Florian Boelstler has been porting the 2.6 kernel to Nubus-based PowerMacs, his status being:
>A default kernel configuration file, which I currently use for >development is found in the "configs" subdirectory in git [1] > >For the curious this is a short summary regarding the current state of >the kernel: >* Performa 5200 works (ide / framebuffer console / ADB OK, network might >work depending on your NIC) >* PowerBooks 1400 and 5300 crash during boot >* Support for miBoot and BootX bootloaders (miBoot tested only; support >for MkLinux missing) >* sysfs is currently disabled and therefore the partition of the root fs >has to be given in major/minor number format on the kernel cmdline, e.g. >root=3:6 > >Cheers, > > Florian If you are time-wealthy, you may be better off helping him test and such so we can get the 2.6 kernel and a recent Linux distro (e.g. Debian Lenny) working on the 6100. I'm in the same boat hardware-wise. I have a Power Macintosh 6100/66 with 72MB RAM and a G3 card. However, I really won't have time to tinker with it any time soon. Joey 2009/6/27 Ben isnottelliong <[email protected]>: > Hi, PowerPup here. I finally got my 4gig hard drive to work with my 6100 > mac. (Using the Drive Setup hack.) > > Anyway, I'm trying to get a linux 2.4 kernel to boot up in order to run the > debian installer. > Using BootX 1.1.3 (Only version I can get to work on my 6100.) I've been > able to boot the 2.4.27 and 2.4.32 kernels. Only the 2.4.27 kernel will get > passed the "arch:exit" when I try to boot with the ramdisk image, and then I > get the following error: > > RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0 > Freeing initrd memory: 2603k freed. > VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) read only > mount: Mounting none on /dev failed : No such device > Kernel panic: Attempted to kill init! > <0>Rebooting in 180 seconds.. > > My 6100 has a Newer Technologies NuPowr G3 card, with an AV video card. > > Using Mklinux bootloader. I've only got the debian woody installer mach > kernel to boot. and it only ends up at a grey screen. > > Any ideas and help on a good combination of kernel and ramdisk image would > be greatly appreciated. > > > PowerPup. > > ________________________________ > Lauren found her dream laptop. Find the PC that’s right for you. > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Nubus-pmac-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nubus-pmac-users > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Nubus-pmac-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nubus-pmac-users
