On Mon, Jul 12, 2004 at 05:40:38PM +0900, Jerome Walter wrote: > Sven Luther wrote: > > >On Mon, Jul 12, 2004 at 04:04:13PM +0900, Jerome Walter wrote: > >>Sven Luther wrote: > >>>http://people.debian.org/~luther/debian-installer/daily-powerpc-built/daily/powerpc/netboot/vmlinuz-prep.initrd > >> > >>Still not working on my old Prep. > > > > > >None of them ? > > None. > > >>I get stuck to "Now booting kernel..." with both cd and netboot > >>vmlinuz-prep.initrd. > [snip] > >This is > >normal, as the serial console was not activated in the 2.6.7-3 kernel, > >which was included in the .udebs only yesterday or even this monring. > >This means that starting from tomorrow the netboot image will have it, > >and starting from wednesday, it can be used in the netinst iso. > > Ok, i won't see it. I am leaving for my only week of holiday this year > (i wish i could have been in France, he ;) ) > > >Are you able to netboot ? IF so i could prepare you a custom kernel or > >something, and you could send me back the serial log ? > > Kernel was netboot'ed as cdrom does not load.
Ok, why you don't use the netboot d-i then ? > >>For memory, my machine is a Bull Estrella 300 (Prep Utah PowerStack II > >>Pro4000 to /proc/cpuinfo and has OpenFirmware). > > > > > >Yep, i have heard of this one. ... > > Perhaps in a thread about it, one month ago ;) Hehe. > Mmm, it has OpenFirmware ? Enough to > >boot the -chrp kernels ? Could you give them a try ? > > Last time, it did not work, so i did not try this time either. Ok, so PReP is the way to go. > >Also, we are very interested in getting a prep machine booting on the > >-2.6 kernels/d-i, and i would gladly work with you to make that happen. > > Same as for the -chrp. And you have no 2.6-prep.initrd ;) Not yet, but it will be available soon. In this evening's build hopefully. I had hopped it would be built today, but apparently Kamion's upload missed the deadline yesterday. > Will see that later, but if it works, i will enjoy updating d-i > documentation. As soon as i am back to climatizated office ;) Ok, thanks. Friendly, Sven Luther
