Bug#323182: debian-installer: boot.img for sarge doesn't, on PPC

2005-08-18 Thread SR, ESC
Le mer 2005-08-17 a 03:17:27 -0400, Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] a dit: yep. Ideally you would netboot the kernel with something like : boot enet:,vmlinuz-coff.initrd notsure about the exact syntax though. np, that'll help, thanks. so the kernel will get read from an ext2 partition, or

Bug#323182: debian-installer: boot.img for sarge doesn't, on PPC

2005-08-18 Thread SR, ESC
Le mer 2005-08-17 a 07:34:15 -0400, Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] a dit: On Wed, Aug 17, 2005 at 12:06:09PM +0100, Clive Menzies wrote: On (17/08/05 10:52), Sven Luther wrote: create a custom kernel from the sources. You will also need kernel-patch-2.4.27-powerpc So, it should be in the

Bug#323182: debian-installer: boot.img for sarge doesn't, on PPC

2005-08-18 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Aug 18, 2005 at 01:53:41AM -0400, SR, ESC wrote: Le mer 2005-08-17 a 03:17:27 -0400, Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] a dit: yep. Ideally you would netboot the kernel with something like : boot enet:,vmlinuz-coff.initrd notsure about the exact syntax though. np, that'll

Bug#323182: debian-installer: boot.img for sarge doesn't, on PPC

2005-08-18 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Aug 18, 2005 at 01:53:41AM -0400, SR, ESC wrote: Le mer 2005-08-17 a 03:17:27 -0400, Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] a dit: yep. Ideally you would netboot the kernel with something like : boot enet:,vmlinuz-coff.initrd notsure about the exact syntax though. np, that'll

Bug#323182: debian-installer: boot.img for sarge doesn't, on PPC

2005-08-18 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Aug 18, 2005 at 01:55:21AM -0400, SR, ESC wrote: Le mer 2005-08-17 a 07:34:15 -0400, Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] a dit: On Wed, Aug 17, 2005 at 12:06:09PM +0100, Clive Menzies wrote: On (17/08/05 10:52), Sven Luther wrote: create a custom kernel from the sources. You will also

Bug#323182: debian-installer: boot.img for sarge doesn't, on PPC

2005-08-17 Thread Sven Luther
On Tue, Aug 16, 2005 at 06:36:39PM -0400, Rick Thomas wrote: It's clear that, as a practical matter, Apple doesn't mind if people distribute the boot block which is coming directly from Apple and has a couple tens of m68k assembly instructions nobody could be bothered to reverse-engineer,

Bug#323182: debian-installer: boot.img for sarge doesn't, on PPC

2005-08-17 Thread SR, ESC
Le mer 2005-08-17 a 01:36:11 -0400, Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] a dit: On Tue, Aug 16, 2005 at 04:24:53PM -0400, SR, ESC wrote: The boot.img are the miboot floppies for oldworld pmacs. These are saddly not useable in sarge, because miboot is non-free (due to the one boot block

Bug#323182: debian-installer: boot.img for sarge doesn't, on PPC

2005-08-17 Thread Sven Luther
On Wed, Aug 17, 2005 at 01:51:53AM -0400, SR, ESC wrote: Yep, but nobody came forward and did so. This should have been mentioned in the errata though at least. there's people who did for woody, but they feel that they were overlooked and hurt from that, and therefore didn't pitch in, and

Bug#323182: debian-installer: boot.img for sarge doesn't, on PPC

2005-08-17 Thread SR, ESC
Le mar 2005-08-16 a 18:37:30 -0400, Rick Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] a dit: It's clear that, as a practical matter, Apple doesn't mind if people distribute the boot block which is coming directly from Apple and has a couple tens of m68k assembly instructions nobody could be bothered to

Bug#323182: debian-installer: boot.img for sarge doesn't, on PPC

2005-08-17 Thread SR, ESC
Le mer 2005-08-17 a 01:47:03 -0400, Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] a dit: On Tue, Aug 16, 2005 at 06:36:39PM -0400, Rick Thomas wrote: I can build the miboot files and distribute them from p.d.o, they can just not be part of the release. cool. Rick PS: Sven makes it sound as if

Bug#323182: debian-installer: boot.img for sarge doesn't, on PPC

2005-08-17 Thread SR, ESC
Le mer 2005-08-17 a 02:05:14 -0400, Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] a dit: On Wed, Aug 17, 2005 at 01:51:53AM -0400, SR, ESC wrote: Yep, but nobody came forward and did so. This should have been mentioned in the errata though at least. there's people who did for woody, but they feel

Bug#323182: debian-installer: boot.img for sarge doesn't, on PPC

2005-08-17 Thread Sven Luther
On Wed, Aug 17, 2005 at 02:24:27AM -0400, SR, ESC wrote: Le mer 2005-08-17 a 02:05:14 -0400, Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] a dit: On Wed, Aug 17, 2005 at 01:51:53AM -0400, SR, ESC wrote: Yep, but nobody came forward and did so. This should have been mentioned in the errata though

Bug#323182: debian-installer: boot.img for sarge doesn't, on PPC

2005-08-17 Thread Clive Menzies
Hi Guys Just to let you know, I've got a nubus machine (8100/80) sitting here going spare. It's got woody on it currently but if you can make use of it, you're welcome to it (I'm in North London) Regards Clive -- www.clivemenzies.co.uk ... ...strategies for business -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Bug#323182: debian-installer: boot.img for sarge doesn't, on PPC

