On Thu, Aug 19, 2004 at 02:34:48PM +0200, Wouter Hanegraaff wrote: > Hi, > > On Thu, Aug 19, 2004 at 04:25:43AM -0400, Rick_Thomas wrote: > > Hi Sven, > > > > Progress, of a sort... > > > > I was really hopeful because when I booted either of the "boot" or > > "ofonlyboot" floppy, I got the TuxMac icon for a while and the Mac made > > happy floppy disk reading noises. However, the noises eventually > > stopped and a red "X" appeared over the TuxMac. Then nothing. I had to > > manually eject the floppy from the drive. > > I'm testing the powerpc-small boot floppies and this occurred when I
Where did you download those from, and when ? > tried to boot my powermac 7300 with ofonlyboot.img. However, after > reformatting with superformat and writing the image again, the disk was > read successfully and ejected. I inserted root.img, which was loaded, > but after that nothing happened. I ended up with the tuxmac logo and the > root disk in the drive. > > After reading that your mac booted from boot.img, I tried that one > and with a little more success. After loading the kernel, the system > switched to text mode and asked for the root floppy. I inserted root.img Cool, this is progress. Now if you could test the same with the powerpc/floppy ones that use the 2.6 kernels ? > and it loaded for a while, but the end result was something along the > following lines: > > mount_devfs_fs(): unable to mount devfs, err:-2 > freeing unused kernel memory > warning, unable to open an initial console > Kernel panic, no init found Mmm, not cool. Could you have more of the info ? If you have a digicam, you could take a picture or something, if you are not able to get the serial log. Did it work using the bootx method ? Friendly, Sven Luther
