On Tue, Mar 23, 2004 at 03:26:21AM -0500, Rick Thomas wrote: > Hi Jeremie! > > I downloaded the images. > > The first thing I noticed was that the root.img was more than > 1.440 MB long.
Sorry, I completely forgot this issue! We'll have to move some stuff to the driver floppies. > I decided to try the boot.img anyway since it was the right size. > I could at least see if my systems would boot with it. [...] > First, I tried it on the machine that wrote it (a beige G3 at 300 > MHz). It succeeded in booting (got a "happy-mac" icon that > changed after a while to an icon of Tux Penguin snuggling up to a > happy-mac.) Of course, when it ejected the boot floppy (presumably > because it wanted the root floppy inserted -- though there was no > indication on the screen that this was the case. I assume that is > normal?) I had no root floppy to insert. But I felt good that I'd > gotten that far! In your case, the kernel boots with no video. Some pmacs need a video=ofonly parameter to the kernel, and others don't like it. My plan is to produce two boot floppies, so don't worry about this. You're right about the floppy ejection: it's the kernel requesting its initrd, which is a sign that it did boot okay, apart from the video thing. > Next I tried it on a different machine (a powermac 6500 at > 225MHz). It got to the point of the Tux-and-Mac icon, but the > drive made grinding noises and it never ejected the disk. It just > hung. That's more worrying... > I believe that the floppy drive on that machine is terminally > old/tired/flakey I hope you're right ;-) > So, can we make a root.img file that will fit on a 1.440 MB disk? Yes, I'll try to do this today, as well as a boot image that works for you. > Hope this helps! It does, thanks ! -- Jeremie Koenig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
