booting 32 bit kernel on G5

booting 32 bit kernel on G5

[Mitch Crane]

Hi all,

First off, I apologize for not searching the archives, I'm afraid the  
link is broken: http://lists.linuxppc.org/rules.html

My AMCC Katmai is on order.  In the meantime I'd like to try building  
and running my driver on my Mac G5 PPC64, running in 32 bit mode.  I  
have a recent YDL distro installed, and can rebuild the kernel,  
switching off 64 bit in the kernel build config.  However, when I try  
to boot the 32 bit kernel it hangs in the open firmware "release keys  
to continue" screen.  Can someone please lend a hand here?  Has anyone  
accomplished a 32 bit boot on a Mac G5 with a 2.6 kernel?

thank you!
Mitch.


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Re: booting 32 bit kernel on G5

[Josh Boyer]

On Tue, 4 Nov 2008 11:32:10 -0700
Mitch Crane <mcrane@fusionio.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> First off, I apologize for not searching the archives, I'm afraid the  
> link is broken: http://lists.linuxppc.org/rules.html
> 
> My AMCC Katmai is on order.  In the meantime I'd like to try building  
> and running my driver on my Mac G5 PPC64, running in 32 bit mode.  I  
> have a recent YDL distro installed, and can rebuild the kernel,  
> switching off 64 bit in the kernel build config.  However, when I try  
> to boot the 32 bit kernel it hangs in the open firmware "release keys  
> to continue" screen.  Can someone please lend a hand here?  Has anyone  
> accomplished a 32 bit boot on a Mac G5 with a 2.6 kernel?

That support was taken out quite a while ago.  It's no longer possible
from what I remember.

josh