booting from usbstick

2004-03-22 Thread Klaus Ita
Hello all! has anyone of you actually managed to boot a mac from a USB-stick? i was able to find it in the openfirmware, but then i could not access the disk properly (some error after timeout) i wanted to help the d-i guys a little but having to burn a cd everytime they have a new installer

Re: booting from usbstick

2004-03-22 Thread Jens Schmalzing
Hi, Klaus Ita writes: i wanted to help the d-i guys a little but having to burn a cd everytime they have a new installer (daily) might not be a goable solution to me. If your Mac supports it and you have a second box, set up netbooting. I vaguely remember seeing related information on the d-i

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2004-03-22 Thread xavier
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Re: booting from usbstick

2004-03-22 Thread Klaus Ita
Hi Jens! thx. i have done this and kind of like it. but i really would like to boot from USB-stick. must be possible somehow, as openfirmware can also boot from usb-external drives - right? and i do not have access to my other pc when i have time to spend on d-i. regs, klaus * Jens Schmalzing

Re: Linux on G5 X-Serve

2004-03-22 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Mon, 2004-03-22 at 15:59, James Whatever wrote: Hi all. We're running out a custom application for a local print house and they really prefer to use mac's where possible (me too!). The application involves running transforms on really really large image files amongst other things, so

Re: 2.6.5-rc2

2004-03-22 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Sun, 2004-03-21 at 22:18, Elimar Riesebieter wrote: Hi all, I've compiled 2.6.5-rc2. The kernel is running stable. Well, there is a small problem: It is not possible to unload ehci_hcd. Neither with rmmod nor with rmmod -f. The usb ports are all unplugged. So stopping or rebooting the

Re: Sarge/beta-3 on a RS6000/7025-F50 (PPC 604e, CHRP)

2004-03-22 Thread Sven Luther
On Sat, Mar 20, 2004 at 11:45:03AM +0100, Marco d'Itri wrote: In linux.debian.maint.boot Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Cool. BTW, is there anything particular needed for a PReP partition ? Or No, it only needs to be a 4 MB raw partition of type 0x41. Ok, so another articial size limit

OpenOffice broken in unstable?

2004-03-22 Thread Pierre N
Hi, Just wondering if anybody has the same problems than me. OpenOffice doesn't start. HD makes noise, CPU goes up, but nothing happens. Printer admin works fine though... -- Pierre signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: OpenOffice broken in unstable?

2004-03-22 Thread Klaus Agnoletti
Hi Pierre, Just wondering if anybody has the same problems than me. OpenOffice doesn't start. HD makes noise, CPU goes up, but nothing happens. Printer admin works fine though... Same thing here. Must have happened last time I updated a few days ago. I can't find anything on the bugtracker

Re: OpenOffice broken in unstable?

2004-03-22 Thread Johnathan Chapin
On Mon, Mar 22, 2004 at 07:54:10AM EST, Klaus Agnoletti ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Hi Pierre, Just wondering if anybody has the same problems than me. OpenOffice doesn't start. HD makes noise, CPU goes up, but nothing happens. Printer admin works fine though... Same thing here. Must

Re: OpenOffice broken in unstable?

2004-03-22 Thread Klaus Agnoletti
Hi, Start it from a terminal window, and take note of the error messages. I had to fiddle with my ~/.sversionrc file and ~/.openoffice/ directory to get it to work. (Don't have it in front of me at the moment, else I would give more specific instructions) Oh yes. The short version is : mv

Re: OpenOffice broken in unstable?

2004-03-22 Thread Pierre N
Ok, thanks a lot, I'll try just that. Got even some info on using the apt-listbugs package to prevent this (off the list). Thanks everybody for all this great information. -- Pierre On Mon, 2004-03-22 at 14:10, Klaus Agnoletti wrote: Hi, Start it from a terminal window, and take note of

Re: Sarge/beta-3 on a RS6000/7025-F50 (PPC 604e, CHRP)

2004-03-22 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Mar 22, Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No, wait... we really want to use yaboot. And, are you sure yaboot works on PReP machines ? Not on CHRP boxes I really don't know. But at least on CHRP machines it *should* be used. I used to dd the kernel on my B50 but had to stop after

Re: OpenOffice broken in unstable?

