Thanks much! Yeah, I'd like to see your config as well. On 10/24/07, Guy A Paddock (RIT Student) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Ed, > > Gentoo is a bit of a different beast. The main thing is that, to my > knowledge, you won't be able to boot directly off of a Gentoo CD. At > least, I couldn't think of any way to do it -- trying to use the kernel > on the Gentoo CD for PowerPC lead to a freeze shortly after MMU > initialization. > > What I did was create three partitions from Drive Setup: > - One 10 MB partition for the miBoot minimal system (boot loader, > essentially) > - One 256 MB partition (intended for swap space) > - One partition to take up the remaining volume space (in my case, > roughly 5.1 GB) > > Then, I installed miBoot on the 10 MB partition along with the latest > nubus-pmac 2.4 kernel, and configured it to boot off of /dev/hda2. > > Next, I installed a minimal Debian system (essentially, just enough to > boot and run useful commands without any of the additional packages > typically installed during Debian setup) on the 256 MB partition. I used > that to format the 5.1 GB partition, and then followed the Gentoo > handbook steps for installing from a Stage3 tarball. I performed all of > the necessary steps to prepare the Gentoo partition before chrooting > into it, finalizing the install, and rebooting into it. > > NOTE: I was unable to use the latest Gentoo tarballs/CD (2007.1 I > believe it was at the time), as the tools and libstdc in the stage3 > archive were compiled to use the NPTL thread model of kernel 2.6. When I > tried that release, the chroot into the Gentoo partition failed with > "Kernel too old". I ended up using 2004.3 or 2005.1 I believe, but since > portage was seriously out-of-date in that release, I had to unpack the > newest portage after unpacking the stage3. After that, the "emerge > --sync" worked and I was able to upgrade the system to the latest > versions of all system components; YMMV. You will need to ensure you use > a "no-nptl" profile; I can send you mine if you'd like. > > After all that, I formatted the Debian partition as swap. You're going > to need to download the nubus-pmac sources and unpack them to a new > folder under /usr/src, symlink /usr/src/linux to it, and add > "vanilla-sources-2.4" to the package.provided file so that portage knows > about them. Until we can sort out why we're unable to use the nubus-pmac > kernel sources to make a usable kernel with the latest sources, you > won't actually be able to build a new kernel image. I think you'll still > need to do "make nubus_defconfig" at the source root so that packages > that read the kernel source config know what options are enabled in the > running kernel. > > --Guy Paddock > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ed > Stafford > Sent: Tuesday, October 23, 2007 9:10 AM > To: For users of Linux on NuBus PowerMacs > Subject: Re: [Nubus-pmac-users] PB 1400 and kernel mods > > Thanks! Should be a big help! > > On 10/22/07, Toby Dylan Hocking <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi Ed, > > > > I wrote up a install procedure for Debian on my 1400 a while back: > > > > http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~tdhock/pb1400/pb1400-debian.pdf > > > > It should be a good start for you at least. Just substitute your > Gentoo CD > > for my Debian CD. > > > > Sincerely, > > Toby Dylan Hocking > > http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~tdhock > > > > On Mon, 22 Oct 2007, Ed Stafford wrote: > > > > > Hey folks, > > > > > > I finally got around to getting a replacement A/C adapter for my > > > PB1400cs/117. I used to have Red Hat 6.1 running on it, but I've > > > gotten bitten by the Gentoo bug lately and am installing it on > > > everything I get my mitts on. > > > > > > Anyhow, it sounds like there's been some success on that front, so > I'd > > > really appreciate it if someone could provide a good walk-through on > > > how you got it to install. > > > > > > Secondly, I was wondering if there's any place I could pick up the > > > latest kernel patches for all the NuBus mods. I'd like to see what > > > has transpired since the old MkLinux days... Thanks a lot, folks! > > > > > > Ed > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > - > > > This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. > > > Still grepping through log files to find problems? 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