Re: new oldworld pmac miboot 2.6 floppies, root size should be ok, net_drivers still too big, please test.

[Wouter Hanegraaff <wouter@openoffice.nl>]

Hi,

On Thu, Aug 19, 2004 at 04:25:43AM -0400, Rick_Thomas wrote:
> Hi Sven,
> 
> Progress, of a sort...
> 
> I was really hopeful because when I booted either of the "boot" or
> "ofonlyboot" floppy, I got the TuxMac icon for a while and the Mac made
> happy floppy disk reading noises.  However, the noises eventually
> stopped and a red "X" appeared over the TuxMac. Then nothing.  I had to
> manually eject the floppy from the drive.

I'm testing the powerpc-small boot floppies and this occurred when I
tried to boot my powermac 7300 with ofonlyboot.img. However, after
reformatting with superformat and writing the image again, the disk was
read successfully and ejected. I inserted root.img, which was loaded,
but after that nothing happened. I ended up with the tuxmac logo and the
root disk in the drive. 

After reading that your mac booted from boot.img, I tried that one
and with a little more success. After loading the kernel, the system
switched to text mode and asked for the root floppy. I inserted root.img
and it loaded for a while, but the end result was something along the
following lines: 

mount_devfs_fs(): unable to mount devfs, err:-2
freeing unused kernel memory
warning, unable to open an initial console
Kernel panic, no init found

Best regards,

Wouter