Hi, Am Samstag, 3. April 2004 12:09 schrieb Sven Luther: > Jeremie, any idea what is going on here ? Can you build a new image set > on your box, and have Holger test it ?
that would be nice... > Could you try one of the older snapshots ? From : > http://people.debian.org/~luther/debian-installer/daily-powerpc-built/2004. >03.31/powerpc-small/floppy/ > for example ? but you fixed base-installer yesterday ?! (installs kernel-image-2.4.25-power-pmac instead ...powerpc-pmac-small) > > I tried to write the root.img on about 10 different floppies, twice, and > > bootet them without any succes. The disks read fine, the mac-tux logo > > turns black and the systems freezes. Is it possible that the root.img is > > broken or had I just very bad luck with floppies ? er..., I meant "is it possible that the _boot.img_ is broken ? (as well, see below...) > Yeah, the boot.img should be mostly ok, since it is nothing more than > the kernel and the miboot stuff. yeah, that's theoretics. but I tried 8 floppies (all new), writings them once and reading (=booting) at least twice, none work. but after that, when I used the old working boot floppy from jeremie, three of them worked as root-floppies! but still, that could have been bad luck, that's why I asked here, I anybody hat success booting that boot.img ?? (you, sven, have no access to mac hardware with floppy, right ?) > Maybe you could try loop mounting both root floppies, and compare them. would that really make more sense than setting up d-i to build from svn ? there are at least five days in between the creation of the images, I expect a lot to have changed. > It would be nice to get some kind of log of what is happening ? No idea > how to achieve this though. optional logging to some kind of loghost (via ssh and/or ftp) as part of d-i, executed after the installation is finished or manually in case of an error. > > Anyhow, I realized I could use the "old" root-floppy from Jeremie and an > > new boot-floppy. (I wrote the image on the same floppies I tried with the > > root-image, and the floppy works.) The root-floppy gets loaded but almost > > instantly hangs with: > The old boot floppy with the old root floppy was fine, right ? yeah, and the old boot floppy with the new root floppy showed this error: > > /build/build/cdebconf-0.58/src/debconf.c:115 (main): Error reading > > configuration information > > /build/build/cdebconf-0.58/src/debconf-loadtemplate.c:68 (main): Error > > reading configuration information > > Mmm, strange, no idea what caused this. > > > (I also tried three different boot-floppies, the same error. (As expected > > as they're read ok.) > > > > So I guess, the floppy images are broken :( > > Oh, well, i guess so. Maybe the trick used for building them on a 2.6 > kernel was not ok. Don't know. > > BTW, can you fill a proper bug report about this problem, so it doesn't > get lost ? yup. regards, Holger -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
