ybin on second(?) revision iMac
I've just been trying to get debian booting an iMac using a bootstrap partition rather than the older method. If I run ybin directly the system refuses to boot yaboot, and after a short time(2 seconds) defaults to MacOS. Option key doesn't show linux partition. If I set the boot-device to: boot-device hd:10,\\yaboot then it boots into yaboot, but still no clickable icon. Any ideas/suggestions? galen:~# cat /proc/cpuinfo cpu : 740/750 clock : 400MHz revision: 131.0 (pvr 0008 8300) bogomips: 797.90 machine : PowerMac2,1 motherboard : PowerMac2,1 MacRISC Power Macintosh detected as : 66 (iMac FireWire) pmac flags : 0005 L2 cache: 512K unified memory : 320MB pmac-generation : NewWorld Cc: replies to me please.
Re: kernel problem with 12inch powerbook and 2.4.21-ben2
On Wed, 06 Aug 2003 20:30:08 -0600 Brad Farr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jay Graves wrote: > > After > > apt-get'ing many packages I downloaded the 2.4.21 kernel and rsynced to > > benh2. compiled and installed. Now when I reboot into open firmware... > > > > boot hd:9,yaboot #to get to yaboot > > boot: hd:11,/vmlinux root=/dev/hdc11 ro #to boot my new 2.4.21-benh2 > > kernel > > > > I get kernel panic with the following message > > > > VFS: Cannot open root device "hdc11" or 16:0b > > Please append a correct "root=" boot option > > Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 16:0b > > > > I had exactly the same experience, but with a blue and white G3. > As a test, I downloaded the precompiled kernel, > linux-benh-devel-2.4.21-ben2, from www.ppckernel.org . > The precompiled kernel, which was the same version but presumably with > different modules, would boot and run fine. > Several days earlier I compiled the 2.4.21-benh2 on an older PowerMac > 7300/200, which boots with BootX, and it would boot without problems. > I went back to the default woody kernel, 2.4.18-newpmac, for the G3. > I don't know the solution, but I'd sure like to. Do you have the right filesystems included in your config? I had to add ext3 to my kernel config, and if you are using xfs, jfs or reiser then you won't get any helpful hints. I'm running 2.4.21-ben2 on a pismo right now. -- njh http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~njh/
Re: X Crash after installing msttcorefonts, cabextract, x-ttcidfont-conf
On Thu, 21 Aug 2003 20:19:23 +0200 (CEST) Wolfgang Pfeiffer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Does anybody out there know, whether there is a single human being > among the Debian folks who is aware of the fact that a font system > like the one on Debian is not only a bad joke but, if I see this > correctly, simply gaga? That this font system is definitely unusable? > And I'd bet it's not only unusable for non-X-coders but even for the > X-developers themselves. Yes, it's terrible. I hope that Xouvert dumps everything but truetype and atm support and moves towards the fontconfig approach. > My guess is this mess is a Debian-specific one, i.e. one that was > caused by the way the Debian folks organize the fonts on Debian, and > not one which is caused by the X-developers. Am I right? Nope. I've found the same mess on several different distros. It's an X issue AFAICT. > Situations like that is why I say that Debian-Linux does not work for > people with a girl-friend or a family, or for folks who need to get a > job done on a computer in a reasonable amount of time. Or for folks > who simply like watching shadows on the wall (John Lennon :) or the > stars above them. Hang on a minute. Everyone I know who uses Debian is either married or at least has a girlfriend. My fiancee is an avid user of Debian yet she uses XP at work, she _chooses_ to use Debian. She is not a sysadmin, she just wants thing to work. And they do (well, the starburst logo script-fu crashes the gimp on ppc, but ari pollak has that under control :). > I'd guess it's a system for folks not knowing what to do with their > lives if they had a working OS on their computer. If anything, it's a system for people who want to do something different with their computer. I think if anything, we need to either bring testing up to date, or maintain a 'desktop' version with the most current stable desktops. > I'm talking of Debian-Linux because even on a 2 or 3 year old > i386 RedHat 6.2 the font situation, IIRC, by far was not that ugly as > it is here on Debian. Rubbish, I remember trying to get truetype fonts working on a 6.2. Take another look at fontconfig. installing fonts means either putting them in /usr/share/fonts/truetype/ if you want to share them across all users, or ~/.fonts if you alone want to use them. Then run fc-cache. The rest is cruft and I imagine it will be removed soon. -- njh
Re: 2.4.21-ben2 issues: RTC, Thermal and RTAS
On Sun, 24 Aug 2003 22:51:36 +1000 "J. Javier Maestro" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > True... anyone with a nice hack/mod of the Powerbook with temp > sensors? The sound chip in the powerbook is controlled through the i2c bus. I2c is very easy to interface to and there are plenty of i2c temp sensors. Because the bus is basically power + 2 wires you should be able to retro-fit one quite easily, if you can find where the i2c bus goes. There are many other interesting devices one could control from i2c, do a google search and you'll be amazed :) -- njh
