Xserve G5 disks

2005-01-13 Thread John Koskie
Hi, Does anyone know where to get a driver for the Hitachi SATA drives that come with the Xserve G5. I successfully installed Sarge on one of the machines by placing a Maxotr SATA drive in a G5 tower, installing onto that drive, compiling the latest 2.6.8 kernel, then placing the Maxtor disk

Re: 43p-140 install issues (the end ?)

2005-01-13 Thread Philippe Guyot
On Thursday 13 January 2005 17:21, Sven Luther wrote: [snip] Now investigating why it won't boot from disk. I suppose a hardware disk problem just after 3 MB on the PReP boot partition Ooops, ...after 0.3 MB ... More probably a size limit. Make sure you set MODULES=dep in

Re: can't boot with my 2.6.9 kernel...

2005-01-13 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 12:40:43PM +0100, Giuseppe Lavagetto wrote: Il giorno gio, 13-01-2005 alle 00:15 +0100, Nicolas Lebas ha scritto: The error message is : kernel panic - not syncing: VFS Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0,0) I hope Guillame's advices can help you in

Re: PowerPC desktop -- asking for trouble?

2005-01-13 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 07:07:03PM -0200, Leandro Guimarães Faria Corcete Dutra wrote: Em Qui, 2005-01-13 às 22:00 +0100, Sven Luther escreveu: Notice that the free java projects have asked for more bug reports, mentionning that one of the things which is stopping them is that nobody

Re: iBook2 doesn't resume properly after sleep

2005-01-13 Thread Charles R. Twardy
In-reply-to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I have also recently had a persistent problem resuming my iBook2 after sleep. The problem came with one of the upgrade to 2.6.8 and has continued into 2.6.9. As reported by the previous people, the system must be rebooted. Not only doesn't it resume X, but you

Re: PowerPC desktop -- asking for trouble?

2005-01-13 Thread Rogério Brito
On Jan 13 2005, Leandro Guimarães Faria Corcete Dutra wrote: Em Qui, 2005-01-13 às 22:00 +0100, Sven Luther escreveu: Notice that the free java projects have asked for more bug reports, mentionning that one of the things which is stopping them is that nobody seems to use them and file bug

Re: AGP support on PowerMac G5?

2005-01-13 Thread Shyamal Prasad
Patrick == Patrick Finnegan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Patrick So, I'm trying to get my new G5 desktop set up, and was Patrick having a hard time getting X to work, until I found out Patrick that it aparently is required to run using the fbdev Patrick driver. Has there been

Debian on a Dual G5?

2005-01-13 Thread Charles Read
Hey crew! Thinking about installing Sarge on a Dual 2Ghz PowerMac G5, is that possible via the ppc release? Thanks!! As always any help is appreciated! Charles Read -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: can't boot with my 2.6.9 kernel...

2005-01-13 Thread Sven Luther
On Fri, Jan 14, 2005 at 12:43:24AM +0100, Nicolas Lebas wrote: Thank you everybody, i download the iso image of the linux rescue and burn it... You could have used the plain d-i businesscard iso, in rescue mode, i think. And so i could look at my yaboot.conf ; finaly the kernel-image package

Re: Sarge on a Dual G5??

2005-01-13 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 09:44:34PM -0500, Charles Read wrote: Hey crew! Thinking about installing Sarge on a Dual 2Ghz PowerMac G5, is that possible via the ppc release? Yes. If it uses the 970Fx, please use the daily builds in expert mode, and make sure you chose sid as mirror. After the

Re: 43p-140 install issues

2005-01-13 Thread Philippe Guyot
On Wednesday 12 January 2005 18:03, Sven Luther wrote: On Wed, Jan 12, 2005 at 05:28:44PM +0100, Philippe Guyot wrote: On Wednesday 12 January 2005 16:48, Sven Luther wrote: On Wed, Jan 12, 2005 at 04:14:58PM +0100, Philippe Guyot wrote: I tried also boot net then load : console=tty0

Re: can't boot with my 2.6.9 kernel...

2005-01-13 Thread Guillaume Florey
Hi, Le Jeudi, 13 Janvier 2005 00.15, Nicolas Lebas a écrit : Hello, 2 weeks ago i update my kernel-image-2.6.9 on my ibook g4, and since i can't my boot on linux os ! The error message is : kernel panic - not syncing: VFS Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0,0) If i'm looking

Re: 43p-140 install issues

2005-01-13 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 10:23:11AM +0100, Philippe Guyot wrote: On Wednesday 12 January 2005 18:03, Sven Luther wrote: Alternatively, you can boot into d-i, and then chroot to your system, install ssh or another network client, and move /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.8-powerpc to your /tftpboot

Re: can't boot with my 2.6.9 kernel...

