Re: iMac266, OSX Man82ppc installation won't boot
On Thu, 3 Oct 2002, Damon Garn wrote: yaboot on it's own partition? I thought it was on the /boot partition for Mandrake PPC? And that the Open Firmware would go to the blessed partition then get redirected to the /boot where yaboot exists? I'm thinking I'm way off base here... bootstrap != /boot One distro did that (LinuxPPC?), and a lot of people assume that, but it's not the case. The bootstrap partition holds only the parts of yaboot needed to boot the machine. /boot is exactly as it would be on x86. The bootstrap is not mounted on the Linux side, and only accessed when you run ybin. Folks that have tried to treat the bootstrap as /boot duing the install end up with a bit of a mess, since we only allocate 1MB for it, and the kernel/initrd generally take up a bit more than that. Can I ask for partitioning suggestions based on the following info: OSX on the first 7.5GB Data on the second 7.5GB If you're indeed hitting the 1st 2GB issue. (I forget, is this an old iMac?), OSX on the 1st 7.5GB is the problem. You need 1 MB bootstrap somewhere in the 1st 2GB. From there my assumption was the blessed partition had its own space, a separate /boot partition of about 40MB was needed, a / partition for the file system was necessary, the a swap partition for virtual memory. Is that wrong? Should the /boot and blessed partitions be the same? Is that where I've gone wrong? When I looked at the installer's depiction of the partitions I could see the two Mac partitions, then the 4 above listed partitions (with the blessed partition just following the two Mac partitions)... The above is correct. A seperate /boot isn't mandatory, but some folks like to share it between Linux installs. A seperate bootstrap, or blessed partition is definitely part of our configuration on NewWorld machines. Stew Benedict -- MandrakeSoft PPC FAQ: http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/ppcFAQ.php3 IRC: irc.openproject.net #cooker-ppc
printer/modem port devices on a PPC 7200?
hi, following the instructions at: http://lppcfom.sourceforge.net/fom-serve/cache/470.html I'm trying to connect an old HP LaserJet 4 with a GDT powerprint adapter. I had this working under an old version of SuSE once (probably should have left it alone! if it ain't broke...). With MDK8.2, what is the device for the printer or modem port? Seems not to be going anywhere. I tried /dev/cua0 cua1 ttyS0 and ttyS1. I think under SuSE it only worked in the modem port (this is the same box)... but this time neither works. no luck with old LPD or CUPS. thanks for any tips. -- War Without End? Not In Our Name! http://notinourname.net
Re: printer/modem port devices on a PPC 7200?
On Fri, 4 Oct 2002, Isaac wrote: hi, following the instructions at: http://lppcfom.sourceforge.net/fom-serve/cache/470.html I'm trying to connect an old HP LaserJet 4 with a GDT powerprint adapter. I had this working under an old version of SuSE once (probably should have left it alone! if it ain't broke...). With MDK8.2, what is the device for the printer or modem port? Seems not to be going anywhere. I tried /dev/cua0 cua1 ttyS0 and ttyS1. I think under SuSE it only worked in the modem port (this is the same box)... but this time neither works. no luck with old LPD or CUPS. thanks for any tips. Is macserial loaded? dmesg | grep tty should indicate your serial ports (this is an iMac) [root@imac root]# modprobe macserial [root@imac root]# dmesg | grep tty tty00 at 0xc99bd020 (irq = 15) is a Z8530 ESCC (internal modem) tty01 at 0xc99c4000 (irq = 16) is a Z8530 ESCC (IrDA) the tty00 and tty01 are not the way they are addressed though, it's the normal ttyS0, etc. Stew Benedict -- MandrakeSoft PPC FAQ: http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/ppcFAQ.php3 IRC: irc.openproject.net #cooker-ppc
Re: Simplest installation on ibook 366, ppc-cooker, floppyless.
On Thursday, October 3, 2002, at 10:17 AM, Stew Benedict wrote:
If you have devfs=mount in your yaboot, you shouldn't need the links,
they're created dynamically. Otherwise, probably a broken MAKEDEV
or dev
rpm. There was a lot of this occuring during x86 cooker betas.
Bingo! I did a fresh-formated-cooker install then I reboot in rescue,
change devfs=mount in the yaboot.conf to devfs=nomount, chroot, ybin
and... It worked on the next reboot. I'am 100% cooker ! Yé!
Great! I'm not sure why you're seeing the issue with devfs, I was
running
it until my machine died, and I think vdanen is too, but he's out of
town
and his machine is off at the moment, so I can't check. Perhaps just
not
fully up to date packages.
Very sporadic net (and expensive) net access in the mountains but IIRC,
yes, devfs is running... I don't recall changing anything in
yaboot.conf for that. But I used some created ISOs and then did a lot
of cleaning up afterwards to get everything up to speed for
development, so it could very well be an outdated package and/or
missing packages that are causing the problem.
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PowerPrint adapter, parallel printer on Mandrake PPC 8.2 HOWTO
I'll answer my own question, and here's how to do it, for the archives and anyone else who wants to try this feat (actually, once I quit trying to use LPD, it was easy with CUPS): (this is rough, so feel free to improve on this and redistribute if you know a better way or spot a mistake) PowerPrint adapter on Mac Serial with Mandrake Linux PPC 8.2 HOWTO -- (note: this should work on other PPC distros as well) 1. do a 'modprobe macserial' and also add that command to your /etc/init.d/rc.local 2. install and start CUPS, including the cups-serial package (which is not installed by default). 3. add this to your /etc/cups/printers.conf (or use the web-based CUPS configurator at http://127.0.0.1:631/ to add a printer with serial port #1, baud rate 57600, XON/XOFF, No parity, 8 bits ... then choose the type of printer.): Printer LaserJet4 DeviceURI serial:/dev/ttyS0?baud=57600+bits=8+parity=none+flow=soft State Idle Accepting Yes JobSheets none none QuotaPeriod 0 PageLimit 0 KLimit 0 /Printer This works for an old parallel HP LaserJet 4. Your mileage may vary with other printers. Note: I have the PowerPrint adapter in the modem port, not the printer port. Try /dev/ttyS1 instead if you want it in the printer port. It'll *probably* work. [end] -- War Without End? Not In Our Name! http://notinourname.net
