Package: boot-floppy Severity: normal
Subject: boot-floppy: no way to do expert mode boot from floppy on OldWorld PowerMac (at least)
On OldWorld PowerPC Macintoshes there is no way for a user to do an "expert" mode boot starting from the boot floppys.
I suppose theoretically that one can do things with Open Firmware to pass
a "DEBCONF_PRIORITY=" to the kernel, but that's more complicated than
it needs to be. Also, there are OldWorld models whose Open Firmware is
so badly broken that this "trick" wouldn't work.
Is this a problem for other architectures too? If so, those architectures probably don't have the luxury of Open Firmware. For those architectures, this is a serious problem.
-- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: powerpc (ppc) Kernel: Linux 2.4.25-powerpc Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C
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