Re: Can't read or boot from Squeeze 6.0.4 [ppc] disk 1 on Original iMac

2012-04-02 Thread Gunther Furtado
Hi, 2012/3/28 John Wesley Cooper : > One of the first things I tried was the little "Press C at the chime" trick … > at which point the drive repeatedly tried to read the disk for a minute or > so, then booted into Mac OS with no  other visible or audible output.  I then > ejected and re-insert

Re: Howto for md(raid 1) on PPC ?

2012-04-02 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Mon, Apr 02, 2012 at 12:18:50PM -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > Well I can tell you what my setup is. > > I am using an IBM p710 (and I also have a p520 with a very similar setup > although currently using a somewhat patched and manually installed via > dd and other hacks that you wouldn't wan

Re: Howto for md(raid 1) on PPC ?

2012-04-02 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Mon, Apr 02, 2012 at 05:19:34PM +0200, Niels S. Eliasen wrote: > Dó you have a cookbook for getting grub2 working(with the raid of course) ? Well I can tell you what my setup is. I am using an IBM p710 (and I also have a p520 with a very similar setup although currently using a somewhat patche

Re: Howto for md(raid 1) on PPC ?

2012-04-02 Thread Niels S. Eliasen
Hi Dó you have a cookbook for getting grub2 working(with the raid of course) ? Sent from my iPhone Den 02/04/2012 kl. 16.24 skrev lsore...@csclub.uwaterloo.ca (Lennart Sorensen): > On Mon, Apr 02, 2012 at 01:07:05PM +0100, Raf Czlonka wrote: >> Any mdadm one should apply. >> Your /boot might ne

Re: Howto for md(raid 1) on PPC ?

2012-04-02 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Mon, Apr 02, 2012 at 01:07:05PM +0100, Raf Czlonka wrote: > Any mdadm one should apply. > Your /boot might need to be outside of RAID though. AFAIK yaboot doesn't > support booting of md RAID and I haven't tried GRUB on PPC. Grub works fine on raid, although you will need a git checkout, not th

Re: Howto for md(raid 1) on PPC ?

2012-04-02 Thread David Ricar
Hi, booting linux on PPC in any other than default scenario is a bit tricky. It is possible to have separate /boot and it is possible to have it on mirrored disk (or have whole / partition inside the mirror). yaboot would not care of the mirror, so you have to configure it to use a physical dr

Re: Howto for md(raid 1) on PPC ?

2012-04-02 Thread Raf Czlonka
On Mon, Apr 02, 2012 at 01:11:38PM BST, Niels S. Eliasen wrote: > is'nt possible to get yaboot to boot regardless of what disk is available ? ^ I'm afraid I don't understand the question. -- Raf -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-powerpc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubs

Re: Howto for md(raid 1) on PPC ?

2012-04-02 Thread Niels S. Eliasen
is'nt possible to get yaboot to boot regardless of what disk is available ? Den 02/04/2012 kl. 14.07 skrev Raf Czlonka: > On Mon, Apr 02, 2012 at 12:14:38PM BST, Niels S. Eliasen wrote: >> hi guys >> I am looking for some howto on using/doing a setup of a raid 1 on a PPC >> Anyone ? > > Any

Re: Howto for md(raid 1) on PPC ?

2012-04-02 Thread Raf Czlonka
On Mon, Apr 02, 2012 at 12:14:38PM BST, Niels S. Eliasen wrote: > hi guys > I am looking for some howto on using/doing a setup of a raid 1 on a PPC > Anyone ? Any mdadm one should apply. Your /boot might need to be outside of RAID though. AFAIK yaboot doesn't support booting of md RAID and I

Howto for md(raid 1) on PPC ?

2012-04-02 Thread Niels S. Eliasen
hi guys I am looking for some howto on using/doing a setup of a raid 1 on a PPC Anyone ? smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature