Re: Re: About the FreeScale e500 series processor

2010-09-16 Thread Bear
hi, Er... I am very sorry that I misunderstood your meanning. :( Fortunately, building kernel is not a problem for me. I have read your artical and I think I can try to install this. thx for your help! -- Bear 2010-09-17 -

Re: About the FreeScale e500 series processor

2010-09-16 Thread Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
* Bear | 2010-09-16 09:48:23 [+0800]: >Did you means that the powerpcspe unoffical port only transplant the packages >instead of building a complete release edition? I must find a kernel by >myself? If so, could you tell me how to install debian on my board? >I am very sorry that I am not famili

Re: Taking over maintainance of yaboot ?

2010-09-16 Thread Zsombor
Hello, I'm also interested in a well-maintained PPC port because I have some Power machines (IBM, Bull) and I dont want to waste them. My dream is to have an official installer with grub2, I very miss its features at install-time. First of all, Im thinking about how to find a place for discussion.

Re: #580455 yabootconfig does the correct thing, your yaboot.confmust be modified by something else

2010-09-16 Thread Jeroen Diederen
I have seen the same problem. It is a major problem for the existence of Squeeze/PPC. Op 16/9/2010 schreef "Gunther Furtado" : >2010/9/16 Benjamin Cama : >> Hi, >> >> I just found by looking around that yabootconfig, the script used by the >> yaboot package (very important distinction) to genera

Re: How does linux-base modify /etc/yaboot.conf ?

2010-09-16 Thread Benjamin Cama
Le jeudi 16 septembre 2010 à 15:12 +0200, Benjamin Cama a écrit : > You mentioned that linux-base may modify /etc/yaboot.conf. I think it > might be the culprit for this bug, but I would first like to know how > and why it does that ? OK, I was right, thanks to your hint: see http://svn.debian.org

Re: #580455 yabootconfig does the correct thing, your yaboot.conf must be modified by something else

2010-09-16 Thread Gunther Furtado
2010/9/16 Benjamin Cama : > Hi, > > I just found by looking around that yabootconfig, the script used by the > yaboot package (very important distinction) to generate /etc/yaboot.conf > actually _knows_ how to handle LABEL and UUID; see > http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/debootloaders/trunk/yaboot/ybin/y

#580455 yabootconfig does the correct thing, your yaboot.conf must be modified by something else

2010-09-16 Thread Benjamin Cama
Hi, I just found by looking around that yabootconfig, the script used by the yaboot package (very important distinction) to generate /etc/yaboot.conf actually _knows_ how to handle LABEL and UUID; see http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/debootloaders/trunk/yaboot/ybin/yabootconfig . Furthermore, the yaboo

Taking over maintainance of yaboot ?

2010-09-16 Thread Benjamin Cama
Hi, I am trying to exactly understand the bugs that currently affect the Debian PPC port and particularly yaboot. There are many bugs around it, but even before trying to fix them, we should check if it's even possible to get them applied ! And as we saw (a lot due to Rick Thomas work) yaboot is c