Are OldWorld Macs still supported?

Paul Nasrat pauln at truemesh.com
Wed Sep 22 12:28:32 UTC 2004


On Wed, Sep 22, 2004 at 02:19:55PM +0200, Bob Deblier wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I've recently (Sep 04 2004) downloaded the Fedora development boot iso
> and tried it on my old PowerMac 7300. After burning the image, I've
> copied the kernel and ramdisk to HD and tried booting through BootX. 
> 
> The system produces some output on the display but does not start any
> form of installation procedure - it just sits there.

Where does it get to?  What messages occur?

> Is this kernel/ramdisk version (2.6.8-1.541) supposed to work on
> OldWorld Macs? If yes, let me know, so that I can file a bug report.

It's not really something we've tried and tested.  It may be worth looking at
if YDL uses seperate configs for old/new world  if not then it may just be
something we're missing.  IIRC the kernel for oldworld/newworld on ydl should
be the same.

Paul




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