cdrecord a bootable cd

2005-01-19 Thread William Xuuu
Hi, Anybody knows how to burn a bootable cd using cdrecord ? With a simple command `cdrecord dev=ATAPI:0,0,0 boot.iso' , i'm able to burn a cd with exact same data in boot.iso, but i can't boot from it. Any suggestions would be appreciated. -- William

Re: Contents of /boot and /etc/yaboot.conf

2005-01-19 Thread Chris Doherty
Shyamal Prasad wrote: If you built your kernel with make-kpkg you need to provide the --initrd switch to create an initrd kernel. If you do that then when you install the kernel (with dpkg -i .deb) it will create the initrd image for you. Which part of this do you think failed? I didn't use t

Re: Contents of /boot and /etc/yaboot.conf

2005-01-19 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Chris" == Chris Doherty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Chris> And /boot. Notice that there's no initrd.img symlink. I Chris> thought there was earlier, but I was obviously mistaken. The inintrd.img symlink is a convenience, and it is created by the kernel install scripts when you firs

Re: [PATCH] Set accel in radeon driver

2005-01-19 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Sat, 2005-01-08 at 00:00 +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > On Fri, Jan 07, 2005 at 05:34:18PM +, Martin Habets wrote: > > The patch below enhances the FBIOGET_FSCREENINFO ioctl. It is used > > by the lcd_hack tool that Ben H wrote. Before this fix accel is set > > to 0 and lcd_hack aborts. With it

cdrecord a bootable cd

2005-01-19 Thread William Xuuu
Hi, Anybody knows how to burn a bootable cd using cdrecord ? With a simple command `cdrecord dev=ATAPI:0,0,0 boot.iso' , i'm able to burn a cd with exact same data in boot.iso, but i can't boot from it. Any suggestions would be appreciated. -- William -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTE

Contents of /boot and /etc/yaboot.conf

2005-01-19 Thread Chris Doherty
Here's the yaboot.conf: ## yaboot.conf generated by debian-installer ## ## run: "man yaboot.conf" for details. Do not make changes until you have!! ## see also: /usr/share/doc/yaboot/examples for example configurations. ## ## For a dual-boot menu, add one or more of: ## bsd=/dev/hdaX, macos=/dev/h

initrd images are incorrect/missing

2005-01-19 Thread Chris Doherty
Well, this certainly falls under the category of WTF. Booting from sarge disc 1 ppc r0, and mounting /dev/hda4, I have no initrd.img symlink in /mnt/boot. I have initrd.old, which is of course not initrd.img.old, which is what yaboot.conf wants to load. So I changed the symlink and now she's

Re: Contents of /boot and /etc/yaboot.conf

2005-01-19 Thread Chris Doherty
Shyamal Prasad wrote: If you built your kernel with make-kpkg you need to provide the --initrd switch to create an initrd kernel. If you do that then when you install the kernel (with dpkg -i .deb) it will create the initrd image for you. Which part of this do you think failed? I didn't use the --

Re: Right, so compiling my own kernel has b0rked my iMac. (was Help compiling a kernel for iMac rev B)

2005-01-19 Thread Chris Doherty
Shyamal Prasad wrote: "Chris" == Chris Doherty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: You really are having all the luck;-) All of it bad, yah... Chris> /[EMAIL PROTECTED]/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/[EMAIL PROTECTED]:4,/boot/initrd.img:No Chris> such file or directory (initrd.

Re: Contents of /boot and /etc/yaboot.conf

2005-01-19 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Chris" == Chris Doherty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Chris> And /boot. Notice that there's no initrd.img symlink. I Chris> thought there was earlier, but I was obviously mistaken. The inintrd.img symlink is a convenience, and it is created by the kernel install scripts when you firs

Re: [PATCH] Set accel in radeon driver

2005-01-19 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Sat, 2005-01-08 at 00:00 +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > On Fri, Jan 07, 2005 at 05:34:18PM +, Martin Habets wrote: > > The patch below enhances the FBIOGET_FSCREENINFO ioctl. It is used > > by the lcd_hack tool that Ben H wrote. Before this fix accel is set > > to 0 and lcd_hack aborts. With it

Re: Right, so compiling my own kernel has b0rked my iMac. (was Help compiling a kernel for iMac rev B)

2005-01-19 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Chris" == Chris Doherty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: You really are having all the luck;-) Chris> On boot, whether I select the linux image or the old image, Chris> I get the following (I believe this is an OpenFirmware Chris> message): I suspect that this is from yaboot (see