2005-01-13 Thread Giuseppe Lavagetto
Il giorno gio, 13-01-2005 alle 00:15 +0100, Nicolas Lebas ha scritto: The error message is : kernel panic - not syncing: VFS Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0,0) I hope Guillame's advices can help you in rebooting in your linux box succesfully. I'll add my two cents: The

Re: 43p-140 install issues

2005-01-13 Thread Philippe Guyot
On Thursday 13 January 2005 11:36, Sven Luther wrote: On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 10:23:11AM +0100, Philippe Guyot wrote: On Wednesday 12 January 2005 18:03, Sven Luther wrote: Alternatively, you can boot into d-i, and then chroot to your system, install ssh or another network client, and

Xserve G5 disks

2005-01-13 Thread John Koskie
Hi, Does anyone know where to get a driver for the Hitachi SATA drives that come with the Xserve G5. I successfully installed Sarge on one of the machines by placing a Maxotr SATA drive in a G5 tower, installing onto that drive, compiling the latest 2.6.8 kernel, then placing the Maxtor disk

Re: Xserve G5 disks

2005-01-13 Thread vinai
Hi, I encountered a similar problem when I was trying to install Debian on a SATA drive in my 8500. I wanted to partition the disk for MacOS classic and Debian, but Apple's Disk utility would not recognize the drive. I ended up using my old debian installer to partition the disk, and used cp

Re: 43p-140 install issues

2005-01-13 Thread Philippe Guyot
On Thursday 13 January 2005 14:26, Philippe Guyot wrote: On Thursday 13 January 2005 11:36, Sven Luther wrote: On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 10:23:11AM +0100, Philippe Guyot wrote: On Wednesday 12 January 2005 18:03, Sven Luther wrote: Alternatively, you can boot into d-i, and then chroot to

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2005-01-13 Thread Grace Stern
I have heard people eat most heartily of another man's meat, that is, what they do not pay for. Hiya! :) We are happy to announce that we finally open our softtware magazin - all your favourite programs for half a price in one place ! real get plenty of surprises.

Re: 43p-140 install issues

2005-01-13 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 02:26:07PM +0100, Philippe Guyot wrote: On Thursday 13 January 2005 11:36, Sven Luther wrote: On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 10:23:11AM +0100, Philippe Guyot wrote: On Wednesday 12 January 2005 18:03, Sven Luther wrote: Alternatively, you can boot into d-i, and then

Re: 43p-140 install issues

2005-01-13 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 04:04:26PM +0100, Philippe Guyot wrote: On Thursday 13 January 2005 14:26, Philippe Guyot wrote: On Thursday 13 January 2005 11:36, Sven Luther wrote: On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 10:23:11AM +0100, Philippe Guyot wrote: On Wednesday 12 January 2005 18:03, Sven Luther

Re: 43p-140 install issues (the end ?)

2005-01-13 Thread Philippe Guyot
On Thursday 13 January 2005 17:21, Sven Luther wrote: [snip] Now investigating why it won't boot from disk. I suppose a hardware disk problem just after 3 MB on the PReP boot partition Ooops, ...after 0.3 MB ... More probably a size limit. Make sure you set MODULES=dep in

Re: Bug#286135: Are you sure it's not a mesa related bug?

2005-01-13 Thread Maximiliano Curia
Geert Stappers wrote: So all three print that DRI is missing, so it shouldn't a problem for blender Ok. I believe you should retitle the bug, so others can give you a more accurate help. This bug appears to be a radeon specific issue, please try to let that clear in the bug title. What is

Re: 43p-140 install issues (the end ?)

2005-01-13 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 05:36:36PM +0100, Philippe Guyot wrote: On Thursday 13 January 2005 17:21, Sven Luther wrote: [snip] Now investigating why it won't boot from disk. I suppose a hardware disk problem just after 3 MB on the PReP boot partition Ooops, ...after 0.3 MB

Re: 43p-140 install issues (the end ?)

2005-01-13 Thread Michael Schmitz
But I realized one thing while trying to isolate the problem: Changing size/place of partitions with cfdisk needs a reboot for beeing ackowledged by the kernel.I'll see if there is already a bug report for that. Try running cfdisk again, writing out the (unchanged) partition table a second

Re: PowerPC desktop -- asking for trouble?

2005-01-13 Thread Sven Luther
On Wed, Jan 12, 2005 at 05:26:00PM +0200, Leandro Guimaraens Faria Corsetti Dutra wrote: Em Mon, 03 Jan 2005 08:50:23 +0100, Shyamal Prasad escreveu: Debian is pretty uniform across architectures unless software is specific to the architecture. As in the case of Flash and Java,

Re: kernel packago 2.6.8-9 sources ?

