Booting the 2004.1 livecd for PPC it loads the linuxrc script etc fine, but when its supposed to give a root prompt (#) it instead gives me a login, and i try to login as root with no password failes, since the script has scrambled the root password! Also after 60sec I see a error stating "livecd login: Login timed out after 60 seconds" so i dont know if it is trying to open the # prompt for me as supposed, but fails for some reason. This happens only on install-universal-ppc-2004.1.iso downloaded from http://dev.gentoo.org/~pvdabeel/2004.1/ Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. copy G4 kernel and initrd.img.gz to MacOS partition 2. Use BootX with G4 kernel and copied initrd.img.gz, kernel arguments init=/linuxrc 3. Hit "Linux" so it boots the livecd Actual Results: It boots the initrd and kernel, loads the linuxrc script and fails to login! Expected Results: It should have given me a root prompt on the livecd so I could perform install! Cant get info, cant login the livecd! Machine is 7300/ with a G3 333MHz upgrade card Scsi disks etc
Does this happen on the release ISO (not the one from pvdabeel's dev space)?
Ok, the problem is solved by using the kernel argument "cdroot", thanks to pvdabeel for this info. (should be noted somewhere?).
