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>> Ok...after 3 days of reformating and lurning all the bugs
>from the installer by
>> heart..i finally got linuxPPC to install... :)...
>now after puting quik-mac at
>> work i installed vmlinux..
>> (i dont know which one i should use)
>> it did boot 1 or 2 times...but even than...it gave a kernel panic :
>cannot mount
>> root partition or something like that ...

>> Which vmlinux do i have to install? i also found these ?
>> vmlinux.7200-90
>> vmlinux.7200.shared
>If your Sreen freeze while booting the MKLinux from the Bootmanager you
>have the same Problem as me. (Got an 7200/75) Apple said that it could
>freeze your screen while starting up MKLinux on "some 7200 machines".
>Well there are different Updates for the Mach Kernel. (Which is
>installed in your Extension Foulder in your System Foulder. Replace the
>old version of the Mach Kernel with thw version you could Dl at
>http://www.stud.uni-hannover.de/~boerie/Mach.sit.bin.
>It will open with stuffit expander. Reeboot your machine an loggin as
>root. performance on my maschine is very good.
>I was surfin on MKLinux HP for 2 h since i found this information.

> >> Ok...after 3 days of reformating and lurning all the bugs
> >from the installer by
> >> heart..i finally got linuxPPC to install... :)...
> >now after puting quik-mac at
> >> work i installed vmlinux..
> >> (i dont know which one i should use)
> >> it did boot 1 or 2 times...but even than...it gave a kernel panic :
> >cannot mount
> >> root partition or something like that ...

> >> Which vmlinux do i have to install? i also found these ?
> >> vmlinux.7200-90
> >> vmlinux.7200.shared

> >If your Sreen freeze while booting the MKLinux from the Bootmanager you
> >have the same Problem as me. (Got an 7200/75) Apple said that it could
> >freeze your screen while starting up MKLinux on "some 7200 machines".
> >Well there are different Updates for the Mach Kernel. (Which is
> >installed in your Extension Foulder in your System Foulder. Replace the
> >old version of the Mach Kernel with thw version you could Dl at
> >http://www.stud.uni-hannover.de/~boerie/Mach.sit.bin.
> >It will open with stuffit expander. Reeboot your machine an loggin as
> >root. performance on my maschine is very good.
> >I was surfin on MKLinux HP for 2 h since i found this information.

> No, he's running Linux-pmac (quik and the OF stuff make that clear, but
> you wouldn't be expected to know that, coming from the Mk side).

> Ok...after 3 days of reformating and lurning all the bugs from the installer by
> heart..i finally got linuxPPC to install... :)...now after puting quik-mac at
> work i installed vmlinux..
> (i dont know which one i should use)
> it did boot 1 or 2 times...but even than...it gave a kernel panic : cannot mount
> root partition or something like that ...

> Which vmlinux do i have to install? i also found these ?
> vmlinux.7200-90
> vmlinux.7200.shared

> Get the most recent 2.1.24 kernel at
> ftp://ftp.linuxppc.org/mirrors/pmac/vmlinux
> this one will boot on a 7200 (it does on my 7200). Run quik on the MacOS
> side and
> make shure your root partition is the first bootable partition on the
> disk. OF on
> the 7200 has a bug, so it can't handle booting from a second bootable
> partition (none of the MacOS partitions are bootable).
> If your harddisk is a scsi id x [0..7] then set the boot-device to

> After that everything should be fine.

> Remco
> --
> Remco Post is R.S.P.Post<at>student<dot>utwente<dot>nl

>  > Get the most recent 2.1.24 kernel at
>  > ftp://ftp.linuxppc.org/mirrors/pmac/vmlinux
>  > this one will boot on a 7200 (it does on my 7200). Run quik on the MacOS
>  > side and
>  > make shure your root partition is the first bootable partition on the
>  > disk. OF on
>  > the 7200 has a bug, so it can't handle booting from a second bootable
>  > partition (none of the MacOS partitions are bootable).
>  > If your harddisk is a scsi id x [0..7] then set the boot-device to

>  > After that everything should be fine.

>  > Remco

> THANX EVERYONE !! LINUX BOOTED UP !! :DDD...woohoooooooo :)

> Now...how to hell do i make Xwindows start hehe...:)

> Alexandre...

>Ok...after 3 days of reformating and lurning all the bugs from the
installer by
>heart..i finally got linuxPPC to install... :)...now after puting quik-mac
at
>work i installed vmlinux..
>(i dont know which one i should use)
>it did boot 1 or 2 times...but even than...it gave a kernel panic : cannot
mount
>root partition or something like that ...

>Which vmlinux do i have to install? i also found these ?
>vmlinux.7200-90
>vmlinux.7200.shared

>In short...i m completely lost...and i dont know if i must add something in
>bootvar...or if i broke the installation while playing with quik-mac...or
the
>boot sector ??
>CAN SOMEONE SAVE ME ! :((...
>thanx in advance
>Alexandre
>P.S.Can you e-mail me directly ? :)