boot-floppies 3.0.16 + kernel 2.4.12-ben0 = success + bugs

2001-11-03 Thread ozymandias G desiderata
After much fiddling around, I managed to make the 2.4.12-ben0 kernel work with the root.bin from boot-floppies. I had no idea that would actually work. I had to build the partition table, initialize and mount the drives, configure the network, and write yaboot.conf from a shell, but I now have

Re: boot-floppies 3.0.16 + kernel 2.4.12-ben0 = success + bugs

2001-11-03 Thread Ethan Benson
On Sat, Nov 03, 2001 at 04:12:20AM -0800, ozymandias G desiderata wrote: of you can help me. Due to the insanely cheap prices of memory, I picked up 3 512MB PC133 CAS2 DIMMS for the Cube. MacOS has no problem with them, and I get a warm and fuzzy feeling from seeing Largest Unused Block:

Re: boot-floppies 3.0.16 + kernel 2.4.12-ben0 = success + bugs

2001-11-03 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Sat, 2001-11-03 at 13:12, ozymandias G desiderata wrote: does that 'idebus=66' do anything except satisfy my more compulsive urges? Unlikely. It should reflect the PCI bus speed, which is apparently 33 Mhz for most if not all recent Macs, and is normally autoprobed correctly anyway. Is