Re: NEWBIE: bootdisk for powermac
On Tue, 13 Feb 2001, Ethan Benson wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 13, 2001 at 10:42:05AM +0100, Sebastiaan wrote:
>
> > The installation disk from potato does not react on my keyboard. I know
> > there is being worked on. I tried to copy my own kernel to the disk in
> > stead of the original zImage. I tried arch/ppc/boot/zImage,
> > chrpboot/zImage and several others. When I boot the floppy loads the
> > image, but the macscreen freezes (the kernel is not booted).
>
> i believe this zimage is really just a gzipped vmlinux file.
>
> so may a copy of /boot/vmlinux and gzip it like so:
>
> gzip -9 /tmp/vmlinux
>
> and try that.
Great, that works, well, it boots, but with my new kernel I still do not
have a keyboard. Did the same thing with an old YellowDogLinux image and
eveything works fine.
>
> > So:
> > - which image is needed so my mac will boot it
>
> the vmlinux.coff kernel *might* boot directly from OF on your
> machine. copy it to the root of an hfs or msdos floppy and try
> something like:
>
> boot fd:,vmlinux.coff
almost:
boot fd:1,vmlinux.coff
Thanks (again)!
Sebastiaan
>
> > or
> >
> > - can I just rawrite a zImage on a floppy and load it with quik (in this
> > case, what are the OF commands for acces to the drive)
>
> i am not sure about this.
>
> > or
> >
> > - does anyone know a bootfloppy that works
> >
> >
> > Thanks in advance
> >
> > Sebastiaan
> >
> >
> >
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