On Wed, Sep 29, 2004 at 11:11:49PM -0400, Rick Thomas wrote: > > On Wednesday, September 29, 2004, at 01:30 PM, Holger Levsen wrote: > > >Hi, > > > >>>However... There is one important thing missing from the boot > >>>disks. Specifically, the "System" file is zero length. This is > >>>true of both boot and ofonlyboot for both 2.4 and 2.6. It won't > >>>boot that way. > >>Arg, again. I have to checkup and see what is missing in the > >>build process, > >>but i will not be able to do so until friday. > > > >I just successfully booted the kernel from > >http://people.debian.org/~luther/d- > >i/images/2004-09-29/powerpc/floppy-2.4/boot.img > >and was asked for the root floppy. (on a power mac 4400/200) > > Hmmm... You learn something new every day! > > I think I've just discovered a major difference between the "hfs" > implementation in 2.4 and that in 2.6. > > When one mounts an hfs filesystem under 2.4, there are a bunch of > pseudo-directories with names beginning with a "." that give you > access to the finder info and the resource forks of all the files. > > This feature is not there in 2.6. (Or else I need to RTFM -- can > somebody point me to the right FM?) > > Thus, running a 2.6.8 kernel, mounting the boot.img file as an hfs > filesystem make it appear that the finder is zero length! In > reality, only it's "text" fork (If that's the right word) is zero > length -- all the good stuff is in the "resource" fork, which > doesn't show up. > > So, I owe Sven an apology! As Holger found out, the boot floppy is > perfectly functional. > > > Now, is the loss under 2.6 of the HFS ".finderinfo" and ".resource" > pseudo-directories a bug, or a feature?
You probably need to load the hfs+ driver ? If that doesn't solve it for you, please fill a bug report againstz our 2.6 powerpc kernel packages. Friendly, Sven Luther
