Thanks! Sven, I've subscribed to the debian-boot list so I can listen in to the discussion. (Who know? Maybe even participate a bit!)
BootX compatibility is fairly important to me because I've got some really old hardware with fairly broken Open Firmware. (PowerMac 6500, and Beige G3). Quik *can* be made to work on this hardware, but if anything goes wrong it's a long and arduous process getting the OF settings back to a working condition. Also, I need to be able to dual-boot Debian and MacOS9. As I understand your reply: Soon (Monday is the first time I'll be able to play again... Is that too soon?) I should be able to download a new iso from the "daily build" area that will allow me to tell it to skip the boot-loader installation part and get on with things. (I'll have to simulate ["manually" using BootX] the normal functions of a boot loader...) this will get me un-stuck and allow me to move on to the next phase of the installation. Will it be obvious how to tell it to skip the boot-loader install? Or do I need some special magic? Please let me know if there is anything I can do to help! Thanks, Rick Sven Luther wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 22, 2004 at 02:15:20AM -0500, Rick Thomas wrote: > > Hardware: > > > > PowerMac 6500/225 with 128MB of RAM and a 6GB SCSI disk > > partitioned as 2.5GB for MacOS, 3.0 GB for Linux root (an > > "all-in-one" filesystem) and 500 MB for Linux swap. It also has a > > SCSI CD-RW drive and a floppy drive. > > > > Software: MacOS 9.1 with Roxio "Toast" for the CD-RW drive. > > > > > > > > Following the call for testers in Debian Weekly News - January > > 20th, 2004, I decided to give it a try. > > > > The Beta2 d-i for PowerPC doesn't support OldWorld PowerMacs, but > > armed with my trusty copy of BootX, I figured I could do anything > > yaboot could do. Amazingly, I succeeded in getting it to boot and > > run the installer! (Some problems remain, but I'm sure they can > > be solved...) > > Cool. ....... snip ............. > > I'm currently stuck almost at the end of the install, because it > > insists on trying to install yaboot. This is impossible on an > > OldWorld Mac. I may have to do a loopback mount of the ISO so I > > can do a little surgery on the install scripts to allow me to > > gracefully bail out of the yaboot install when I burn the next CD. > > This will be solved in the next d-i uploads. > > I have uploaded yesterday a nobootloader package, which enable you to > work without any bootloader, but ultimately, a quik-installer would be > needed. Maybe Jeremie is already working on that ? > > Also, this means that it is possible to boot with bootx on oldworld, and > that the default -powerpc-small that was selected in kernel-installer > is probably not the right solution. A "kernel to use" kind of question > might be welcome, and maybe there could also be some kind of > auto-probing for which kernel was booted. > > BTW, these kind of things have more their place on the debian-boot > mailing list, so i forward this there. > > Friendly, > > Sven Luther > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]