Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sat, 7 Jul 2001 07:27:58 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sat, 7 Jul 2001 07:27:49 -0400 Received: from smtp-rt-3.wanadoo.fr ([193.252.19.155]:48050 "EHLO apicra.wanadoo.fr") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sat, 7 Jul 2001 07:27:42 -0400 From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt To: Tim McDaniel , Subject: RE: Trouble Booting Linux PPC 2000 On Mac G4 Date: Sat, 7 Jul 2001 13:27:26 +0200 Message-Id: <20010707112726.14374@smtp.wanadoo.fr> In-Reply-To: In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: CTM PowerMail 3.0.8 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org >I think what we are seeing is XBoot rather than yaboot and we tried just >about all conceivable "kernel options", as exposed by Xboot. When Xboot >comes up it shows a ramdisk_size=8192 as the only default parameter. >Rapidly growing to hate the non-intuitive nature of the MAC OS we are >not experts on the Mac OS. P.S. We are running Mac OS 9.1. > >Oops, We just discovered that Xboot does not work with MacOS 9.1 (geez) >.... you MUST use yaboot. It's a generic issue with BootX (MacOS "takeover" bootloader). It won't work reliably with any recent machine, you should use the more complicated but safer OpenFirmware way of booting, either using yaboot or directly booting the CHRP ELF zImage. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/