Re: MDK 9.1 vmlinux2.4.20 & ext3
On Friday 07 February 2003 02:27 pm, Stew Benedict wrote: > > Any module need to access "/" needs to be loaded by an initrd. Folks > using bootX to load linux have this extra grief to deal with. Since you > are using ext3 on "/" and it's modular, you need the initrd I created in > the BootX folder to be able to access and mount that partition as ext3. > Same would apply for scsi or other journalled filesystems. For the final, > I'll try to have initrd's for all the journalled filesystems in that > folder. Yes and I know but some of us can simply not afford to have a mac that is new and shiny but yet we still like the little buggers. Untill the prices of the used hardware fall inline to what it is really worth I dare say I wont be owning a new world mac for quite a long time. Anyway Stew thanks for your help with this stuff since I know the old world macs are not officially supported anyway. > > > Stew Benedict -- -~`'~-~`'~-~`'~-~`'~-~`'~-~`'~-~`'~-~`'~-~`'~-~`'~-~`'~-~`'~-~`'~-~`'~-~`'~- Brook Humphrey Mobile PC Medic, 420 1st, Cheney, WA 99004, 509-235-9107 http://www.webmedic.net, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Holiness unto the Lord -~`'~-~`'~-~`'~-~`'~-~`'~-~`'~-~`'~-~`'~-~`'~-~`'~-~`'~-~`'~-~`'~-~`'~-~`'~-
Re: How to boot with bootx
On Fri, 7 Feb 2003, Brook Humphrey wrote: > On Friday 07 February 2003 01:21 pm, Stew Benedict wrote: > > > > huh? > > > > [stew@powerbook stew]$ ls /mnt/cdrom/BootX/ > > initrd-2.4.20-2mdk.img-ext2 Mandrake_Linux_Install.sit > > initrd-2.4.20-2mdk.img-ext3 vmlinuz-2.4.20-2mdk* > > > > Those initrd and vmlinuz are for the installed system. The others are in > > /boot. > > > > Stew Benedict > > Yes indeed. Well hush my pupies. Sorry you would think I would have noticed > something like that. I was looking in the stupid bootx folder that was > extracted from the sit file. Thanks. > > Just one thing. I tell it to use the initrd for the boot image which it does > boot from then it complains about needing to pass init= as an option. I'm > assuming it wants to see something like init=vmlinuz-2.4.20-2mdk. Is this > correct? > BootX thing. Once you select an initrd, then there is no "Root" option, so you need to specify it in the kernel arguments: root=/dev/sda7 devfs=mount for instance. Stew Benedict -- MandrakeSoft PPC FAQ: http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/ppcFAQ.php3 IRC: irc.freenode.net #cooker-ppc Archives: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=mandrake-cooker-ppc&r=1&w=2
Re: MDK 9.1 vmlinux2.4.20 & ext3
On Fri, 7 Feb 2003, Daniel R. Broemmelsiek wrote: > On Friday 07 February 2003 04:24 pm, Stew Benedict wrote: > > On Fri, 7 Feb 2003, Daniel R. Broemmelsiek wrote: > > > The kernel keeps mounting my ext3 file system as an ext2 file system on > > > this Wallstreet. Why? Is there a particular kernel argument to pass > > > from BootX? > > > > > > Dan > > > > Did you use the ext3 initrd? (BootX folder) > > > > Stew Benedict > > When? To run the installer I had to use vmlinux and all.gz during which I > just used existing partitions. Any other combination I tried went into > kernel panic. Install went fine so at reboot I point BootX to the > vmlinuz-2.4.20-2mdk kernel and my partition /dev/hda10 because that's where > it's going to find the loadable modules in /lib/modules/2.4.20-2mdk/. So I'm > curious, when and where does the kernel want to see > initrd-2.4.20-2mdk.img-ext3? > > By the way, kmail composer is doing funky black screen flashes while I'm > writing this. The first annoying thing I've found. > Any module need to access "/" needs to be loaded by an initrd. Folks using bootX to load linux have this extra grief to deal with. Since you are using ext3 on "/" and it's modular, you need the initrd I created in the BootX folder to be able to access and mount that partition as ext3. Same would apply for scsi or other journalled filesystems. For the final, I'll try to have initrd's for all the journalled filesystems in that folder. Stew Benedict -- MandrakeSoft PPC FAQ: http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/ppcFAQ.php3 IRC: irc.freenode.net #cooker-ppc Archives: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=mandrake-cooker-ppc&r=1&w=2
