Hi, Ben isnottelliong wrote: > I want to get the 2.4 working so I'd have some experience on > getting Linux to work on my 6100 and have a "testing" environment.
May be you want to try it on one of your PowerBooks first. The miBoot and MachKernels definitely work on the PB5300. > Miboot doesn't work (like the rest) on the 6100. > The BootX kernel isn't recognized by version 1.1.3. (readme says it only > detects ELF32 files?) > (The 1.1.3 is only version I can get to open and properly boot > kernels. > 1.2b1 detects it. but it freezes when ever I try to boot any kernel.) May be it is not the right "vmlinux" file I've put on the website. It could be a packed/stripped one. > The Mach Kernel DOES work! But the is no ramdisk image built into it. > So I get the "can't mount VFS/root not found" error. (Can't recall offhand > exactly what it says.) Hmm OK. If the build process is called using zImage.initrd (check the Makefile in arch/ppc/appleboot of the 2.4 branch) a file ramdisk.image.gz is appended to the "Mach Image" file. Just put a ready-made ramdisk.image.gz in arch/ppc/appleboot. An appropriate ramdisk image for Sarge should be available in the miBoot "ISO" image. Just mount it (mount -t hfs -o loop miboot.iso /mnt) locally and copy the ramdisk to the kernel directory as given above. The config file used for building that kernel is here as well: http://nubus-pmac.sourceforge.net/nubus-pmac/test/2.4.35/config-2.4.35 Sorry, I can't do it on my own at the moment. Cheers, Florian ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Nubus-pmac-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nubus-pmac-users
