RE: 9.1 on Powerbook G4 12

2003-02-25 Thread Stew Benedict
On Tue, 25 Feb 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have one of the new 12 Powerbooks. I just finished re-partitioning and re-installing OS X. Unfortunately I've already encountered a problem. According to http://lists.penguinppc.org/yaboot-announce/2003/yaboot-announce-200302/msg0.html

Re: 9.1 on Powerbook G4 12

2003-02-25 Thread Francesco Corona
Stew Benedict wrote: On Tue, 25 Feb 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Any chance that yaboot will be updated for the next beta/rc? Any ETA on the next PPC release? :) Sounds like it had better be. I'll package it and see if it can be uploaded. We're in freeze, but that sounds like a valid reason

RE: 9.1 on Powerbook G4 12'

2003-02-25 Thread rshade
Sounds like it had better be. I'll package it and see if it can be uploaded. We're in freeze, but that sounds like a valid reason to me. Great. Thanks. Does cooker PPC share the same changelog mailing list as the regular cooker? I'm fighting some issues to do an RC1. snip You guys sure do

Re: New X perf. for new kernel (reg. benh)

2003-02-25 Thread Stew Benedict
On 25 Feb 2003, Pascal Gagnon wrote: On dim, 2003-02-23 at 21:03, Pascal Gagnon wrote: Just installed the new 2.4.20-benh-5mdk and the regular 2.4.21pre4-5mdk. No major problem so far. Got another ooups with the 2.4.20-benh-5mdk kernel after a short use. Probably the same trigger

Re: 9.1 on Powerbook G4 12

2003-02-25 Thread Robert Shade
PPC FAQ: http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/ppcFAQ.php3 Just thinking that you might want to update the FAQ to say something about all previous releases (Any previous Linux PPC distro for that matter) will not work with these New New World machines. The 14 and 17 powerbooks are the only ones i

old packages

2003-02-25 Thread Stefan van der Eijk
I'm running some scripts comparing the packages in the different ports. I've asked Warly to clean out the alpha distro with the resulting output. Here are the outputs for ppc cooker contrib (from 2003-02-25 +/- 03:30 CET). Is the list correct? Does it still contain packages that are REALLY

RE: 9.1 on Powerbook G4 12

2003-02-25 Thread Stew Benedict
On Tue, 25 Feb 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have one of the new 12 Powerbooks. I just finished re-partitioning and re-installing OS X. Unfortunately I've already encountered a problem. According to http://lists.penguinppc.org/yaboot-announce/2003/yaboot-announce-200302/msg0.html

DD and Memory

2003-02-25 Thread Charles Carroll
All, I have managed to sort out some of the problems with dd and a raw dump to tape drives, only to come up with another one. I now get a memory allocation error when I try to run dd. In order to get the tape device to work I loaded the mt package, this allows me to set the block size of

RE: 9.1 on Powerbook G4 12'

2003-02-25 Thread Stew Benedict
On Tue, 25 Feb 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So what entry did you use in OF? boot cd:2,\\yaboot ? no i used boot cd:\\yaboot. was that incorrect? Not necessarily. The syntax in the current ofboot.b on the CD is like that: Booting Mandrake Linux PPC... fb8-write drop 100 ms boot

RE: 9.1 on Powerbook G4 12'

2003-02-25 Thread rshade
Hmm... responding to my own emails... Maybe they mean it won't boot when it's put on the HD? Yeah it looks like that is it. I went through the install and when i rebooted after making the changes in OpenFirmware I saw a OS 9 looking screen for a second, but it when ahead and loaded OS X