I recently mirrored ftp.sunet.se, 2.5 GB in the ppc directory, when loading 2nd stage bz2 the kernel oopses at about %90 bar, while waiting "loading program into memory" I noticed this line in the oops comments printed to screen
last math c045c000 last altivec 00000000 This is a g3 wallstreet so no altavec is avaliable. -- 9:26am up 14:57, 5 users, load average: 0.04, 0.14, 0.17