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?!

2010-09-26 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: http

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 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] Re: Unsubscribe request

2010-09-23 Thread Mark Knecht
On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 7:48 AM, Dr John Krane jkr...@netzero.net wrote: You should be able to unsubscribe by sending an email to: gentoo-powerpc-user+unsubscr...@lists.gentoo.org *FROM* the email address you'd like to unsubscribe (this is how you tell it what address you're using). If

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?!

2010-09-22 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

[gentoo-ppc-user] What should I copy from Ubuntu

2010-09-12 Thread Mark Knecht
Hi, Sorry for a semi-cross post between the yaboot list and Gentoo-ppc-users. I'm hoping to get this worked out today. I had trouble a week ago getting a new Gentoo PPC install to boot on my Mac Mini so for kicks I tried Ubuntu which booted fine. I'd like to get back to running Gentoo and

Re: [gentoo-ppc-user] Re: New install - Unable to get my ppc Mac Mini to boot the root partition

2010-09-03 Thread Mark Knecht
On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 2:42 PM, Enlightened User li...@nc.rr.com wrote: http://www.debian.org/ports/powerpc/inst/yaboot-howto/ch9.en.html Sections 9.2 and 9.3 show how to boot to the yaboot 'boot:' prompt and start the kernel with parameters. Hope that helps you get started. If you do change

[gentoo-ppc-user] X on an older PPC-based Mac Mini?

2009-05-22 Thread Mark Knecht
Hi, Are there any known issues setting up X with xorgconfig on a older Mac Mini? I've done it more or less like I do on my x86 machines. I can use startx and see things (xterm, xclock, etc.) in 'top' but I only get a black screen. There are no error messages in the X log file. I've tried two

Re: [gentoo-ppc-user] Mac Mini PPC - Is this the right list?

2008-04-17 Thread Mark Knecht
On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 11:16 AM, Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: SNIP Macintosh non-volatile memory driver v1.1 PCI: Enabling device :00:10.0 (0006 - 0007) radeonfb (:00:10.0): Invalid ROM signature 0 should be 0xaa55 radeonfb: Retrieved PLL infos from Open Firmware

Re: [gentoo-ppc-user] Mac Mini PPC - Is this the right list?

2008-04-16 Thread Mark Knecht
Hi all, I'm starting to look into putting Gentoo on our older PowerPC-based Mac Mini. I wanted to know if this is the right list to ask a few questions about doing an install. Thanks, Mark On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 9:29 AM, Terin Stock [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: yep, you got the

Re: [gentoo-ppc-user] Mac Mini PPC - Is this the right list?

2008-04-16 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 1:15 PM, matt hull [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is my first PPC machine. I have used Gentoo for years as a user type so I've probably built 30 x86 boxes but never a PPC so I wasn't sure how to configure the kernel by hand so I swiped the /proc/config.gz fine from

Re: [gentoo-ppc-user] Mac Mini PPC - Is this the right list?

2008-04-16 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 3:59 PM, matt hull [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: apple kernel ? that would be darwin. i think you mean linux kernel ? Well, yes, it's a Linux kernel but named 'apple' I think. The instructions you see when you boot from the Gentoo 2007.0 universal install CD say to execute

[gentoo-ppc-user] Mac Mini PPC - Is this the right list?

2008-04-15 Thread Mark Knecht
Hi all, I'm starting to look into putting Gentoo on our older PowerPC-based Mac Mini. I wanted to know if this is the right list to ask a few questions about doing an install. Thanks, Mark -- gentoo-ppc-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list