Netboot install trouble on a blue and white G3.

2005-10-23 Thread Patrick Finnegan
After trying to figure out how to netboot the sarge installer on my blue and white G3, I had to give up and use the woody installer instead. The problems I ran into: 1) The install document says to use yaboot to boot the kernel. There's no "yaboot" or yaboot.conf files in the installer directo

kernel 2.6.8 and 2.6.12 fail to boot on blue&white G3

2005-10-23 Thread Patrick Finnegan
I just installed debian on a blue and white G3 (another story in itself, see my next email), and tried to install a 2.6 kernel, both kernel-image-2.6.8-powerpc from stable, and 2.6.12 from testing. Both kernels panic when trying modprobing the cmd64x ide driver in their initrd. I had to captu

Re: reinstalling tiger

2005-10-23 Thread Derrik Pates
kohzak wrote: > I would like to know if it will be a problem to install Tiger. > Will it erase my dual boot ? You might need to hold the Option key at boot, select Linux, and once the system's booted, rerun 'ybin'. Other than that, it should "just work". > Will i have to reinstall my Debian ? No

Re: Request for help to identify some bugs (part two)

2005-10-23 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Sun, 2005-10-23 at 11:10 +0200, Yannick Roehlly wrote: > > Hrm... This is a slot loading CD ? I don't know what KDE is trying to do > > there. Do you actually have a media in hte drive when that happen ? > > The problem occurs at the moment I insert a CD in the slot drive. In some > rare cases

Re: Feedback on patch to PowerPC ports pmac page requested

2005-10-23 Thread Sven Luther
On Sun, Oct 23, 2005 at 10:33:32AM -0700, Shyamal Prasad wrote: > So perhaps the statement needs to be something like > > "For users of the powerpc flavour a 2.4 kernel is also provided to > support Amiga Power-UP (apus) systems, and as a fall back for users > with external kernel modules that are

Re: Feedback on patch to PowerPC ports pmac page requested

2005-10-23 Thread Shyamal Prasad
> "Sven" == Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Sven> On Sat, Oct 22, 2005 at 07:24:23PM -0700, Shyamal Prasad Sven> wrote: >> the G4) you also have the option of choosing a 2.4 kernel in >> case your hardware is really old. However most hardware built >> after 2001 sho

Re: Feedback on patch to PowerPC ports pmac page requested

2005-10-23 Thread Shyamal Prasad
> "Rogério" == Rogério Brito <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Rogério> On Oct 22 2005, Shyamal Prasad wrote: >> as +little as 600 to 700M for a really basic system, but you'll Rogério> I question the 600 to 700M figures for a "really basic Rogério> system". I think that these numbe

Re: reinstalling tiger

2005-10-23 Thread Yannick Roehlly
Le Dimanche 23 Octobre 2005 14:15, marco a écrit : > Il giorno dom, 23/10/2005 alle 13.59 +0200, Yannick Roehlly ha scritto: > > Here a simple reset of the openfirmware (Command-Option-P-R a the > > starting of the ibook) does the trick to start again yaboot after a MacOS > > X reinstallation. > >

Re: reinstalling tiger

2005-10-23 Thread Yannick Roehlly
Douglas Russell wrote: > It will destroy your yaboot stuff, so I've always booted a CD and rerun > yaboot to reinstall the bootloader stuff. I think it might be possible to > switch back to yaboot by booting to openfirmware and making a choice > there, but I've always done the above and it worked

Re: reinstalling tiger

2005-10-23 Thread Andrzej Mendel
Dnia 23-10-2005, nie o godzinie 12:51 +0200, Jorge Salamero Sanz napisał(a): > On Sunday 23 October 2005 12:21, kohzak wrote: > > hum, sorry but how i do that ? Just being root and go to /mnt/mypartition > > ? > > mount -t xxx /dev/hdaX /mnt/foo > chroot /mnt/foo > ybin -v > > instead the last t

Re: reinstalling tiger

2005-10-23 Thread Jorge Salamero Sanz
On Sunday 23 October 2005 12:21, kohzak wrote: > hum,  sorry but how i do that ? Just being root and go to /mnt/mypartition > ? mount -t xxx /dev/hdaX /mnt/foo chroot /mnt/foo ybin -v instead the last two instructions you can also do ybin -v -c /mnt/foo/etc/yaboot.conf

Re: reinstalling tiger

2005-10-23 Thread kohzak
Hi all Thanks for your quick answer. Jorge Salamero Sanz a écrit : >On Sunday 23 October 2005 12:00, kohzak wrote: > > >>i'm running osx Panther and Debian etch on my ibook 12 G4. >> >>I would like to know if it will be a problem to install Tiger. >>Will it erase my dual boot ? >> >> > >ye

Re: reinstalling tiger

2005-10-23 Thread Douglas Russell
On Sunday 23 October 2005 11:00, kohzak wrote: > Hi all > > i'm running osx Panther and Debian etch on my ibook 12 G4. > > I would like to know if it will be a problem to install Tiger. > Will it erase my dual boot ? When you install Tiger you'll have to make sure that you install it into the par

Re: reinstalling tiger

2005-10-23 Thread Jorge Salamero Sanz
On Sunday 23 October 2005 12:00, kohzak wrote: > i'm running osx Panther and Debian etch on my ibook 12 G4. > > I would like to know if it will be a problem to install Tiger. > Will it erase my dual boot ? yes > Will i have to reinstall my Debian ? no > thanks for any information about that. j

reinstalling tiger

2005-10-23 Thread kohzak
Hi all i'm running osx Panther and Debian etch on my ibook 12 G4. I would like to know if it will be a problem to install Tiger. Will it erase my dual boot ? Will i have to reinstall my Debian ? thanks for any information about that. koh -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Re: Problem with clock on Beige G3

2005-10-23 Thread Sylvain Joyeux
> Does this patch fixes it ? Sorry for the late reply, it does fix the problem. Thanks a lot ! -- Sylvain Joyeux -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Request for help to identify some bugs (part two)

2005-10-23 Thread Yannick Roehlly
Hi Ben, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > How do you set it to u/dma2 and remind me the exact machine model It tryed to set the combo drive to udma2 both with "hdparm -q -d1 -X udma2 /dev/hdc" and with "command_line {hdparm -q -d1 -X udma2 /dev/hdc}" in /etc/hdparm.conf (if I use transfert_mode, h