Re: How to boot with bootx
On Friday 07 February 2003 01:21 pm, Stew Benedict wrote: > > huh? > > [stew@powerbook stew]$ ls /mnt/cdrom/BootX/ > initrd-2.4.20-2mdk.img-ext2 Mandrake_Linux_Install.sit > initrd-2.4.20-2mdk.img-ext3 vmlinuz-2.4.20-2mdk* > > Those initrd and vmlinuz are for the installed system. The others are in > /boot. > > Stew Benedict Yes indeed. Well hush my pupies. Sorry you would think I would have noticed something like that. I was looking in the stupid bootx folder that was extracted from the sit file. Thanks. Just one thing. I tell it to use the initrd for the boot image which it does boot from then it complains about needing to pass init= as an option. I'm assuming it wants to see something like init=vmlinuz-2.4.20-2mdk. Is this correct? -- -~`'~-~`'~-~`'~-~`'~-~`'~-~`'~-~`'~-~`'~-~`'~-~`'~-~`'~-~`'~-~`'~-~`'~-~`'~- Brook Humphrey Mobile PC Medic, 420 1st, Cheney, WA 99004, 509-235-9107 http://www.webmedic.net, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Holiness unto the Lord -~`'~-~`'~-~`'~-~`'~-~`'~-~`'~-~`'~-~`'~-~`'~-~`'~-~`'~-~`'~-~`'~-~`'~-~`'~-
Re: MDK 9.1 vmlinux2.4.20 & ext3
On Friday 07 February 2003 04:24 pm, Stew Benedict wrote: > On Fri, 7 Feb 2003, Daniel R. Broemmelsiek wrote: > > The kernel keeps mounting my ext3 file system as an ext2 file system on > > this Wallstreet. Why? Is there a particular kernel argument to pass > > from BootX? > > > > Dan > > Did you use the ext3 initrd? (BootX folder) > > Stew Benedict When? To run the installer I had to use vmlinux and all.gz during which I just used existing partitions. Any other combination I tried went into kernel panic. Install went fine so at reboot I point BootX to the vmlinuz-2.4.20-2mdk kernel and my partition /dev/hda10 because that's where it's going to find the loadable modules in /lib/modules/2.4.20-2mdk/. So I'm curious, when and where does the kernel want to see initrd-2.4.20-2mdk.img-ext3? By the way, kmail composer is doing funky black screen flashes while I'm writing this. The first annoying thing I've found. Dan
Re: How to boot with bootx
On Fri, 7 Feb 2003, Brook Humphrey wrote: > On Friday 07 February 2003 12:41 pm, Stew Benedict wrote: > > On Fri, 7 Feb 2003, Brook Humphrey wrote: > > > Ok for the first time I was able to get this thing on my old 7300 with g3 > > > upgrade card. One thing I am curious about is how in the world do I > > > actually boot to the os with bootx? All I can find are kernels for doing > > > the install. What am I missing here? > > > -- > > > > BootX folder on CD1? kernels and initrds should be in there. > > > > Stew Benedict > > They are but only for booting the cdrom and not to get into the os once it's > installed. Unless I just don't understand something. > > I did find on the cooker mirriors a directory under misc called bootx-kernels > or something like this but they are not on the cd's. > huh? [stew@powerbook stew]$ ls /mnt/cdrom/BootX/ initrd-2.4.20-2mdk.img-ext2 Mandrake_Linux_Install.sit initrd-2.4.20-2mdk.img-ext3 vmlinuz-2.4.20-2mdk* Those initrd and vmlinuz are for the installed system. The others are in /boot. Stew Benedict -- MandrakeSoft PPC FAQ: http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/ppcFAQ.php3 IRC: irc.freenode.net #cooker-ppc Archives: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=mandrake-cooker-ppc&r=1&w=2
Re: MDK 9.1 vmlinux2.4.20 & ext3
On Fri, 7 Feb 2003, Daniel R. Broemmelsiek wrote: > The kernel keeps mounting my ext3 file system as an ext2 file system on this > Wallstreet. Why? Is there a particular kernel argument to pass from BootX? > > Dan > Did you use the ext3 initrd? (BootX folder) Stew Benedict -- MandrakeSoft PPC FAQ: http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/ppcFAQ.php3 IRC: irc.freenode.net #cooker-ppc Archives: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=mandrake-cooker-ppc&r=1&w=2
