Szymanski, Frank-Peter (DMT) wrote: > > > This is caused by a missing boot parameter: ramdisk_size=20000 > > The default maximum ramdisk size is 4 MB, the d-i ramdisk is quite a bit > > bigger. > > Sorry if I didn't document that clearly enough. This is required to > support 2.2 kernels, although I think I can cut that in half soon. > > > I tried the Atari version of the image on my HP300 this weekend (I have > > a working framebuffer now, yay!) which worked fine when I also passed > > the option "debian-installer/framebuffer=false". Without that parameter, > > I just got a black screen. > > Which kernel?
My own, that would be 2.4.26 as of yesterday. I suppose something is still broken in the framebuffer code. > Whoa, hp300? I didn't know that subarch ever had a fully supported > kernel. Is it worth adding full debian/d-i support? It doesn't have a fully supported kernel yet. I've written a TFTP boot loader for it, and added "normal" m68k bootinfo support, so I'm getting pretty close. What does debian/d-i support mean? A partioner? Since I don't have a driver for the SCSI controller yet, that's not going to make much sense ;-) I also haven't decided on the partition table style yet. I don't really like BSD disklabels. > > The installer seems to work. However, I don't have a disk driver yet, so > > the partioner failed. My network was configured OK though, so I thought > > I should be able to use an NFS root instead, but that seems to be > > impossible. How are you supposed to start an NFS root these days? The > > installation manual of Sarge still talks about unpacking root.tar, but > > that no longer exists. > > If you can walk me through what you need for nfs root, I'll build it > if I can. I have no idea... the installation manuals for testing and unstable both mention untarring the root archive named root.tar.gz for this, but I can't find this archive anywhere. Other systems which support net booting like sparc or mips don't seem to have it either, so I guess this is some leftover from the past. Normally an NFS root is just a freshly installed base system, not flavour-specific. What I expected to be able to do was to mount my NFS filesystem from the installer and then use that as the installation target instead of a disk partition. But the installer really seems to dislike not having any disks... Regards, Kars.
