Re: Booting install disks on G4
On Fri, Jul 28, 2000 at 12:50:18AM +0200, micha@kovoks.nl wrote:
> Dear All,
>
> I've just been searching for a day or so, but not found the solution.
> I've downloaded all the files from patato/disks-powerpc/current/powermac
> I've downloaded and installed the latest yaboot and i seem to be able
> to boot into a linux kernel (the one called linux from patato)
> BUT... It all stops here. I can recall from my i386 installs that you
> need to boot from rescue.bin and mount root.bin. But my G4 400 doesn't
> have a useable floppy-drive.
> What kind of configuration do I need to boot into the installation
> process.
You will need to tell yaboot to use a ramdisk, that's all. Add
"initrd=path/to/ramdisk.image.gz" and initrd-size=8192 to the
yaboot.conf or at the command line.
Dan
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