Re: Re-installing yaboot from an existing Linux
Stew Benedict wrote: If rescue doesn't do so for you, mount your linux partition under /mnt and then chroot to it, then run ybin. Something like: mount /dev/hda11 /mnt chroot /mnt ybin -v exit umount /mnt reboot You will probably see a complaint about /proc not being mounted. If your OF settings are still intact, you can ignore this. Otherwise you need to mount /proc or manually fix boot-device in OF. If you have a seperate /usr, you'll need to mount it in the chroot. You can also mount /proc in the chroot if you want, something like: mount /proc /proc -t proc (this is from memory, may not be completely correct) Stew Benedict Hi Stew, Thanks to you and Brice Figureau I was able to revive my yaboot partition, the 'chroot' worked out just perfect. ThanX a lot By the way, I think I read in past mails that 9.0 will not be ported to PPC, is that correct? Bye -- | Patrick LADAM | | | Laboratoire CSSB| THE BIG BANG THEORY: | | UFR SMBH| | | 74 rue Marcel Cachin| In the begining there was | | 93017 Bobigny CEDEX |nothing at all.| | NEW e-mail: | | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Then, it exploded... | | Tel: 01 48 38 77 26 / 76 85 | | | Fax: 01 48 38 77 77 | | --
Re: Graphical Install on 1280x854 Powerbook?
clock : 667MHz bogomips: 665.19 (That 667MHz puzzles me. This machine is supposed to run at 867MHz - is this some power saving feature that only MacOS knows how to turn off?) I wouldn't sweat the bogomips, it's not all that reliable anyway. I wasn't referring to the bogomips (I don't even know what that is). I meant the clock : 667MHz line. But I'm far away from X: It seems that the kernel doesn't even recognize the Radeon card, with both Mandrake kernels (2.4.18 from 8.2 and 2.4.19 from the cooker mirrors) and a bk 2.4.20 kernel from ppckernel.org. According to something I read on some yellowdog mailing list archive, dmesg should contain some lines starting with radeonfb, which doesn't happen for me. Hmm, cat /proc/fb should also be informative. Here: 0 OFfb /pci@f000/ATY,XiaParent@10/ATY, I can't make much sense of this, can you? And some other things that could help: o An excerpt from dmesg: ... Using unsupported 1280x854 ATY,Xia_A at bc008000, depth=8, pitch=1280 Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 160x53 fb0: Open Firmware frame buffer device on /pci@f000/ATY,XiaParent@10/ATY,Xia_A no framebuffer address found for /pci@f000/ATY,XiaParent@10/ATY,Xia_B ... o What happens when I do XFree86 -configure: XFree86 Version 4.2.1 / X Window System (protocol Version 11, revision 0, vendor release 6600) Release Date: 3 September 2002 If the server is older than 6-12 months, or if your card is newer than the above date, look for a newer version before reporting problems. (See http://www.XFree86.Org/) Build Operating System: Linux 2.4.19-16mdk ppc [ELF] Module Loader present Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting, (++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational, (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown. (==) Log file: /var/log/XFree86.0.log, Time: Wed Dec 4 23:26:09 2002 Using vt 7 List of video drivers: atimisc r128 radeon mga glint s3virge sis savage trident chips tdfx fbdev ati vga nv v4l Fatal server error: XFree86 has found a valid card configuration. Unfortunately the appropriate data has not been added to xf86PciInfo.h. Please forward 'scanpci -v' output to XFree86 support team. When reporting a problem related to a server crash, please send the full server output, not just the last messages. This can be found in the log file /var/log/XFree86.0.log. Please report problems to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tell me if I can do anything else to pinpoint the problems. But don't feel pressed, Linux is not critical for me at the moment. -Christian
REJECTED: galeon-1.3.0-1mdk.ppc.rpm rejected (fwd)
Available at: http://people.mandrakesoft.com/~sbenedict/cooker-ppc/ Stew Benedict -- MandrakeSoft PPC FAQ: http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/ppcFAQ.php3 IRC: irc.openproject.net #cooker-ppc Archives: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=mandrake-cooker-ppcr=1w=2 -- Forwarded message -- Date: Thu, 5 Dec 2002 02:00:50 +0100 (CET) From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: REJECTED: galeon-1.3.0-1mdk.ppc.rpm rejected These packages have older version that the ones in the repository * Fri Nov 29 2002 Frederic Crozat [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1.3.0-1mdk - Release 1.3.0 - Remove patch3 (merged upstream) - Patch5 (CVS): fix mozilla 1.2 detection
Re: Graphical Install on 1280x854 Powerbook?
Hmm, cat /proc/fb should also be informative. Here: 0 OFfb /pci@f000/ATY,XiaParent@10/ATY, I can't make much sense of this, can you? Looks like your booting with some video=ofonly arguments or something? o An excerpt from dmesg: ... Using unsupported 1280x854 ATY,Xia_A at bc008000, depth=8, pitch=1280 Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 160x53 fb0: Open Firmware frame buffer device on /pci@f000/ATY,XiaParent@10/ATY,Xia_A no framebuffer address found for /pci@f000/ATY,XiaParent@10/ATY,Xia_B ... I have a 1280x854 config that was sent to me, which has been added to the new installer. Have you tried with no video= arguments passed to the kernel? You were right, there was indeed a video argument (leftover from my earlier trials), namely video=radeon:1280x854-8@60. I took that out (the Kernel command line line in dmesg confirms that it was really taken out) , but that didn't change anything. /proc/fb is still the same, as are the dmesg lines above. -Christian
Re: Graphical Install on 1280x854 Powerbook?
