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Re: woody boot-floppies



On Fri, Nov 02, 2001 at 07:05:04PM -0800, ozymandias G desiderata wrote:
> 
> I downloaded a prebuilt 2.4.12-benh0 kernel from
> http://www.ppckernel.org/benh-devel/ and added it to my tftp-bootable
> yaboot configuration. The kernel loaded and booted just fine, only
> hanging when it hit the place where it was supposed to load root.bin
> (it had apparently been compiled without initrd support, which is
> fine, because the initrd from boot-floppies doesn't match the kernel
> anyway).

I think you're on the right track.

> I'm forced to conclude that the build of 2.2.19 that's distributed
> with boot-floppies doesn't work with the G4 Cube. As much as it makes
> me yack, I'm going to try potato boot-floppies and see if they're any

potato has the same kernel if I'm not mistaken.

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