> > > That would be interesting, since the B50 is exactly what those corean guys > > > have all this trouble dealing with. > > > > Odd. We installed from a floppy using the woody netinstall CDs by just > > following the instructions found at > > http://www.kutilek.de/technik/debian-rs6k.en.php > > You reqlise that sarge was released almost a year ago now, and that > debian-installer has almost nothing to do with the woody boot-floppies, right > ? :)
I do in fact realize that. I had two students install these B50 boxes and that's what worked in the end. IIRC we tried to boot from sarge netinstall CD and that didn't even begin to boot. > There is no floppy support on either sarge or etch debian-installer for > powerpc prep or chrp boxes right now, only the unofficial powermac oldworld > miboot floppies. And the CDs are supposed to boot on the RS6000? > > I should be able to provide a system.map of the booting kernel so people > > can figure out what's missing in the stock kernels. > > The problem was not the kernel, but it seems that yaboot-installer or With our install it was the kernel. Your mail did not specify detail beyond 'korean guys' which did not ring a bell. > prep-installer, or plain dd was not able to create a booting system. yaboot works for booting these machines; a simple default config created using yabootconfig did the job. The kernel resides in / instead of /boot but that should not matter. > Solution is to fix partman-prep, and see if yaboot-installer behaves then, or > to see if the excessive ramdisk size created by initramfs-tools caused the > compressed kernel + builtin initrd to cause trouble with the OFs installer. My bet would be on the latter. That should be fairly easy to test. > Or maybe simply that the addnote thingy is broken or something ? I don't > really know. > > I am able to make the prep machines bootable with simply dding the kernel with > builtin ramdisk the prep partition So no yaboot used, and no size limits whatsoever? Michael -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]