Re: [Gnewsense-dev] Re: gNewSense/MIPS netboot installer available

[Laurent GUERBY]

On Wed, 2009-02-25 at 13:58 +0100, Laurent GUERBY wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-02-25 at 12:27 +0100, Robert Millan wrote:
> > On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 11:42:35PM +0100, Laurent GUERBY wrote:
> > > Robert Millan wrote:
> > > <<
> > > http://aybabtu.com/rmh/gnewsense-mips/netboot/
> > > Instructions:
> > > 
> > >   - Put vmlinux and initrd.gz in a USB image (in the example I used ext2)
> > > ...
> > > >>
> > > 
> > > Thanks to samgee help on IRC I was able to launch the installer
> > > from my USB key (replacing the "address at hidden" on the
> > > web archive by the correct "ext2 at usb0" (repace " at " by "@").
> > > I used guided partitioning / use entire disk but then the partitioner
> > > complained there was no ext2 partition for boot.
> > > 
> > > What should  do?
> > 
> > Use manual partitioning, with ext2 or ext3.  Ignore those warnings, they're
> > harmless.
> 
> Ok since going manual I choosed to partition the free space left
> in the original configuration. The installer warned me that
> booting from an extended partition might not work.
> 
> On reboot I tried :
> 
> load /dev/fs/ext2Xwd0c/boot/vmlinux-2.6.27.1-yeeloong
> 
> (s/X/@/g)
> 
> but it said "Undefined error: 0".
> 
> What boot command should I use?
> 
> Is PMON able to list the partitions and list the content
> of a subdirectory on a partition?

After poking around I found out that "dir" can do it:

dir (wd0,0)/boot
dir (wd0,4)/boot

Then I booted with:

load (wd0,4)/boot/vmlinux-2.6.27.1-libre-medan
g console=tty no_auto_cmd root=/dev/hda5

I did not try X but console worked which is enough for me.

Then I went to try to install libc6-dev but it failed:

gcc51:~# apt-get install libc6-dev
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
  libc6-dev: Depends: linux-libc-dev but it is not installable
E: Broken packages

My (unmodified) /etc/apt/sources.list:

deb http://aybabtu.com/rmh/gnewsense/pruned-upstream lenny main
deb http://aybabtu.com/rmh/gnewsense/overlay lenny main
deb http://aybabtu.com/rmh/gnewsense/pruned-upstream-security lenny main

Any idea?

Thanks in advance,

Laurent