Re: NewWorld CD Booting?

[Hollis Blanchard]

On Mar 14, 2006, at 10:43 PM, Andrei Warkentin wrote:
> I really don't know who else to approach with this, and this is 
> (potentially) GRUB 2 related (if/when GRUB2 boots from CD).

GRUB2 should boot just fine from a CD.

> Basically I hack away at my "kernel attempt" on  a an '05 iBook (dev 
> system is 10.4), and decided to look into making a bootable CD so I 
> could use QEMU PPC emulator instead of rebooting to test after every 
> compile.
>
> I created the bootinfo file (like this):
<snip>

> If I boot up while holding "C", I get the gray screen, I can hear the 
> CDROM spin up, then I get kicked back to the white and black OF screen 
> and there is an error about memory access violation.

You didn't mention where you placed the bootinfo.txt. It should be 
/ppc/chrp/bootinfo.txt on the CD. 
http://penguinppc.org/ppc64/power-bootable-iso/ may have some 
information that helps you (though some of it isn't directly 
applicable).

-Hollis