Re: Old world mac boot floppies

2004-11-08 Thread Malte Cornils
Hi Wade, On Mon, Nov 08, 2004 at 12:01:38PM -0700, Wade Berrier wrote: > I've set up open firmware (version 2.0) to have the display as output > and the keyboard as input, and auto-boot to false. > > But, I've tried what seems every combination of boot fd or boot floppy > to no avail. I'll usual

Broken: D-I oldworld ppc floppy images

2004-05-26 Thread Malte Cornils
Hello, the daily builds are broken insofar as the floppy disk image contains a vmlinux file again (thanks!) but no boot loader (miboot). The hfs filesystem is empty except for the kernel file, and the Mac shows an icon of a crossed-out disk (signalling "no boot loader found") when booting. Is

Re: d-i ppc oldworld: no display problem fixed, 4400: block device access fails

2004-04-18 Thread Malte Cornils
Hello, I tried more things: On Sunday 18 April 2004 14:08, you wrote: > Probing IDE interface ide0... > hda: QUANTUM FIREBALL_TM2100A, ATA DISK drive > Unhandled interrupt d, disabled > hda:end_request: I/O error, dev 03:00 (hda), sector 0 > > Maybe DMA should be switched off? (that's what I woul

d-i ppc oldworld: no display problem fixed, 4400: block device access fails

2004-04-18 Thread Malte Cornils
Hello, The oldworld floppies from 16/04 indeed fix the "no console shown" problem, wonderful! However, I still had the problem with the root floppy not being read. I was now trying BootX booting and even for the HDD, I get sector errors. 2.2.20 from woody is fine. The relevant portion shows so

Re: Old world status & todo (was Re: d-i oldworld mac: floppies fail on 4400/200 and 7200/75

2004-04-12 Thread Malte Cornils
Hi, Am Montag, 12. April 2004 08:31 schrieb Sven Luther: > On Sun, Apr 11, 2004 at 07:13:28PM -0400, glenn wrote: > BTW, it would be nice if someone with mac os still installed could take > the 2.4.25-7 -powerpc-small kernel and try to boot it with bootx. If > this works, then the kernel is ok, bu

Re: d-i oldworld mac: floppies fail on 4400/200 and 7200/75

2004-04-09 Thread Malte Cornils
Am Freitag, 9. April 2004 16:16 schrieb Sven Luther: > On Fri, Apr 09, 2004 at 03:30:05PM +0200, Malte Cornils wrote: > > Floppy ejection at this point is normal and could also > > mean that the kernel boots fine, only that the local console is > > broken. > > Can you t

Re: d-i oldworld mac: floppies fail on 4400/200 and 7200/75

2004-04-09 Thread Malte Cornils
Hi Rick, On Fri, Apr 09, 2004 at 01:37:21AM -0400, Rick Thomas wrote: > Errors like that are usually symptomatic of a dirty/dusty floppy drive. > > In particular, if the boot floppy is ejected, it means that the > firmware got an error trying to read it, or couldn't find the magic > numbers in

d-i oldworld mac: floppies fail on 4400/200 and 7200/75

2004-04-08 Thread Malte Cornils
Hi. I reported recently on my failure to use the d-i floppies for the 4400/200. I tested the current (04/06/2004) bootfloppies on that machine and an 7200/75 (redundancy in floppy disk drives ;-)). On the 7200, both ofonlyboot and boot fail to display anything on the local console (but eject t

Re: OldWorld floppy images

2004-03-26 Thread Malte Cornils
fferent floppies. If you think it is, I will test with more floppies (although floppies never work right for me. Never.) I will be perfectly happy testing all matter of d-i stuff on the system, too, once oldworld images become available. -Malte Cornils -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTE

Bug#220817: SCSI-CDROM with debian-installer beta1

2003-11-14 Thread Malte Cornils
Package: install Version: beta-1 Severity: minor We tried to install with the sarge-netinst-i386.iso CD-Image of the Debian installer beta-1. Unfortunately, the installer could not detect our SCSI-CDrom device. We were unable to comply with the suggestions in the HOWTO since we do not have a fl