Re: Red X -- was: Re: new oldworld pmac miboot 2.6 floppies, root size should be ok, net_drivers still too big, please test.

2004-08-30 Thread Sven Luther
On Mon, Aug 30, 2004 at 01:58:34AM -0400, Rick Thomas wrote: Sven Luther wrote: Rick Thomas wrote: Is it possible the objcopy is corrupting it? This is indeed a possibility. I will disable this again for the 2.4 floppies, and we will see tomorrow what happens. That said,

Red X -- was: Re: new oldworld pmac miboot 2.6 floppies, root size should be ok, net_drivers still too big, please test.

2004-08-29 Thread Rick_Thomas
I tried the new 2.4 PowerMac floppys today. Now I get the Red X on the 2.4 boot floppy as well. I did an experiment... I mounted the 2.4 boot floppy and extracted the zImage file, uncompressed it, and compared it to the 2.4.25-powerpc-small kernel. They both claim to be the same kernel in that

Re: Red X -- was: Re: new oldworld pmac miboot 2.6 floppies, root size should be ok, net_drivers still too big, please test.

2004-08-29 Thread Rick Thomas
On Sunday, August 29, 2004, at 04:31 AM, Rick_Thomas wrote: I tried the new 2.4 PowerMac floppys today. Now I get the Red X on the 2.4 boot floppy as well. I did an experiment... I mounted the 2.4 boot floppy and extracted the zImage file, uncompressed it, and compared it to the

Re: Red X -- was: Re: new oldworld pmac miboot 2.6 floppies, root size should be ok, net_drivers still too big, please test.

2004-08-29 Thread Sven Luther
On Sun, Aug 29, 2004 at 05:03:42AM -0400, Rick Thomas wrote: On Sunday, August 29, 2004, at 04:31 AM, Rick_Thomas wrote: I tried the new 2.4 PowerMac floppys today. Now I get the Red X on the 2.4 boot floppy as well. I did an experiment... I mounted the 2.4 boot floppy and extracted

Re: Red X -- was: Re: new oldworld pmac miboot 2.6 floppies, root size should be ok, net_drivers still too big, please test.

2004-08-29 Thread Rick Thomas
Sven Luther wrote: Rick Thomas wrote: Is it possible the objcopy is corrupting it? This is indeed a possibility. I will disable this again for the 2.4 floppies, and we will see tomorrow what happens. That said, the 2.6 floppies are too big to work with miboot without the objcopy -O

Re: new oldworld pmac miboot 2.6 floppies, root size should be ok, net_drivers still too big, please test.

2004-08-19 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Aug 19, 2004 at 04:25:43AM -0400, Rick_Thomas wrote: On Wed, 2004-08-18 at 05:48, Sven Luther wrote: On Wed, Aug 18, 2004 at 11:25:58AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: Hello, I have uploaded oldworld 2.6 miboot floppies at : http://people.debian.org/~luther/d-i/miboot

Re: new oldworld pmac miboot 2.6 floppies, root size should be ok, net_drivers still too big, please test.

2004-08-19 Thread Rick_Thomas
On Wed, 2004-08-18 at 05:48, Sven Luther wrote: On Wed, Aug 18, 2004 at 11:25:58AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: Hello, I have uploaded oldworld 2.6 miboot floppies at : http://people.debian.org/~luther/d-i/miboot Could people please test them, as i don't have the hardware for it.

Re: new oldworld pmac miboot 2.6 floppies, root size should be ok, net_drivers still too big, please test.

2004-08-19 Thread Wouter Hanegraaff
Hi, On Thu, Aug 19, 2004 at 04:25:43AM -0400, Rick_Thomas wrote: Hi Sven, Progress, of a sort... I was really hopeful because when I booted either of the boot or ofonlyboot floppy, I got the TuxMac icon for a while and the Mac made happy floppy disk reading noises. However, the noises

Re: new oldworld pmac miboot 2.6 floppies, root size should be ok, net_drivers still too big, please test.

