After much fiddling around, I managed to make the 2.4.12-ben0 kernel work with the root.bin from boot-floppies. I had no idea that would actually work. I had to build the partition table, initialize and mount the drives, configure the network, and write yaboot.conf from a shell, but I now have woody installed on my Cube. Airport's working, the GMAC Ethernet appears to be working fine, and almost everything else I care about is functional. Hallelujah!
If you're curious about the grisly details, go to http://thalia.aoaioxxysz.net/new-thalia-install-log.txt and laugh at my feebleness if you must. Speaking of laughter, I have a problem with which I hope one or more of you can help me. Due to the insanely cheap prices of memory, I picked up 3 512MB PC133 CAS2 DIMMS for the Cube. MacOS has no problem with them, and I get a warm and fuzzy feeling from seeing "Largest Unused Block: 1.41GB" in the 'About This Macintosh' dialog. However, I've now nuked MacOS from the drive (fanless server!) and this this is what the top of dmesg has to say: Total memory = 768MB; using 2048kB for hash table (at c0400000) Linux version 2.4.12-powerpc ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 2.95.4 20010810 (Debian prerelease)) #1 Sun Oct 14 15:08:09 EDT 2001 I find this odd, because /proc/cpuinfo reports: processor : 0 cpu : 7400, altivec supported temperature : 27-29 C (uncalibrated) clock : 450MHz revision : 2.9 (pvr 000c 0209) bogomips : 894.56 zero pages : total: 0 (0Kb) current: 0 (0Kb) hits: 0/0 (0%) machine : PowerMac5,1 motherboard : PowerMac5,1 MacRISC Power Macintosh L2 cache : 1024K unified memory : 1536MB pmac-generation : NewWorld I'm clever enough to be dumb, so here's my /etc/yaboot.conf: boot=/dev/hda2 magicboot=/usr/lib/yaboot/ofboot device=hd: partition=5 timeout=50 init-message="::AOAIOXXYSZ:: Network Host boot" root=/dev/hda5 read-only default=linux-2-4-12 image=/boot/vmlinux-2.4.12-powerpc label=linux-2-4-12 append="video=aty128fb idebus=66 mem=1536M" So where's the other half of my RAM? On a side note, is it really true that swapfiles can only be 2GB? And does that 'idebus=66' do anything except satisfy my more compulsive urges? I know that the amount of RAM in the Cube is truly ridiculous, but I also know that this sort of memory configuration will work just fine in the x86 world. What have I overlooked here? Have I outsmarted myself? Is there another forum I should be posting to or searching to get the answer to this question? Forrest -- . . . the self-reflecting image of a narcotized mind . . . ozymandias G desiderata [EMAIL PROTECTED] desperate, deathless (415)558-9064 http://www.aoaioxxysz.com/ ::AOAIOXXYSZ::
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