Hi I have the following four systems where I could test the patches. PowerBook Alu 1 GHz 15" PowerBook Pismo G3 400 Mhz PowerMac G3 blue/white Pegasos I (Here I never managed to install a stock Debian kernel, I have a custom compiled kernel based on the Gentoo 2.6.8-pegasos-r2, then used a chroot to install a minimal Debian system and managed to install Debian on it. But the way was quite complicated). When I tried 10 days ago to boot your kernel from http://people.debian.org/%7Eluther/d-i/images/daily/powerpc/cdrom-minimal/2.4/vmlinuz-chrp.initrd I was unable to boot into it.
What are the steps which you would like to test? E.g. on each system I have one spare partition but I cannot afford to format the whole disk. I have however a external FireWire-HD which I could wipe out each time. Did you apply the patch for an external firewire http://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc/2004/11/msg00056.html ? Is it sufficient to just install the minimal Debian system? Do I have to write a install report for each installation for each machine? Can you tell me when your modified d-i-isos are available? Best regards Am Freitag, 5. November 2004 15.00 schrieb Sven Luther: > Hello, > > I have added support for amiga partition tables to yaboot, which is > necessary for getting yaboot to work on my pegasos 2. Now Ethan Benson > refuses to get the patch integrated unless i get widespread testing on a > variety of hardware, despite the fact that the code in the patch never gets > traveled in any of the currently supported hardware (i.e, amiga partitions > are probed only when they are no mac or mbr partition table, and no iso > filesystem, just before outputing the 'partition table not supported' > message). > > Anyway, in order to get this patch in, i am searching for testing on a > variety of hardware. I have obviously tested it on my pegasos 2 board and > my ibook G3/800, but would like to have more testing, especially on IBM > hardware, and on G5 pmacs, but also all kind of pmacs are of interest. > > Ethan is asking me of testing of all three boot methods : cd, disk, net. > Patched packages can be found on : > > http://people.debian.org/~luther/yaboot > > As well as a standalone yaboot binary which can simply be used to replace > the older one. I will try to make a modified d-i CD iso available too with > this modified yaboot, which should take care of the cd booting test. > > Thanks in advance for your help. > > Friendly, > > Sven Luther -- Niklaus Giger Wieshoschet 6 CH-8753 Mollis
