On Thu, 7 Mar 2002, Stig S�rensen wrote:
> How come the MDK 8.2b2 CD is not bootable on OldWorld hardware? This would make it >possible to install MDK on OldWorld machines without needing a MacOS partition / CD. >It's quite easy to make the CD OldWorld bootable, take a look at LinuxPPC's 2KQ4 CD. >It contains a "fake" system folder that tricks Apples bootrom into booting the CD. I >use this system folder on a small hfs /boot partition to kick off the installer and >later to boot the system on a PPC6500/250. Quite a lot nicer than BootX (no offence, >BootX is nice too ;-)). > Everything is simple given infinite amounts of time ;^) > OK, my first impressions of MDK 8.2b2 PPC: > 1) The CD is not oldworld bootable ;-) > 2) Way too much memory is allocated to the ramdisk, on a 64mb system it won't run. >About 25mb for ramdisk should do it. The reverse behavior has previously been reported, of running out of ramdisk --> crash! > 3) For some reason the 2.4 installer crashed on me (when starting X). > 4) The textmode installer bummed out with a missing keymap.magic, or something like >that (after loading the stage2 ramdisk). > 5) After reducing the memory allocatted for the ramdisk, the 2.2 X installer worked >like a charm! Great pice of software there! > 6) I think it would be safer to disable harddrake by default, on a number of >occations it froze my system. > > All in all, my PPC6500/250mhz/64mb ram runs like a champ. I'm looking forward to >doing some stress testing on it, as I could never make it run Yellowdog without >frequent lockups in X. > Thanks for the feedback. Stew Benedict -- MandrakeSoft OH/TN, USA http://people.mandrakesoft.com/~sbenedict/ PPC FAQ: http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/demos/PPC/FAQ/ Cooker-PPC IRC: irc.openprojects.net/#cooker-ppc