On Thu, 5 Dec 2002, Christian Walther wrote: Hmm, cat /proc/fb should also be informative. Here: 0 OFfb /pci@f000/ATY,XiaParent@10/ATY, I can't make much sense of this, can you? Looks like your booting with some video=ofonly arguments or something? o An excerpt from dmesg: ... Using unsupported 1280x854 ATY,Xia_A at bc008000, depth=8, pitch=1280 Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 160x53 fb0: Open Firmware frame buffer device on /pci@f000/ATY,XiaParent@10/ATY,Xia_A no framebuffer address found for /pci@f000/ATY,XiaParent@10/ATY,Xia_B ... I guess that indicates the kernel doesn't know about the card, normally you would see that syntax with a ofonly or novideo boot. You can also verify your boot arguments with: cat /proc/cmdline I've got low-end stuff here, but my experience looking at /proc/fb, when the kernel driver is effective yields something more like: [stew@powerbook stew]$ cat /proc/fb 0 ATY Mach64 Newer kernels from the PPC tree might be more effective for you. I have a 1280x854 config that was sent to me, which has been added to the new installer. Have you tried with no video= arguments passed to the kernel? You were right, there was indeed a video argument (leftover from my earlier trials), namely video=radeon:1280x854-8@60. I took that out (the Kernel command line line in dmesg confirms that it was really taken out) , but that didn't change anything. /proc/fb is still the same, as are the dmesg lines above. -Christian Stew Benedict -- MandrakeSoft PPC FAQ: http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/ppcFAQ.php3 IRC: irc.openproject.net #cooker-ppc Archives: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=mandrake-cooker-ppcr=1w=2
New installer ISO
I've built up a new installer ISO, which Ben is graciosly hosting again at: http://mirror.brain.org/linux/mandrake/Mandrake-ppc/cooker-install-iso/ 354aeb31682c557510daa57be3e2ce14 /home/stew/9.x-ppc-cooker-install-2.iso There is also a 9.x-ppc-cooker-install-2.iso.sig generated from my gpg key. Same rules apply as last time. You need your own RPM source, either on a partition or on your own network. The tarball of the stage2 stuff is on the ISO, but the ISO should be able to be used as a bootable CD. Features: 9.0 installer based, a number of mods to accomodate OldWorld machines. My 7600 was freezing on a lot of the probing. XFree, running either native or framebuffer mode is the primary install gui display driver. Xpmac is still available as a fallback. Between my machines and some data the folks on IRC provided with a small test program I put together, we should have fairly good coverage for a number of machines. Your feedback can help expand that coverage. I would strongly suggest waiting until the 2.4.20-1mdk kernels show up before doing the install. I pulled SCSI back out into modules, as it's just too contrary to the installer and the rest of the system scripts having it integrated. It's worse for OldWorld and RS6000 as modules, but we can deal with that. Initrd images for ext2 and ext3 are in the BootX folder for OldWorld folks, as well as vmlinuz-2.4.20-1mdk. Next pass I think I'll make a script to generate ones for all the journalled filesystems as well as come other common scsi cards besides mesh and mac53c94. Happy Testing! Stew Benedict -- MandrakeSoft PPC FAQ: http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/ppcFAQ.php3 IRC: irc.openproject.net #cooker-ppc Archives: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=mandrake-cooker-ppcr=1w=2
Re: Interesting? FWB Ships Partition Toolkit Version 1.0 with Partition Resizing
Yep. Everyone knows that. However, the driver would be a way to sport software RAID throughout all OSes (Linux, MacOS, Mac OS X, etc.). There's also the feature to decrypt/encrypt the drive at the block storage driver level in the ROM, outside of the OS. I like that one, but this brings up a question: Can linux encrypt a partition and mount the encyrpted partition at a paticular mount point? - Joaquin --- Stew Benedict [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 2 Dec 2002, Generation NeXT wrote: This is the resizer tool: http://www.fwb.com/html/partition_toolkit.html This is the general formatting, software RAID support: http://www.fwb.com/html/hard_disk_toolkit.html Can LinuxPPC do RAID? The Mac drivers are wierd in Linux has done software raid for some time, even in kernel 2.2. Stew Benedict -- MandrakeSoft PPC FAQ: http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/ppcFAQ.php3 IRC: irc.openproject.net #cooker-ppc Archives: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=mandrake-cooker-ppcr=1w=2 __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com
Re: Evolution 1.0.3 package
Ian Davidson wrote: Does anyone still have the Ximian Evolution 1.0.3 package which Stew Benedict built a while back? Is it possible to build the 1.2 package from the source? on my cooker-computer, evolution-1.2.0-3mdk is installed.
