[gentoo-powerpc] gentoo on PowerMac G4 yaboot failing to boot

[gentoo-powerpc] gentoo on PowerMac G4 yaboot failing to boot

[Herminio Hernandez, Jr.]

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I have tried 3 times to get yaboot to boot gentoo on my powermac g4. Each
time was a complete reinstall. I got this working on my ibook g4 so I am
pretty sure I am doing this right. I am attaching my yaboot.conf anf fstab
file. If anyone can show me what I am doing wrong that would be great!

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# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# noatime turns off atimes for increased performance (atimes normally aren't 
# needed); notail increases performance of ReiserFS (at the expense of storage 
# efficiency).  It's safe to drop the noatime options if you want and to 
# switch between notail / tail freely.
#
# The root filesystem should have a pass number of either 0 or 1.
# All other filesystems should have a pass number of 0 or greater than 1.
#
# See the manpage fstab(5) for more information.
#

# <fs>			<mountpoint>	<type>		<opts>		<dump/pass>

# NOTE: If your BOOT partition is ReiserFS, add the notail option to opts.
#/dev/BOOT		/boot		ext2		noauto,noatime	1 2
/dev/hda4		/		ext4		defaults,noatime		0 1
/dev/hda3		none		swap		sw		0 0
/dev/hde		/mnt/cdrom	auto		noauto,ro	0 0
#/dev/fd0		/mnt/floppy	auto		noauto		0 0

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## yaboot.conf generated by yabootconfig 1.0.8
##
## run: "man yaboot.conf" for details. Do not make changes until you have!!
##
## For a dual-boot menu, add one or more of:
## bsd=/dev/hdaX, macos=/dev/hdaY, macosx=/dev/hdaZ

boot=/dev/hda2
device=hd:
partition=4
root=/dev/hda4
timeout=30
install=/usr/lib/yaboot/yaboot
magicboot=/usr/lib/yaboot/ofboot
enableofboot
enablecdboot

image=/boot/kernel-3.18.16-gentoo
	label=Linux
	read-only
	append="video=ofonly"
	initrd=/boot/initramfs-genkernel-ppc-3.18.16-gentoo
	initrd-size=8192

Re: [gentoo-powerpc] gentoo on PowerMac G4 yaboot failing to boot

[Herminio Hernandez Jr.]

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I have only one HD is not the stock one that comes with the system. It is an OWC legacy SSD drive. I was running both Ubuntu-MATE and Lubuntu on this machine with no hardware issues. 

Sent from my iPhone

> On Jul 20, 2015, at 1:54 PM, Heiko Schulze <silverlight2008@hotmail.de> wrote:
> 
> 
> hi
> a few month ago i had installed gentoo to my g4 mdd too and had issues with yaboot too.
> 2 things. (i'm not sure...)
> in the fstab is hda4, but must it not named sda4 ? (i'll remember, that the naming for the hdd is always sdx.)
> 
> for my problem was it simple that i had more than 1 hdd installed.
> linux must installed on the first drive. (from the second i had issues to find the hdd)
> you could this do a little bit simple :D take an ubuntu-disk and test it for yaboot and/or fstab.
> 
> sorry for my english, it isnt my native language.
> 
> greetz from germany
> heiko
> Date: Mon, 20 Jul 2015 08:14:15 -0500
> Subject: [gentoo-powerpc] gentoo on PowerMac G4 yaboot failing to boot
> From: herminio.hernandezjr@gmail.com
> To: gentoo-powerpc@lists.gentoo.org
> 
> I have tried 3 times to get yaboot to boot gentoo on my powermac g4. Each time was a complete reinstall. I got this working on my ibook g4 so I am pretty sure I am doing this right. I am attaching my yaboot.conf anf fstab file. If anyone can show me what I am doing wrong that would be great!
> 
> 

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Re: [gentoo-powerpc] gentoo on PowerMac G4 yaboot failing to boot

[Herminio Hernandez Jr.]

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I think I found a problem with the Gentoo netinstall image reading OWC  IDE SSDs. I have been experiencing issues with Gentoo booting after the install completed. Yaboot could not find the image file. This seemed odd to me since Debian and Ubuntu worked fine on my machine with the same drive. One thing I noticed was Gentoo was seeing my disk as a hda instead of a sda. Just to be sure I reinstalled Debian and verified that it was reading my drive as a sda drive and yaboot was loading. Could this be the root cause as why yaboot could not read my drive? Who would I place a bug report with? I really would to have Gentoo working on my Powermac I already had it working on my iBook.  Thanks!

Sent from my iPhone

> On Jul 20, 2015, at 2:37 PM, Herminio Hernandez Jr. <herminio.hernandezjr@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I have only one HD is not the stock one that comes with the system. It is an OWC legacy SSD drive. I was running both Ubuntu-MATE and Lubuntu on this machine with no hardware issues. 
> 
> Sent from my iPhone
> 
>> On Jul 20, 2015, at 1:54 PM, Heiko Schulze <silverlight2008@hotmail.de> wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> hi
>> a few month ago i had installed gentoo to my g4 mdd too and had issues with yaboot too.
>> 2 things. (i'm not sure...)
>> in the fstab is hda4, but must it not named sda4 ? (i'll remember, that the naming for the hdd is always sdx.)
>> 
>> for my problem was it simple that i had more than 1 hdd installed.
>> linux must installed on the first drive. (from the second i had issues to find the hdd)
>> you could this do a little bit simple :D take an ubuntu-disk and test it for yaboot and/or fstab.
>> 
>> sorry for my english, it isnt my native language.
>> 
>> greetz from germany
>> heiko
>> Date: Mon, 20 Jul 2015 08:14:15 -0500
>> Subject: [gentoo-powerpc] gentoo on PowerMac G4 yaboot failing to boot
>> From: herminio.hernandezjr@gmail.com
>> To: gentoo-powerpc@lists.gentoo.org
>> 
>> I have tried 3 times to get yaboot to boot gentoo on my powermac g4. Each time was a complete reinstall. I got this working on my ibook g4 so I am pretty sure I am doing this right. I am attaching my yaboot.conf anf fstab file. If anyone can show me what I am doing wrong that would be great!
>> 
>> 

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