2005-01-13 Thread Sven Luther
On Tue, Jan 11, 2005 at 09:10:13AM -0600, vinai wrote: On Tue, 11 Jan 2005, Sven Luther wrote: Have you tried the debian powerpc kernels 2.6.8-8 and -9, which include support for G5 thermal management ? Actually everyone should upgrade to 2.6.8-9 because of the various security issues

Re: can't boot with my 2.6.9 kernel...

2005-01-13 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 12:15:00AM +0100, Nicolas Lebas wrote: Hello, 2 weeks ago i update my kernel-image-2.6.9 on my ibook g4, and since i can't my boot on linux os ! The error message is : kernel panic - not syncing: VFS Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0,0) If i'm

Re: can't boot with my 2.6.9 kernel...

2005-01-13 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 12:40:43PM +0100, Giuseppe Lavagetto wrote: Il giorno gio, 13-01-2005 alle 00:15 +0100, Nicolas Lebas ha scritto: The error message is : kernel panic - not syncing: VFS Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0,0) I hope Guillame's advices can help you in

Re: PowerPC desktop -- asking for trouble?

2005-01-13 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 04:04:14PM -0200, Leandro Guimarães Faria Corcete Dutra wrote: Em Qui, 2005-01-13 às 18:59 +0100, Sven Luther escreveu: On Wed, Jan 12, 2005 at 05:26:00PM +0200, Leandro Guimaraens Faria Corsetti Dutra wrote: Em Mon, 03 Jan 2005 08:50:23 +0100, Shyamal Prasad

Re: PowerPC desktop -- asking for trouble?

2005-01-13 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 04:04:14PM -0200, Leandro Guimar?es Faria Corcete Dutra wrote: You are right, but yet one can barely function nowadays without proprietary Flash and Java, and these aren't yet quite there for the PowerPC yet. At least Java has some promise, but as far as Flash

Re: PowerPC desktop -- asking for trouble?

2005-01-13 Thread Leandro Guimarães Faria Corcete Dutra
Em Qui, 2005-01-13 s 19:57 +0100, Christoph Hellwig escreveu: On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 04:04:14PM -0200, Leandro Guimar?es Faria Corcete Dutra wrote: You are right, but yet one can barely function nowadays without proprietary Flash and Java, and these aren't yet quite there for the

Re: PowerPC desktop -- asking for trouble?

2005-01-13 Thread Leandro Guimarães Faria Corcete Dutra
Em Qui, 2005-01-13 s 19:46 +0100, Sven Luther escreveu: On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 04:04:14PM -0200, Leandro Guimares Faria Corcete Dutra wrote: You are right, but yet one can barely function nowadays without proprietary Flash and Java, and these aren't yet quite there for the PowerPC

Re: PowerPC desktop -- asking for trouble?

2005-01-13 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 05:34:09PM -0200, Leandro Guimarães Faria Corcete Dutra wrote: Em Qui, 2005-01-13 às 19:46 +0100, Sven Luther escreveu: On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 04:04:14PM -0200, Leandro Guimarães Faria Corcete Dutra wrote: You are right, but yet one can barely function

Re: PowerPC desktop -- asking for trouble?

2005-01-13 Thread Leandro Guimarães Faria Corcete Dutra
Em Qui, 2005-01-13 s 22:00 +0100, Sven Luther escreveu: Notice that the free java projects have asked for more bug reports, mentionning that one of the things which is stopping them is that nobody seems to use them and file bug reports for them to fix them :

Re: PowerPC desktop -- asking for trouble?

2005-01-13 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 07:07:03PM -0200, Leandro Guimarães Faria Corcete Dutra wrote: Em Qui, 2005-01-13 às 22:00 +0100, Sven Luther escreveu: Notice that the free java projects have asked for more bug reports, mentionning that one of the things which is stopping them is that nobody

AGP support on PowerMac G5?

2005-01-13 Thread Patrick Finnegan
So, I'm trying to get my new G5 desktop set up, and was having a hard time getting X to work, until I found out that it aparently is required to run using the fbdev driver. Has there been any work on getting X to run natively? fbdev performace, while not horrible, isn't really the best, and

Re: can't boot with my 2.6.9 kernel...

