20040118 ISOs

[Stephen Harker]

On Tue, Jul 27, 2004 at 07:44:26PM +0000, linuxlists@charter.net wrote:

> Apart from this, is there another way to get X working on a Radeon
> 9200 iBook?  I'm guessing that a new kernel will solve this, but
> find no updated kernels from 3.0.1 and other, vanilla new kernels
> (from ppckernel.org) boot with "no init found" (which was originally
> from not having ext3 support compiled into the kernel, quickly
> remedied, but same problem persists).

There was a thread on compiling 2.6 kernels on this list earlier in
the year.  See the message titled `HOWTO build a 2.6 kernel for PPC'
by Jeroen Zwartepoorte dated: Mon Jan 5 01:37:00 2004.  The step
needed to overcome the `no init found' is the equivalent of his step:

mkinitrd /boot/initrd-2.6.1-rc1-ben1.img 2.6.1-rc1-ben1 

For a link to the article (that may be broken by mail agents) see:

http://lists.terrasoftsolutions.com/pipermail/yellowdog-general/2004-January/011225.html

The guy I share an office with is curently trying to compile 2.6.6 for
his iBook G4 with 9200, I will let you know if it is successful.

For another look at the problem, starting from Debian rather than YDL,
see

http://seb.france.free.fr/linux/ibookG4/iBookG4-howto.html

This has some useful pointers and the author has 9200 support plus DRI
working (accelerated X graphics).

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