MDK 9.1 vmlinux2.4.20 & ext3
The kernel keeps mounting my ext3 file system as an ext2 file system on this Wallstreet. Why? Is there a particular kernel argument to pass from BootX? Dan
Re: How to boot with bootx
On Friday 07 February 2003 12:41 pm, Stew Benedict wrote: > On Fri, 7 Feb 2003, Brook Humphrey wrote: > > Ok for the first time I was able to get this thing on my old 7300 with g3 > > upgrade card. One thing I am curious about is how in the world do I > > actually boot to the os with bootx? All I can find are kernels for doing > > the install. What am I missing here? > > -- > > BootX folder on CD1? kernels and initrds should be in there. > > Stew Benedict They are but only for booting the cdrom and not to get into the os once it's installed. Unless I just don't understand something. I did find on the cooker mirriors a directory under misc called bootx-kernels or something like this but they are not on the cd's. -- -~`'~-~`'~-~`'~-~`'~-~`'~-~`'~-~`'~-~`'~-~`'~-~`'~-~`'~-~`'~-~`'~-~`'~-~`'~- Brook Humphrey Mobile PC Medic, 420 1st, Cheney, WA 99004, 509-235-9107 http://www.webmedic.net, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Holiness unto the Lord -~`'~-~`'~-~`'~-~`'~-~`'~-~`'~-~`'~-~`'~-~`'~-~`'~-~`'~-~`'~-~`'~-~`'~-~`'~-
Re: How to boot with bootx
On Fri, 7 Feb 2003, Brook Humphrey wrote: > Ok for the first time I was able to get this thing on my old 7300 with g3 > upgrade card. One thing I am curious about is how in the world do I actually > boot to the os with bootx? All I can find are kernels for doing the install. > What am I missing here? > -- BootX folder on CD1? kernels and initrds should be in there. Stew Benedict -- MandrakeSoft PPC FAQ: http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/ppcFAQ.php3 IRC: irc.freenode.net #cooker-ppc Archives: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=mandrake-cooker-ppc&r=1&w=2
How to boot with bootx
Ok for the first time I was able to get this thing on my old 7300 with g3 upgrade card. One thing I am curious about is how in the world do I actually boot to the os with bootx? All I can find are kernels for doing the install. What am I missing here? -- -~`'~-~`'~-~`'~-~`'~-~`'~-~`'~-~`'~-~`'~-~`'~-~`'~-~`'~-~`'~-~`'~-~`'~-~`'~- Brook Humphrey Mobile PC Medic, 420 1st, Cheney, WA 99004, 509-235-9107 http://www.webmedic.net, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Holiness unto the Lord -~`'~-~`'~-~`'~-~`'~-~`'~-~`'~-~`'~-~`'~-~`'~-~`'~-~`'~-~`'~-~`'~-~`'~-~`'~-
Re: Mandrake PPC 9.1 Beta2
Well, lets compare with my (working) configuration on YDL. Could you try ot? On Friday 07 February 2003 00:56, Adrian Rawlings wrote: > Hi all... I have an ibook 2.2 (released in Nov 2002?) With the beta2 it > does a wonderful job autodetecting my ethernet port and my airport card. > Congrats! Now the bad news... still no sound and the video (with or without > benh) still shows thin black scrolling horizontal lines in X. If anyone > has any ideas as to where I'm screwing up, or ? lemme know. Thanks! > XF86Config-4 sample: > > Identifier "monitor1" > VendorName "Apple" > ModelName "iBook2 1024x768" > HorizSync 28.0-49.0 > VertRefresh 43.0-72.0 I have: HorizSync 31.5-57.0 VertRefresh 50-70 > #later on > Section "Device" > Identifier "device1" > VendorName "ATI" > BoardName "ATI Radeon" > Driver "radeon" > BusID "PCI:0:16:0" > Option "DPMS" > Option "AGPMode" "true" > EndSection Here I have Driver "fbdev", as Stew pointed out this may be the central point Thierry -- "I heard if you play the Windows XP CD backwards, you get a satanic message." "That's nothing, if you play it forward, it installs Windows XP"
Mandrake PPC 9.1 Beta2 on Wallstreet
Woo hooo!! I don't even know which X server is going, but KDE looks great and it's fast enough for the arcade games. Sound "Dammit!!" The only "scary" moment was the mouse, it didn't look right, but usb>1button>usbcore and magically the 3 buttons are emulated, with tap on! Thanks Stew. Now, if I could just make POOF work on this Wallstreet! cheers, Dan
Re: Mandrake PPC 9.1 Beta2 on Pismo