2005-01-13 Thread Nicolas Lebas
Thank you everybody, i download the iso image of the linux rescue and burn it... And so i could look at my yaboot.conf ; finaly the kernel-image package i installed didn't create the symbolic link initrd.img, and so i create it and now it's ok... Baba

Re: iBook2 doesn't resume properly after sleep

2005-01-13 Thread Charles R. Twardy
In-reply-to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I have also recently had a persistent problem resuming my iBook2 after sleep. The problem came with one of the upgrade to 2.6.8 and has continued into 2.6.9. As reported by the previous people, the system must be rebooted. Not only doesn't it resume X, but you

Re: howto move from yellow dog - debian

2005-01-13 Thread Eddy Petrisor
There is debtakeover, but the time i tried it, it failed (sure, i had no access to the box, only ssh, and it was x86), but i am not sure debtakeover is YDL knowledgeable. What about debootstrap or cdebootstrap? I tried it once on a x86, and it was succesfull (it gave me a good chroot base

Re: PowerPC desktop -- asking for trouble?

2005-01-13 Thread Rogério Brito
On Jan 13 2005, Leandro Guimarães Faria Corcete Dutra wrote: Em Qui, 2005-01-13 às 22:00 +0100, Sven Luther escreveu: Notice that the free java projects have asked for more bug reports, mentionning that one of the things which is stopping them is that nobody seems to use them and file bug

Re: AGP support on PowerMac G5?

2005-01-13 Thread Shyamal Prasad
Patrick == Patrick Finnegan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Patrick So, I'm trying to get my new G5 desktop set up, and was Patrick having a hard time getting X to work, until I found out Patrick that it aparently is required to run using the fbdev Patrick driver. Has there been

Debian on a Dual G5?

2005-01-13 Thread Charles Read
Hey crew! Thinking about installing Sarge on a Dual 2Ghz PowerMac G5, is that possible via the ppc release? Thanks!! As always any help is appreciated! Charles Read

Sarge on a Dual G5??

2005-01-13 Thread Charles Read
Hey crew! Thinking about installing Sarge on a Dual 2Ghz PowerMac G5, is that possible via the ppc release? Thanks!! As always any help is appreciated! Charles Read

Re: Debian on a Dual G5?

2005-01-13 Thread Shyamal Prasad
Charles == Charles Read [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Charles Hey crew! Thinking about installing Sarge on a Dual 2Ghz Charles PowerMac G5, is that possible via the ppc release? If you have an older machine (a PowerMac7,2 with the 970 G5 processor) it should work with no problems or so

Re: iBook2 doesn't resume properly after sleep

2005-01-13 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
Charles R. Twardy wrote: I have also recently had a persistent problem resuming my iBook2 after sleep. The problem came with one of the upgrade to 2.6.8 and has continued into 2.6.9. As reported by the previous people, the system must be rebooted. Not only doesn't it resume X, but you

Re: Debian on a Dual G5?

2005-01-13 Thread Shyamal Prasad
Charles == Charles Read [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Charles Gotchya sorry. Looks like I'm 2.2. How do I tell Charles Debian I have 2 processors though? After the install finishes (it will run on one CPU) you install the kernel-image-2.6-power4-smp package. This will give you

Re: howto move from yellow dog - debian

2005-01-13 Thread Sven Luther
On Fri, Jan 14, 2005 at 02:07:54AM +0200, Eddy Petrisor wrote: There is debtakeover, but the time i tried it, it failed (sure, i had no access to the box, only ssh, and it was x86), but i am not sure debtakeover is YDL knowledgeable. What about debootstrap or cdebootstrap? I tried it

Re: can't boot with my 2.6.9 kernel...

2005-01-13 Thread Sven Luther
On Fri, Jan 14, 2005 at 12:43:24AM +0100, Nicolas Lebas wrote: Thank you everybody, i download the iso image of the linux rescue and burn it... You could have used the plain d-i businesscard iso, in rescue mode, i think. And so i could look at my yaboot.conf ; finaly the kernel-image package

Re: Sarge on a Dual G5??

2005-01-13 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 09:44:34PM -0500, Charles Read wrote: Hey crew! Thinking about installing Sarge on a Dual 2Ghz PowerMac G5, is that possible via the ppc release? Yes. If it uses the 970Fx, please use the daily builds in expert mode, and make sure you chose sid as mirror. After the

Re: Debian on a Dual G5?

2005-01-13 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 07:34:54PM -0800, Shyamal Prasad wrote: Charles == Charles Read [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Charles Hey crew! Thinking about installing Sarge on a Dual 2Ghz Charles PowerMac G5, is that possible via the ppc release? If you have an older machine (a

Re: Debian on a Dual G5?

2005-01-13 Thread Shyamal Prasad
Sven == Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Sven On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 07:34:54PM -0800, Shyamal Prasad Sven wrote: If you have a newer machine (a PowerMac7,3 with the 970FX G5 processor) it should work with tomorrow's (or perhaps Jan 15) debian installer