Re: woody boot-floppies

[Joseph Fannin <jhf@rivenstone.net>]

On Friday 02 November 2001 22:05, ozymandias G desiderata wrote:
<snip>
> 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).

    FWIW, the root.bin from boot-floppies works fine for me an a different 
kernel than it was built for (the one in the LinuxPPC Q4 CD installer).  I 
used this to work around the fact that my PPC machine is really flaky ATM.  
You can't, of course, load any modules.

    So I bootable CD for oldworld machines isn't possible, eh?  S'funny, I 
have one right here.
 

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Joseph Fannin
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