Ok, progress... I finally managed to get it netbooting (I'd never done this before with any machine, so had I messed a few things up).
I used the kernels zImage.chrp and zImage.chrp.smp in ftp.ppc.kernel.org:/pub/linuxppc/kernel-images/v2.2.13-991019/ The non smp one barfs with: Unable to load interpreter right about where it looks like it ought to be loading init. The smp one barfs with: _spin_lock(c01cbb70) CPU#0 NIP c0013c3c holder: cpu 1 pc C002B3BC no cont in shutdown! 2 0 2 0 Where the 2's and 0's take the place of X in CPU#X. It keeps doing this... So... it gets stuck in a spin lock on the floppy?:-/ Ciao, -- David N. Welton ( Circa mea pectora [EMAIL PROTECTED] ) multa sunt suspiria http://www.efn.org/~davidw ( de tua pulchritudine debian.org + prosa.it ) que me ledunt misere