----- Original Message -----
Sent: Thursday, March 07, 2002 2:15
PM
Subject: Bootable CD on oldworld
hardware?
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 ;-)).
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.
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.
/Stig
