On Tue, 2003-06-10 at 10:06, Lindsay Jack wrote: > I too would be very interested to know if anyone has had any success > with this. I've been trying to do a debian install over the last few > days but am having problems finding a linux.bin that will boot the > powerbook successfully (I believe that I need a linux.bin file with > ATA-100 support, and support for the USB controller). I can find > a kernel image (from http://valla.uchicago.edu/ppc/vmlinux-pbg412.bz2 ) > that has the ATA-100 support, but this hangs the machine > while trying to get past the USB stage. Unfortunately, this is the only > mac that we have, so I can't compile on another machine to create the > correct kernel image. Would anyone know of a downloadable image that I > could use to get the powerbook 17" up and into the debian install > process?
There is a problem with this machine model that I haven't been able to solve yet. To get it to work, you'll have to use a very recent kernel from my "devel" tree (rsync.penguinppc.org::benh-devel) (though that will soon be released as stable, as soon as 2.4.21 is out) _AND_ you'll have to disable the L3 cache (boot with "nol3" on the kernel command line) Ben.
