[Debian-ppc64-devel] Successful installation in an OpenPower 720 Express

[Harald Görl]

Hi Sven, *.

Sven Luther wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 14, 2005 at 03:32:48PM +0200, Harald Görl wrote:
>>2. A directory /ppc/chrp/ and a "yaboot" executable at the place which 
>>is given in bootinfo.txt. In this example in /ppc/chrp/. If you place 
>>the yaboot executable in another dir, that is fine but you MUST have 
>>this directory /ppc/chrp/ which could also be empty.
> 
> 
> Well, i guess you could call it whatever you want, provided you use that name
> in the bootinfo.txtx above ? 

Yes, i think that's correct.

>>3. A directory for yaboot configuration, which is /etc/ with the yaboot 
>>config "yaboot.conf" in it, containing something like this:
>>
>>init-message = "\nWelcome to Debian/GNU Linux on OpenPower\nPress <TAB> 
>>Key for boot options.\n"
>>timeout=600
>>default=linux
>>
>>image=/vmlinux
>>    label=linux
>>    initrd=/initrd.gz
>>    read-only
> 
> That we have, no problem. It needs to go into /etc/yaboot.conf, not into
> /install/yaboot.conf like it does right now ?

The yaboot version i use is looking at /etc/, but i never tried /install...

> So we need to add the bootinfo.txt file, and have the boot-device there point
> to yaboot (probably <boot-script>boot &device;:\install\yaboot</boot-script>
> should be just fine, copy the /install/yaboot.conf to /etc too, just in case,
> and make sure we add the -U call to mkisofs.

Yes, that would be fine i think.

> Mmm, i indeed checked the debian-cd code, and -U is not in there. That said,
> -U is :
> 
>        -U     Allows "Untranslated" filenames, completely violating the
> 	iso9660 standards described above. Forces on the -d, -l, -N,
> 	-allow-leading-dots, -relaxed-filenames, -allow-lowercase,
> 	-allow-multidot and -no-iso-translate flags. It allows more than one
> 	’.’ character in the filename, as well as mixed case filenames. 
> 	This is useful on HP-UX system, where the built-in CDFS filesystem
> 	does not  recognize  ANY  extensions.  Use with extreme caution.
> 
> Do we really need that ? And will it not break any other subarches we try it
> on ? 

No "really good" answer for that, sorry. The "-U" came from an old 
description from penguinppc.org, i think. I will try it without it...

Harald