Gentoo Archives: gentoo-ppc-user

From: Eric Olinger <EvvL@××××××××××.net>
To: gentoo-ppc-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-ppc-user] Problem booting BootX 1.2.3
Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2004 17:13:03
Message-Id: 20040421101237.00000274@eric
In Reply to: [gentoo-ppc-user] Problem booting BootX 1.2.3 by Ben Ricker
1 On Wed, 21 Apr 2004 08:20:34 -0500
2 Ben Ricker <bricker@×××××.net> wrote:
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4 > I am using the G4 kernel (I have a beige PMac G3 with a G4 upgrade
5 > card). In the kernel arguments, I have "init=linuxrc". I also changed
6 > the size of the Ramdisk to "17000". I transferred the ramdisk from the
7 The init needs to be set to "init=/linuxrc" and the ramdisk needs to be
8 at least 32000. You can get a lot of funny problems when the ramdisk
9 isn't set high enough.
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13 Eric Olinger
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