Contents of /boot and /etc/yaboot.conf

2005-01-19 Thread Chris Doherty
Here's the yaboot.conf: ## yaboot.conf generated by debian-installer ## ## run: "man yaboot.conf" for details. Do not make changes until you have!! ## see also: /usr/share/doc/yaboot/examples for example configurations. ## ## For a dual-boot menu, add one or more of: ## bsd=/dev/hdaX, macos=/dev/h

initrd images are incorrect/missing

2005-01-19 Thread Chris Doherty
Well, this certainly falls under the category of WTF. Booting from sarge disc 1 ppc r0, and mounting /dev/hda4, I have no initrd.img symlink in /mnt/boot. I have initrd.old, which is of course not initrd.img.old, which is what yaboot.conf wants to load. So I changed the symlink and now she's bo

Re: Right, so compiling my own kernel has b0rked my iMac. (was Help compiling a kernel for iMac rev B)

2005-01-19 Thread Chris Doherty
Shyamal Prasad wrote: "Chris" == Chris Doherty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: You really are having all the luck;-) All of it bad, yah... Chris> /[EMAIL PROTECTED]/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/[EMAIL PROTECTED]:4,/boot/initrd.img:No Chris> such file or directory (initrd.img.old

Right, so compiling my own kernel has b0rked my iMac. (was Help compiling a kernel for iMac rev B)

2005-01-19 Thread Chris Doherty
Where's the microwave... I compiled and installed my kernel as specified in www.desktop-linux.net/debkernel.htm, and that seemed to go just fine, I checked /etc/yaboot.conf and it appeared to have all the necessary elements added to boot both the new kernel (as 'linux') and the original kerne

Re: Right, so compiling my own kernel has b0rked my iMac. (was Help compiling a kernel for iMac rev B)

2005-01-19 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Chris" == Chris Doherty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: You really are having all the luck;-) Chris> On boot, whether I select the linux image or the old image, Chris> I get the following (I believe this is an OpenFirmware Chris> message): I suspect that this is from yaboot (see

Re: NPTL -- not happening?

2005-01-19 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Jan 20, 2005 at 10:24:15AM +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > > > Too late. Face it, if we are going to rebuild with a NPTL glibc and gcc 3.4, > > we may not release sarge this year, at least not earlier than sarge+1 aka > > etch > > would be released, so what do we gain with this

Re: NPTL -- not happening?

2005-01-19 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
> Too late. Face it, if we are going to rebuild with a NPTL glibc and gcc 3.4, > we may not release sarge this year, at least not earlier than sarge+1 aka etch > would be released, so what do we gain with this ? > > > 4.0 is still not ready to be used by anything but gcc hackers imho :) > > no

Right, so compiling my own kernel has b0rked my iMac. (was Help compiling a kernel for iMac rev B)

2005-01-19 Thread Chris Doherty
Where's the microwave... I compiled and installed my kernel as specified in www.desktop-linux.net/debkernel.htm, and that seemed to go just fine, I checked /etc/yaboot.conf and it appeared to have all the necessary elements added to boot both the new kernel (as 'linux') and the original kernel

Re: mounting msdos flash cards

2005-01-19 Thread Adam Done
On Wed, 2005-01-19 at 23:10 +0200, Juha-Matti Tapio wrote: > On Wed, Jan 19, 2005 at 01:08:04PM -0800, Adam Done wrote: > > # mount -t msdos /dev/sda /mnt/x > > > > mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sda, > >missing codepage or other error > >In some cases use

Re: blade JS20 running debian

2005-01-19 Thread Cajus Pollmeier
Am 19.01.2005 um 17:05 schrieb grave: Hi ! We successfully installed a debian system on a js20 blade (2.2 powerpc 970FX). We first tryed the d-i pseries.img from cajus without success, we thought this was due to a conflic between the SOL configuration and the eth0 interface (we have only on

Re: NPTL -- not happening?

2005-01-19 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Jan 20, 2005 at 10:24:15AM +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > > > Too late. Face it, if we are going to rebuild with a NPTL glibc and gcc 3.4, > > we may not release sarge this year, at least not earlier than sarge+1 aka > > etch > > would be released, so what do we gain with this

Re: NPTL -- not happening?

