Re: [Nubus-pmac-users] installing Linux on Powerbook1400 G3

[Florian B. <eup...@ar...>]

Hi Tobias,

nice to see someone that owns almost the same hardware and got the same 
problems :)

Tobias Netzel wrote:
> I am interested in installing Linux on my Powerbook 1400.
> I have a NUPowr 1400/G3 217MHz upgrade installed, 64 MB RAM, Focus Ethernet Card (NuBus),  Lucent Orinoco WaveLAN and I am currently using MacOS 8.6.
> I tried every Kernel and Bootloader and after a few days I found some Kernels that work on my machine:
> MachKernel-input-20010619.gz
> MachKernel-20010619.gz
> vmlinux-input-20010619.gz
> vmlinux-20010619.gz
> miboot.image-input-20020128

What do you mean by "work"?
Do they completely boot your system or do they stop before init runs?
Are those kernels from the Nubus-pmac-linux-site?

I can completely boot my PB with the original 117MHz CPU so far.
As soon as I replace the CPU by the NUPower upgrade the boot process 
stops at the point where init runs.
I think this is where the first HD access appears.
(The kernel boot phase itself works great.)

> Is there a possibility to install some Linux without an installer ramdisk, just from a HFS partition?

Hmm, I followed those instructions:
http://nubus-pmac.sourceforge.net/nubus-pmac/woody_1400.txt

I don't think this is possible...(?)

> Or is there a way to get those ramdisk-installers started?

FYI, I made my own installer for Debian Woody combined with a recent 
kernel build from the BK repository [1] (Kernel 2.4.28).
http://www.boelstler.net/linux/Mach_Kernel
The plain kernel:
http://www.boelstler.net/linux/vmlinux.gz

Of course it doesn't work with NuPower upgrade either.

Let us know how it works for you. Hopefully we can boot our 
full-featured PBs at some time ;)
Any other ideas from Nubus-experts?

    Florian

[1] http://nubus-pmac.bkbits.net/