Hi Ed, Gentoo is a bit of a different beast. The main thing is that, to my knowledge, you won't be able to boot directly off of a Gentoo CD. At least, I couldn't think of any way to do it -- trying to use the kernel on the Gentoo CD for PowerPC lead to a freeze shortly after MMU initialization.
What I did was create three partitions from Drive Setup: - One 10 MB partition for the miBoot minimal system (boot loader, essentially) - One 256 MB partition (intended for swap space) - One partition to take up the remaining volume space (in my case, roughly 5.1 GB) Then, I installed miBoot on the 10 MB partition along with the latest nubus-pmac 2.4 kernel, and configured it to boot off of /dev/hda2. Next, I installed a minimal Debian system (essentially, just enough to boot and run useful commands without any of the additional packages typically installed during Debian setup) on the 256 MB partition. I used that to format the 5.1 GB partition, and then followed the Gentoo handbook steps for installing from a Stage3 tarball. I performed all of the necessary steps to prepare the Gentoo partition before chrooting into it, finalizing the install, and rebooting into it. NOTE: I was unable to use the latest Gentoo tarballs/CD (2007.1 I believe it was at the time), as the tools and libstdc in the stage3 archive were compiled to use the NPTL thread model of kernel 2.6. When I tried that release, the chroot into the Gentoo partition failed with "Kernel too old". I ended up using 2004.3 or 2005.1 I believe, but since portage was seriously out-of-date in that release, I had to unpack the newest portage after unpacking the stage3. After that, the "emerge --sync" worked and I was able to upgrade the system to the latest versions of all system components; YMMV. You will need to ensure you use a "no-nptl" profile; I can send you mine if you'd like. After all that, I formatted the Debian partition as swap. You're going to need to download the nubus-pmac sources and unpack them to a new folder under /usr/src, symlink /usr/src/linux to it, and add "vanilla-sources-2.4" to the package.provided file so that portage knows about them. Until we can sort out why we're unable to use the nubus-pmac kernel sources to make a usable kernel with the latest sources, you won't actually be able to build a new kernel image. I think you'll still need to do "make nubus_defconfig" at the source root so that packages that read the kernel source config know what options are enabled in the running kernel. --Guy Paddock -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ed Stafford Sent: Tuesday, October 23, 2007 9:10 AM To: For users of Linux on NuBus PowerMacs Subject: Re: [Nubus-pmac-users] PB 1400 and kernel mods Thanks! Should be a big help! On 10/22/07, Toby Dylan Hocking <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Ed, > > I wrote up a install procedure for Debian on my 1400 a while back: > > http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~tdhock/pb1400/pb1400-debian.pdf > > It should be a good start for you at least. Just substitute your Gentoo CD > for my Debian CD. > > Sincerely, > Toby Dylan Hocking > http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~tdhock > > On Mon, 22 Oct 2007, Ed Stafford wrote: > > > Hey folks, > > > > I finally got around to getting a replacement A/C adapter for my > > PB1400cs/117. I used to have Red Hat 6.1 running on it, but I've > > gotten bitten by the Gentoo bug lately and am installing it on > > everything I get my mitts on. > > > > Anyhow, it sounds like there's been some success on that front, so I'd > > really appreciate it if someone could provide a good walk-through on > > how you got it to install. > > > > Secondly, I was wondering if there's any place I could pick up the > > latest kernel patches for all the NuBus mods. I'd like to see what > > has transpired since the old MkLinux days... 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