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once I have enough success
reports for enough differing machines, very new machines are most
important, as they are the ones which old ofpath failed on.
Thanks in advance, and thanks to Nick Lopez for granting me local
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On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 03:47:44PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote:
The worse that can happen is the GENERIC_RTC driver not being
initialized because linux believes the RTC driver should be ok.
which breaks hwclock, not acceptable.
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/XFS-debian-README.txt for
more information.
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On Wed, Nov 26, 2003 at 02:59:35PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
On Fri, Nov 21, 2003 at 12:03:01AM -0900, Ethan Benson wrote:
You don't look at the bogus /proc/scsi stuff for that, do you?
in current ofpath yes, changing this requires significant rework which
is not going to happen
On Thu, Nov 20, 2003 at 12:40:24PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
On Thu, Nov 20, 2003 at 01:24:46AM -0900, Ethan Benson wrote:
Yaboot 1.3.11 is now available.
This release adds support for the new PowerMac G5 machines, and the
aluminum PowerBooks. Support in ofpath has been added
(keyid 0x2C447AFC)).
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to test, so if you just want to test
something please wait for development releases of yaboot 1.99, for the
moment there is nothing you can do.
Thanks.
(I am not subscribed to debian-powerpc, and replies to this shouldn't
go there anyway as its not really on topic).
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lacks proper yaboot.
this should be a great help to those wanting to install debian without
all the hackish bullsh*t thats been required.
enjoy.
On Sun, Aug 03, 2003 at 12:41:16AM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote:
Hi,
I have built an updated set of XFS enabled Debian boot-floppies for
PowerPC
-README.txt for
more information.
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it will work.
possibly yes, ofpath on oldworld for the most part just checks your
model and dumps the content of the relevant alias. i hope to improve
this later.
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of yaboot 1.99, for the
moment there is nothing you can do.
Thanks.
(I am not subscribed to debian-powerpc, and replies to this shouldn't
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looked
through your files section but couldn't find it.
the exact set of patches i apply to my 2.4.19 kernels is now in my
files section (xfs-2.4.19)
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XFS on an oldworld, but
at least the installer will boot, unlike the official debian images.
http://penguinppc.org/~eb/files/XFS-debian-README.txt
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On Sun, Aug 11, 2002 at 12:57:01PM +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote:
On Sun, 2002-08-11 at 09:11, Ethan Benson wrote:
I have updated my XFS enabled set of boot-floppies to use the final
2.4.19 kernel along with a patch to fix a small file corruption bug in
XFS 2.4.19 split patches.
Can
, it reappeared sometimes in the 2.4.19-pre
stages in XFS CVS (definitly including -rc2 through final 2.4.19 split
patches) its currently fixed in CVS, or i have the standalone patch
against 2.4.19+split patches if your like my and prefer to stay at
known snapshots.
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support for it. Right
after I compiled it in.
cat /proc/filesystems to see if you really compiled it in.
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people
start cooperating it will support IBM CHRP agian.
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was
`Reboot Different'
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what your talking about.
From: Ethan Benson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sat, 10 Nov 2001 19:18:30 -0900
To: debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Problem cat'ing in terminal: buffer overflow?
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On Sat, Nov 10, 2001 at 11:33:08AM -0800
On Sat, Nov 10, 2001 at 10:33:22PM -0800, Laurent de Segur wrote:
Fuck off Ethan. OK?
No thank you.
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and is getting more picky
about not carrying things which are the vendor's responsibility to document.
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system.
I always get one of two types of error. Either cannot open partition
or invalid command
rtfm it explains how to make potato bootable. or better reinstall
with current woody boot-floppies where this step works properly.
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.
it would be nice if someone who knows the kernel internals could look
for this bug and fix it. *cough* benh *hint* *cough*
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On Sun, Nov 11, 2001 at 10:26:43AM -0700, Derrik Pates wrote:
On Sun, 11 Nov 2001, Ethan Benson wrote:
2.*.* kernels are affected. and this always happens AFTER the new
partition table is already completly synced to disk, once you reboot
your partition table is just fine, just as you
of any driver cruft, only pure linux
partitions and an Apple_Bootstrap. when setting it up i intentionally
tried writing a few new tables just to see, could never reproduce it
again.
perhaps all that cruft has something to do with it? though i don't see how...
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definitly your kernel was broken. boot-floppies REQUIRE a kernel with
CONFIG_MAC_ADBKEYCODES=n
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or /dev/ram0
Also, just on a hunch, could you move the append=video=ofonly
inside the image sections?
yaboot supports append in either the global or per image sections,
though i haven't ever tested it in a global section.
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with OF, for example?
you can pretty thoroughly destroy many components of your hardware by
mucking around OpenFirmware, something i don't recommend.
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might or might not work and different ways
to do things if something doesn't quite pan out.
and potato barly supports powerpc by todays standards.
unfortunatly were stuck with potato as the stable dist for another 10
years, so rtfm and deal with it.
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before being dropped to pdisk; I'm glad I
read the online instructions first, because just the installer screens
would have baffled me.
woody boot-floppies do all of this. and mac-fdisk has command -- b --
for properly creating the bootstrap partition.
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seem to have this as its own button,
instead its triggered via command power, but im not sure that works
under linux, or if its even low level enough anymore.
imacs have it hidden away in a pinhole next to the reboot (aka MacOS)
switch.
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on:
ERASE timeout on NVRAM
DO-QUIESCE finishedbooting...
benh had the same thing, you need 2.4.
wait for a bit until i can figure out a way to create 2.4 flavored
boot-floppies.
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will almost
certainly end up destroying everything.
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with the generator name of sloopy...)
how about get started on a prototype of what you want to setup, and
then we will see.
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by
the MacOSROM.
closed. I'm not totally sure myself, but I'm sort-of sure it's not a
Linux bug. It's always possible, but it'd be a mighty strange race to
be in both 2.2 and 2.4...
i don't see how it could be anything but a linux bug, OpenFirmware
does not survive linux booting.
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Erm, right. And if we didn't properly 'shut down' OpenFirmware and it
had something open, that could cause a bad interaction.
suppose its possible, that would be the kernel's fault in puke^H^H^Hrom.c
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can do is hold down the shift key which
disables loading of kludge modules. macos isn't very functional
without a large set of kludge modules to reduce stability and create
more crashes.
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hardware.
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-ascii chars),
but when it's done, the label before the prompt sign and everything typed is
just garbage too. I run 2.4.15 but I've seen this on prior 2.4.x builts.
you have obviously never used a unix system before.
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and no desktop files don't have anything to do with bootability, they
are just cruft.
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, but nothing is working on it. And I do nearly
know nothing about powerpc hardware. - So please help.
references to documentation would also be fine.
penguinppc.org/projects/yaboot/doc/
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machine and the open firmware is not good enough to support a
reliable quik solution on most machines. I've had better luck
sticking with the bootx solution, but it is not always an option for
some people for a variety of reasons.
quik works quite well on the 7300 actually.
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potato r4 CDs are not bootable.
i say fuck it, use woody, potato is too old and broken for powerpc.
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there is not a damn thing we can do about it, util-linux is being
stopped from entering woody for some reason.
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-locales 2.11l-3 gives status install ok unpacked.
So far Ethan Benson wrote in a follow-up that the fixed version is yet
uploaded and should be available probably on friday last week.
the fixed version has been in sid for nearly a week now.
So I want to ask if the fixed version has been
?
no. rtfm.
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distro
independent hardware list on penguinppc let me know for an account. i
don't think the current lists have anyone really doing much maintainence.
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/IdCache.pm line 303) thousands of times.
Doing the reconfigure works fine though.
0.6.0 is now in woody, this bug is fixed.
unfortunatly upgrading to that version triggers the bug 3 times out of 4.
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, because on this blue g3 you can remove
the battery and pull the plug all you want and nvram settings stay
intact indefinitly. i discovered this when i severly screwed up the
OF configuration making the machine (very) unbootable.
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not a dynamic executable
startx is a shell script, and its not the source of your error, startx
is running fine, its encountering errors when i tries to excecute
/bin/xauth and /bin/xinit which you can clearly see in the errors above.
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entry, or even any config file at all.
run `help' in yaboot for info on how to do this. (1.3.4 or later).
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On Mon, Nov 05, 2001 at 05:33:18AM -0500, Joseph Fannin wrote:
I could save everyone some trouble by learning to use the reply-all
button, I guess. I don't like reply-to munging at all, but I suppose I've
gotten used to it.
no use list-reply not reply-all.
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on the mainboard and
Apple warns not to press this button longer than 1 second or you can
damage your mac (think this is the way a G4 enters
firmware-download-mode or something like that)
G4s don't have CUDA.
in my case i had to boot the backup copy of OF to fix things.
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.x at the moment)
from within the sources directory.
what does this have to do with yaboot.conf
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like `check
for the actual part you need, rather then just assuming certain models
all have the same hardware configuration'.
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On Sat, Nov 03, 2001 at 09:51:49PM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote:
When I found that a few months ago, dan explained that the doubled letters
were supposed to come out bold.
u, since when could you have bold and other such attributes in
plain ascii text?
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are stored in flash on newworlds, so it
doesn't need a battery to maintain, but the RTC still does.
apparently apple doesn't care about the clock.
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should only talk about the
kernel, distribution specific support should be up the vendor to
provide.