2005-01-19 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
> Too late. Face it, if we are going to rebuild with a NPTL glibc and gcc 3.4, > we may not release sarge this year, at least not earlier than sarge+1 aka etch > would be released, so what do we gain with this ? > > > 4.0 is still not ready to be used by anything but gcc hackers imho :) > > no

Re: mounting msdos flash cards

2005-01-19 Thread Guillaume Florey
Le Mercredi, 19 Janvier 2005 22.08, Adam Done a écrit : > I have been trying to mount flash cards and found out they are msdos > formated. But when I mount > > # mount -t msdos /dev/sda /mnt/x > Try with /dev/sda1 or /dev/sda2 ... Good luck > mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /de

[Fwd: Re: mounting msdos flash cards]

2005-01-19 Thread Martin Lohmeier
Adam Done wrote: I have been trying to mount flash cards and found out they are msdos formated. But when I mount # mount -t msdos /dev/sda /mnt/x mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sda, missing codepage or other error In some cases useful info is found in s

Re: mounting msdos flash cards

2005-01-19 Thread Juha-Matti Tapio
On Wed, Jan 19, 2005 at 01:08:04PM -0800, Adam Done wrote: > # mount -t msdos /dev/sda /mnt/x > > mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sda, >missing codepage or other error >In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try >dmesg | tail or so How abo

mounting msdos flash cards

2005-01-19 Thread Adam Done
I have been trying to mount flash cards and found out they are msdos formated. But when I mount # mount -t msdos /dev/sda /mnt/x mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sda, missing codepage or other error In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try d

Re: Very slow ftp daemon - what's wrong??

2005-01-19 Thread Eddy Petrisor
Bjorn Johansson wrote: Hello! I have a problem here. I'm running Sarge on two computers in a small local network. Both computers have a 100Mbit network card installed but despite this I get very poor performance using the proftpd daemon. Not even 1Mbit.. 8-( Proftpd is installed on both compu

Re: mounting msdos flash cards

2005-01-19 Thread Adam Done
On Wed, 2005-01-19 at 23:10 +0200, Juha-Matti Tapio wrote: > On Wed, Jan 19, 2005 at 01:08:04PM -0800, Adam Done wrote: > > # mount -t msdos /dev/sda /mnt/x > > > > mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sda, > >missing codepage or other error > >In some cases use

Re: blade JS20 running debian

2005-01-19 Thread Cajus Pollmeier
Am 19.01.2005 um 17:05 schrieb grave: Hi ! We successfully installed a debian system on a js20 blade (2.2 powerpc 970FX). We first tryed the d-i pseries.img from cajus without success, we thought this was due to a conflic between the SOL configuration and the eth0 interface (we have only one swi

Re: mounting msdos flash cards

2005-01-19 Thread Guillaume Florey
Le Mercredi, 19 Janvier 2005 22.08, Adam Done a écrit : > I have been trying to mount flash cards and found out they are msdos > formated. But when I mount > > # mount -t msdos /dev/sda /mnt/x > Try with /dev/sda1 or /dev/sda2 ... Good luck > mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /de

[Fwd: Re: mounting msdos flash cards]

2005-01-19 Thread Martin Lohmeier
Adam Done wrote: I have been trying to mount flash cards and found out they are msdos formated. But when I mount # mount -t msdos /dev/sda /mnt/x mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sda, missing codepage or other error In some cases useful info is found in syslog

Re: mounting msdos flash cards

2005-01-19 Thread Juha-Matti Tapio
On Wed, Jan 19, 2005 at 01:08:04PM -0800, Adam Done wrote: > # mount -t msdos /dev/sda /mnt/x > > mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sda, >missing codepage or other error >In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try >dmesg | tail or so How abo

mounting msdos flash cards

2005-01-19 Thread Adam Done
I have been trying to mount flash cards and found out they are msdos formated. But when I mount # mount -t msdos /dev/sda /mnt/x mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sda, missing codepage or other error In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try d

Re: Help compiling a kernel for iMac rev B

2005-01-19 Thread Martin-Éric Racine
On Tue, 18 Jan 2005, Chris Doherty wrote: > Could anyone help me with the steps for compiling the stock 2.6.8 Debian > kernel for the powerpc (specifically a 233MHz rev B iMac)? I already have such a kernel available at: http://funkyware.konflux.at -- Martin-Éric Racine, ICT Consultant http

Re: Very slow ftp daemon - what's wrong??

2005-01-19 Thread Eddy Petrisor
Bjorn Johansson wrote: Hello! I have a problem here. I'm running Sarge on two computers in a small local network. Both computers have a 100Mbit network card installed but despite this I get very poor performance using the proftpd daemon. Not even 1Mbit.. 8-( Proftpd is installed on both computers.