2004-03-22 Thread Wolfram Quester
Hi Pierre! On Mon, Mar 22, 2004 at 01:45:57PM +0100, Pierre N wrote: Hi, Just wondering if anybody has the same problems than me. OpenOffice doesn't start. HD makes noise, CPU goes up, but nothing happens. Printer admin works fine though... Yesterday I was working happily with OOo, but

Re: 2.4.25 kernel: suspend causes freeze on iBook2 [SOLVED]

2004-03-22 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
On Wed, 10 Mar 2004, Kevin B. McCarty wrote: I am running sid and just installed Sven's 2.4.25 kernel (package kernel-image-2.4.25-powerpc-pmac) on my iBook2. It works perfectly with one unfortunate exception: the laptop does not wake up from suspend mode when I re-open the lid. I

Re: Sarge/beta-3 on a RS6000/7025-F50 (PPC 604e, CHRP)

2004-03-22 Thread Leigh Brown
Martin Küchler said: Sven Luther wrote: I believe that we may create a PReP-bootloader-installer or something which would take care of moving the kernel to this partition. Not sure though how this would work out. A bit like what nobootloader does. No, wait... we really want to use yaboot.

Re: OldWorld wont boot new 2.6

2004-03-22 Thread Rich Johnson
On Sunday, March 21, 2004, at 06:02 PM, MaX wrote: On Mar 21, 2004, at 7:22 PM, Rich Johnson wrote: Booting hangs with last message being arch: exit:. Kernel was configured with make oldconfig (seeded with 2.4.17 .cofig) and all default options. Uncompressed vmlinux

Re: 2.6.4 kernel

2004-03-22 Thread Martin Habets
box: Tibook 1GHz G4, ATI radeon 9000M, 10/100/1000 ethernet, orinico airport card(not extreme), cd-rw/dvd-r, and a winmodem (nothing is perfect). i have a 2.4.21-ben2 kernel, and want to upgrade to 2.6 series, so i have some questions before to make the change: 2.6.4 has all the powerpc

Re: 2.4.25 kernel: suspend causes freeze on iBook2 [SOLVED]

2004-03-22 Thread Sven Luther
On Mon, Mar 22, 2004 at 08:27:16AM -0500, Kevin B. McCarty wrote: On Wed, 10 Mar 2004, Kevin B. McCarty wrote: I am running sid and just installed Sven's 2.4.25 kernel (package kernel-image-2.4.25-powerpc-pmac) on my iBook2. It works perfectly with one unfortunate exception: the laptop

Re: Sarge/beta-3 on a RS6000/7025-F50 (PPC 604e, CHRP)

2004-03-22 Thread Sven Luther
On Mon, Mar 22, 2004 at 01:24:48PM +0100, Marco d'Itri wrote: On Mar 22, Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No, wait... we really want to use yaboot. And, are you sure yaboot works on PReP machines ? Not on CHRP boxes I really don't know. But at least on CHRP machines it *should* be

Important Notice: VIRUS Found!

2004-03-22 Thread 'OHVLNM05_WatchDog_Demon'
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Re: 2.6.4 kernel

2004-03-22 Thread Jens Schmalzing
Hi, Martin Habets writes: I need kernel-headers-2.6.4-? (to recompile mol and modem)Where can i get those? Have not seen a package for this (yet). Actually, there's no need for a kernel-headers package if you are building your own kernel - the kernel tree contains the headers.

Re: 2.6.4 kernel

2004-03-22 Thread Joss Winn
I'm trying to build 2.6.4 kernel for the first time. I've tried the kernel.org sources and the debian UNSTABLE sources but both give me the same problems: When I boot up, the framebuffer doesn't appear to be working. I get white screen with a bit of text in the top left hand corner. When X kicks

Re: 2.6.4 kernel

2004-03-22 Thread Colin Leroy
2.6.4 has all the powerpc stuff?(no need of ben tree?) I still see Ben submitting some patches for some sleep stuff, Umm, where ? -- Colin This message represents the official view of the voices in my head.

Re: Sarge/beta-3 on a RS6000/7025-F50 (PPC 604e, CHRP)

2004-03-22 Thread Sven Luther
On Mon, Mar 22, 2004 at 03:09:12PM +0100, Martin Küchler wrote: Leigh Brown wrote: Yaboot requires OpenFirmware, which is not present on most PReP machines. My 140, which is PReP but has OF, still wouldn't work as the critical OF methods to read from disk didn't work, despite me trying very

Re: error compiling kernel

2004-03-22 Thread Jan-Hendrik Palic
Hi there ... I am playing some weeks with Kernel from 2.6.3-ben2 up to 2.6.5-rc2. My best experiances (Ibook2 500Mhz) are with 2.6.3-ben2, but there are some issues: - my usb-stick (/dev/sda1) is not comming up. I am not able to mount it, but all related modules (scsi_mod, sd_mod and sg and

Re: 2.6.4 kernel

2004-03-22 Thread Sven Luther
On Mon, Mar 22, 2004 at 01:54:50PM +, Martin Habets wrote: box: Tibook 1GHz G4, ATI radeon 9000M, 10/100/1000 ethernet, orinico airport card(not extreme), cd-rw/dvd-r, and a winmodem (nothing is perfect). i have a 2.4.21-ben2 kernel, and want to upgrade to 2.6 series, so i have

Re: 2.6.4 kernel

2004-03-22 Thread Kiko Piris
On 22/03/2004 at 13:54, Martin Habets wrote: On 18/03/2004 at 13:53, Enrique Morfin wrote: As far as i know hfsplus is not supported (yet) in the 2.6 series, is this true? Yes, unfortunately. Uh? $ uname -a Linux sacarino 2.6.4 #1 Thu Mar 18 21:59:04 CET 2004 ppc GNU/Linux $ cat

Re: 2.6.4 kernel

2004-03-22 Thread Jens Schmalzing
Hi, Joss Winn writes: I've tried different config options when building but nothing seems to work. I'm not sure what to do next. Read URL:http://www.codemonkey.org.uk/docs/post-halloween-2.6.txt, especially the section entitled Known gotchas. Set all the configuration options described

Re: [iBook G4] network installation

2004-03-22 Thread Ferdinando Pucci
On Sat, 20 Mar 2004 09:19:31 -0500 Derrik Pates [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, the problem is that your 'yaboot' is named 'yaboot.txt'. However, you should specify an absolute path, like 'boot hd:3,\yaboot.txt'. Try that and see if it works (it should). Oh shit, your right! I fear it was

Re: 2.6.4 kernel

2004-03-22 Thread Michael Schmitz
2.6.4 has all the powerpc stuff?(no need of ben tree?) I still see Ben submitting some patches for some sleep stuff, Umm, where ? To Linus ?? To this here list (the pmac serial sleep patch comes to mind)?? While Ben might still update linuxppc-2.5-benh occasionally, he said to use

Re: 2.6.4 kernel

2004-03-22 Thread Jens Schmalzing
Hi, Sven Luther writes: module-init-tools will diver the modutils stuff. I guess you can remove modutils completely though, is that exact ? Yes. I will upload them this week, but they will be in the NEW queue for some time, so i will upload them to my people.debian.org account, as usual.

Re: 2.6.4 kernel

2004-03-22 Thread Colin Leroy
I still see Ben submitting some patches for some sleep stuff, Umm, where ? To Linus ?? To this here list (the pmac serial sleep patch comes to mind)?? While Ben might still update linuxppc-2.5-benh occasionally, he said to use Linus' tree now. Yes, I know, but Martin seemed to say

Re: 2.6.4 kernel

2004-03-22 Thread Sven Luther
On Mon, Mar 22, 2004 at 04:59:21PM +0100, Jens Schmalzing wrote: Hi, Sven Luther writes: module-init-tools will diver the modutils stuff. I guess you can remove modutils completely though, is that exact ? Yes. I will upload them this week, but they will be in the NEW queue for

Re: OldWorld wont boot new 2.6

2004-03-22 Thread Patrick Finnegan
On Sunday 21 March 2004 18:02, MaX wrote: On Mar 21, 2004, at 7:22 PM, Rich Johnson wrote: Booting hangs with last message being arch: exit:. Kernel was configured with make oldconfig (seeded with 2.4.17 .cofig) and all default options. Uncompressed vmlinux (4.2M)

