ok, I was able to boot the 7200 with the 2.4.22-small kernel and using the sarge ramdisk (which is inside the netinstall cd, not sure if it's the latest, I downloaded it a few days ago). After booting and before entering the installer (just after decompressing the ramdisk) this is what I get:
Warning: Unable to open initial console and then: Kernel Panic: Attempted to kill init! not sure why, but it's an improvement... :) salud! (cheers!) funkaster = (person *)malloc(sizeof(person)*curr_age+2); On Sun, 18 Jan 2004, Sven Luther wrote: > Could you please try the kernel provided by the > kernel-image-2.4.22-powerpc-small package ? This one was particularly > tailored to work with miboot and fit on a floppy and be used by oldworld > pmac machines. > > It has recently been tested on a pmac 8500 i think, but more tests and > fine tuning are needed to offer proper support for it in both the > upcoming sarge release, and debian-installer. > > Friendly, > > Sven Luther
