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>I'll admit to being a total newbie in terms of installing my own copy of
>Linux, but I can't seem to find an answer for this.  I'm using yaboot 1.5
>to boot into a LinuxPPC 2000 install, but I can't get anything better than
>8 bit colour to work.  If I use BootX, and force it to use MacOS video
>settings, everything works fine.  However, I can't figure out a valid
>config for yaboot that doesn't restrict me to 8 bit video.  Has anyone
>successfully gotten an iBook to boot with Yaboot into something greater
>than 8 bit colour?  Thank you.

> >I'll admit to being a total newbie in terms of installing my own copy of
> >Linux, but I can't seem to find an answer for this.  I'm using yaboot 1.5
> >to boot into a LinuxPPC 2000 install, but I can't get anything better than
> >8 bit colour to work.  If I use BootX, and force it to use MacOS video
> >settings, everything works fine.  However, I can't figure out a valid
> >config for yaboot that doesn't restrict me to 8 bit video.  Has anyone
> >successfully gotten an iBook to boot with Yaboot into something greater
> >than 8 bit colour?  Thank you.

> why use Yaboot? BootX seems to be much more convenient and less cryptic...
> (not being critical, mind you, just curious)...

> btw, how is LinuxPPC 2000 on the ibook compared to Yellow Dog Linux?

> >__
> >Ryan Bayne
> >rbayne (at) vex (dot) net

>Use BootX - it looks much better and is more convenient.
>LinuxPPC on an iBook is superb - only sound and APM managment are missing
> yet.

>Apart from that it rocks at 589 bogoMIPS!

>Maurice

>> >I'll admit to being a total newbie in terms of installing my own copy of
>> >Linux, but I can't seem to find an answer for this.  I'm using yaboot 1.5
>> >to boot into a LinuxPPC 2000 install, but I can't get anything better than
>> >8 bit colour to work.  If I use BootX, and force it to use MacOS video
>> >settings, everything works fine.  However, I can't figure out a valid
>> >config for yaboot that doesn't restrict me to 8 bit video.  Has anyone
>> >successfully gotten an iBook to boot with Yaboot into something greater
>> >than 8 bit colour?  Thank you.

>> why use Yaboot? BootX seems to be much more convenient and less cryptic...
>> (not being critical, mind you, just curious)...

>> btw, how is LinuxPPC 2000 on the ibook compared to Yellow Dog Linux?

>> >__
>> >Ryan Bayne
>> >rbayne (at) vex (dot) net