I tried different things to boot my new kernel. miBoot on a floppy I made a floppy with boot-floppy-hfs.img and edit the System folder with ResEdit to boot with my filesystem. I changed the root param to root=/dev/sda3. I think this boot the kernel on the floppy with my filesystem
miBoot and new kernel I tried to make a new boot floppy with my own kernel. I used the scripts found at http://cvs.debian.org/boot-floppies/powerpc-specials/miBoot/ to build my boot floppy. The floppy boots the system and I see the icon of the penguin instead of the MacOS icon, however at a certain point it freezes and I must reboot. I don't get any error message, the computer simply stops to read from the drive and hang there with the penguin icon. By the way, the kernel image I used on the floppy is the one found at arch/ppc/boot/images/miboot.image I also tried to simply replace the zImage file on the floppy with my own. hmount hdel zImage hcopy miboot.image :zImage The computer hangs the same way as above. quik I tried to boot with quik with almost all the different images produced by the make and found under arch/ppc/boot/images miboot.image vmlinux.coff vmlinux.gz vmlinux.elf-pmac The first three ones give a unknown image format error The last one gives a DEFAULT CATCH!, code=FFF00300 And the standard vmlinux begin to load and gives a returning 0x00000000 from prom_init I am not sure if it I can't boot because of the bootloader or because I didn't configured the kernel properly. I guess that the zImage found on the boot-floppy-hfs is the same than the one currently on my system, provided by the Woody 3.0 installation. Anybody has a hint for me? Does the image has to be an a HFS partition or miboot can load it from the linux file system? Can I use the floppy to boot a kernel on the hard drive? What can I do to get more detailed error message when the boot fails? What should I do the be sure that my kernel config is correct? Thanks Olivier __________________________________________________________ L�che-vitrine ou l�che-�cran ? magasinage.yahoo.ca
