'ello, On Wed, 2004-09-01 at 05:18, Jens Schmalzing wrote: > Precisely. The yaboot command line does not support loading an > initrd. You have to configure this in yaboot.conf.
Aha! Thanks! Now a lot of things suddenly make sense! (Though I _really_ hope this feature is added in the future!!! :-)) > What I do when I play around with new kernels is the following: I put > the stanza <snip> > known good stuff. Good plan. I will have to do something just like that; should save a lot of headaches in the future... > You are thinking VGA console here, aren't you? I'm afraid that this > is not an option for PowerPC hardware at all. The framebuffer console > is the only way of writing stuff to the video hardware. LOL. Hmmm, well I suppose that is one of the side-effects of having a very clean and relatively legacy-free platform. Time to bust out SVGATextMode and the larger fonts, then :-)... Thanks (again) for all of your help. I think things will probably start going better for me now that I know what you've just explained... bye just now, -- Matthew T. Atkinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
