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This is the FAQ for the ["PowerPC"] port. This is the FAQ for the [[PowerPC]] port.
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Benjamin Herrenschmidt maintained a PPC-specific branch for a long time. More information can be found on [http://ppckernel.org ppckernel.org]. Benjamin Herrenschmidt maintained a PPC-specific branch for a long time. More information can be found on [[http://ppckernel.org|ppckernel.org]].
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This is a known bug of yaboot [http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=336993 336993] which prevents an initramfs on /boot on XFS filesystem to properly boot with this error: This is a known bug of yaboot [[http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=336993|336993]] which prevents an initramfs on /boot on XFS filesystem to properly boot with this error:

This is the FAQ for the PowerPC port.

What kernel to use ?

Benjamin Herrenschmidt maintained a PPC-specific branch for a long time. More information can be found on ppckernel.org.

Use of 2.6 is recommended for new hardware, as support for PPC hardware has been discontinued in 2.4 series. Using 2.4 kernel is _strongly discouraged_

yaboot isn't booting my initramfs on XFS partition

This is a known bug of yaboot 336993 which prevents an initramfs on /boot on XFS filesystem to properly boot with this error:

"VFS: unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0,0)"