Re: [gentoo-ppc-user] 2004.0 on pb 3400c

[Patrick Tisdale]

ok...when i booted using the debug argument, it went to the debug shell,
which i don't really know what to do with.  so i typed exit, and it did
it's thing, except instead of booting from the cd, it tried to boot
yellowdog, which is what i currently have on the hd.  

when i boot w/out the debug argument, it promptly shuts down after the
"arch: exit" line.

and now when i try to boot w/the debug argument, it also shutsdown after
the "arch: exit" line.  seems to me like it's not realizing that i want
to boot from cd...or it can't initilize the cd-rom, so it moves on the
the hard disk...i dunno.  i haven't had any problems w/the cdrom drive
in yellowdog or os9, and i checked it in a g4, and it booted from it no
prob.

any ideas?

patrick

On Thu, 2004-04-08 at 17:42, Pieter Van den Abeele wrote:
> 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@×××××××××.com> 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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