Hello Frédéric,
Frédéric Massot wrote:
> 4 years ago, I installed Debian with a software RAID 1 on a G4 for an
> LDAP server. In the end, I did not use the G4 and it remained in a
> closet. I would again make use of this G4 server with a software RAID 1
> and LVM, I use the Squeeze installer.
Hi,
Le lundi 26 avril 2010 à 13:54 -0400, Rick Thomas a écrit :
> Does yaboot know enough about LVMs and RAIDs to find the kernel and
> initrd in a root partition that's in a logical volume on a software
> raid-1?
No, yaboot doesn't know how to do that.
> To be safe, I'd create a real, live,
also see this wiki entry for steps on how to use/test grub 2:
http://grub.enbug.org/TestingOnPowerPC
take note of this line, however: "*Do not delete yaboot.* You will need it
when something goes wrong and GRUB fails to boot"
unlike its predecessor, grub2 works with OpenFirmware. but just because
there's a package available doesn't mean it's being used by the distribution
yet. so my best guess is that it's a work in progress -- hence its
appearance in testing and unstable. q.v.
http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/grub-2-fa
On Apr 26, 2010, at 7:10 AM, Shawn H Corey wrote:
Frédéric Massot wrote:
Hi,
4 years ago, I installed Debian with a software RAID 1 on a G4 for
an LDAP server. In the end, I did not use the G4 and it remained
in a closet. I would again make use of this G4 server with a
software RAID 1 a
Rick Thomas wrote:
On Apr 26, 2010, at 7:10 AM, Shawn H Corey wrote:
PowerPCs always use yaboot.
Does yaboot know enough about LVMs and RAIDs to find the kernel and
initrd in a root partition that's in a logical volume on a software raid-1?
I never used yaboot with RAID so I wouldn't know
Frédéric Massot wrote:
Do you know why there is a package Grub2 PPC (aka grub-ieee1275), it is
for what computer?
I never heard of GRUB for the PPCs so I never tried it. If you use it,
please post your results. :)
--
Just my 0.0002 million dollars worth,
Shawn
Programming is as muc
Le 26/04/2010 13:10, Shawn H Corey a écrit :
Frédéric Massot wrote:
Hi,
4 years ago, I installed Debian with a software RAID 1 on a G4 for an
LDAP server. In the end, I did not use the G4 and it remained in a
closet. I would again make use of this G4 server with a software RAID
1 and LVM, I use
Frédéric Massot wrote:
Hi,
4 years ago, I installed Debian with a software RAID 1 on a G4 for an
LDAP server. In the end, I did not use the G4 and it remained in a
closet. I would again make use of this G4 server with a software RAID 1
and LVM, I use the Squeeze installer.
- Is it always t
Is there someone who can point me to a good site with detailed
instruction of how to make a customized Debian installation CD, with
self compiled packages for powerpc? I only found
http://wiki.debian.org/DebianCustomCD. I got pretty far in that manual.
The things I couldn't do were using the scrip
Hi,
4 years ago, I installed Debian with a software RAID 1 on a G4 for an
LDAP server. In the end, I did not use the G4 and it remained in a
closet. I would again make use of this G4 server with a software RAID 1
and LVM, I use the Squeeze installer.
- Is it always to be given at the beginn
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