Re: BootX replacement

2001-07-08 Thread Malik Gibbons Hansen

I get dumped into a console because I don't have the tdfx module..using
the fbdev module makes my screen half size with the colours all
wrong..gonna try some modules I downloaded earlier.

in the vmlinux packaged with the cd there doesn't seem to be support for
hfs filesystems, or is this something with my setup...which right now
looks pretty bad :P

I also don't have network access..I have two cards, the motherboard one
and a Farralon one. It detects both but can't use them. Telneting to
myself works though.

what exactly does this initrd file you directed me towards do? I was able
to boot normally by just moving the all.gz file somewhere other than root.

Thanks

Malik

Never argue with an idiot. They drag you down to their level then beat you
with experience.

On Sun, 8 Jul 2001, Stew Benedict wrote:

 
 I'm surprised it attempted the dual-head setup too ;^)  This is probably
 something you'll need to setup manually.  If it was referring to
 XFree68-FBDev, that is part of XF3, the new driver in XF4 is just fbdev.  
 I have no experience with xinerama, so I'm not much help there.
 
 You can replace your ramdisk all.gz with the initrd image on my web space.
 
 http://mandrakesoft.com/~sbenedict/
 
 Stew
 
 On Sat, 7 Jul 2001, Malik Gibbons Hansen wrote:
 
  It's installed so far..should work. A bug in the installer froze the mouse
  during installation but it worked the second time. I created the bootstrap
  partition aswell. I was amazed that the installer recognized my dualhead
  configuration but it was dissapointing that I could not set up my Voodoo 2
  because XFree86-Fdev (or somehing like that) couldn't be found..will this
  be something I can fix later? Also, since I have dualhead, but am not
  currently using the second monitor, should I set each monitor up
  independently or use the xinerama extension?
  
  Currently I am trying to set up miBoot to stop using the ramdisk everytime
  I boot, I'll look around for what the correct syntax for setting up
  boot variables in the
  miBoot CMDL resource.
  
  Malik
  
  Never argue with an idiot. They drag you down to their level then beat you
  with experience.
  
  On Sat, 7 Jul 2001, Stew Benedict wrote:
  
   
   New ISO's are not out yet.  I set them up Friday but was reminded that
   there are security updates I did not include.  The individual files on the
   mirrors reflect the changes.  Are you trying to use existing partitions?
   You could just delete the partitions with the MacOS version of pdisk and
   let the installer create the bootstrap anyway (it's only 1MB). Also make
   sure you don't have any holes in the partition table (this is also fixed
   now)
   
   Stew
   
   On Sat, 7 Jul 2001, Malik Gibbons Hansen wrote:
   
okay, I am now using myboot successfully (sort of)...I just copied an
existing 9.0 system folder and replaced the Finder and System suitcase
with miboots, changed some of the resources as described on that page
(all.gz from the BootX folder seems okay going into the root directory
with vmlinux, just specify all.gz to be used in the STR# resource)..the
linux installer boots great but of course I get to the part where it tells
me there is not enough space for the Bootstrap partition to be created.
This problem was mentioned earlier and you said the new images should skip
tat part? does that count for all mirrors, so all I have to do is download
that file again?

Malik

Never argue with an idiot. They drag you down to their level then beat you
with experience.

On Sat, 7 Jul 2001, Stew Benedict wrote:

 
 /stew kicks self...
 
 
 Hmm, didn't even pay attetion to that.  I would have to do some research
 to figure it out myself.  www.imaclinux.net may have some stuff on it, but
 it's been down for a couple of weeks after an equipment move.
 
 A quick Google search on miboot howto yields this page that may be
 useful:
 
 http://lists.linuxppc.org/listarcs/linuxppc-user/23/msg01388.html
 
 HTH
 Stew Benedict
 
 On Sat, 7 Jul 2001, Malik Gibbons Hansen wrote:
 
  It seems that miBoot is included with the BootX version on the first
  Mandrake iso...I do not know how to use it however as it has no
  instructions provided :P
  
  Malik
  
  Never argue with an idiot. They drag you down to their level then beat you
  with experience.
  
  On Fri, 6 Jul 2001, Stew Benedict wrote:
  
   
   No it's not =(. If you come across a packaged version, or would care to
   package it, we'd be happy to include it though for others. I don't have 
an
   OldWorld machine to try it out on.
   
   Stew
   
   On Fri, 6 Jul 2001, Malik Gibbons Hansen wrote:
   
yeah, I'm running 9.1 on an oldworld machine. I remember having some
issues with LinuxPPC when using BootX.

is miboot included with 

Mandrake/PPC on 603e

2001-07-08 Thread Brice D Ruth

I've installed LM8/PPC successfully on my iMac DV (Summer 2000) and I'd 
like to install it now on an old Performa I have (603e) - what do I need 
to do to get this rolling?  From what I can tell, the Performa doesn't 
have Open Firmware, so I need to do something else to boot ... I'm not 
real familiar in this area  I saw your post to the cooker-ppc list, so 
I thought you could possibly assist me!

If you have any advice, please let me know.

-Brice





Re: Mandrake/PPC on 603e

2001-07-08 Thread Stew Benedict


Haven't seen Jeff reply, so I'll jump in (I think Jeff qualifies as our
resident OldWorld MandrakePPC expert though - he helped a lot in getting
fixes in place for these machines).

You'll need to use BootX to kick things off.  It's on the 1st CD.  Use the
all.gz ramdisk image, specify 32000 bytes ramdisk, and use the included
vmlinux kernel, and some appropriate parameters (see the append stanza
of yaboot.conf on the CD for examples)

Stew Benedict

-- 
MandrakeSoftOH/TN, USA  http://perso.mandrakesoft.com/~sbenedict/


On Sun, 8 Jul 2001, Brice D Ruth wrote:

 I've installed LM8/PPC successfully on my iMac DV (Summer 2000) and I'd 
 like to install it now on an old Performa I have (603e) - what do I need 
 to do to get this rolling?  From what I can tell, the Performa doesn't 
 have Open Firmware, so I need to do something else to boot ... I'm not 
 real familiar in this area  I saw your post to the cooker-ppc list, so 
 I thought you could possibly assist me!
 
 If you have any advice, please let me know.
 
 -Brice