Getting the ol' Macintosh LC475 modernized
So I finally dug the old LC 475 (aka Performa 475, aka Quadra 605) out
of the closet and got it booting its old Linux again. I've upgraded it
with a full 33mhz 68040 and overclocked it to 33mhz, so the 68LC040
issues should be gone. This is a circa 2002 setup with a nice old 2.2
kernel. Even has X running with icewm. Fun, but I'd rather get it
modernized.
I decided to first just try booting the kernel at
http://people.debian.org/~tg/f/m68k/20121227/vmlinuz-3.2.0-4-mac just to
make sure it did something interesting - I don't expect it to work with
the old root, but I figured I'd start with at least that much.
However, I'm running into the hang at the "ABCDEFGHIJK" point. I get the
black and white penguin with some hardware info and it hangs at that
point. I see on the Debian wiki there's no feedback yet for Macintosh on
this kernel, so I guess this is it. I don't currently have any
cross-compiling setup on my x64 Linux boxes, but I'd not be against
getting it going if it'd be helpful. I don't have a lot of coding
experience (especially kernel level) but I'm certainly happy to do what
I can to keep this working on real hardware. I wonder how long it'd take
to compile a Stage 1 Gentoo install on this thing...
Scott
PS: I believe I'd promised one of you guys access to an A/UX box to port
mkfs. I haven't forgotten about that, but the box in question seems to
be having leaky capacitor issues and I haven't gotten around to
recapping it.
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