The following extra boot arguments are relevant for oldworld systems:

debug (enables debugging mode (spawns an initrd shell in which you're 
able to modprobe extra modules etc))
sleep=X (allows the cdrom to spin up for X seconds before trying to 
mount it).

Best regards,

Pieter Van den Abeele

On 08 Apr 2004, at 21:15, Eric Olinger wrote:

> On Thu, 08 Apr 2004 13:59:26 -0500
> Patrick Tisdale <ptisdale@...> wrote:
>
>> can someone explain to me or point me to a howto that deals w/booting
>> to the 2004.0 universal cd using bootx.  i have a pb3400c w/yellowdog
>> on it, and i want to install gentoo instead.  all the info i've seen
>> says to copy vmlinux and livecd.img from the cd into the system
>> folder...i don't have a vmlinux on the cd.  i also don't have an
>> livecd.img on the cd.  i do have a livecd.gcloop.  i assume the info
>> i've read is for older versions of gentoo, and something has changed
>> w/2004.0.  btw, this is my first gentoo install.
> You need to copy the kernel to use (for the 2004.0 cd use the G4 
> kernel)
> and the initrd.img.gz to the /System Folder/Linux Kernels/ then install
> BootX and run the BootX App or reboot. You need to Select the initrd
> under the ramdisk image in the options section and make sure the 
> ramdisk
> size is over 32000. IIRC, for the arguments set (but this is off the
> top of my head):
> 	rw init=/linuxrc looptype=gcloop cdroot
>
> Thats the general steps for booting the livecd with BootX. I'm testing
> some instructions for booting the livecd on OldWorld Macs with BootX to
> be add to the handbook sometime. I should be posting them to Bug #46534
> on bugs.g.o sometime today, hopefully.
>
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> Eric Olinger
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