On Fri, 7 Feb 2003, Silvano Piazza wrote: > Problems > > Graphic enviroment is not working during install in any combination (2.2 > 2.4 old or new gui): blue screen with freezed X-pointer. > So Text installation, but in some steps is not possible to select > anything so only F12 to proceed. Too bad. There always are some difficult ones out there. But X works on the installed system? Can you send me the XF86Config-4 that was setup? Text install seems to have taken a step backwards from the code in 8.0. I don't think there's much I'm going to be able to do about it. > also TEST of Xserver failed (libc++ cant be found!) but after > reboot all was ok. Odd, I don't know why a different lib would be required for you that wasn't called when I did an install and tested X. I don't even currently have any libc++ installed on my running system. Can you send me ddebug.log under root's dir? > Powerbook special keys are not understood so for instance sound > level cant be modify from the keyboard. Special software is required to enable this. I believe Ben Reser has something packaged up on his site. I'll see if I can get it into the final ISOs, but I can't really add new software to main in the distribution. > By default only root can mount cdrom...not a good thing in a > easy-is-my-name distribution like Mandrake. > > Supermount isn't enabled? You shouldn't need to mount CD's at all. > I would also ask you: > why qzerty powerbook keyboard are never presents? or even Mac ones? in > my Linux experience only Debian recognises qzerty powerbook keyboard > even in Italian (or other) languages. If would make the mapping could I > send it to anyone to be included in final release? > If you have keymaps, certainly pass them on. Personally I have no experience with non-US keyboards, so I wouldn't know a good one from a bad one. By default we use linux keycodes, not mac ones, which enables the drak and kde keyboard selectors to actually work. I did add a large nummber of mac keymaps, but you won;t see them available in those gui tools, > which is the best url for updated Cooker Mandrake rpms to use in > Software Sources Manager. > People always ask me this, but I really have no idea. I spend most of my time trying to get the stuff built and uploaded, and don't really go around chacking which mirrors are up to date etc. > but after all I would to say that this beta is very good. > thank you for all you have done, congratulations! > Thanks :) Stew Benedict -- MandrakeSoft PPC FAQ: http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/ppcFAQ.php3 IRC: irc.freenode.net #cooker-ppc Archives: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=mandrake-cooker-ppc&r=1&w=2
Mandrake PPC 9.1 Beta2 on Pismo
Hi now I am writing from Mozilla from Mandrake PPC 9.1 Beta2 on my Pismo, so it works!! Good news: Graphic enviroments are great and fast after installation. All new Drak* software works well (local tcp printers are located better than MacOsX, network configurator setup my net in a snap) Sound works perfectly!! (dmasound) Problems Graphic enviroment is not working during install in any combination (2.2 2.4 old or new gui): blue screen with freezed X-pointer. So Text installation, but in some steps is not possible to select anything so only F12 to proceed. also TEST of Xserver failed (libc++ cant be found!) but after reboot all was ok. Powerbook special keys are not understood so for instance sound level cant be modify from the keyboard. By default only root can mount cdrom...not a good thing in a easy-is-my-name distribution like Mandrake. I would also ask you: why qzerty powerbook keyboard are never presents? or even Mac ones? in my Linux experience only Debian recognises qzerty powerbook keyboard even in Italian (or other) languages. If would make the mapping could I send it to anyone to be included in final release? which is the best url for updated Cooker Mandrake rpms to use in Software Sources Manager. but after all I would to say that this beta is very good. thank you for all you have done, congratulations! Silvano Piazza