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On Sun, Nov 04, 2001 at 01:03:44PM +0100, sisi wrote:
On Sat, Nov 03, 2001 at 10:45:02PM -0900, Ethan Benson wrote:
On Sat, Nov 03, 2001 at 09:51:49PM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote:
When I found that a few months ago, dan explained that the doubled letters
were supposed to come out bold
is, all i know is a report from benh that he simply could not get
debian's 2.2.19 to boot his ibook2 period, and i am pretty sure he
hacked around on it for awhile.
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and drivers.
I noticed your command said hd:,yaboot -- I think you need a partition
number in there like hd:16,yaboot (well that's what I use).
hd:,yaboot sometimes works, depends on the machine and how much OF
likes you.
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On Fri, Nov 02, 2001 at 09:02:32PM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote:
potato has the same kernel if I'm not mistaken.
correct, its the exact same source, only difference is woody has one
with a few different config options, none remotly relevant to booting.
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On Fri, Nov 02, 2001 at 11:31:40PM -0500, Joseph Fannin wrote:
So I bootable CD for oldworld machines isn't possible, eh? S'funny, I
have one right here.
rtfla.
it requires proprietary software and expensive distribution licences.
unacceptable for debian, period.
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on reiserfs,
thats rather inconvenient.
Cheers (and let me know if $OTHERFS craps out just as badly)
its been quite some time now and he has had no problems, niether have i.
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currently
on 2.4.12 with no problems whatsoever, and its a newworld G4, with
oldworld your definitly fine with Linus.
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from potato boot-floppies even, which are only given absolutly
essential bug fixes for the exceedingly rare updates.
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in any of
linus' changelogs in quite some time, but paul has been getting stuff
merged quite regularly (though nothing much since .10).
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to be broken.
my bet is on 2.4.14 being the last Linus 2.4, but my bets are capped
at a nickel.
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? On a side note, is it really true
that swapfiles can only be 2GB? And does that 'idebus=66' do anything
except satisfy my more compulsive urges?
swap files are more limited on 32 bit architectures.
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updated seems to have been
a somewhat slow process at the very least, which is one major reason
why i don't think we should bother trying to keep such a hardware list
there. besides the fact that a distro indepenent one is probably
possible and would make more sense.
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server -- small, quiet, and very stylish.
very interesting, would you like you write a small mini-howto for
penguinppc.org?
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;)
You *did* say it was MockOS, didn't you?
yes, which does support sleep far better then linux does.
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the 7200 in here?
I was hoping somebody would speak up about it - according to the NetBSD
docs, it has a 601 and they don't support it. Maybe that's out of date.
a friend of mine is using a quik booting, macos-free 7200 as a firewall.
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text that goes with the static kernel
debian's stable boot-floppies release uses might be a good thing.
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ever changes,
the only useful version number there is for benh trees is the current
date (and even time in some cases).
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look like a toilet seat)?
benh reported that 2.2 does this on these machines, and 2.2 isn't
exactly supported on any of apple's new hardware.
we need to add a 2.4 flavor for powerpc boot-floppies.
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,
besides the fact that the 540c seems is completly immune to all forms
of *nix assimilation.
my point is that putting a laptop to sleep instead of shutting it down
entirely when transporting it is not a good idea IMO and IME.
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not, and it had a mechenism where when the
lid is closed it went to sleep, but when it awoke for whatever reason
it usually stayed awake and became very hot.
so its up to you, convenience and risk of destruction and meltdown, or
shutting it down and not having to worry about it much.
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On Wed, Oct 31, 2001 at 12:44:01PM +0100, raphaello wrote:
Where can I find a version of Emacs for MacOS 9 ?
install a ssh client and ssh to a unix box with emacs installed.
or better yet erase MacOS and install Debian.
iow i seriously doubt such a thing exists.
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should be marked wontfix and closed.
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the same trouble,
apparently its due a firmware bug which apple is busy ignoring. (go
search through some macos specific discussion groups).
The clock program works fine.
It's still deprecated. If there are problems with the /dev/rtc driver,
they need to be fixed.
indeed.
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the endianness
patches applied. xfsprogs work fine, and ext3 is probably the easiest
anyway.
debian reiserfsprogs not only do not have the endianess patches, the
source package is set to arch i386 so its never even built for powerpc.
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got it right) get the
right partitioner.
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on the tmpfs effectivly
uses your swap space.
its very similar to the Solaris tmpfs.
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(Brendan O'Dea)
- Upgrade libext2fs to 1.25, this adds full ext3 support to yaboot.
- Reiserfs fixes (Jeff Mahoney)
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that Just Works on whatever hardware.
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be we bother with anything at all? /sarcasm
Andrew, this is not a solution.
Thank you.
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