On Mon, Oct 20, 2003 at 12:02:17PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Sun, Oct 19, 2003 at 12:31:15PM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote: > > > On Sun, Oct 19, 2003 at 11:29:38AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > > > Hello, > > > > > > > > In order to continue work on making debian-installer subarch friendly, i > > > > now launch a second round of investigation concerning the way different > > > > subarches boot. The situation as i understand it is : > > > > > > > > newpmac: uses yaboot (uncompressed kernel + separate initrd) or OF > > > > (.coff kernel, don't know about initrd). Debian-installer will boot with > > > > yaboot, and the CDrom can be made to be auto-bootable, altough i don't > > > > know how. > > > > > > The bootability of the CD is taken care of by mkisofs. It gives the > > > CD an HFS 'blessing' which makes it bootable, and it boots according > > > to the ofboot.b script which yaboot supplies. > > > > Ok, altough i will let this part of it to the newpmac DDs working on > > debian-installer. > > Can somebody please confirm that the images from my branch boot (with > rootskel from cvs in localudebs)? Sven did build images fine but he > doesn't have the hardware for yaboot. > > > > We have tried to avoid getting users into OF in the past, probably > > > because it's hard to provide Forth-based support in an installation > > > manual. I don't know how .coff booting works either. > > > > :)) > > > > > > oldpmac: uses bootx, miboot, quik or serial console OF. OF uses the > > > > .coff kernel, don't know about initrd. miboot uses floopy for kernel > > > > (compressed) and initrd. bootx can use a kernel and separate initrd, and > > > > quik cannot be used for cdrom boot. It is said that it is possible to > > > > use miboot to cdrom boot or ssomething such, but i have not confirmed > > > > these rumors. debian-installer will be installable from either bootx > > > > (uncompressed kernel + separate initrd) altough we will not provide > > > > bootx on the CD, or miboot (two or more floppy images). > > > > > > We do provide BootX in the archive now, it should still be on the CD. > > > But it's there as a Stuffit archive; it's not usable directly from the > > > CD and must be installed on the user's hard disk. Someone said > > > mkisofs could put BootX on the CD as a double-clickable MacOS > > > application, but I'm skeptical. If it could, then the kernels could > > > also be placed in the same folder with BootX, and BootX might find > > > them. > > > > This would be great. Let's try to do this, and a similar thing could be > > done for apus also. > > For apus there should be an Icon that directly calls it from the > CD. Should be no different then the normal Amiga m68k. > > Same "freeness" problems too that allways got ignored silently in the past.
Well, the whole amiboot/apusboot stuff is free (GPLed even if i remember well), we ust didn't the work needed to cross build it from debian, that is all. It could go into contrib though. Friendly, Sven Luther
