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Re: Linux on new iMac G5 PowerMac12,1 ?



OK, that was my fault and I got a set further now.

I hardly got a glimpse on the linux kernel output now again, because it stopped after dumping about one screen of stuff in almost no time with a blank screen this time. But I took my fast digital camera and was able to capture it:

The first stage after hitting retun at the yaboot prompt (install):
http://mysite.verizon.net/pyzahl/iMac/imac12,1-stage0-linux2.6.16- rc1.jpg

Then this for about 1/10 of a second before I got black screen and needed to power off: http://mysite.verizon.net/pyzahl/iMac/imac12,1-stage1-linux2.6.16- rc1.jpg

-Percy

On Jan 21, 2006, at 8:43 PM, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:

On Sat, 2006-01-21 at 20:26 -0500, Percy Zahl wrote:
I compiled a 2.6.16-rc1, this worked OK.
Then I put it (vmlinux) in my root ditectory of the first and only
disk together with the yaboot stuff and tried to launch it via OF
boot prompt like:

boot hd0:/dev/disk0s3, yaboot

This seamed to launched some code and spit out about 10 lines of some
numbers/tables I really
cant get a real glimpse on, were there only for much less then a
second and then I ended up with
and kind of grey "Forbidden" sign (graphics, a circle with diagonal
line) on a black screen.
All frozen, need to power off.

Looks like yaboot got bunk... that an interesting command line you
passed to OF anyway :)

Try boot hd:3,yaboot instead

Ben.





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