Hello > I just picked up a dual G5 (the 2.7 GHz flavor) and I'm interested in > running gentoo on it as well as OS X. I've been using x86 and > x86_gentoo for quite some time now (back since 1.2).
> However the ppc64 minimal iso from the mirrors gives a kernel panic > during bootup on this hardware, with the call stack indicating a > driver probe of some sort. I think that the 2.7 GHz machines need a newer kernel. You might want to look into the ChangeLog of linux-2.6.12-rc5, I know that there are fixes for exactly those machines in it. You can then build such kernel and netboot it. If you can't build one, you can ask in #gentoo-ppc64 on Freenode. Greets, Michael -- Gentoo Linux Developer using m0n0wall | http://hansmi.ch/ I dunno, I dream in Perl sometimes... -- Larry Wall in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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