Re: Patches for the Hurd on OSF Mach/PowerPC

[ddavies]

> "M. Gerards" <metgerards@student.han.nl> wrote:
> 
> > On what kind of PPCs does it work now?
> 
> As far as I know, only on a certain PowerMac 5500/225 ;-)
> 
> It should work on any PPC which can boot the OSF Mach kernel, i.e. on which 
> MkLinux runs (and maybe a couple more).  You can find the kernel on (a mirror 
Cool!  Then my Performa 3600 should work.  If I can install without
screwing up my MkLinux install and if I have space enough, I'll give
it a try and report back.  Don't hold you're breath though - there's
other stuff I have to do before I can get to that.  It could be months
until I get to it.

Thanks for the port Peter!!

Derek

Peter Bruin <pjbruin@dds.nl> writes:

> of) ftp.mklinux.org, see www.mklinux.org/mirrors.html.
> 
> > I have an old Powerbook 1400cs laptop.  Will it run on this PPC?
> 
> It doesn't seem to be `officially' supported, but according to 
> http://lppcfom.sourceforge.net/fom-serve/cache/350.html it should work, 
> perhaps with a few tricks.
> 
> > Which bootloader do you use?
> 
> The one from MkLinux.  It's also available on a mirror of ftp.mklinux.org, 
> but 
> I think I'm going to collect the files necessary to boot the hurd on my Hurd 
> page (http://huizen.dds.nl/~pjbruin/hurd/), as well as a short description on 
> how to set up a Hurd system.
>  
> Peter
> 
> 
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