Re: Getting the ol' Macintosh LC475 modernized
On 8/20/2013 2:59 AM, Thorsten Glaser wrote:
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Maybe we can cheat.
http://zigo.mirbsd.org:8080/t/initrd.img-3.10-2-m68k
is the one Debian generated for me on the system running the buildd
and *might* be able to get you into console mode at least.
Well, I never did get the mirnitrd thing working... but this did the trick!
I initially screwed up the root= line, which dropped me to a basic
shell. I rebooted again with the root= pointing at my previously
untarred base.cow, and bingo! Then I had to reboot again to the basic
shell to chroot and reset the root password, but it works! Logged in
successfully.
I ended up redoing the whole thing so I could get ext4 going - the
benchmarks I've seen show it's faster than ext2/ext3 and this thing has
slow enough disk access as it is. So every little bit helps. But it
looks like the kernel I'm using (Still
http://www.freewrt.org/~tg/f/vmlinux-3.10-2-m68k.gz ) doesn't do ext4,
so back to ext2 it is. I'm not likely to be doing anything mission
critical that would make a journaling filesystem nice anyway, so I'm
sure it'll be fine. At some point I'll look into cross-compiling my
kernels and see if I can't come up with something.
At any rate, it seems to be up and working. Ethernet is good. I'll
probably be giving X a try for fun. icewm was almost usable under the
old setup, and you could sort of browse with Firefox.
Thanks, group, for the advise and pointers! Maybe I'll try to get a
buildd going on this thing...
Scott
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