[Cbe-oss-dev] Bug#514055: debian still not working on PS3

[Geoff Levand]

On 05/01/2009 03:18 PM, Geoff Levand wrote:
> I tried today's build (20090430) and the 'CD-ROM driver not found'
> problem is fixed:
> 
>   http://people.debian.org/~wouter/d-i/powerpc/20090430-22:00/powerpc64/netboot/
> 
> I was able to finish the install, but still got the
> same other known problems:
> 
> (1) At kernel install:
> 
>   'No installable kernel was found in the defined APT sources'
>   'base-installer: info: could not determine kernel flavor'
> 
> (2) At boot loader install:
> 
>   'No boot loader has been installed'
>   'GRUB not yet usable on PowerPC systems'
> 
> It should create a /etc/yaboot.conf on the same partition that the
> kernel was installed to, but nothing else is needed.  The petitboot
> bootloader can read from vfat, ext2, ext3, and ext4 file systems.

Hi,

Could someone familiar with D-I internals give a brief summary of what
needs to be done to fix these two problems. Thanks.

-Geoff