Hi, On Tuesday 11 July 2006 12:48, Sven Luther wrote: > > dfsg-free means to boot the installer on old world, the fact that the > > only method available for sarge no longer works (BootX; which can't be > > used on new world machiens) with 2.6.16 kernels, and that the 2.6.16+ > > kernels fail to boot on old world macs
You filed this as #377152 - but there is also netbooting, which might have
problems on oldworld because of the size of the initrd, see #307232:
Netbooting d-i doesnt work as well. At least for the OF 1.0.5 of my 7200 the
5.2mb initrd is too big, it works with a smaller (1.2 mb) kernels. According
to ethereal it hangs after 8169 packets, each 588 bytes in size. This is
roughly 4mb.
I have no idea where the limit in other machines with a different version of
OF is - but I would not be surprised to find higher limits. The 7200 is a
fairly old oldworld modell...
I have not looked into this again myself yet, as I first "concentrated" on
miboot-floppies...
> The official method of booting oldworld powermacs is using the miboot
> floppies, and altough miboot is currently non-free, work is under way to
> free it, and there are other people here who are working on bettering the
> floppies, please participate to that effort or something.
Also there is support for floppy booting in quik, it just doesn't work at the
moment. But IMHO there is a realistic chance to make this work so we can have
it in RC1 or 2.
But even using the current miboot-floppies is not the end of the world... it's
just non-free :(
> There are rumors that you can use also a .coff kernel+ramdisk and use that
> one to boot those boxes, which would be gully free, but nobody ever
> investigated this.
I dont parse this completly. Which method would this be?
> So what would you gain by dropping support ?
Thats exactly the question :)
regards,
Holger
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