Re: Has anybody recently done a Debian install on a playstation-3?

2010-02-18 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Thu, 18 Feb 2010, Otavio Salvador wrote: > On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 10:17 AM, Geert Uytterhoeven > wrote: > > > Can you get an lspci of a running system, and a dmesg, for us > to check if it > > is a missing module? > > There's no (user-v

Re: Has anybody recently done a Debian install on a playstation-3?

2010-02-18 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
by the hypervisor. They're all using the ps3rom driver. > Can you get an lspci of a running system, and a dmesg, for us to check if it > is a missing module? There's no (user-visible) PCI bus. All needed drivers are for the PS3 system bus type, and they should be loaded fi

Re: PowePC sid_d-i daily builds are not happening...

2009-06-03 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
. one year ago. Perhaps there are other issues with encrypted LVM on ppc? [1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=514055 [2] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=531600 With kind regards, Geert Uytterhoeven Software Architect Techsoft Centre Technology and Software

Bug#531600: busybox grep gives SEGV on ppc

2009-06-02 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
nitrds when installing a new kernel image. The version in sid (1:1.13.3-1) doesn't seem to have this bug anymore. With kind regards, Geert Uytterhoeven Software Architect Techsoft Centre Technology and Software Centre Europe The Corporate Village · Da Vincilaan 7-D1 · B-1935 Zaventem · Belg

Bug#514055: [Cbe-oss-dev] Bug#514055: debian still not working on PS3

2009-03-27 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
oader to boot Linux. GameOS looks for the file ps3/otheros/otheros.bld on any of the storage devices. So if you would put it on the PowerPC install CD, the users would have everything in one place. With kind regards, Geert Uytterhoeven Software Architect Sony Techsoft Centre Europe The Co

Bug#514055: [Cbe-oss-dev] Bug#514055: debian still not working on PS3

2009-03-24 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Tue, 24 Mar 2009, Wartan Hachaturow wrote: > On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 11:19 AM, Geert Uytterhoeven >> Mar 20 > 21:57:32 kernel: [    7.727934] Buffer I/O error on device sr0, > logical block 11428 > > > > That's ca. 22 MiB inside the image. How large is mini.is

Bug#514055: debian still not working on PS3

2009-03-24 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
Damaged CD? Is it dirty? Scratches? Can you read it somewhere else? > Mar 20 21:57:32 kernel: [7.722110] end_request: I/O error, dev sr0, > sector 45712 > Mar 20 21:57:32 kernel: [ 7.727934] Buffer

Re: No HFS driver, and "change install priority" menu option missing -- and other bugs found while testing 2.4 boot floppies on OldWorld PowerMac

2004-10-01 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
added that option to miboot. Serial console is definitely the way to go! You may want to hack kernel/printk.c:printk() to call the serial output routine directly. Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia3

Re: No HFS driver, and "change install priority" menu option missing -- and other bugs found while testing 2.4 boot floppies on OldWorld PowerMac

2004-10-01 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
he hfs > filesystem on the floppy image. told me I should use "hfs" instead. IIRC, HFS+ is not compatible with HFS. So if the floppy uses HFS, you should use the HFS driver, not the HFS+ driver. Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert U

Re: No HFS driver, and "change install priority" menu option missing -- and other bugs found while testing 2.4 boot floppies on OldWorld PowerMac

2004-09-24 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
n emergency, you can always use `tar cvf /dev/fd0 ...'. Who needs a file system, if he has tar? ;-) Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] In personal conversations

Re: Booting installer on RS/6000 43p-140

2004-07-13 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Tue, 13 Jul 2004, Leigh Brown wrote: > Geert Uytterhoeven said: > > On Tue, 13 Jul 2004, Sven Luther wrote: > >> Any chance to get the specs out of IBM and writting a driver or such ? > > > > What does `lspci' say? IIRC, some of these GXT cards are plain

Re: Booting installer on RS/6000 43p-140

2004-07-13 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
ing: > > > > > > Any idea what this graphic card reallyu is ? > > > > Proprietary IBM, and won't work with Linux. > > Oh, ... > > Would probably be the same for an GXT3000P, right ? > > Any chance to get the specs out of IBM and writting a driver

Re: G5 install?