Re: OldWorld won't boot new 2.6

2004-03-22 Thread Rich Johnson
On Monday, March 22, 2004, at 11:51 AM, Patrick Finnegan wrote: On Sunday 21 March 2004 18:02, MaX wrote: On Mar 21, 2004, at 7:22 PM, Rich Johnson wrote: Booting hangs with last message being arch: exit:. Kernel was configured with make oldconfig (seeded with 2.4.17

Re: 2.6.4 kernel

2004-03-22 Thread Jens Schmalzing
Hi, Sven Luther writes: Why shouldn't they ? Mmm, i see why, they install into : /usr/src/kernel-patches/powerpc/debian-powerpc.diff.gz Do you think kernel-package would be ready to have it moved to : /usr/src/kernel-patches/powerpc/2.4.25/debian-powerpc.diff.gz Of course. The

Re: OldWorld won't boot new 2.6

2004-03-22 Thread Patrick Finnegan
On Monday 22 March 2004 12:07, Rich Johnson wrote: On Monday, March 22, 2004, at 11:51 AM, Patrick Finnegan wrote: I've got the same problem with my PowerMac 9600, booting using BootX, except that it doesn't initialize either the video console (IMS Twin Turbo) or serial console, so I get no

Re: 2.6.4 kernel

2004-03-22 Thread Joss Winn
Great. The Framebuffer is working now. Thanks. However, USB Mouse and Keyboard are still not working. My /var/log/messages shows this: klogd 1.4.1#13, log source = /proc/kmsg started. Inspecting /boot/System.map-2.6.4 Loaded 34872 symbols from /boot/System.map-2.6.4. Symbols match kernel

Re: OldWorld won't boot new 2.6

2004-03-22 Thread Patrick Finnegan
On Monday 22 March 2004 12:28, Patrick Finnegan wrote: On Monday 22 March 2004 12:07, Rich Johnson wrote: On Monday, March 22, 2004, at 11:51 AM, Patrick Finnegan wrote: I've got the same problem with my PowerMac 9600, booting using BootX, except that it doesn't initialize either the

Re: error compiling kernel

2004-03-22 Thread Alain Perry
- the compiler (gcc-3.3.3 is very unstable and is crashing with segfaults and assembly-error-messages very often). Is there anyone, who seen something similiar? I had this problem when I was running a preemptible kernel compiled from the benh tree. Preemptible on PPC seems to be strongly

2.6.4 and i2c-keywest

2004-03-22 Thread Alain Perry
Hi list, I recently compiled a 2.6.4 kernel from mainstream. I first had compiled the radeonfb driver as a module, which turned out to be a big mistake, so I compiled again, setting it as static. Now, nearly everything is fine. However, I'm using a PB 15 and I can't use the i2c devices anymore.

kernel won't compile (2.6.4)

2004-03-22 Thread r.a.
I've downloaded kernel 2.6.4 from kernel.org and it stops compilation with this error: CC drivers/macintosh/macserial.o drivers/macintosh/macserial.c: In function `rs_tiocmget': drivers/macintosh/macserial.c:1793: `cmd'

Re: 2.6.4 kernel

2004-03-22 Thread Derrik Pates
Joss Winn wrote: Great. The Framebuffer is working now. Thanks. However, USB Mouse and Keyboard are still not working. Are you building OHCI HCD support, and full HID support? Otherwise, the modules probably aren't getting loaded to support your keyboard and mouse. I always just build

kernel 2.6.5-rc2 and ATI Radeon

2004-03-22 Thread Micha Roszka
Hello, I compiled 2.6.5-rc2 kernel with .config generated with make oldconfig. The old config is taken from fully working 2.6.3 kernel. 2.6.5-rc2 compiles and installs without any problems, but ... framebuffer and X don't work. I mean - both work, but the monitor is blank. For example I can

Re: kernel won't compile (2.6.4)

2004-03-22 Thread Brad Boyer
On Mon, Mar 22, 2004 at 03:00:41PM -0400, r.a. wrote: I've downloaded kernel 2.6.4 from kernel.org and it stops compilation with this error: [ snip ] If I fix it (in a very rudimentary way), it will stop in some other file, with another undeclared identifier problem. I'm using gcc 3.2.2

Re: 2.6.4 kernel

2004-03-22 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Mon, 2004-03-22 at 20:05, Derrik Pates wrote: Joss Winn wrote: Great. The Framebuffer is working now. Thanks. However, USB Mouse and Keyboard are still not working. Are you building OHCI HCD support, and full HID support? Otherwise, the modules probably aren't getting loaded to

Re: 2.6.4 kernel

2004-03-22 Thread Joss Winn
Thanks. I didn't have the hotplug package installed. I can't believe I overlooked that package! Anyway, I've just built a kernel with the OHCI HCD built in and the keyboard and mouse are now working. My ethernet/ADSL and sound are out under 2.6.4 right now, but at least I can navigate the

Re: 2.6 rivafb on PBG4 12 867?

