Thanks for notice my comments :)
I am using your compiled kernel it works well but I guess there is no TUN/TAP device support in it which is necessary for using OpenVPN. I’m planning to compile a kernel with TUN/TAP support. If I could succeed I can send you for publishing it on your website for someone who needs to use OpenVPN. But I need some free time for this :)
I think there should be lots of Cobalt/Qube fans around and they need a guide for use their device. And your documents points that.

I don’t know what is Zeffie’s problem but he isn’t acting gentle don’t care about him.

Thanks again.

First, you’re welcome. It’s very gratifying to hear that people find this useful.

Indeed you’re right. The boot partition must reside on hda1. I had tried to use separate boot and root partitions and also failed, though I was at that time unaware of the cause. I’ll add that note to the howto.

I’ll also look into being clearer about the ROM.

Thanks for writing!

First of all thank you so much. You saved my lots of time and also my dead Qube :) There are two minor issues I would like to tell you for your updates to this document. First I tried “/boot” and “/” on different partitions and it doesn’t work. And I found that they should be on same partition which is must be hda1. Second I formatted my disk ext3 and I didn’t suceeded to boot from harddisk with cobalt-2.4.10-SE-1M.rom and I tried cobalt-2.4.10-ext3-1M.rom and it worked well. Maybe you could add this comments to your howto for give more information to whose planning to use it.
Btw, I was a Redhat guy and this was my almost first debian based installation for home use. I really enjoyed it and I’m planning to use ubuntu on my desktop too. Thanks for your sharing, it was pleasure for me to see my qube’s working again.

Thanks for the great tips-

I see you run a site on which you seem to be trying to bill yourself as a ‘Qube consultant.’ Are you worried about losing prospective business to me? Perhaps that explains your tone. Either way, thanks for writing. Perhaps you might try reading further. You might notice that the next Qube post corrects these problems. See, this post was about an initial success - booting Ubuntu.

See, people are excited about booting Ubuntu on the Qube. They’ve been interested to the tune of several hundred hits a day from around the world. Maybe you should try the install yourself! The howto and kernel are freely available to anyone who’d like to use them.

About being a sockpuppet- Do you mean am I being manipulated by someone else to post information about Ubuntu on the Qube? Perhaps you mean in it in the old Usenet way? Neither makes much sense, I’m afraid. I guess I don’t understand what your point is unless it’s a sophomoric attempt to insult me. I see from your forum that you are often ill mannered so I assume your comment here is another example of that.

So long, Jeff! Write back when you’re in better control of your behavior. Maybe try some St. John’s Wort. I hear that helps.