| 01:08.25 | dclarke | question .. on a bootable CDROM where are the drivers located ? Inside a deb file somewhere like squashfs-modules-2.6.26-2-powerpc-di_2.13lenny1_powerpc.udeb ?? |
| 01:18.06 | pahartik | dclarke: In "initrd.gz" and various "udeb" files |
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| 01:23.00 | dclarke | thank you |
| 01:24.19 | dclarke | I'm trying to make a custom CDROM with the drivers in there for the MPC5200 controller |
| 01:24.55 | dclarke | thus far I just decided to make a directory on the root of the CDROM called /drivers and put the files in there |
| 01:24.55 | pahartik | dclarke: Very good |
| 01:25.35 | dclarke | # ls drivers/*.ko |
| 01:25.39 | dclarke | drivers/fec_mpc52xx.ko drivers/mpc52xx_psc_spi.ko |
| 01:25.41 | dclarke | drivers/fec_mpc52xx_phy.ko drivers/pata_mpc52xx.ko |
| 01:25.55 | dclarke | there .. so when the installer asks me for a driver .. they are already right there |
| 01:26.17 | dclarke | the funny part is that I have no clue where the installer "looks" to find a new driver |
| 01:26.32 | dclarke | so I'll have to figure out how to do insmod or whatever when I get to that point |
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| 02:11.39 | dclarke | okay .. now things get difficult here |
| 02:12.07 | dclarke | I can boot with this modified CDROM .. but can not find the drivers that I left in /drivers in the CDROM |
| 02:12.10 | dclarke | which is very very odd |
| 02:12.58 | dclarke | got them |
| 02:13.08 | dclarke | okay .. so how do I do a insmod ? |
| 02:29.05 | pahartik | dclarke: "busybox" should provide "modprobe"... |
| 02:29.48 | dclarke | I have it solved |
| 02:30.09 | dclarke | I was chatting in the debian chan and worked it out with modprobe and such |
| 02:30.11 | dclarke | thanks |
| 02:35.10 | pahartik | dclarke: You are welcome |
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| 19:16.39 | dclarke | test |
| 19:16.47 | dclarke | okay .. this works |
| 20:00.12 | pahartik | dclarke: You got Debian GNU/Linux installed with custom installer media? |
| 20:04.26 | dclarke | yes |
| 20:04.26 | dclarke | but it won't boot |
| 20:04.56 | dclarke | no matter what I do .. there seems to be no way to boot the initrd or vmlinuz image on the /boot partition |
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| 20:28.19 | pahartik | dclarke: What happened to boot loader? |
| 20:33.52 | dclarke | there is no boot loader |
| 20:34.06 | dclarke | no yaboot, no grub .. no nothing like that |
| 20:34.13 | dclarke | it has .. supposedly, smart firmware |
| 20:34.20 | dclarke | and it worked great with Debian 4.0 |
| 20:34.30 | dclarke | but Debian 5.0.3 has been a bitch to get working |
| 20:43.04 | pahartik | dclarke: Which filesystem is required for firmware to understand? |
| 20:44.38 | dclarke | well that may be the issue , it may be ext2fs only |
| 20:44.49 | dclarke | in which case my root fs is not readable bythe firmware |
| 20:44.54 | dclarke | and thus ... she won't boot |
| 20:44.56 | dclarke | very annoying |
| 20:46.32 | pahartik | dclarke: "ext2" is safe choice for NewWorld PowerMacintosh and required for OldWorld PowerMacintosh... |
| 20:46.56 | dclarke | I think I may be stuck doing a re-install |
| 20:46.59 | dclarke | again |
| 20:47.05 | dclarke | *sigh* |
| 20:47.51 | pahartik | dclarke: Actually "yaboot" or "GRUB" is started from "hfs" on NewWorld PowerMacintosh... |
| 20:48.24 | dclarke | hfs ? whats that ? |
| 20:48.35 | dclarke | you mean High Sierrra on CD/DVD ? |
| 20:49.08 | pahartik | dclarke: MacOS uses HFS and HFS+ |
| 20:54.55 | dclarke | I have no idea what those are ... I'm giving up for today on this |
| 20:55.01 | dclarke | mayne next week I'll try again |
| 21:00.38 | pahartik | dclarke: Do not worry about HFS or HFS+ filesystems |
| 21:03.38 | dclarke | I won't ... this will get done eventually |
| 21:08.50 | babilen | python-apt |
| 21:09.03 | babilen | :-\ |
| 21:09.12 | babilen | disregard that :-) |
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