From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Oys02-0005Qq-VQ for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 23 Sep 2010 20:02:35 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 297AAE08F6; Thu, 23 Sep 2010 20:02:33 +0000 (UTC) Received: from qmta08.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net (qmta08.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net [76.96.62.80]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0869EE08F6 for ; Thu, 23 Sep 2010 20:02:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: from omta03.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net ([76.96.62.27]) by qmta08.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net with comcast id AEko1f0070bG4ec58L2ZYe; Thu, 23 Sep 2010 20:02:33 +0000 Received: from [192.168.1.100] ([24.3.224.125]) by omta03.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net with comcast id AL2Z1f00d2ix0EG3PL2ZXi; Thu, 23 Sep 2010 20:02:33 +0000 Message-ID: <4C9BB240.1080603@gentoo.org> Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2010 16:02:08 -0400 From: Joseph Jezak User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.9) Gecko/20100914 Lightning/1.0b3pre Thunderbird/3.1.3 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-ppc-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-ppc-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-ppc-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-ppc-user] yaboot has kicked my butt - 5 times?! References: <4C9AAE79.8080200@gentoo.org> <4C9B5FBE.9040604@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 24777241-ac35-4a6d-8a3f-779701dc5862 X-Archives-Hash: 82756a302467160ac1489dccb087acca On 09/23/10 12:17, Mark Knecht wrote: > On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 7:10 AM, Joseph Jezak wrote: > >> mtab is generated on boot as you mount devices. It's not the problem here. >> >> Can you try adding this line to your yaboot config? It will make the >> system boot directly into a shell instead of starting init: >> ### Put this in the kernel section >> append="init=/bin/bash" >> >> Once this boots, does hda* exist in /dev? How about /dev/null and /dev/zero? >> >> -Joe > OK, so I did it like this: > > boot=/dev/hda2 > #device=/pci@f4000000/ata-6@d/disk@0: > device=hd: > timeout=30 > install=/usr/lib/yaboot/yaboot > magicboot=/usr/lib/yaboot/ofboot > > image=/boot/kernel-2.6.34-gentoo-r1 > label=Gentoo-2.6.34-r1 > append="init=/bin/bash" > partition=4 > root=/dev/hda4 > read-only > > and ran ybin -v > > When I reboot I have no keyboard and cannot probe around. The screen is showing > > (none) / # > > The kernel boots with printk timing info on each line, and then > finishes with two messages: > > bash: cannot set terminal process group (-1): Inappropriate ioctl for device > bash: no job control in this shell > > and at that point the machine is hung. > > So this seems like it's just not finding the hardware at this point? > No disk? No keyboard? > > If you want to see the whole screen I can post another screen shot on Flickr. > > Thanks for the interest and help. I'm sure we'll figure it out. > > - Mark > > Okay, that all looks fine. Are you sure that you built USB keyboard support into your kernel? This might be why it wouldn't let you type. I wouldn't mind seeing another screen shot either. Once you get keyboard support working, check to see if those device nodes exist. -Joe