Ack - Sorry, I guess that was not good advice. I forgot, you're on an
OldWorld machine - you don't actually need the initrd probably, if you had
a USB keyboard you see why it's around.
HFS support is as a module. I know early on it was left out, but I
thought it had gotten picked up by the time the ISO's were made.
Do you get any kind of errors on setting up the ethernet?
Stew Benedict
--
MandrakeSoft OH/TN, USA http://perso.mandrakesoft.com/~sbenedict/
On Sun, 8 Jul 2001, Malik Gibbons Hansen wrote:
> I get dumped into a console because I don't have the tdfx module..using
> the fbdev module makes my screen half size with the colours all
> wrong..gonna try some modules I downloaded earlier.
>
> in the vmlinux packaged with the cd there doesn't seem to be support for
> hfs filesystems, or is this something with my setup...which right now
> looks pretty bad :P
>
> I also don't have network access..I have two cards, the motherboard one
> and a Farralon one. It detects both but can't use them. Telneting to
> myself works though.
>
> what exactly does this initrd file you directed me towards do? I was able
> to boot normally by just moving the all.gz file somewhere other than root.
>
> Thanks
>
> Malik
>
> Never argue with an idiot. They drag you down to their level then beat you
> with experience.
>
> On Sun, 8 Jul 2001, Stew Benedict wrote:
>
> >
> > I'm surprised it attempted the dual-head setup too ;^) This is probably
> > something you'll need to setup manually. If it was referring to
> > XFree68-FBDev, that is part of XF3, the new driver in XF4 is just fbdev.
> > I have no experience with xinerama, so I'm not much help there.
> >
> > You can replace your ramdisk all.gz with the initrd image on my web space.
> >
> > http://mandrakesoft.com/~sbenedict/
> >
> > Stew
> >
> > On Sat, 7 Jul 2001, Malik Gibbons Hansen wrote:
> >
> > > It's installed so far..should work. A bug in the installer froze the mouse
> > > during installation but it worked the second time. I created the bootstrap
> > > partition aswell. I was amazed that the installer recognized my dualhead
> > > configuration but it was dissapointing that I could not set up my Voodoo 2
> > > because XFree86-Fdev (or somehing like that) couldn't be found..will this
> > > be something I can fix later? Also, since I have dualhead, but am not
> > > currently using the second monitor, should I set each monitor up
> > > independently or use the xinerama extension?
> > >
> > > Currently I am trying to set up miBoot to stop using the ramdisk everytime
> > > I boot, I'll look around for what the correct syntax for setting up
> > > boot variables in the
> > > miBoot CMDL resource.
> > >
> > > Malik
> > >
> > > Never argue with an idiot. They drag you down to their level then beat you
> > > with experience.
> > >
> > > On Sat, 7 Jul 2001, Stew Benedict wrote:
> > >
> > > >
> > > > New ISO's are not out yet. I set them up Friday but was reminded that
> > > > there are security updates I did not include. The individual files on the
> > > > mirrors reflect the changes. Are you trying to use existing partitions?
> > > > You could just delete the partitions with the MacOS version of pdisk and
> > > > let the installer create the bootstrap anyway (it's only 1MB). Also make
> > > > sure you don't have any "holes" in the partition table (this is also fixed
> > > > now)
> > > >
> > > > Stew
> > > >
> > > > On Sat, 7 Jul 2001, Malik Gibbons Hansen wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > okay, I am now using myboot successfully (sort of)...I just copied an
> > > > > existing 9.0 system folder and replaced the Finder and System suitcase
> > > > > with miboots, changed some of the resources as described on that page
> > > > > (all.gz from the BootX folder seems okay going into the root directory
> > > > > with vmlinux, just specify all.gz to be used in the STR# resource)..the
> > > > > linux installer boots great but of course I get to the part where it tells
> > > > > me there is not enough space for the Bootstrap partition to be created.
> > > > > This problem was mentioned earlier and you said the new images should skip
> > > > > tat part? does that count for all mirrors, so all I have to do is download
> > > > > that file again?
> > > > >
> > > > > Malik
> > > > >
> > > > > Never argue with an idiot. They drag you down to their level then beat you
> > > > > with experience.
> > > > >
> > > > > On Sat, 7 Jul 2001, Stew Benedict wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > > /stew kicks self...
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Hmm, didn't even pay attetion to that. I would have to do some research
> > > > > > to figure it out myself. www.imaclinux.net may have some stuff on it, but
> > > > > > it's been down for a couple of weeks after an equipment move.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > A quick Google search on "miboot howto" yields this page that may be
> > > > > > useful:
> > > > > >
> > > > > > http://lists.linuxppc.org/listarcs/linuxppc-user/200003/msg01388.html
> > > > > >
> > > > > > HTH
> > > > > > Stew Benedict
> > > > > >
> > > > > > On Sat, 7 Jul 2001, Malik Gibbons Hansen wrote:
> > > > > >
> > > > > > > It seems that miBoot is included with the BootX version on the first
> > > > > > > Mandrake iso...I do not know how to use it however as it has no
> > > > > > > instructions provided :P
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > Malik
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > Never argue with an idiot. They drag you down to their level then beat
>you
> > > > > > > with experience.
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > On Fri, 6 Jul 2001, Stew Benedict wrote:
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > No it's not =(. If you come across a packaged version, or would care to
> > > > > > > > package it, we'd be happy to include it though for others. I don't
>have an
> > > > > > > > OldWorld machine to try it out on.
> > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > Stew
> > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > On Fri, 6 Jul 2001, Malik Gibbons Hansen wrote:
> > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > > yeah, I'm running 9.1 on an oldworld machine. I remember having some
> > > > > > > > > issues with LinuxPPC when using BootX.
> > > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > > is miboot included with the Mandrak 8.0 beta?
> > > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > > Malik
> > > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > > Never argue with an idiot. They drag you down to their level then
>beat you
> > > > > > > > > with experience.
> > > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > > On Fri, 6 Jul 2001, Stew Benedict wrote:
> > > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > > > As far as I know BootX development has mostly stopped. Yaboot is
>the boot
> > > > > > > > > > method of choice for NewWorld machines, as it does not require you
>to run
> > > > > > > > > > MacOS before running Linux, whih can sometimes create problems on
>the
> > > > > > > > > > Linux side. Are you running 9.1 on an OldWorld machine?
> > > > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > > > I briefly played with quik when I first started with PPC, with
>little
> > > > > > > > > > success, but hopefully I know a bit more about Open Firmware now
>;^).
> > > > > > > > > > There is also miboot.
> > > > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > > > Stew Benedict
> > > > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > > > On Fri, 6 Jul 2001, Malik Gibbons Hansen wrote:
> > > > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > > > > Hi;
> > > > > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > > > > I was just wondering if there was any effort at all to make
>BootX
> > > > > > > > > > > compatible with OS 9.1? Was 9.1 really that different from 9.0?
>If not, I
> > > > > > > > > > > heard about something called quik,
> > > > > > > > > > > anyone got any experience with that?
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