2004-03-22 Thread Guido Guenther
On Sun, Mar 21, 2004 at 06:33:19PM +0100, Ingo Korb wrote: Is there any way at all to get rivafb working on a PBG4 12 867? Booting 2.6.3-ben2 and 2.6.4 just result in a pretty, but unusable color stripe pattern on the display. 2.4.25-ben1 works. Not at the moment. 2.6.2 is working with a

Re: 2.6.4 kernel

2004-03-22 Thread Ingo Juergensmann
On Mon, Mar 22, 2004 at 04:06:21PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: This is the x86 package, for the powerpc package, you will have to wait for me to build them. I will upload them this week, but they will be in the NEW queue for some time, so i will upload them to my people.debian.org account, as

Re: 2.6.4 kernel

2004-03-22 Thread Ingo Juergensmann
On Tue, Mar 23, 2004 at 02:50:33AM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: Downloaded your 2.6.4 patch for peg2, applied, compiled, rebooted... works so far... Cool. Indeed... Desktop at 1600x1200 is far more snappier with preemptible patch than with 2.4.25 kernel... ;)) One thing that doesn't seem

Re: 2.6.4 kernel

2004-03-22 Thread Sven Luther
On Tue, Mar 23, 2004 at 12:30:48AM +0100, Ingo Juergensmann wrote: On Mon, Mar 22, 2004 at 04:06:21PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: This is the x86 package, for the powerpc package, you will have to wait for me to build them. I will upload them this week, but they will be in the NEW queue for

Re: 2.6.4 kernel

2004-03-22 Thread Sven Luther
On Mon, Mar 22, 2004 at 06:10:58PM +0100, Jens Schmalzing wrote: Hi, Sven Luther writes: Why shouldn't they ? Mmm, i see why, they install into : /usr/src/kernel-patches/powerpc/debian-powerpc.diff.gz Do you think kernel-package would be ready to have it moved to :

Re: OldWorld won't boot new 2.6

2004-03-22 Thread Sven Luther
On Mon, Mar 22, 2004 at 12:41:47PM -0500, Patrick Finnegan wrote: On Monday 22 March 2004 12:28, Patrick Finnegan wrote: On Monday 22 March 2004 12:07, Rich Johnson wrote: On Monday, March 22, 2004, at 11:51 AM, Patrick Finnegan wrote: I've got the same problem with my PowerMac 9600,

Re: kernel won't compile (2.6.4)

2004-03-22 Thread r.a.
thanks... that was the problem. Now it compiled just fine (now for the tests...) r.a/ On Mon, 22 Mar 2004, Brad Boyer wrote: I suspect you've just made some poor choices in your config. The old macserial driver has been replaced by the pmac_zilog driver. You should select the

Re: OldWorld won't boot new 2.6

2004-03-22 Thread Patrick Finnegan
On Monday 22 March 2004 21:46, Sven Luther wrote: On Mon, Mar 22, 2004 at 12:41:47PM -0500, Patrick Finnegan wrote: On Monday 22 March 2004 12:28, Patrick Finnegan wrote: On Monday 22 March 2004 12:07, Rich Johnson wrote: On Monday, March 22, 2004, at 11:51 AM, Patrick Finnegan wrote:

Re: [YABOOT] Preliminary ofpath with 2.6 kernel support NEEDS TESTING

2004-03-22 Thread digger vermont
Hello Ethan, The new ofpath gives the same dir's for 2.4.25 and 2.6.4. It works fine to boot linux and macosx on my powerbook. I didn't try a cd. I never had any problems though and yaboot.conf used /dev/xxx statements to begin with: boot=/dev/hda9 device=hd: partition=11