The new yaboot works correctly. No more vulcan nerve pinch to start up. :)
rob
On Fri, 28 Feb 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The new yaboot works correctly. No more vulcan nerve pinch to start up. :)
rob
Great news!
I also did a full GUI install to an RS6000 last night. Just need to tweak
the bootstrap setup this machine needs.
Stew Benedict
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MandrakeSoft
On Fri, 28 Feb 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
BTW, in theory you should be able to manually boot the system the same
way you did the CD from OF. If you make the change in ofboot.b on your
bootstrap, yaboot may even work. Or urpmi the new yaboot once youve
booted.
Yay! I booted!
BTW, in theory you should be able to manually boot the system the same
way you did the CD from OF. If you make the change in ofboot.b on your
bootstrap, yaboot may even work. Or urpmi the new yaboot once youve
booted.
Yay! I booted! This message is brought to you by konqueror on Mandrake
yes, the portion for the video adapter.
lspcidrake -v
unknown : unknown (106b/0034//)
unknown : unknown (10de/0179/de10/1000)
unknown : unknown (106b/0035//)
unknown : unknown (106b/003e//)
unknown : unknown (106b/003f//)
I guess I see the problem now. There is no PCI device entry with the
video card. I'm not sure in that case how the installer is identifying
it.
BTW, in theory you should be able to manually boot the system the same way
you did the CD from OF. If you make the change in ofboot.b on your
Mostly I'm interested in the video card line. Sounds like ldetect-lst has
a bad entry for it.
(From /proc/pci)
Bus 0, device 16, function 0:
VGA Compatable controller: nVidia Corporation NV17 [GeForce4 440 Go
64M] (rev 163).
IRQ 48.
Master Capable. Latency=248. Min Gnt=5.Max
On Thu, 27 Feb 2003, Robert Shade wrote:
Mostly I'm interested in the video card line. Sounds like ldetect-lst has
a bad entry for it.
(From /proc/pci)
Bus 0, device 16, function 0:
VGA Compatable controller: nVidia Corporation NV17 [GeForce4 440 Go
64M] (rev 163).
IRQ
(lspcidrake -v)
All i get when i run that is a bunch of unidentified entries. (nothing is
identified)
Looks like that comes from /proc/bus/pci/devices
Should I send the output of this?
you mentioned before - anything at the tail end of the log?
No. The only thing at the end of the log
Hallo rshade,
The right command is this:
cd:,//yaboot
the , is necessary. I do not know why.
Please, can you tell me the following of the
installation?
I need to know what kind of installation works, (
samething of more sophisticate of the install-text )
and if MDK 9.1 can detect the hard
On Tue, 25 Feb 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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 cd:2,\\yaboot
Your method did find yaboot apparently, just not the config?
Yeah apparently it does.
On Wed, 26 Feb 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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
I'm fighting some issues to do an RC1. Perl is slightly broken at the
moment, it spews errors everytime it accesses unistd.ph. It does do
the
right thing, but it's ugly. I'm trying to port the 9.1 installer
now,
because the locales are broken when I rebuild the 9.0 installer in the
current
Did you start with Apple_Free space on the drive? If you do, the
bootstrap normally gets created before the partitioning step.
No. OS X won't install with free space left on the drive. (At least
with my 10.2.3 CD) I had to leave the space that I wanted for linux as
a UFS (I think that is
On Wed, 26 Feb 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Did you start with Apple_Free space on the drive? If you do, the
bootstrap normally gets created before the partitioning step.
No. OS X won't install with free space left on the drive. (At least
with my 10.2.3 CD) I had to leave the space
On Wed, 26 Feb 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
3.) The installer skips the package selection.
In the midst of a 9.1 text install - package selection is now restored.
Stew Benedict
--
MandrakeSoft
PPC FAQ: http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/ppcFAQ.php3
IRC: irc.freenode.net #cooker-ppc
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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