Bug 141168 - factory boot.ppc.iso does not work
Summary: factory boot.ppc.iso does not work
Status: RESOLVED NORESPONSE
Alias: None
Product: SUSE Linux 10.1
Classification: openSUSE
Component: Installation (show other bugs)
Version: Alpha 4
Hardware: PowerPC Other
: P5 - None : Normal (vote)
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Assignee: Steffen Winterfeldt
QA Contact: Klaus Kämpf
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Reported: 2006-01-02 10:34 UTC by peter czanik
Modified: 2008-04-25 09:22 UTC (History)
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Description peter czanik 2006-01-02 10:34:06 UTC 
Sorry for "alpha4" in "found in version", but there is no such entry as "factory".

boot.ppc.iso can not be used for installation, as there is no bootable kernel inside.
Comment 1 Ladislav Slezák 2006-01-05 09:05:35 UTC 
Olaf, could look at the bug report?
Comment 2 Olaf Hering 2006-01-05 09:23:58 UTC 
this is an autobuild bug.

we need:

/ppc/bootinfo.txt
/suseboot/
/ISERIES64
/boot/ppc/zImage.prep.initrd

all that must go to the boot.iso, noone needs a boot.ppc.iso.
Comment 3 peter czanik 2006-01-05 09:34:22 UTC 
A root image also seems to be missing for PPC (like /boot/i386/root, or /boot/x86_64/root), as well as rescue.
Comment 4 Ruediger Oertel 2006-01-11 16:21:42 UTC 
no, "root" is not supposed to be on the mini-iso, it's only meant
for network installation.
Comment 5 Olaf Hering 2006-01-11 16:24:07 UTC 
do you have a test.iso already? just to verify it.
Comment 6 peter czanik 2006-01-11 16:33:55 UTC 
(In reply to comment #4)
> no, "root" is not supposed to be on the mini-iso, it's only meant
> for network installation.

Then probably I should open a seperate bugreport, that 'root' for PPC network installation is missing from Factory.
Comment 7 Ruediger Oertel 2006-01-11 16:34:24 UTC 
ok, should have caught the real problem. the files were not just missing
from the mini-iso, they were missing from the factory tree completely
Comment 8 Olaf Hering 2006-01-11 21:46:45 UTC 
there are still 2 isos.

one boot.iso for everyone please.
Comment 9 Ruediger Oertel 2006-01-11 23:16:19 UTC 
sure, if m_cd is able to to that ...
and some archs will probably not be able to merge in
since they use the same boot-format but other binary formats ...
Comment 10 Ruediger Oertel 2006-01-12 10:52:57 UTC 
thinking about this again: no, a common iso is probably a bad idea.

-rw-r--r--  1 root root 77414400 Jan 12 10:25 boot.iso
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 95148032 Jan 12 10:25 boot.ppc.iso

a merged iso would have about 170M, which is very far from what I
would call a mini-iso ...
Comment 11 Olaf Hering 2006-01-12 12:34:08 UTC 
the mini-isos had no rescue file (hopefully).
But users of that one have to download lots of GB anyway.
Comment 12 Ruediger Oertel 2006-01-31 23:54:21 UTC 
the mini-ISOs do have a rescue file, otherwise these CDs have no
further use after the initial installation.

we could think about a combined boot-iso without rescue system,
but first m_cd will need extensions for a i386/x86_64/ppc hybrid bootimage.
reassigning to m_cd author
Comment 13 Harald Mueller-Ney 2006-04-22 05:00:07 UTC 
Status?
Comment 14 Steffen Winterfeldt 2006-04-24 08:28:37 UTC 
nothing new
Comment 15 Christoph Thiel 2008-04-25 09:22:11 UTC 
Still an issue? Please retest on openSUSE 11.0 and reopen a new bug. Closing NOREPSONSE for now.