20040118 ISOs

[Shaun Carter]

Stephen Harker wrote:

>On Tue, Jul 27, 2004 at 07:44:26PM +0000, linuxlists@charter.net wrote:
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>>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).
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>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:
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>mkinitrd /boot/initrd-2.6.1-rc1-ben1.img 2.6.1-rc1-ben1 
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>For a link to the article (that may be broken by mail agents) see:
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>http://lists.terrasoftsolutions.com/pipermail/yellowdog-general/2004-January/011225.html
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>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.
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>For another look at the problem, starting from Debian rather than YDL,
>see
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>http://seb.france.free.fr/linux/ibookG4/iBookG4-howto.html
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>This has some useful pointers and the author has 9200 support plus DRI
>working (accelerated X graphics).
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Thanks, but being a Redhat veteran, the mkinitrd was easy to do, I do 
have an img in /boot.