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pakkypnut
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 Posted: Sat Aug 28, 2004 8:49 am Post subject: Booting livecd 2004.2 on oldworld - SOLVED |
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the solution was staring me in the face in the documentation
use this line in bootx
| Code: | | rw root=/dev/ram0 init=/linuxrc looptype=gcloop cdroot |
with a ramdisk size of 32768 away you go!
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TheBohemian
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| Posted: Sun Aug 29, 2004 6:48 pm Post subject: |
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ah thanx! this has helped me with Gentoo PPC 2004.1 on my Power Mac 7300/166 too.
Here a short description of the problem I had:
The system is equiped with only 45 MB of RAM. Without a swap drive even mac-fdisk crashes the system when wanting to create the swap and root partition. Suprisingly when I restarted the machine the partition data appears to be written but I could not start the Live Disk: The kernel mourns about not being able to mount /dev/sda7 as root.
I have no clue why it even tries this but it surely fails because there is no proper filesystem on sda7.
Anyways with the option "root=/dev/ram0" added to the BootX option everything works.
Btw: The "G4" kernel from 2004.1 does not work for me. It crashes very often. Fortunately I tried the "G4-SMP" kernel which works fine.
Really odd, I know .... |
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