2004-08-19 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Aug 19, 2004 at 02:34:48PM +0200, Wouter Hanegraaff wrote: Hi, On Thu, Aug 19, 2004 at 04:25:43AM -0400, Rick_Thomas wrote: Hi Sven, Progress, of a sort... I was really hopeful because when I booted either of the boot or ofonlyboot floppy, I got the TuxMac icon for a

Re: new oldworld pmac miboot 2.6 floppies, root size should be ok, net_drivers still too big, please test.

2004-08-19 Thread Wouter Hanegraaff
On Thu, Aug 19, 2004 at 02:34:48PM +0200, Wouter Hanegraaff wrote: After reading that your mac booted from boot.img, I tried that one and with a little more success. After loading the kernel, the system switched to text mode and asked for the root floppy. I inserted root.img and it loaded for

Re: new oldworld pmac miboot 2.6 floppies, root size should be ok, net_drivers still too big, please test.

2004-08-19 Thread Wouter Hanegraaff
Hello, On Thu, Aug 19, 2004 at 04:05:39PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: I'm testing the powerpc-small boot floppies and this occurred when I Where did you download those from, and when ? http://people.debian.org/~luther/d-i/images/daily/powerpc-small/floppy/ Downloaded today. tried to boot

Re: new oldworld pmac miboot 2.6 floppies, root size should be ok, net_drivers still too big, please test.

2004-08-19 Thread Wouter Hanegraaff
On Thu, Aug 19, 2004 at 04:08:06PM +0200, Wouter Hanegraaff wrote: Well, the daily root.bin turned out to contain an emtpty file system, so no wonder the installer didn't start. For the record, I was using the daily boot floppies from powerpc-small, which appear to be kernel 2.4.25 and not

Re: new oldworld pmac miboot 2.6 floppies, root size should be ok, net_drivers still too big, please test.

2004-08-19 Thread Rick Thomas
On Thursday, August 19, 2004, at 05:00 AM, Sven Luther wrote: happy floppy disk reading noises. However, the noises eventually stopped and a red X appeared over the TuxMac. Then nothing. I had to manually eject the floppy from the drive. What we need would be a way to get a log of it or

Re: new oldworld pmac miboot 2.6 floppies, root size should be ok, net_drivers still too big, please test.

2004-08-19 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Aug 19, 2004 at 04:29:18PM +0200, Wouter Hanegraaff wrote: On Thu, Aug 19, 2004 at 04:08:06PM +0200, Wouter Hanegraaff wrote: Well, the daily root.bin turned out to contain an emtpty file system, so no wonder the installer didn't start. For the record, I was using the daily

Re: new oldworld pmac miboot 2.6 floppies, root size should be ok, net_drivers still too big, please test.

2004-08-19 Thread Brad Boyer
On Thu, Aug 19, 2004 at 02:34:48PM +0200, Wouter Hanegraaff wrote: I'm testing the powerpc-small boot floppies and this occurred when I tried to boot my powermac 7300 with ofonlyboot.img. However, after reformatting with superformat and writing the image again, the disk was read successfully

Re: new oldworld pmac miboot 2.6 floppies, root size should be ok, net_drivers still too big, please test.

2004-08-19 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Aug 19, 2004 at 12:08:23PM -0400, Rick Thomas wrote: On Thursday, August 19, 2004, at 05:00 AM, Sven Luther wrote: happy floppy disk reading noises. However, the noises eventually stopped and a red X appeared over the TuxMac. Then nothing. I had to manually eject the floppy

new oldworld pmac miboot 2.6 floppies, root size should be ok, net_drivers still too big, please test.

2004-08-18 Thread Sven Luther
Hello, I have uploaded oldworld 2.6 miboot floppies at : http://people.debian.org/~luther/d-i/miboot Could people please test them, as i don't have the hardware for it. These should all be the right size, except the net_drivers floppy. I need to move some stuff from it to the cd_drivers or

Re: new oldworld pmac miboot 2.6 floppies, root size should be ok, net_drivers still too big, please test.

2004-08-18 Thread Sven Luther
On Wed, Aug 18, 2004 at 11:25:58AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: Hello, I have uploaded oldworld 2.6 miboot floppies at : http://people.debian.org/~luther/d-i/miboot Could people please test them, as i don't have the hardware for it. These should all be the right size, except the