On Sun, Apr 02, 2006 at 04:26:27PM +0200, Michael Schmitz wrote: > > > > That would be interesting, since the B50 is exactly what those corean > > > > guys > > > > have all this trouble dealing with. > > > > > > Odd. We installed from a floppy using the woody netinstall CDs by just > > > following the instructions found at > > > http://www.kutilek.de/technik/debian-rs6k.en.php > > > > You reqlise that sarge was released almost a year ago now, and that > > debian-installer has almost nothing to do with the woody boot-floppies, > > right > > ? :) > > I do in fact realize that. I had two students install these B50 boxes and > that's what worked in the end. IIRC we tried to boot from sarge netinstall > CD and that didn't even begin to boot.
netbooting is the correct way on those, and the only tested way. > > There is no floppy support on either sarge or etch debian-installer for > > powerpc prep or chrp boxes right now, only the unofficial powermac oldworld > > miboot floppies. > > And the CDs are supposed to boot on the RS6000? They should, but there seems to be some issue that need investigating. I fixed something (missing icon) recently, so the daily builds and beta2 should be better than sarge. > > > I should be able to provide a system.map of the booting kernel so people > > > can figure out what's missing in the stock kernels. > > > > The problem was not the kernel, but it seems that yaboot-installer or > > With our install it was the kernel. Your mail did not specify detail > beyond 'korean guys' which did not ring a bell. Well, they have some name in a non-displayable (for me) charset, and a korean mailing list address, i asked them to post on d-ppc this last month. > > prep-installer, or plain dd was not able to create a booting system. > > yaboot works for booting these machines; a simple default config created > using yabootconfig did the job. The kernel resides in / instead of /boot > but that should not matter. Yep, but since partman-prep and yaboot-installer is broken on those. Nobody seems to be in a hurry to fix those though, as it is not over 3 month since the problem was first observed. > > Solution is to fix partman-prep, and see if yaboot-installer behaves then, > > or > > to see if the excessive ramdisk size created by initramfs-tools caused the > > compressed kernel + builtin initrd to cause trouble with the OFs installer. > > My bet would be on the latter. That should be fairly easy to test. partman is one of the most ugly and spaguetti-like code to play with, i wish you luck with it. > > Or maybe simply that the addnote thingy is broken or something ? I don't > > really know. > > > > I am able to make the prep machines bootable with simply dding the kernel > > with > > builtin ramdisk the prep partition > > So no yaboot used, and no size limits whatsoever? Nope, the size limit seems to be in the kernel+builtin initrd put onto the prep partition. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
