(Answer) (Category) Linux on PowerPC FAQ-O-Matic : (Category) PowerPC Linux :
Installing MkLinux over LinuxPPC
Try BootX 1.0.1. This application makes it very easy to switch between MkLinux and LinuxPPC. http://www.calvaweb.calvacom.fr/bh40
http://calvaweb.calvacom.fr/bh40/ works for me...
fritz.wettstein@tamedia.ch, mwest@nyx.net
Question:

I have an existing installation LinuxPPC Release 4. How do I install
MkLinux "on top of" this, so that I could boot either from
Mach/MkLinux or from the LinuxPPC kernel?

Answer:

You'll be downloading a number of files. Do so using binary transfer 
mode. You can get the files from any of these places:

  ftp://globegate.utm.edu/pub/MkLinux/kernels/
  ftp://snoopy.diamond.org/pub/MkLinux/kernels/
  ftp://ftp.mklinux.apple.com/pub/contrib/kernels

Create the /mach_servers directory. 

Get these five files:
  
  bootstrap.conf  other_files/bootstrap.conf.gz
  default_pager   other_files/default_pager.gz
  mach_init       other_files/mach_init.gz
  System.map      stable/System.map.generic.gz
  vmlinux         stable/vmlinux.generic.gz

Ungzip them and put them in the mach_servers directory.

Boot into MacOS. 

Download MkLinux Booter from 
  
  other_files/MkLinux_Booter.hqx  

Expand it and put it in the extensions folder. 

Download a current mach kernel from 

  stable/Mach_Kernel.generic.gz

Ungzip it and put it in the extensions folder. 

Create two text files in your preferences folder using SimpleText.

Call the first one MkLinux.prefs, and in it should be two lines:

bootos=MacOS    # Boot to either "MacOS" or "MkLinux"
bootdelay=10    # Seconds to pause at boot dialog.

The second one is lilo.conf, which would normally contain something like:

rootdev=/dev/hda12

substituting the correct value for your root partition. Leave a couple of
blank lines at the end of the file.

Reboot, click Boot MkLinux, and see if it works.

David Gatwood <marsmail@globegate.utm.edu>
Edited by Steve Knouse <knouse@neosoft.com>
December 6, 1998
knouse@neosoft.com
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