Re: [K-mib-ppc] knoppix for powerbook g4?

[Yves Combe]

Glen Ogilvie a écrit :
> Hi
>
> I have been trying to get Knoppix working on my powerbook G4, one of the new 
> aluminum ones.   With little sucess.
>
> I got k-mib-ppc-beta-pre9.iso booted, but that is an unfinished product and 
> does not yet have anything like what knoppix does.. so I have been trying 
> knoppix-MiB-PPC-alpha-2e.iso  It refuses to be seen by holding down option on 
> boot, however, from Open Firmware, can boot yaboot with boot cd:\\yaboot
>
> then, yaboot fails to load any kernel.. so with manual override,
>
> /address@hidden/address@hidden/address@hidden/address@hidden:0,/boot/linux.bin 
> root=/dev/hdc
>
> it starts booting, however, dies telling me that it can't find any init entry 
> for root.. I have tried 
>
> /address@hidden/address@hidden/address@hidden/address@hidden:0,/boot/linux.bin root=/dev/hdc 
> init=/etc/init
>
> and that does not help..  any ideas?
You forgot the initrd?

Anyway i am pretty sure the alpha2e won't work on your machine. kernel, 
and Xfree are probably to old.

Work in progress is a beta version, wich for the moment is --as you 
said-- unfinished.
You can help doing some tests with k-mib-ppc-beta-pre10, the last one.
- test if boot is ok. You will normaly go in a shell. run "startx". You 
will have a working X with error message about xsession.
If that failed i need the error messages.

> also, when is k-mib-ppc going to have the full set of apps, or is it even 
> being worked on?
Well, the hardware detection works not so bad, at least for X. I will do 
again probably one or two small iso to test it, before putting 
applications in it. The Wifi configuration will probably come after.


Regards,

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Yves Combe
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