miboot on a 6400

[nathan]

  AFAIK, miBoot is really hard to get to work on the PPC/Performa machines.
Why not get a copy of BootX 1.2.x. In my experience it's the easiest to
setup and use on the oldworld machines...

 hth
-nathan


On 7/29/04 8:29 PM, "Norberto Quintanar" <nquintanar@yahoo.com> wrote:

> Try here:
> <http://lists.terrasoftsolutions.com/pipermail/yellowdog-general/2003-April/00
> 6991.html>
> and
> <http://lists.terrasoftsolutions.com/pipermail/yellowdog-general/2003-April/00
> 6938.html>
> and finally
> <http://lists.terrasoftsolutions.com/pipermail/yellowdog-general/2003-May/0074
> 73.html>
> 
> Good luck!!
> 
> Norberto
> 
> I tried the tanneryd howto and couldn't I'm gonna try these new ones.
> --- sadfsdf <ydl@augustmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> the problem is: linux never even starts to load, miboot
>> hangs/crashes 
>> while parseing/searching
>> 
>> Norberto Quintanar wrote:
>> 
>>> --- sadfsdf <ydl@augustmail.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>>  
>>> 
>>>> I am trying to get miboot working on my performa 6400. I've got
>> it
>>>> to 
>>>> the point where the system recognizes that it can boot of of my
>>>> miboot 
>>>> partition. But, when the system boots, I get two tux's on the
>> same 
>>>> screen; one in the middle of the screen thats just a normal tux,
>>>> and one 
>>>> in the top left that from what I can see is a Tux with a red line
>>>> though 
>>>> it. I have also found two conflicting guides to using miboot, the
>>>> first 
>>>> one was more recently posted on this mailing list,
>>>> 
>>>>    
>>>> 
>> 
>> http://www.tanneryd.com/twiki/bin/view/Techstuff/YDLOnPowerCurveInstall
>>>  
>>> 
>>>> the second one is from a while back and is more understandable so
>> I
>>>> have 
>>>> been using it,
>>>> 
>>>>    
>>>> 
>> 
>> http://lists.terrasoftsolutions.com/pipermail/yellowdog-general/2003-April/00
>> 6938.html
>>>  
>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> My directory tree for the miboot partition is like this
>>>> |-- System Folder (note: Mac OS has blessed the folder)
>>>> |   |-- Finder
>>>> |   |-- System
>>>> |   |-- boot.conf
>>>> |-- Linux Kernels
>>>> |   |-- vmlinux-2.4.22-2f
>>>> |   |-- vmlinux-2.24.22-2fBOOT
>>>> |-- ramdisk.image.gz
>>>> |-- boot.conf
>>>> 
>>>> My boot.conf is thus:
>>>> 
>>>> init-message = "\n Welcome to YDL!\Press <TAB> for boot
>>>> options.\n\n"
>>>> timeout = 50
>>>> 
>>>> default = bootYDL
>>>> 
>>>> image = vmlinux-2.4.22-2f
>>>> label = bootYDL
>>>> root = /dev/hda6
>>>> append = "video=valkyriefb3:vmode:14,cmode:8"
>>>> 
>>>> image = vmlinux-2.4.22-2fBOOT
>>>> label = install_YDL
>>>> initrd = ramdisk.image.gz
>>>> initrd-size=16384
>>>> root = /dev/ram0
>>>> append = "video=valkyriefb3:vmode:14,cmode:8 text"
>>>> 
>>>> Does anybody have an idea whats wrong?
>>>>    
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> Are you sure you have the valkyrie chipset?  Both my 6500's were
>>> supposed to contain the valkyrie chipset for video, but actually
>> have
>>> the ati chipset.  If you do have the valkyrie it should read:
>>> 
>>> "video=valkyriefb:vmode:14,cmode:8 text"
>>> 
>>> not
>>> 
>>> "video=valkyriefb3:vmode:14,cmode:8 text"
>>>                 ^
>>>             an extra character?
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
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