On Wed, Feb 08, 2006 at 11:10:27AM +0100, Hans Ekbrand wrote: > On Wed, Feb 08, 2006 at 10:58:52AM +0100, Arnaud Vandyck wrote: > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > Arnaud Vandyck wrote: > > > Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > > > > >>>On Tue, 2006-02-07 at 14:55 +0100, Arnaud Vandyck wrote: > > > > > > [...] > > > > > >>>>0 > boot ide1/[EMAIL PROTECTED]:0,\install\powerpc\vmlinux > > >>>> > > >>>>OF says 'loader: unrecognized client program format' > > >>> > > >>>Oldworld... it might be able to boot from CD a coff file... do the CD > > >>>contains the vmlinux.coff image ? > > > > Strange!... > > 0 > boot ide1/[EMAIL PROTECTED]:0,\install\powerpc\vmlinuz-coff.initrd > > unable to open: ide1/[EMAIL > > PROTECTED]:0,\install\powerpc\vmlinuz-coff.initrd ok > > > > grrr! > > > > 0 > dev ide1/[EMAIL PROTECTED]:0 > > can't find device ok > > > > aaaaaaaaaaaa! What did I do?! Did I messed up the OF? I reseted it > > Alt-Command-P-R but no way! :'( > > > > I can have 8 machines like that, do I have to throw them away?.. > > YEAH! > > Try installing with floppies? > > http://people.debian.org/~luther/d-i/sid/images/daily/powerpc/floppy/boot.img > http://people.debian.org/~luther/d-i/sid/images/daily/powerpc/floppy/root.img > > In case quik turns out not to work on those beige G3 (seems it does > work on some but not on others), you could use miboot for booting into > the installed system too. > > If miboot works OK, on that model (on my perfomas the cpu will run at > 1/10th speed when booted by miboot), I could make you a miboot > boot-floppy to boot into the installed system
Maybe we could make have miboot to be listed in mkvmlinuz's bootloader, and have code in /etc/kernel/postinst.d to automatically create the miboot floppy for you on installs. Now that miboot is being freed, this would be a neat solution. Any volunteer to recode the boot sector based on the information Piotr provided ? Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
