Re: smaller ramdisk

Subject: Re: smaller ramdisk
From: Paul Schaap (paul.schaap@dingoblue.com.au)
Date: Fri Aug 20 1999 - 19:50:31 MDT

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Dan,

The smaller ramdisk also allowed me to install on a 7200/75 PowerMac
where the original ramdisk off the ftp site would just hang on the
Booting Linux line we know so well. I definitely did do a binary transfer
of the original one (several times), so is anyone else having trouble ?

Also on a 7200/75 at work I had to make sure it was in at least 'thousands'
of colours before it would get past 'Booting Linux', I hope this is documented

somewhere for newbies :-)

REGARDS
Paul

Dan Burcaw wrote:

> We'll have some RS/6000 stuff up today :)
> >
> > Ah...um well, ur....no I didn't. I didn't know I needed to do that.
> > I'll wait
> > patiently for the kernel. When it does become available, will you let
> > me know
> > what I'll need to do to make the diskette bootable? I'm feeling pretty
> > helpless
> > and frustrated right now in this matter. Thanks...
> >
> > Mike Rutherford
> > RTP, NC
> >
> > >
> > > On Thu, 19 Aug 1999, Mike Rutherford wrote:
> > >
> > > > Dan -
> > > >
> > > > I tried using the smaller ramdisk image file today on an
> > > > rs6000/p43/model 150 box. I'm not real sure I did this right, but
> > > > reading some other posts, I copied the gz file to diskette and tried:
> > > >
> > > > - boot while holding F8
> > > > - at '>' prompt, typing: setenv boot-device floppy:\zimage
> > > > - after above, typing: boot
> > > >
> > > > The system chews on the diskette for a while but I eventually end up
> > > > with an error:
> > > >
> > > > unrecognized Client Program formatstate not valid
> > > >
> > > > Do you, or anybody know what I'm doing wrong here?
> > > >
> > > > --
> > > > Mike Rutherford
> > > > Raleigh NC
> > > >
> > >
> > > Dan
> > >
> > > Yellow Dog Linux for Apple G3 and PowerPC
> > > email: dburcaw@yellowdoglinux.com
> > > website: http://www.yellowdoglinux.com/
> >
>
> Dan
>
> Yellow Dog Linux for Apple G3 and PowerPC
> email: dburcaw@yellowdoglinux.com
> website: http://www.yellowdoglinux.com/

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