Re: Fwd: Re: current d-i cd won't boot on G3

2004-08-18 Thread Kilian Krause
Hi Clive, Does that mean that you used the 2.4 kernel? It would be good if you filed an installation report as requested here: http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/report-template done. http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=258038 -- Best regards, Kilian signature.asc

Re: Fwd: Re: current d-i cd won't boot on G3

2004-08-17 Thread Kilian Krause
Hi Clive, What you need to do to get BootX to boot your installed Linux system is copy the initrd.gz and vmlinux from your installed system onto the Mac partition and then replace the installer versions in Linux Kernels with these installed versions. The problem I've had is that I can't

Re: Fwd: Re: current d-i cd won't boot on G3

2004-08-17 Thread Kilian Krause
Hi Clive, ok, so here's how it goes: use the BootX with the kernel from the installed system, supply the initrd of the booted system and put a root=... as commandline arg. That way i could boot the system just fine. Yet it seems there's no hfs support in the d-i kernel 2.6.7... At least i

Re: Fwd: Re: current d-i cd won't boot on G3

2004-08-17 Thread Clive Menzies
On (17/08/04 12:48), Kilian Krause wrote: Hi Clive, ok, so here's how it goes: use the BootX with the kernel from the installed system, supply the initrd of the booted system and put a root=... as commandline arg. That way i could boot the system just fine. Yet it seems there's no hfs

Re: Fwd: Re: current d-i cd won't boot on G3

2004-08-17 Thread Kilian Krause
Hi Clive, Does that mean that you used the 2.4 kernel? It would be good if you filed an installation report as requested here: http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/report-template nope, i have gone with the 2.6.7 and its initrd.img.. I'll file the installation report later.. but

Re: Fwd: Re: current d-i cd won't boot on G3

2004-08-16 Thread Kilian Krause
Hi Clive, If it's a beige G3 you'll need to use BootX 1.2.2 Thanks! that did the trick. Maybe it should be added to the d-i manual how to tell what's OldWorld and what's NewWorld mac. I thought i had a NewWorld one for some reason (well, just wildly guessing actually). -- Best regards,

Re: Fwd: Re: current d-i cd won't boot on G3

2004-08-16 Thread Kilian Krause
Hi, If it's a beige G3 you'll need to use BootX 1.2.2 moreover, what's the reason, BootX can't be shipped on the CD? -- Best regards, Kilian signature.asc Description: Dies ist ein digital signierter Nachrichtenteil

Re: Fwd: Re: current d-i cd won't boot on G3

2004-08-16 Thread Brad Boyer
On Mon, Aug 16, 2004 at 08:15:00PM +0200, Kilian Krause wrote: If it's a beige G3 you'll need to use BootX 1.2.2 Thanks! that did the trick. Maybe it should be added to the d-i manual how to tell what's OldWorld and what's NewWorld mac. I thought i had a NewWorld one for some reason (well,

Re: Fwd: Re: current d-i cd won't boot on G3

2004-08-16 Thread Kilian Krause
Hi Brad, thanks for the insight. In that case, why isn't that list shipped with the d-i docs? Or is it and i was just too blind to see it? Could there be a mini-tool or a script telling? Like you have a small prog on the CD which you start and that would read Your mac is oldworld, use BootX.. --

Re: Fwd: Re: current d-i cd won't boot on G3

2004-08-16 Thread Kilian Krause
Hi again, ok, here's the next problem. Now i have managed to get past BootX, even past d-i, except that it failed at quix installation. So i thought, who cares, i'll go for BootX with my kernel and a proper root= setting.. Yet when i launch BootX with root=/dev/hda8 or

Re: Fwd: Re: current d-i cd won't boot on G3

2004-08-16 Thread Clive Menzies
On (16/08/04 22:58), Kilian Krause wrote: Hi again, ok, here's the next problem. Now i have managed to get past BootX, even past d-i, except that it failed at quix installation. So i thought, who cares, i'll go for BootX with my kernel and a proper root= setting.. Yet when i launch BootX

Re: Fwd: Re: current d-i cd won't boot on G3

2004-08-16 Thread Brad Boyer
On Mon, Aug 16, 2004 at 10:30:27PM +0200, Kilian Krause wrote: thanks for the insight. In that case, why isn't that list shipped with the d-i docs? Or is it and i was just too blind to see it? I haven't actually read the docs, but I would be surprised to see such a list in them. Someone more