Success!! [was: BootX & Booting without keyboard/monitor]

2001-05-11 Thread Mike Fedyk
On Thu, May 03, 2001 at 12:44:53AM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: > On Thu, May 03, 2001 at 12:43:40AM -0700, Mike Fedyk wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I have a bunch of 7200 Macs that I want to turn into servers, and I'm having > > trouble getting them to boot without the monitor. I've tried it on a > > 730

Re: Yaboot is wonderful ...

2001-05-11 Thread Ethan Benson
On Fri, May 11, 2001 at 05:48:36PM -0600, Jason E. Stewart wrote: > "Ethan Benson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Fri, May 11, 2001 at 08:53:19AM -0600, Jason E. Stewart wrote: > > > > > > Never read the man page for mkofboot. > > > > you should read all the man pages, especially the ones

Re: Bug#96251: [powerpc] xmms fails to play mp3/ogg files

2001-05-11 Thread Colin Walters
Michel Dänzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Colin Walters wrote: > > > > I forgot to mention that I can't use an older kernel (presuming > > you mean 2.2), because neither sound nor X will work on a TiBook > > with 2.2 AFAIK, which pretty much precludes running XMMS :) > > At least X should work

Re: Yaboot is wonderful ...

2001-05-11 Thread Jason E. Stewart
"Ethan Benson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Fri, May 11, 2001 at 08:53:19AM -0600, Jason E. Stewart wrote: > > > > Never read the man page for mkofboot. > > you should read all the man pages, especially the ones in sid's yaboot > package they are quite informative ;-) Absolutely, and I'm gr

Re: Yaboot is wonderful ...

2001-05-11 Thread Ethan Benson
On Fri, May 11, 2001 at 08:53:19AM -0600, Jason E. Stewart wrote: > > Never read the man page for mkofboot. you should read all the man pages, especially the ones in sid's yaboot package they are quite informative ;-) > Unless the stock kernel on the Potato CD have had the reiser patches > appli

Re: RaiserFS PPC status

2001-05-11 Thread Andrew Sharp
"David N. Welton" wrote: > > Andrew Sharp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > That would make sense, since they do all the Linux XFS developemnt > > on ia32 and ia64 boxes! At least they did when I worked in that > > group. But XFS is a very mature piece of code in general compared > > to ReiserF

Re: PReP Blackhawk (Powerstack) question

2001-05-11 Thread Tom Rini
On Fri, May 11, 2001 at 04:38:05AM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: > something more useful would be to write (or port say yaboot) a > bootloader to dd to the bootstrap partition instead of the kernel, > this way the bootloader can read its config from the root filesystem > and load the kernel from the

Re: XFree86 4.0.3 and Voodoo

2001-05-11 Thread Branden Robinson
On Fri, May 11, 2001 at 01:38:24PM +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote: > Russell Hires wrote: > > > I've searched and searched and searched the list archives about the > > latest version of XFree86 and my lovely Voodoo card...and found nothing > > that seems to help. > > > > I went to Branden's page and

Re: Yaboot is wonderful ...

2001-05-11 Thread Jason E. Stewart
"Ethan Benson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, May 10, 2001 at 07:55:53PM -0600, Jason E. Stewart wrote: > > ybin: for updates > mkofboot: for new clean bootloader installs. > > mkofboot formats, ybin does not. Never read the man page for mkofboot. > actually i am surprised that worke

Re: PReP Blackhawk (Powerstack) question

2001-05-11 Thread Ethan Benson
something more useful would be to write (or port say yaboot) a bootloader to dd to the bootstrap partition instead of the kernel, this way the bootloader can read its config from the root filesystem and load the kernel from the root filesystem. that would be much more straightforward... On Fri,

Re: Yaboot is wonderful ...

2001-05-11 Thread Ethan Benson
On Thu, May 10, 2001 at 07:55:53PM -0600, Jason E. Stewart wrote: > Hey, > > In the process of switching my whole setup from ext2 to reiser, I did > a lot of repartitioning/rebooting. In the process I did a stupid thing > with my bootstrap partition. I had originally made it huge, 50Mb. When > mov

Re: XFree86 4.0.3 and Voodoo

2001-05-11 Thread Russell Hires
Okay, I'll bite. I'm headed for woody from potato. There's nothing on my install that I mind losing...so here we go! Russell --- I don't care if you're going nowhere, Just take good care of the world. -- Depeche Mode -- >From: Michel Dänzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To

Re: XFree86 4.0.3 and Voodoo

2001-05-11 Thread Michel Dänzer
Russell Hires wrote: > I've searched and searched and searched the list archives about the > latest version of XFree86 and my lovely Voodoo card...and found nothing > that seems to help. > > I went to Branden's page and changed my sources.list (which BTW had a > funny problem of not being editabl

Recompile needed for 2.2r4

2001-05-11 Thread Martin Schulze
Preparation of Debian GNU/Linux 2.2r4 = Up-to-date version on http://master.debian.org/~joey/2.2r4/ Recompiles required --- These packages need further investigation. One reason the package is listed here could be that I'm not yet convinced th

Re: Bug#96251: [powerpc] xmms fails to play mp3/ogg files

2001-05-11 Thread Michel Dänzer
Colin Walters wrote: > > Josip Rodin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Hmm. Could you try to reproduce this with an older kernel and a > > newer glibc? > > I forgot to mention that I can't use an older kernel (presuming you > mean 2.2), because neither sound nor X will work on a TiBook with 2.2

Re: RaiserFS PPC status

2001-05-11 Thread Michel Dänzer
"David N. Welton" wrote: > > Andrew Sharp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > That would make sense, since they do all the Linux XFS developemnt > > on ia32 and ia64 boxes! At least they did when I worked in that > > group. But XFS is a very mature piece of code in general compared > > to ReiserF

Re: RaiserFS PPC status

2001-05-11 Thread David N. Welton
Andrew Sharp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > That would make sense, since they do all the Linux XFS developemnt > on ia32 and ia64 boxes! At least they did when I worked in that > group. But XFS is a very mature piece of code in general compared > to ReiserFS, which is much newer piece of code. M

Re: Bug#96251: [powerpc] xmms fails to play mp3/ogg files

2001-05-11 Thread Colin Walters
Josip Rodin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hmm. Could you try to reproduce this with an older kernel and a > newer glibc? I forgot to mention that I can't use an older kernel (presuming you mean 2.2), because neither sound nor X will work on a TiBook with 2.2 AFAIK, which pretty much precludes run