RE: [Nubus-pmac-users] Ramdisk kernel installer?

[Guy P. <ga...@cs...>]

Okay. I found that didn't work.

 

I tried the MachKernel-sarge-050115 kernel with Sarge installer, but it hung
after adb initialization. From what I've read, this is normal for a 1400
with a G3 upgrade. Unfortunately, loading the Sonnet extension first didn't
help. I might try the nubus_G3_mediabay_kernel, but from what I've read,
it's only for the NuPowr upgrades.
 
Does anyone know why the Sonnet upgrades are so hard to work with? What's so
nonstandard about them?
 
Also, is there any distribution that people HAVE gotten to install on the
Sonnet cards? (Except for MkLinux, as it's too old to be useful, and the
last time I installed it, it needed to do a REPAIR of the FS on the first
boot).
 
--Guy Paddock

 

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From: nub...@li...
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Paddock
Sent: Saturday, December 31, 2005 3:06 PM
To: nub...@li...
Subject: RE: [Nubus-pmac-users] Ramdisk kernel installer?

 

After searching the mailing list, I've found some posts that indicate that
all that I'd need to do to build a ramdisk installer is cat-append the
installer image onto the kernel image. Is that true?

 

--Guy Paddock

 

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From: nub...@li...
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Paddock
Sent: Saturday, December 31, 2005 2:16 PM
To: nub...@li...
Subject: [Nubus-pmac-users] Ramdisk kernel installer?

 

Hey guys!

 

I'm ecstatic that my Powerbook 1400 with the Sonnet 466 upgrade can FINALLY
get past "MMU: exit" on the boot screen and BOOT!

 

However, I need to install Debian on my system to make use of linux, and I
can't seem to get it to run the installer. Before I got the Sonnet upgrade,
I was able to download one of the ramdisk installer images you guys so
generously provided on the nubus-pmac website, but unfortunately, being that
the current kernel is the first and only kernel that supports the upgrade,
there aren't any ramdisk installer kernel images available.

 

I've tried using BootX because it supports ramdisks, and although I can hear
the kernel attempting to start (the speaker makes a click-click-click sound
when the TREX interrupts/memory addresses are mapped), I can't see anything;
no video on my screen at all.

 

Thus, I can only ask for one of two things:

1)       Can somebody tell me how I can create a ramdisk kernel image, or
point me in the right direction for loading the installer for Debian Sarge
with MkLinux and the new kernel?

 

OR

 

2)       Can somebody provide me with a ramdisk installer kernel image?

 

Any help is appreciated. Thanks for all your hard work guys; I'm excited!

 

--Guy Paddock