Subject: Re: g4 cube install woes
To: None <dyoung@pobox.com>
From: Miles Egan <miles@caddr.com>
List: port-macppc
Date: 03/16/2001 09:03:49
On Thu, Mar 15, 2001 at 08:44:54PM -0600, David Young wrote:
>
> Miles,
>
> I was having the same problem. I have made a marginal improvement by
> compiling a 1.5.1 kernel, but I do not have a ramdisk image to poke
> into the kernel with mdsetimage, so I'm still stuck. I tried to use
> 'boot.fs' from the the NetBSD/macppc CD-ROM as my ramdisk, but that made
> the kernel barf. I've also tried cross-compiling all of NetBSD/macppc
> on my NetBSD/i386 box at work, to no avail: Internal compiler error.
>
> If you have an NetBSD/macppc already operating on a different computer
> than your Cube, then your best bet is probably to create a kernel,
> with ramdisk, from 1.5.1 sources *there*, and then burn it to a CD-ROM.
> I will give you more detailed instructions, or point you at instructions
> on the Web, just let me know. I need the kernel just as badly as you do.
Thanks for the information and suggestions. I've managed to get openbsd to
work, so I think I'll run that for now and wait for the real 1.5.1 release.
--
miles