I succesfully booted debian on my v.2 powerbook titanium from an external firewire disk (a maxtor one touch), without having to mess with an initrd kernel.
The procedure uses the etch beta installer (sarge installer didn't recognize the firewire disk) and is described in (excessive?) detail at my under construction site http://www.boborosso.com In brief: kernel must be >= 2.6.12 to recognize the rootdelay option configured with disable the RAM disk support option (found in Device Drivers -> Block devices). Configuration options that must be compiled-in, that is enabled but NOT marked as modules: * Device Drivers -> SCSI Device support: o SCSI device support o SCSI disk support o SCSI generic support o Powermac external and internal SCSI support (among SCSI low level drivers) * Device Drivers ->IEEE1394 (Firewire) support: o Raw IEEE1394 I/O support o OHCI-1394 support o SBP-2 support and, maybe unnecessarily, o OUI Database o Build in extra config o IP-1394 Entry * File Systems: the support for the filesystem that is going to be used on the firewire drive, (i use XFS), must be compiled-in. Others can be kept as modules. The resulting kernel will not use initrd, so do not use the --initrd option when issuing the make-kpkg command. The installer will fail when trying to install yaboot. yaboot.conf must be updated manually (ie with ybin in a chroot) and must be like this: boot=/dev/sda7 ofboot=/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/[EMAIL PROTECTED]:7 device=/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/[EMAIL PROTECTED]:3 partition=3 delay=15 timeout=100 install=/usr/lib/yaboot/yaboot magicboot=/usr/lib/yaboot/ofboot enablecdboot image=/boot/vmlinux label=Linux read-only root=8:3 append="rootdelay=12" the ofboot and device path is found with # echo /proc/device-tree/pci*/firewire*/node*/sbp-2* the root argument is shown in a ls -l of the root filesystem partitions, ie: # ls -l /dev/sdXXX or /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target1/lun0/part3 brw------- 1 root root 8, 3 Jan 1 1970 /dev/scsi/... 8,3 are the numbers. If you have time, let me know if it seems useful or correct or working. TIA. In particular, mkvmlinuz being called during the installation of the kernel package makes me wonder if one can do without a boot partition. ___________________________________ Yahoo! Mail: gratis 1GB per i messaggi e allegati da 10MB http://mail.yahoo.it -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
