Re: [gentoo-ppc-user] yaboot has kicked my butt - 5 times?!

2010-10-07 Thread Joseph Jezak
Okay, so we fixed the first thing. That's good. :) Can you attach your whole kernel config? I'm wondering if maybe udev isn't running properly due to a misconfiguration. -Joe Attached unless GMail does something to it. Thanks, Mark Another busy week, but I think we might have your

Re: [gentoo-ppc-user] yaboot has kicked my butt - 5 times?!

2010-10-07 Thread Mark Knecht
On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 10:34 AM, Joseph Jezak jos...@gentoo.org wrote: Okay, so we fixed the first thing. That's good. :) Can you attach your whole kernel config? I'm wondering if maybe udev isn't running properly due to a misconfiguration. -Joe Attached unless GMail does something to it.

Re: [gentoo-ppc-user] yaboot has kicked my butt - 5 times?!

2010-10-07 Thread Joseph Jezak
On 10/07/10 14:29, Mark Knecht wrote: On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 10:34 AM, Joseph Jezak jos...@gentoo.org wrote: Okay, so we fixed the first thing. That's good. :) Can you attach your whole kernel config? I'm wondering if maybe udev isn't running properly due to a misconfiguration. -Joe

Re: [gentoo-ppc-user] yaboot has kicked my butt - 5 times?!

2010-10-01 Thread Joseph Jezak
Sorry, I've had a busy week and didn't have time to respond! OK - to me this doesn't look good: # mount -t procfs none /proc mount:none has wrong device number or fs type procfs not supported Sorry, that was my mistake, I was running from memory. :) You have the right invocation below.

Re: [gentoo-ppc-user] yaboot has kicked my butt - 5 times?!

2010-09-26 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sun, Sep 26, 2010 at 10:36 AM, Joseph Jezak jos...@gentoo.org wrote:  On 09/25/10 16:40, Mark Knecht wrote: SNIP Okay, let's try a few things now that we can boot the machine (even if it's not all the way!). First, lets mount proc: # mount -t procfs none /proc OK - to me this doesn't

Re: [gentoo-ppc-user] yaboot has kicked my butt - 5 times?!

2010-09-26 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sun, Sep 26, 2010 at 1:52 PM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Sep 26, 2010 at 10:36 AM, Joseph Jezak jos...@gentoo.org wrote: SNIP The old PMAC_IDE driver is getting picked before the PATA_MACIO driver. If you'd like to try the newer driver, you'll need to disable the old

Re: [gentoo-ppc-user] yaboot has kicked my butt - 5 times?!

2010-09-25 Thread Mark Knecht
On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 10:04 PM, Joseph Jezak jos...@gentoo.org wrote:  My responses are inline this time. It's easier when there's so much going on! On 09/23/10 16:41, Mark Knecht wrote: Two pictures posted: Top half of boot screen: http://www.flickr.com/photos/29328...@n03/5018717650/

Re: [gentoo-ppc-user] yaboot has kicked my butt - 5 times?!

2010-09-25 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sat, Sep 25, 2010 at 8:12 AM, Joseph Jezak jos...@gentoo.org wrote: SNIP None of these things are weird, they're expected! Really? OK - cool then. When you start the system with init=/bin/bash, the only thing your system does is start bash as the only process. Things like mounting proc,

Re: [gentoo-ppc-user] yaboot has kicked my butt - 5 times?!

2010-09-25 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sat, Sep 25, 2010 at 1:40 PM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: SNIP 3) If this is a kernel config issue - and it seem plausible that it is - then I'll point out that the kernel config page of the Gentoo PPC Istall Guide had a possible command that didn't work for me:

Re: [gentoo-ppc-user] yaboot has kicked my butt - 5 times?!

2010-09-24 Thread Mark Knecht
On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 10:04 PM, Joseph Jezak jos...@gentoo.org wrote:  My responses are inline this time. It's easier when there's so much going on! On 09/23/10 16:41, Mark Knecht wrote: Two pictures posted: Top half of boot screen: http://www.flickr.com/photos/29328...@n03/5018717650/

Re: [gentoo-ppc-user] yaboot has kicked my butt - 5 times?!

2010-09-24 Thread Enlightened User
On Sep 24, 2010, at 4:30 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 10:04 PM, Joseph Jezak jos...@gentoo.org wrote: My responses are inline this time. It's easier when there's so much going on! On 09/23/10 16:41, Mark Knecht wrote: Two pictures posted: Top half of boot screen:

Re: [gentoo-ppc-user] yaboot has kicked my butt - 5 times?!

2010-09-24 Thread Mark Knecht
On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 3:43 PM, Enlightened User li...@nc.rr.com wrote: On Sep 24, 2010, at 4:30 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 10:04 PM, Joseph Jezak jos...@gentoo.org wrote:  My responses are inline this time. It's easier when there's so much going on! On 09/23/10 16:41,

Re: [gentoo-ppc-user] yaboot has kicked my butt - 5 times?!

2010-09-23 Thread Joseph Jezak
On 09/22/10 23:33, Mark Knecht wrote: On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 6:33 PM, Joseph Jezak jos...@gentoo.org wrote: On 09/22/10 18:59, Mark Knecht wrote: Hi, OK, I'm dead tired. I admit it - yaboot has kicked my butt this time around. Can anyone help? I did post this problem here 2-3 weeks ago

Re: [gentoo-ppc-user] yaboot has kicked my butt - 5 times?!

2010-09-23 Thread Mark Knecht
On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 5:05 AM, k...@cas.mcmaster.ca wrote: Mark,   However I note that I cannot run updatedb for slocate without   also getting a message about /etc/mtab not existing. Should mtab exist   withing the chroot? For certain things, it seems to be needed --- the amd64 handbook

Re: [gentoo-ppc-user] yaboot has kicked my butt - 5 times?!

2010-09-23 Thread Joseph Jezak
On 09/23/10 12:17, Mark Knecht wrote: On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 7:10 AM, Joseph Jezak jos...@gentoo.org wrote: SNIP mtab is generated on boot as you mount devices. It's not the problem here. Can you try adding this line to your yaboot config? It will make the system boot directly into a shell

Re: [gentoo-ppc-user] yaboot has kicked my butt - 5 times?!

2010-09-22 Thread Joseph Jezak
On 09/22/10 18:59, Mark Knecht wrote: Hi, OK, I'm dead tired. I admit it - yaboot has kicked my butt this time around. Can anyone help? I did post this problem here 2-3 weeks ago but still haven't been able to solve the problem so I'm back to the well for another drink. The machine is

Re: [gentoo-ppc-user] yaboot has kicked my butt - 5 times?!

2010-09-22 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 6:33 PM, Joseph Jezak jos...@gentoo.org wrote:  On 09/22/10 18:59, Mark Knecht wrote: Hi,   OK, I'm dead tired. I admit it - yaboot has kicked my butt this time around. Can anyone help? I did post this problem here 2-3 weeks ago but still haven't been able to solve the