Hi Chris and Sven, >>> I recently noted a post stating that the bootloader development team did not >>> have access to an oldword powerpc. I have one of those, and can do some >>> testing this weekend, even if it renders my openfirmware settings obsolete. >>> [...] >> >> It maybe too early, we have a kernel now which should be able to be >> mibootable, but not yet the full debian-installer stuff. >> >> I will make a new kernel build this afternoon, maybe you can try this >> one out, and see if you can boot it. I hope once this kernel reaches the >> archives, we can try building d-i images also or something such, or you >> could do them by hand. I don't really know how miboot works, so i can't >> do it myself. > > You could certainly see if the hfs-bootfloppy.bin image within > > http://members.cox.net/miBoot.tgz
I just grabbed it - I assume you meant http://members.cox.net/toff1/miBoot.tgz > boots. It should ask for a root disk, at which point you'll just have > to reboot for now. We'll need help testing the debian-installer very > soon! Thanks for your contributions. So far I haven't looked into miboot (so far, I used BootX and -unsuccesfully- quik). I will have a look though. As I can see, miboot is a bootloader pretending to be MacOS system. So I will use a (currently unbootable) SCSI partition, and make a System Folder and put all the files in the miBoot folder in there. If all is right, Apple should recognize it as a System Folder, and I can choose that partition in the Disk Setup. Correct? I'll give it a try and see what happens. It it fails, I will format my internal IDE disk using Apple's Drive setup (it now contains Debain, but I want to repartition it anyway), and try booting from there. I don't have a README or INSTALL file, so am I correct in the above steps to take, or do I miss anything? Regards, Freek
