Hi Daniel, Daniel Richard G. wrote: > I have an old Powerbook 1400c/133 with a floppy drive, and a Xircom > PCMCIA Ethernet card. No CD drive is available. I can get Linux to boot > using the miBoot floppy images provided by this project, but no further > than the "cannot find root device" error. Linux appears to recognize the > Xircom card without a problem.
It's a long time ago I tried to boot Linux from floppy in general. AFAIR there was some tool available, which allowed to set the source of the rootfs for a specific kernel image. When the root device was set to /dev/fd0 (or alike) the kernel asked for the next disk during boot. However you will run into the problem that PB1400 floppy support on Linux is unfortunately not available yet. There might be a driver for it in m68k-linux, though it is coded in m68k assembly and need to be ported to PPC (Further it is unclear whether the PB1400 actually uses a SWIM2 floppy controller at all). May be there is way from MacOS (there are boot disk freely available) by putting the files required for installation to a special partition or alike (swap a lot of floppies or make Internet working in MacOS)... Files contained in miBoot floppy image can be used to boot Linux later on (see http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=388437&group_id=10972). Good luck, Florian PS: Instead of looking for a IDE CD drive, you may want to connect a SCSI drive on the back. It's cheaper and easier to get. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ Nubus-pmac-users mailing list Nubus-pmac-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nubus-pmac-users
