Re: Re: Need testers for PowerPC ISO

Just now D. Joe Anderson made 15 LEDs in my apartment flash with this:
> On Mon, Sep 01, 2003 at 03:44:54AM -0500, Nate Riffe wrote:
> 
> > Try this one:
> > 
> > http://flynn.zork.net/~inkblot/bbc-powerpc-2003-09-01T03:22:06-0500.iso
> 
> You got an md5 for that?  I get ae983a760e6dadef3737c7ac6afc821c
> for the file I downloaded.
> 
> I'm asking because  . . . it didn't boot successfully for me.
> 
> The little tux-adorned boot image icon came up when I held down
> option at boot.  When I selected it and hit the right arrow to
> continue booting . . . nothing.  Gray screen, for several
> minutes, after which I gave up waiting and rebooted.

You can get yaboot to load from the OpenFirmware prompt, but the init
ramdisk is still having problems.  There seem to be some alignment
problems in the kernel which are triggered by busybox's mount command,
and so even though the kernel detects the cdrom drive, mounting fails
and linuxrc drops to a shell.  I've updated busybox (was 0.60.3, now
1.00-pre2) and got a smaller config.  I don't know if it contains a
workaround for the alignment problem.  Ideally though, we should see
about getting a kernel which doesn't have this bug.

-Nate

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