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On Tue, 2002-04-23 at 01:14, Kain wrote: |
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> Sorry for the delays; I have a new ISO/Buildimage up on gentooppc.sunsite.dk.. Would all you kind people test it out? |
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Thanks --- I was about to put Linux on an old Powermac 7600 and may try |
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the gentooppc build since I'm using gentoo on my P3 system. I |
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immediately encounter a question: |
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What is the format of initrd.img? Is that a raw image? BootX docs |
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claim that the ramdisk image for BootX MUST be named |
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"ramdisk.image.gz". I suspect that BootX will always attempt to ungzip |
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the image. (I tried booting via BootX and selected the initrd.img as |
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the ramdisk image but the kernel aborts with a kernel panic because no |
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init is found). |
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BootX is the only way to boot a Linux kernel on my Old World 7600. |
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Since I'm an Apple sales rep I may use some slack hours testing the |
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installer on new Macs too. |