Re: A friendly plea for Linux PPC help!

2007-03-18 Thread Rick Thomas
On Mar 19, 2007, at 2:41 AM, Anthony Henson wrote: Hey look what I found! http://fare.livejournal.com/93274.html (do a find on quik) It was funny because I've actually got OF booting up quik! and quik is giving me a kernal! PANIC!!! tho! I think I know why, need to get the initrd goin,

Re: QUIK READ ERROR ON BLOCK 63747 (KERNAL PANIC NOW!)

2007-03-18 Thread Anthony Henson
I thought that too... but I have it booting to the kernal now!!! Albiet with a panic, but I think that's my ramdisk not being set... 2.6 needs a ramdisk right? Anyone else that is interested in getting their machine to work without bootx, this is BY FAR the most detailed info and got me the farthe

Re: QUIK READ ERROR ON BLOCK 63747

2007-03-18 Thread Paul Mackerras
Anthony Henson writes: > I run quik, I reboot, I set my real-base to F0, boot-device to Why F0? > ide0/[EMAIL PROTECTED]:9 bootfile to /vmlinux root=/dev/hda9 reset-all, when > it comes > back to OF, I type boot, I get the boot: prompt, I type linux, and I get > "Read error on block 637

QUIK READ ERROR ON BLOCK 63747

2007-03-18 Thread Anthony Henson
I am about ready to take a chainsaw to this damn thing. I have tried all kinds of different quik.conf settings, I ended up coping one straight from some other guy that I googled, timeout=10 default=linux image=/boot/vmlinux label=linux root=/dev/hda9 partition=9 so that's my /etc/quik.c

Re: A friendly plea for Linux PPC help!

2007-03-18 Thread Rick Thomas
On Mar 18, 2007, at 5:06 PM, Anthony Henson wrote: making some progress on my own here, got quik to start booting, but then it gives me default catch, and then claim failed... I don't know how to use this mailing list at all, I am such a newb. I mailed my thing to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or what

Re: A friendly plea for Linux PPC help!

2007-03-18 Thread Rick Thomas
Hi Anthony, I see you've discovered the powerpc mailing list. That's good. It's the place where all the expertise is concentrated. While I appreciate your frustration, the best thing to do is ask one (or at most two related) simple question(s) per posting. You'll get the best and most

Re: A friendly plea for Linux PPC help!

2007-03-18 Thread rob rob
Err, who the hell is Paul Anderson? I did manage to get quik installed and booting under a running debian installation that booted with bootx, so, take hope, it is possible. However this was done with debian and not ubuntu. You mentioned using quikconfig. Have you changed the /etc/quik.conf file

Re: hibernate, suspend and s2both support

2007-03-18 Thread Johannes Berg
Hi Tim, Let me try to answer your questions, I've worked on suspend for powermac machines for quite a while. On Sun, 2007-03-18 at 01:00 +0100, Tim Dijkstra wrote: > [please cc me] You should have used linuxppc-dev instead of debian-powerpc but since the thread is already here I'll just add them

Re: More on Thund^^^^^Icedove

2007-03-18 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Sun, Mar 18, 2007 at 04:23:12PM +0930, Mike Hore a écrit : > > I was able to copy over the xxx.default directory from my USB stick into > the .mozilla-thunderbird directory. I then renamed the existing > xxx.default directory to keep it safe, and renamed my copied directory > to the name th