2005-08-17 Thread Sven Luther
On Wed, Aug 17, 2005 at 09:51:49AM +0100, Clive Menzies wrote: Hi Guys Just to let you know, I've got a nubus machine (8100/80) sitting here going spare. It's got woody on it currently but if you can make use of it, you're welcome to it (I'm in North London) Cool, try booting the

Bug#323182: debian-installer: boot.img for sarge doesn't, on PPC

2005-08-17 Thread Clive Menzies
On (17/08/05 10:52), Sven Luther wrote: Subject: Re: Bug#323182: debian-installer: boot.img for sarge doesn't, on PPC On Wed, Aug 17, 2005 at 09:51:49AM +0100, Clive Menzies wrote: Hi Guys Just to let you know, I've got a nubus machine (8100/80) sitting here going spare. It's got

Bug#323182: debian-installer: boot.img for sarge doesn't, on PPC

2005-08-17 Thread Sven Luther
On Wed, Aug 17, 2005 at 12:06:09PM +0100, Clive Menzies wrote: On (17/08/05 10:52), Sven Luther wrote: Subject: Re: Bug#323182: debian-installer: boot.img for sarge doesn't, on PPC On Wed, Aug 17, 2005 at 09:51:49AM +0100, Clive Menzies wrote: Hi Guys Just to let you know

Bug#323182: debian-installer: boot.img for sarge doesn't, on PPC

2005-08-16 Thread SR, ESC
Le lun 2005-08-15 a 17:20:52 -0400, Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] a dit: On Mon, Aug 15, 2005 at 06:13:12PM +0200, Geert Stappers wrote: severity 323182 normal thanks mate On Mon, Aug 15, 2005 at 05:46:11AM -0400, Simon Raven wrote: Package: debian-installer Severity: grave

Bug#323182: debian-installer: boot.img for sarge doesn't, on PPC

2005-08-16 Thread SR, ESC
Le lun 2005-08-15 a 17:44:46 -0400, Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] a dit: On Mon, Aug 15, 2005 at 06:13:12PM +0200, Geert Stappers wrote: severity 323182 normal thanks mate Ok, please ignore my previous mail, it is stupid. then disregard my reply to it :). The boot.img are the

Bug#323182: debian-installer: boot.img for sarge doesn't, on PPC

2005-08-16 Thread Rick Thomas
It's clear that, as a practical matter, Apple doesn't mind if people distribute the boot block which is coming directly from Apple and has a couple tens of m68k assembly instructions nobody could be bothered to reverse-engineer, because other Linux distributions provide it and Apple has not

Bug#323182: debian-installer: boot.img for sarge doesn't, on PPC

2005-08-16 Thread Sven Luther
On Tue, Aug 16, 2005 at 04:24:53PM -0400, SR, ESC wrote: Le lun 2005-08-15 a 17:44:46 -0400, Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] a dit: On Mon, Aug 15, 2005 at 06:13:12PM +0200, Geert Stappers wrote: severity 323182 normal thanks mate Ok, please ignore my previous mail, it is

Bug#323182: debian-installer: boot.img for sarge doesn't, on PPC

2005-08-15 Thread Simon Raven
Package: debian-installer Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable boot.img for sarge on powerpc doesn't boot, no matter what i do, what date i get it from (there's a 20041118/ dir on the site, tried those, doesn't want to boot either). i've tried both 2.4 and 2.6 floppies, any

Bug#323182: debian-installer: boot.img for sarge doesn't, on PPC

2005-08-15 Thread Geert Stappers
severity 323182 normal thanks mate On Mon, Aug 15, 2005 at 05:46:11AM -0400, Simon Raven wrote: Package: debian-installer Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable The debian installer works on systems where we[1] have acces to. boot.img for sarge on powerpc doesn't boot, no

Bug#323182: debian-installer: boot.img for sarge doesn't, on PPC

2005-08-15 Thread SR, ESC
Le lun 2005-08-15 a 12:25:57 -0400, Geert Stappers [EMAIL PROTECTED] a dit: I have seen reports of succesfull installs on PowerPC hardware on the debian-boot mailinglist. I have not clear how they boot. It could be a Mac OS boot CD-ROM and some bootstrap. Please report your progress

Bug#323182: debian-installer: boot.img for sarge doesn't, on PPC

2005-08-15 Thread Sven Luther
On Mon, Aug 15, 2005 at 06:13:12PM +0200, Geert Stappers wrote: severity 323182 normal thanks mate On Mon, Aug 15, 2005 at 05:46:11AM -0400, Simon Raven wrote: Package: debian-installer Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable The debian installer works on systems

Bug#323182: debian-installer: boot.img for sarge doesn't, on PPC

2005-08-15 Thread Sven Luther
On Mon, Aug 15, 2005 at 06:13:12PM +0200, Geert Stappers wrote: severity 323182 normal thanks mate On Mon, Aug 15, 2005 at 05:46:11AM -0400, Simon Raven wrote: Package: debian-installer Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable The debian installer works on systems

Bug#323182: debian-installer: boot.img for sarge doesn't, on PPC

2005-08-15 Thread Frans Pop
On Monday 15 August 2005 21:02, Sven Luther wrote: As a result, the floppies present in sarge are entirely broken and will never work. Also the 2.6 floppies, even with miboot present never worked fiably, annd since we are doing away with the 2.4 kernels for etch, this means that the miboot

Bug#323182: debian-installer: boot.img for sarge doesn't, on PPC

2005-08-15 Thread Sven Luther
On Mon, Aug 15, 2005 at 09:58:54PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: On Monday 15 August 2005 21:02, Sven Luther wrote: As a result, the floppies present in sarge are entirely broken and will never work. Also the 2.6 floppies, even with miboot present never worked fiably, annd since we are doing away