Hi,

I followed the guidelines at Crux PPC Handbook and compiled my own kernel. At the end, I rebooted the Peg2 and typed:

boot hd:6 boot/zImage root=/dev/hda7

the zImage is loading, but the system hangs after the gunzipping at:

start address = 0x10000

with cursor blinking.

What should I do?

Your kernel is most likely too big. Try changing some drivers into modules.

It would make me very happy to see a document about which kernel options are unneeded for Pegasos and can be safely left out.

Yes,

I got an old iMac and booted with the Crux-2.0 PPC version. This is my first time installing linux on a Mac and the first time owning a Mac, haven't used macs at all.

The install went easy, just use the kernel they shipp on the CD, get the system up and running then do a compile later. That's what I did. My G3 333Mhz iMac and 96MB of RAM took a 1/2 hour to compile the 2.6.11 kernel.

Switched to udev and its fine. Loaded the binaries from the Evolution version and now have a Gnome 2.8 desktop, very nice. I'd hate to have to do compile on all those apps...

So the hard part for me was learning what HW is in this iMac. I did a lot of googling to get clues but going to board like this would have been the best place. Glad to see it up.
Anyway, i learned what sound and NIC driver to build mostly by trial and error. The same goes for the XORG config, that was hard. I get a lot of general tips from all around , some from debian some from gentoo.
Here's a couple that gave hints in some way or another....
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-ppc ... =printable
http://www.desertsol.com/~kevin/ppc/#network

I am a big fan of Crux its usually very straigt forward, sorry your having a tough go at it.

Cheers---

That would be a very large doc. It would probably be better to list the options that are required.
Or simply provide a default config with a minimal set of options enabled.

That would be a very useful document, anyway, who has such this config?

Here is a config I posted in November last year.
http://dev.gentoo.org/~dholm/pegasos-config.gz

Kewl! You've just saved me some time. :-D

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