iMac 350/DV/DV SE Linux HowTo

The team at iMac Linux (http://www.imaclinux.net) has managed to get the
iMac DV to boot linux to a usable point. We have put together a small
howto on how to achieve this Open Firmware boot and how to kludge a root
file system onto your iMac.

You can find the HowTo at:

http://www.imaclinux.net:8080/content/942890525/index_html

The iMac DV currently has ethernet (through the Dec Tulip device driver)
and USB support, and appears to function quite fast as well!

For those interested here is /proc/cpuinfo

processor       : 0
cpu             : 750
temperature     : 0 C
clock           : 400MHz
revision        : 2.2
bogomips        : 797.90
zero pages      : total 0 (0Kb) current: 0 (0Kb) hits: 0/146 (0%)
machine         : PowerMac2,1
motherboard     : PowerMac2,1 MacRISC Power Macintosh
L2 cache        : 512K unified
memory          : 128MB


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On Thu, Nov 18, 1999, John Buswell [off-list ref] wrote:

The team at iMac Linux (http://www.imaclinux.net) has managed to get the
iMac DV to boot linux to a usable point. We have put together a small
howto on how to achieve this Open Firmware boot and how to kludge a root
file system onto your iMac.

If this kernel is based on my very latest patches (I uploaded a new
version yesterday, I forgot to mention it, sorry), then it boots the
Sawtooth G4. On this machine, only one USB port works (I'll have to wait
for Paul to get his machine so he can look at what's wrong, It's
difficult to fix this remotely), but the rest of the kernel looks ok.


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