package: debian-installer-manual mainly a repost to the BTS, one more info: cd booting on oldworld was possible with woody, according to http://www.biccard.com/alan/7200/7200boot.html
Hi, On Sunday 24 April 2005 19:53, Jon Niehof wrote: > I see on the status page that CD booting should work on old > world now--is there any documentation on that? Despite the media > bay ATAPI interface being listed in the device aliases, I can't > get a directory listing on it in OFW and "boot cdrom:" just > boots macos off the hard drive. I presume the yaboot > instructions in the installer manual aren't applicable. According to the (netbsd)-docs I found, it's "bood cd:" or "boot scsi/[EMAIL PROTECTED]:0/install/powerpc/vmlinuz-coff.initrd" for my 7200 where the scsi-cd has id 3. 0 > boot scsi/[EMAIL PROTECTED]:0 RESETing to change Configuration! no bootable HFS partition Open Firmware, 1.0.5 To continue booting the MacOS type: BYE<return> To continue booting from the default boot device type: BOOT<return> ok 0 > boot scsi/[EMAIL PROTECTED]:,/install/powerpc/vmlinuz-coff.initrd bad partition number, using 0 can't OPEN: scsi/[EMAIL PROTECTED]:,/install/powerpc/vmlinuz-coff.initrd ok 0 > boot scsi/[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/install can't OPEN: scsi/[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/install ok 0 > boot scsi/[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/install/powerpc/vmlinuz-coff.initrd can't OPEN: scsi/[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/install/powerpc/vmlinuz-coff.initrd ok 0 > boot scsi/[EMAIL PROTECTED]:0,/install/powerpc/vmlinuz-coff.initrd bad partition number, using 0 can't OPEN: scsi/[EMAIL PROTECTED]:0,/install/powerpc/vmlinuz-coff.initrd ok 0 > Netbooting d-i doesnt work as well. At least for the OF 1.0.5 of my 7200 the 5.2mb initrd is too big, it works with a smaller (1.2 mb) kernels. According to ethereal it hangs after 8169 packets, each 588 bytes in size. This is roughly 4mb. Firmware, 1.0.5 To continue booting the MacOS type: BYE<return> To continue booting from the default boot device type: BOOT<return> ok 0 > ok 0 > boot enet: file: 192.168.45.23,/tftpboot/vmlinuz-coff.initrd/DEFAULT CATCH!, code=FFF00400 ok 0 > # note: i only needed to enter "boot enet:" to successfully boot smaller # kernels. the relevant snippet from my dhcpd.conf host pmac7200 { hardware ethernet 00:00:00:00:00:00; next-server 192.168.45.23; filename "/tftpboot/vmlinuz-coff.initrd"; } btw, I've just tested the 2-4 boot.img, both the daily and the rc3 image, both work. (Although I find it odd, that images from 03-23, the rc3 release day, doesnt exit...neither a link) They were fetched from http://people.debian.org/luther/d-i/images/daily/powerpc/floppy-2.4/boot.img and ~luther/d-i/sarge/images/2005-03-24/powerpc/floppy-2.4/boot.img and written with dd if=/tmp/boot.img of=/dev/fd0 bs=1k conv=sync ; sync ; cmp /dev/fd0 /tmp/boot.img summary: - i'm still not sure about the cd issues - there are many OF versions with different bugs and features or vice versa ;) - but see below.. - document how to netboot on oldworld, maybe works on some models - document the models where netbooting d-i doesnt work - creater smaller (only-english) initrds to allow netbooting (as floppy bootint has legal problems) http://d-i.alioth.debian.org/manual/en.powerpc/ch05s01.html#boot-cd if this is correct, booting from cd via OF is not possible. but if ftp://ftp.NetBSD.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-2.0/macppc/INSTALL.html#Booting%20the%20NetBSD%2Fmacppc%20install%20CD-R is correct, it's possible. (With all versions of OF: quote: "(Open Firmware 1.0.5, Open Firmware 1.1.22, Open Firmware 2.0.x, Open Firmware 2.4)" ftp://ftp.NetBSD.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-2.0/macppc/INSTALL.html#Supported%20models has a overview, which model has which version of OF. (btw, the 7200 is not support by netbsd because of the cpu...) http://d-i.alioth.debian.org/manual/en.powerpc/ch05s01.html#boot-tftp misses oldworld and chrp pegasos2. (It's possible on both archs, but the current d-i initrd is too big for oldworld.) http://d-i.alioth.debian.org/manual/en.powerpc/ch05s01.html#id2532179 definitly needs an update and a nicer URL ;-) So I guess I will make five (? ;) bugs out of this mail to track the issues. regards, Holger
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