2004-07-11 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
e parallel > one, the floppy driver, the ps2 atkbd and mouse stuff, what else ? (cat /proc/ioports on ia32 box) RTC? -> Probably already sufficiently shielded by Kconfig VGA? -> vgacon and vga16fb IDE? -> Probably already fixed Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

Re: Install debian RS/6000 44P Model 170

2004-01-23 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Fri, 23 Jan 2004, Leigh Brown wrote: > Geert Uytterhoeven said: > > My version of Open Firmware (from Firmworks) didn't like the yaboot loader > > and kept rebooting with the message `rebooting with the correct settings > > for this client program' (or something l

Re: Install debian RS/6000 44P Model 170

2004-01-23 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
t loader anymore. Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists

Re: Proposed patch: ppcdetect -> archdetect

2003-10-20 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
mlinuz'. Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I ju

Re: APUS Debian Boot-Floppies Images and bugs

2001-05-17 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
;do' the AGA > modes (even the 29.xHz VGA thing) , others dont have scan-doublers or TV's > handy (if they've got a modulator). Note that `vga' and `vga70' in Linux/amifb are real 31 kHz modes, not the `approximating' stuff from AmigaOS. Gr{oetje,eetin

Re: APUS Debian Boot-Floppies Images and bugs

2001-05-17 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Thu, 17 May 2001, Michel Dänzer wrote: > Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > > On Thu, 17 May 2001, Michel Dänzer wrote: > > > I already considered all this and am now at 848 K. How much space exactly > > > do we have? > > > > IIRC you have 837 kB free on an OFS

Re: APUS Debian Boot-Floppies Images and bugs

2001-05-17 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
will waste^H^H^H^H^Hconsume even more diskspace. Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But whe

Re: APUS Debian Boot-Floppies Images and bugs

2001-05-17 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Thu, 17 May 2001, Sven LUTHER wrote: > On Wed, May 16, 2001 at 12:09:02PM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > > The only problem is that people might not have enough memory for both RAM: and > > kernel/ramdisk. > > huh, how much is this ? i guess most apus users have at

Re: APUS Debian Boot-Floppies Images and bugs

2001-05-17 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
we also dont need OCS gfx support...as PowerPC cards only work on > ECS and AGA systems. Yep, you can remove OCS/ECS support, but it'll save only a few bytes, I guess. Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of

Re: APUS Debian Boot-Floppies Images and bugs

2001-05-17 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Thu, 17 May 2001, Michel Dänzer wrote: > Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > > You don't need fbcon-cfb24 and fbcon-cf32 since no one wants to run an > > install console in those depths anyway. I don't think you need it for > > half-supported gfx cards with amiboot -v

Re: APUS Debian Boot-Floppies Images and bugs

2001-05-16 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
d it for half-supported gfx cards with amiboot -v, only depth 16. > Do we need Minix fs support yet? Not for installation. Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] In p

Re: APUS Debian Boot-Floppies Images and bugs

2001-05-16 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
olatile ram: The only problem is that people might not have enough memory for both RAM: and kernel/ramdisk. Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] In personal conversations wit

Re: APUS Debian Boot-Floppies Images and bugs

2001-05-15 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
t; > > is this now fixed? > CV3D works, at least from the m68k kernel images. Ken did not officially > release the source yet (are you listeing?), but the lastet driver works on > ZorroII (and probably on Zorro3, since he did it). Yep, where are the patches??? Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

Re: APUS Debian Boot-Floppies Images and bugs

2001-05-15 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
ut then you > may be able to do it, splitting the kernel in 2 and reconstructiong it again > in the ramdisk. You would need copy and join though. Are those in the AimgaOS > rom ? maybe ... Copy and join are in C:. Gr{oetje,eeting}s, G

Re: APUS Debian Boot-Floppies Images and bugs

2001-05-15 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
ot a plain gzipped tarball or lha archive ? Because it's easier to mess up things with tar/lha than with ADF or DMS? Alternatively, let them use gunzip and dd :-) Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyo

Re: APUS Debian Boot-Floppies Images and bugs

2001-05-15 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
are probably quite larger due to PPC asm being less compact. Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker.

Re: APUS Debian Boot-Floppies Images and bugs

2001-05-15 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
FD_HD_3 linux/drivers/block/amiflop.c. But I don't think you can easily find out from userspace. Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] In personal conversations with technical

Re: APUS Debian Boot-Floppies Images and bugs

2001-05-15 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Tue, 15 May 2001, Sven LUTHER wrote: > On Tue, May 15, 2001 at 11:11:38AM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > > On Tue, 15 May 2001, Sven LUTHER wrote: > > You cannot boot from 1.4 MB floppies, only from 880 kB or 1760 kB floppies. > > Well, ok no problem, just make

Re: APUS Debian Boot-Floppies Images and bugs

2001-05-15 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
You cannot boot from 1.4 MB floppies, only from 880 kB or 1760 kB floppies. Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] In personal conversations with technical people, I call

Re: Booting to floppy

2001-02-28 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
AmigaOS did it as well and Amigas use standard PC floppy drives (only DD, HD is different), it should work on i386 as well. Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] In personal