I tested that iso on my 6100 (I actually copied the files off of it onto an external SCSI drive to avoid wasting a CD-R).
After showing some juicy logging info when diagnostics is turned on (due to me coincidentally holding down command-shift-option-delete-5 to boot the external drive), it displays 3 tux logos indicating different boot options. By hitting the right arrow a few times, it shows that the Debian Sarge installer boot option is selected. After pressing enter, a lot of good stuff seems to happen (brackets added by me): About to boot kernel miboot.image kernel arguements [sic] are (ramdisk_size=16384 video=ariel2fb l2cr=0xA9000000 keyboard_sends_linux_keycodes=1 [white runoff from the yaboot screen] #check_kernel_file: file_open(miboot.image) returned -43 Trying to open kernel [<-]:Linux Kernels:miboot.image : file_open returned 0 kernel equals [box] Found compressed XCOFF kernel (zImage : :Linux Kernels:miboot.image) section 0: .text section 1: .data section 2: .bss section 3: .note.GN section 4: image Main stuffs base: 0x4103000 Unzipping kernel... Kernel using 2491Kb out of 3376Kb reserved Fixed kernel entry: 0x0 Loading ramdisk (1158Kb) kernel map built, 1153 entries, loading bootsrap [sic]... Boostrap [sic] moved from 0x65670 to 0x66000 strap entry : 0x660d0 strap dest : 0x683000 strap phys entry : 0xfd0d0 strap size : 0x9000 Making kernel copy map... list of 1153 copies for 1153 pages last copy page dest : 0x481000 Calling 68k bootstrap... Unmounting volumes... Preparing display... Entering 68k supervisor... Shutting down devices... No name registry ! remapping internal PDM video...waiting a little bit so you can read all that stuff ... After that, the screen is filled with black-and-white garbage, and there are no apparent signs of life after that. The numlock, capslock, and scroll lock lights remain off, and the capslock light does not turn on when the capslock key is pressed. I did try the miBoot route back when I had a Debian Woody system already installed and working via MkLinux. I had the same problem with the included kernel image, but when I substituted some other kernel (possibly the Debian Woody kernel), it actually did boot up. However, it was faily compared to using MkLinux, though I don't remember the symptoms. They might have been IO errors, X not starting, networking not working, and maybe even a kernel panic. Hope that helps! Joey On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 11:29 AM, Florian Boelstler<li...@boelstler.net> wrote: > I just was browsing through some 2.4 pre-releases, which never made it > on the project site: > > http://nubus-pmac.sourceforge.net/nubus-pmac/test/2.4.35/ > > Unfortunately SourceForge seems to have turned directory listings turned > off, so here are the direct links: > > http://nubus-pmac.sourceforge.net/nubus-pmac/test/2.4.35/Mach Kernel > http://nubus-pmac.sourceforge.net/nubus-pmac/test/2.4.35/miboot-2.4.35.1.iso > http://nubus-pmac.sourceforge.net/nubus-pmac/test/2.4.35/miboot.image > http://nubus-pmac.sourceforge.net/nubus-pmac/test/2.4.35/miBoot-2.4.35.1-nfs-floppy.img > http://nubus-pmac.sourceforge.net/nubus-pmac/test/2.4.35/vmlinux.gz > > May be it's worth a try on the 6100. > > Cheers, > > Florian > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > _______________________________________________ > Nubus-pmac-users mailing list > Nubus-pmac-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nubus-pmac-users > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Nubus-pmac-users mailing list Nubus-pmac-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nubus-pmac-users
