MintPPC

[mintppc]

No need to pin. Just don’t touch anything related to vlc.

[xeno74]

I don't actually need initial ramdisks, but I have sometimes created ramdisks for others.

You can use the following commands to create a new ramdisk and boot from it:

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dracut initrd-6.12.img 6.12.48-powerpc64-smp

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mkimage -T ramdisk -C gzip -n 'Kernel 6.12 uInitrd' -d initrd-6.12.img uInitrd-6.12

-- Testing --

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# tune2fs -L MintPPC <Volume or partition>

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# reboot

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X5000> setenv bootargs root=LABEL=MintPPC

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X5000> load sata 1:1 1000000 uImage-6.12

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X5000> load sata 1:1 1c00000 cyrus-p5040.dtb

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X5000> load sata 1:1 2000000 uInitrd-6.12

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X5000> bootm 1000000 2000000 1c00000

I created a new uInitrd on MintPPC32 today.

Download: github.com

I was already able to check the contents of the uInitrd.-6.12 you made earlier with Void:

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dd if=uInitrd of=initrd skip=64 bs=1
zcat initrd | cpio -id

/media/NTFS/rd/usr/bin/e2fsck' -V
e2fsck 1.46.5 (30-Dec-2021)
Using EXT2FS Library version 1.46.2, 28-Feb-2021

So the e2fsck was indeed outdated and caused the boot problems! As void cannot be anymore updated, it is better to create the uInitrds with Mint.

Thanks a lot to Roland for reporting the issue with the old version of e2fsck in the old uInitrd.

I was able to boot MintPPC32 with a LABEL today.