Hello, ... after another build of the debian/powerpc/apus boot floppies (from modified 2.2.4). I noticed the following problems. Some of them might actually be solved already since then.
Anyway : pb1 : the Blizzard powerup scsi detection is not working for me, thus no access to the scsi disks. Will have to fix the kernel-image used. pb2 : i tried including amiga-fdisk, but it depends on libncurses4 and libreadlineg2, thus not being included. Will try to build a static amiga-fdisk, or a version that don't depend on these libraries. What do the m68k/amiga folk do about this ? pb3 : When i call partition the harddisk, cfdisk is called, and not amiga-fdisk, like it should be. cfdisk don't know anything about amiga partitioned harddisks. There is a minor problem also on scripts/rootdisk/fdisk-powerpc which becomes /sbin/fdisk, but even fixing this don't seem to influence the "partition the harddisk" menu option. Strange since a manual call to fdisk finds the correct amiga-fdisk (or don't find it). There is something i don't understand here, what is libfdisk for in the busybox, i can read the partition correctly (with the menu option view the partition table) but not set it. If the busybox has a working fdisk, why is fdisk included in the boot floppies ? pb4 : When first configuring the network, and choosing the no option (for ppp) there is an error message : "Error writing to /root/ppp" pb5 : When installing the kernel, it searches for disks-1.44/rescue.bin, which should be resc1440apus.bin. Anyway, would be better to search for the linuxapus binary and the drivers.tgz file, or even only the driver.tgz, since we don't have lilo, and a kernel on the ext2 partition is only a waste of space. Is it possible to change that menu option to "install the kernel modules" or something such, and go searching for drivers.tgz only, for architectures not supporting lilo or similar ? pb6 : there are a lot of menu choices that don't make sense on my arch/subarch. This include the precedent Install OS kernel & modules, but also "make linux bootable directly from harddisk", "make boot floppy", "eject floppy disks" and "configure pcmcia support". Would be nice to add a "configure the bootstrap system" or something such, who would mount a bootable affs partition (for apus or m68k/amiga), and do the appropriate stuff to make it work. How can i modify this stuff ? it is in utilities/dbootstrap, right ? pb7 : There is arch specific stuff in scripts/rootdisks. But, at least for powerpc, we have one rootdisk per subarch, which makes sense, since on apus, mac-fdisk, pcmcia_cs and eject are not needed, while amiga-fdisk seems to be. Would it not be better if we could differenciate between subarches, or is the plan to have a common rootdisk per arch. It should be possible, now that we removed the kernel from the rootdisk. pb8 : MAX_DISKNAME_LEN is still not defined, but i guess it is in cvs. Will have to get the cvs version. How do i do that (i had a mail with it, but lost my mail archive yesterday ...:()) Ok, thats all for now, i will upload the bootfloppies this afternoon so the apus people can test them more, get the cvs version, and try to solve the amiga-fdisk problem. Friendly, Sven LUTHER
