On Mon, Feb 28, 2005 at 07:16:30AM -0600, vinai wrote: > On Mon, 28 Feb 2005, Sven Luther wrote: > > >On Sun, Feb 27, 2005 at 03:04:11PM -0600, vinai wrote: > > > >>I did try the new floppy images, but due to issues with my video card > >>not liking any video modes that the kernel wants to seem to enforce, > >>I could not get those to work. The floppy kernel images would boot my > >>8500, but as soon as the kernel would start to boot, the video would > >>disappear, and the machine would reboot a few minutes later. > > > >This is nothing new though, and was present already in the normal d-i > >floppy-2.4 images, right ? Did you try the floppy ones or the floppy-2.4 > >ones ? > > I believe I tried both (went back and forth between floppy, floppy-2.4 > and then ramdisk images with my own kernel) > > >>I did try a couple of the initrd images, but I could not get any to > >>work either, probably (my guess) because you need a matching kernel > >>to work these ramdisk images ? Will any of these images work with a > >>kernel compiled from the 2.4.27 kernel.org sources ? > > > >No chance. > > > >But if you have a running linux install on it, you could try installing > >the 2.4.27 packages, and use quik/bootx to boot it. Should work, and > >this is really the test i am after. > > Okay - I was leaning towards just grabbing one of the debian kernels and > doing what I do with my kernels - forcing the video setting with BootX. > I'm also looking to migrate from 2.4 to 2.6 - I'm interested in learning > about device driver programming. > > Could you point me to the location of the 2.4 and 2.6 kernels + ramdisks > you want tested? I can at least try these with BootX, then proceed from > that point ...
Try these ones : http://people.debian.org/~luther/d-i/new-2.4-kernels I guess both the powerpc/netboot/2.4 or powerpc/netboot/2.6 should do, and work with BootX. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
