Re: Modernizing a Macintosh LC III

[Finn Thain <fthain@telegraphics.com.au>]

On Mon, 11 Nov 2013, Scott Holder wrote:

> On 11/11/2013 12:04 AM, Patrick McCarthy wrote:
> 
> if it's still in 24-bit mode when emile tries to boot (thanks to PRAM 
> settings) then that could account for the failures.

I don't know about emile, but Penguin should work in 24-bit mode.

But you may be right. ISTR in 24-bit mode Penguin leaves more memory 
mappings for Linux than it would otherwise and maybe the kernel doesn't 
like that (it used to work okay...)

> 
> > assuming I get the correct initrd and kernel for the job.
> 
> These are the same pair I'm using, so they should work.

Thanks for confirming this.

Finn