On Tue, 13 Feb 2001, Ethan Benson wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 13, 2001 at 10:42:05AM +0100, Sebastiaan wrote: > > > The installation disk from potato does not react on my keyboard. I know > > there is being worked on. I tried to copy my own kernel to the disk in > > stead of the original zImage. I tried arch/ppc/boot/zImage, > > chrpboot/zImage and several others. When I boot the floppy loads the > > image, but the macscreen freezes (the kernel is not booted). > > i believe this zimage is really just a gzipped vmlinux file. > > so may a copy of /boot/vmlinux and gzip it like so: > > gzip -9 /tmp/vmlinux > > and try that. Great, that works, well, it boots, but with my new kernel I still do not have a keyboard. Did the same thing with an old YellowDogLinux image and eveything works fine. > > > So: > > - which image is needed so my mac will boot it > > the vmlinux.coff kernel *might* boot directly from OF on your > machine. copy it to the root of an hfs or msdos floppy and try > something like: > > boot fd:,vmlinux.coff almost: boot fd:1,vmlinux.coff Thanks (again)! Sebastiaan > > > or > > > > - can I just rawrite a zImage on a floppy and load it with quik (in this > > case, what are the OF commands for acces to the drive) > > i am not sure about this. > > > or > > > > - does anyone know a bootfloppy that works > > > > > > Thanks in advance > > > > Sebastiaan > > > > > > > > -- > > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > -- > Ethan Benson > http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/ >