Re: Help compiling a kernel for iMac rev B

2005-01-19 Thread Martin-Éric Racine
On Tue, 18 Jan 2005, Chris Doherty wrote: > Could anyone help me with the steps for compiling the stock 2.6.8 Debian > kernel for the powerpc (specifically a 233MHz rev B iMac)? I already have such a kernel available at: http://funkyware.konflux.at -- Martin-Éric Racine, ICT Consultant http

blade JS20 running debian

2005-01-19 Thread grave
Hi ! We successfully installed a debian system on a js20 blade (2.2 powerpc 970FX). We first tryed the d-i pseries.img from cajus without success, we thought this was due to a conflic between the SOL configuration and the eth0 interface (we have only one switch in our blade center), after

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blade JS20 running debian

2005-01-19 Thread grave
Hi ! We successfully installed a debian system on a js20 blade (2.2 powerpc 970FX). We first tryed the d-i pseries.img from cajus without success, we thought this was due to a conflic between the SOL configuration and the eth0 interface (we have only one switch in our blade center), after w

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Re: Help compiling a kernel for iMac rev B

2005-01-19 Thread Sven Luther
On Tue, Jan 18, 2005 at 10:06:35PM -0800, Shyamal Prasad wrote: > "Chris" == Chris Doherty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Chris> It's not that they don't work, it's that they're > Chris> nonexistent. Here's the relevant section from the README. > > Chris> "Prerequisites: > C

Re: Help compiling a kernel for iMac rev B

2005-01-19 Thread Sven Luther
On Tue, Jan 18, 2005 at 07:39:43PM -0500, Chris Doherty wrote: > Could anyone help me with the steps for compiling the stock 2.6.8 Debian > kernel for the powerpc (specifically a 233MHz rev B iMac)? I have been > following the instructions at http://www.desktop-linux.net/debkernel.htm > but I'm

Re: NPTL -- not happening?

2005-01-19 Thread Sven Luther
On Wed, Jan 19, 2005 at 11:45:29AM +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > On Tue, 2005-01-18 at 18:09 +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > > > > > Don't be stupid, only a few people really need NPTL stuff, and you can > > always > > follow testing/unstable once sarge is released. > > This is a bogus arg

Re: MAC Mini

2005-01-19 Thread Giuseppe Lavagetto
Il giorno mer, 19-01-2005 alle 11:49 +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt ha scritto: > > It's most certainly a basic intrepid chipset (same as eMac and all > recent laptops). We'll know for sure once somebody gets one (or better, > send me one :) > > Ben. > It's on slashdot now, so it's not big news,

Re: Help compiling a kernel for iMac rev B

2005-01-19 Thread Sven Luther
On Tue, Jan 18, 2005 at 10:06:35PM -0800, Shyamal Prasad wrote: > "Chris" == Chris Doherty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Chris> It's not that they don't work, it's that they're > Chris> nonexistent. Here's the relevant section from the README. > > Chris> "Prerequisites: > C

Re: Help compiling a kernel for iMac rev B

2005-01-19 Thread Sven Luther
On Tue, Jan 18, 2005 at 07:39:43PM -0500, Chris Doherty wrote: > Could anyone help me with the steps for compiling the stock 2.6.8 Debian > kernel for the powerpc (specifically a 233MHz rev B iMac)? I have been > following the instructions at http://www.desktop-linux.net/debkernel.htm > but I'm

Re: NPTL -- not happening?

2005-01-19 Thread Sven Luther
On Wed, Jan 19, 2005 at 11:45:29AM +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > On Tue, 2005-01-18 at 18:09 +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > > > > > Don't be stupid, only a few people really need NPTL stuff, and you can > > always > > follow testing/unstable once sarge is released. > > This is a bogus arg

Re: MAC Mini

2005-01-19 Thread Giuseppe Lavagetto
Il giorno mer, 19-01-2005 alle 11:49 +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt ha scritto: > > It's most certainly a basic intrepid chipset (same as eMac and all > recent laptops). We'll know for sure once somebody gets one (or better, > send me one :) > > Ben. > It's on slashdot now, so it's not big news,

Re: Getting 7500 w/ G3 upgrade card to boot w/ quik

2005-01-19 Thread Brad Boyer
On Tue, Jan 18, 2005 at 04:47:52PM -0600, Sean Jewett wrote: > I am seeing what is documented here: > > http://www.netbsd.org/Ports/macppc/faq.html#cpu-upgrade > > which is the system will run fine with the 601 proc but not the G3 upgrade > (likewise, I have a 604 in another system running fine

Re: Help compiling a kernel for iMac rev B

2005-01-19 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Chris" == Chris Doherty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Chris> It's not that they don't work, it's that they're Chris> nonexistent. Here's the relevant section from the README. Chris> "Prerequisites: Chris> [...deleted] We must be looking at different package versionsI