Debian Bug report logs - #396458
powerpc d-i miboot floppy doesn't boot

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Message #5 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: "rob rob" <stinkysnooky@hotmail.com>

To: submit@bugs.debian.org

Subject: powerpc d-i miboot floppy doesn't boot

Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2006 21:08:11 +0000

Package:kernel-image-2.6.17-2-powerpc-miboot-di
Version:1.22

Hi,
tried booting the powerpc debian installer floppy disk for etch/sid but it 
just got spat out. I used:
dd if=boot.img of=/dev/fd0 bs=1024; sync
to put the image on disk and booted with the option key pressed, but didn't 
get any debug.
The boot.img from etch installer beta3 with 
kernel-image-2.6.16-2-powerpc-miboot-di worked, however the net-drivers.img 
was too big and I had to break up the install at that point
While investigating that problem Benjamin Herrenschmidt sent this 
interesting mail with a patch, which may solve the problem:
http://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc/2006/09/msg00337.html

I have a powerpc power macintosh 6500/225.

Thanks in advance. Yours, Rob Homsi

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Message #10 received at 396458@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl>

To: rob rob <stinkysnooky@hotmail.com>, 396458@bugs.debian.org

Cc: linux-2.6@packages.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#396458: powerpc d-i miboot floppy doesn't boot

Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2006 23:16:24 +0100

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reassign 396458 linux-2.6
severity 396458 important
tags 396458 patch
thanks

On Tuesday 31 October 2006 22:08, rob rob wrote:
> While investigating that problem Benjamin Herrenschmidt sent this
> interesting mail with a patch, which may solve the problem:
> http://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc/2006/09/msg00337.html

That patch looks like it is a patch to the powerpc kernel images, not to 
debian installer, therefore reassigning.

Cheers,
FJP

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Message #21 received at 396458@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Sven Luther <sven.luther@wanadoo.fr>

To: Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl>

Cc: rob rob <stinkysnooky@hotmail.com>, 396458@bugs.debian.org, debian-boot@lists.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#396458: powerpc d-i miboot floppy doesn't boot

Date: Wed, 1 Nov 2006 00:05:26 +0100

reassign 396458 debian-installer
thanks
On Tue, Oct 31, 2006 at 11:16:24PM +0100, Frans Pop wrote:
> severity 396458 important
> tags 396458 patch
> thanks
> 
> On Tuesday 31 October 2006 22:08, rob rob wrote:
> > While investigating that problem Benjamin Herrenschmidt sent this
> > interesting mail with a patch, which may solve the problem:
> > http://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc/2006/09/msg00337.html
> 
> That patch looks like it is a patch to the powerpc kernel images, not to 
> debian installer, therefore reassigning.

Frans, with all your lecturing to check a bit before commenting, i would have
hoped you would do so yourself.

The part of the kernel patched by this patch is totally unused in debian, it
is moved into mkvmlinuz, but even then, it is not used in debian-installer,
since the miboot images build code is not using mkvmlinuz since a year or so.

I even commented to this effect in a direct followup to the mail benh wrote
with the patch :

  http://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc/2006/09/msg00338.html

So you really have no excuse for doing such sloppy work, and i expect you to
be more humble when you comment about similar error i may make in the future.

Friendly,

Sven Luther

Message #32 received at 396458-done@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Christian Perrier <bubulle@debian.org>

To: 396458-done@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Closing oldbug report against debian-installer #396458

Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2010 17:49:11 +0000

We are closing this bug report against debian-installer 
for one of the following reasons:
- it was reported with a pre-lenny version of Debian
  Installer.
- indications in the bug report give the feeling that
  the reported problem was lying in another software, unrelated to
  D-I, which we can't easily identify.
- indications in the installation report suggest that it may have been
  fixed in a more recent version of a D-I component
- it was successful and we forgot closing it..:-)
- it has no information we consider useful


The D-I team is currently in the process of cleaning out the old spool
of installation reports that haven't bene processed yet. 

In case you think that the problem you reported has chances to be
still present, please reiterate your installation test with
a more recent image of D-I, if you're in position of doing this.

You'll find daily builds at
http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer. We recommend you choose
the netboot image, in the "daily builds section", then choose to
install "squeeze" when prompted.

If some problems are found, please report them with a new bug sent
against installation-reports.

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