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 1OrfvU-0003cm-AX for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 03 Sep 2010 23:44:08 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0F598E064B; Fri, 3 Sep 2010 23:43:54 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ww0-f53.google.com (mail-ww0-f53.google.com [74.125.82.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AE2ADE064B for ; Fri, 3 Sep 2010 23:43:53 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wwf26 with SMTP id 26so2720836wwf.10 for ; Fri, 03 Sep 2010 16:43:53 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:received:in-reply-to :references:date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; bh=wjOm7xKep39U0rUr9hbSkvtdMNbaknxWs+eLmp5Kfuw=; b=ebxK2Wt83FTbzhzwKmdROYP2jfyhDAelWak9k9xKwNHSW4Ccbu4gWQj/mOskbL5fse VHonKF3BOgILZSDxVUCRgvAOCKAnMRF0k9GmvCYg0pUrUfhOVXaq4H4fgj+ywcD6TF+o rKFw75PgXqbTraxi29zlgufbC3yqZJLL2ZEBg= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type; b=nDRyQSu6r+jWGzruIhwDe5HeupdxxRLNN08HiTcBsx3Cd/mkOX+zZEGO9uEHKPEPWw gKAoUlRLCKe0yFfrsfubpRliDzjjrBTybxcLa22OzvTMdt1Vzefi5tI+Zr6PURnuqFHu nL3diMhfke75lKs8U+5M+XNuGoaOkR5c0u6RA= 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 Received: by 10.216.153.140 with SMTP id f12mr890959wek.111.1283557432997; Fri, 03 Sep 2010 16:43:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.216.19.210 with HTTP; Fri, 3 Sep 2010 16:43:52 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: <35F898EB-790B-42EB-811E-813461154C2A@nc.rr.com> <00473462-10E0-4574-B2E2-EFD84A3D41B2@nc.rr.com> Date: Fri, 3 Sep 2010 16:43:52 -0700 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-ppc-user] Re: New install - Unable to get my ppc Mac Mini to boot the root partition From: Mark Knecht To: gentoo-ppc-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Archives-Salt: 6c34b026-160b-4f6b-af5e-8434f7ef703f X-Archives-Hash: 4018b5f9816b891fcb20249c2d5010c9 On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 3:48 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: > On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 2:42 PM, Enlightened User wrote: >> http://www.debian.org/ports/powerpc/inst/yaboot-howto/ch9.en.html >> Sections 9.2 and 9.3 show how to boot to the yaboot 'boot:' prompt and start >> the kernel with parameters. >> Hope that helps you get started. >> If you do change the yaboot.conf file don't forget to run ybin to update the >> boot partition. I would suggest increasing delay and timeout values (section >> 6.6 of the previous web document) so the default image is not automatically >> loaded so quickly. You should then be able to enter something like: >> hd:4,/vmlinux root=/dev/sda4 ro >> at the boot: prompt. >> Another thought would be to remove SCSI support from your kernel build, >> unless you have a mac mini with an SCSI interface, you should not need SCSI >> support. That should not require any changes to the yaboot configuration you >> are currently using. >> Barry >> > > Thanks for the info. > > OK - as a test I'm going a very different direction. As there is a > prebuilt Ubuntu PowerPC version I've just written a CD and it boots > fine. I'm right now in the process of letting it blow away my > non-functional Gentoo install and install Ubuntu. If that boots then I > can see what they did and redo Gentoo later with that knowledge. > > As for using Gentoo on this box I'm not sure it's really worth it any > more. My main machines now are all x86_64 - as is probably true for > most people - but fast ones - an i5-661, i7-920 and an i7-980x where I > run 5 copies of Windows 7 at the same time in different VMWare jails. > I found I wasn't updating this old Mac Mini because it was too slow > and took too much of what I call 'Gentoo effort'. If I can find a > prepackaged version of MythTV for this machine then likely I'd be > better off just to run Ubuntu. I don't really need performance for a > MythTV backend server. > > Anyway, I'll report back more when I know more. > > Thanks! > > Cheers, > Mark > So the Ubuntu install came up running. Boots fine, logs in OK. Dosn't look like they ackage the MythTV backend for PowerPC so I need to figure out how they did it and then get Gentoo working again. HEre is yaboot.conf and fstab. mark@MacMini:~$ cat /etc/yaboot.conf ## yaboot.conf generated by the Ubuntu installer ## ## run: "man yaboot.conf" for details. Do not make changes until you have!! ## see also: /usr/share/doc/yaboot/examples for example configurations. ## ## For a dual-boot menu, add one or more of: ## bsd=/dev/hdaX, macos=/dev/hdaY, macosx=/dev/hdaZ boot=/dev/hda2 device=/pci@f4000000/ata-6@d/disk@0: partition=3 root=/dev/hda3 timeout=50 install=/usr/lib/yaboot/yaboot magicboot=/usr/lib/yaboot/ofboot enablecdboot image=/boot/vmlinux label=Linux read-only initrd=/boot/initrd.img append="quiet splash" image=/boot/vmlinux.old label=old read-only initrd=/boot/initrd.img.old append="quiet splash" mark@MacMini:~$ # /etc/fstab: static file system information. # # Use 'blkid -o value -s UUID' to print the universally unique identifier # for a device; this may be used with UUID= as a more robust way to name # devices that works even if disks are added and removed. See fstab(5). # # proc /proc proc nodev,noexec,nosuid 0 0 /dev/hda3 / ext4 errors=remount-ro 0 1 /dev/hda4 none swap sw 0 0 mark@MacMini:~$ So, whatever was wrong with my Gentoo install it wasn't apparently hda vs sda... Ubuntu sure seems weird. No root password? Everything done through sudo? Strange... I'm sure I just don't understand after so many years running Gentoo. - Mark