On Fri, Dec 10, 2004 at 10:39:01PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > On Fri, Dec 10, 2004 at 09:38:46PM +0100, Ralf Schlatterbeck wrote: > > On Fri, Dec 10, 2004 at 08:56:50PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > > > BTW, did you try the ofonly boot floppy ? > > Yes for the rc2, No for the daily build. > > For rc2 it is also immediately rejected. I also tried to boot into > > Open Firmware (with serial console attached) and said > > boot fd > > but it produces a message saying that the load command is not > > supported for this device. I have never been able to boot a floppy > > from OF. > > Ok. You could try netbooting also : > > > http://people.debian.org/~luther/d-i/images/daily/powerpc/netboot/vmlinuz-coff.initrd I've already wasted *much* time trying to netboot. I had a self-built 2.4 kernel and I managed to load it via dhcp/tftp. OF could init text and data segments but failed on bss. The necessary setup is probably still working, I have just installed a new x86 based machine via netboot.... Is there some howto (besides the one from the bsd folks) for what settings are needed on my ancient OF version?
> The daily buils will stay available, as for getting them in the real debian > release, two things are needed : > > 1) being able to build miboot from a debian present toolchain, and not on > some older version of codewarrior for mac os 9 and earlier. Is miboot open source? What would be needed for compiling it on a debian tool-chain? Just a rewrite of assembler syntax plus some linker scripts? What is codewarrior? Assembler or some high-level language? > 2) reverse engineering the boot sector, which is probably 200 or so m68k > assembly instructions, mostly pmac rom trap instructions. I have not looked > at them, since i want to write the stuff, but we need someone else to look at > them, dissassemble them, and write a spec of what they do, and then we can > generate them again or something. Is this the first sector on your boot disk? Is there a documentation of the firmware on what traps are available and what they do? > If 2) is done, then miboot can go into contrib. If 1) is done, then it can go > into main. Thanks. -- Ralf Schlatterbeck email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] FAX: +43/2243/26465/23 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
