[email protected] dixit: >amiboot-5.6 -k vmlinux-3.2.0-2-amiga "root=/dev/sda4 video=pal-lace >devtmpfs.mount=1" ^
Is it possible that Ingo decompressed the kernel image before booting it, while you’re trying to do that in-place? >I would upgrade my machine to something subequent to etch - but don't >know how to do so via network, and I'm not debian literate too boot. I’m fairly certain trying to upgrade from etch-m68k to sid in anything other than a, no scratch that, even a minimal chroot would involve Greater Debian Hackery Skills. >Pointers to purchasable install cds would be appreciated (if they exist). >or a HOWTO on network install. There’s nothing (especially as I didn’t manage yet to get a monolithic d-i built, and regular d-i is not very usable as the target is moving too fast). You basically use a system you already have to put either a minimal chroot¹ or filesystem²³ on your disc, which you can then boot into. Possibly using NFS or my initrd⁴, which though is lacking almost everything other than klibc-utils and a sane shell. ① http://people.debian.org/~tg/f/m68k/base.cow-m68k-20120420.tgz mirror ② http://people.debian.org/~tg/f/m68k/Ara2012D.txz or a mirror thereof ③ thread around http://lists.debian.org/debian-68k/2012/04/msg00038.html ④ https://pfau.mirbsd.org/~tg/pub/mirnitrd For the three files, append .sig to get a detached PGP signature you can check integrity with (against transport errors). Finn’s method³ is probably the easiest for you right now. Also, if you can figure out klibc-utils’ ifconfig utility, the initrd might work for you, but it’s probably less error-prone to just temporarily put your Amiga’s HDD into another box running Linux and place the ext4fs extracted with Finn’s method (and resized) onto it from there. Maybe one of us should have a look into getting a proper rescue system into initramfs size (adding ld.so+libc.so.6, a statically (except libc) linked mke2fs, partitioning tools, etc), I’m not too familiar with the GNU/Linux ecosystem so I’d probably miss something. When redoing this initramfs, use mine⁴ as basis but use more recent klibc-utils (2.0-2 is a very good choice) and /bin/mksh-static from latest mksh, but keep the skeleton probably (or put a proper init on it). gl hf //mirabilos -- 13:37⎜«Natureshadow» Deep inside, I hate mirabilos. I mean, he's a good guy. But he's always right! In every fsckin' situation, he's right. Even with his deeply perverted taste in software and borked ambition towards broken OSes - in the end, he's damn right about it :(! […] works in mksh -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
