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 1Oyq1T-0008KC-G5 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 23 Sep 2010 17:55:55 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B2C32E0784; Thu, 23 Sep 2010 17:55:43 +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 0CA3BE0784 for ; Thu, 23 Sep 2010 17:55:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wwb39 with SMTP id 39so949667wwb.10 for ; Thu, 23 Sep 2010 10:55:42 -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 :content-transfer-encoding; bh=XklfneJIcrjqQl5GHCSaiPnBSFNzAaPXmnrBYeHsh5E=; b=OpGoS3dLNerXM4J118cjA7SaFF1NB604GIC0zGk46LV5mGTyxJcjxnSPgD8QQofPVo 6UjYMwu5bUUYq1xkev0J3Br4nt249YrmE573fFyamXH+5XUbDj9rM1+Cpas1wpoLdP2W IXJPoHDekDPcfwc0QU/TcohBYOO2jRN/XtW/k= 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:content-transfer-encoding; b=HpKmeVSelHnqvWFe574sKpU/Xxz5/mDsxkpdT5/wRWHVSRuU3EZTFPLGyfni9VoaCG 8Wbea01q7LyqoJ17sFbX0vlgVmgeIpEHk4gEdLXTR6VwXGPIGTaKHAG9ow9CIi7Ce8e2 2kbIUSid/zUfi/7f5f+n/FX3lOBYYpnqBn+R8= 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 10.216.188.209 with SMTP id a59mr8571610wen.87.1285264542395; Thu, 23 Sep 2010 10:55:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.216.3.138 with HTTP; Thu, 23 Sep 2010 10:55:42 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20100923120555.2867.qmail@schroeder.cas.mcmaster.ca> References: <4C9AAE79.8080200@gentoo.org> <20100923120555.2867.qmail@schroeder.cas.mcmaster.ca> Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2010 10:55:42 -0700 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-ppc-user] yaboot has kicked my butt - 5 times?! From: Mark Knecht To: gentoo-ppc-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: d423742c-0a68-410c-961f-96e1d6fe1ebc X-Archives-Hash: f6dde2ada8a4a5bb2ce95a682a56bef0 On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 5:05 AM, wrote: > Mark, > > =C2=A0> However I note that I cannot run updatedb for slocate without > =C2=A0> also getting a message about /etc/mtab not existing. Should mtab = exist > =C2=A0> withing the chroot? > > For certain things, it seems to be needed --- the amd64 handbook includes= a > way to get it among the grub instructions. > > By the way, if I recall correctly, you once mentioned you had an ubuntu o= n > that machine with grub working --- I would just reuse that grub for booti= ng > gentoo. (I have done this before on amd64, but not on any Mac.) > > > Wolfram > > Wolfram, On first reading I would have said 'he's crazy!' because grub is for x86/PC architecture only, right? At least I think that's the case with the original grub. However apparently grub2 does now run (sort of) on PowerPC: http://grub.enbug.org/TestingOnPowerPC I think it's more in a testing phase, and if Joe or others help me work out what I'm doing wrong then I won't need grub2, but given a bit of time it might be interesting to try out. Unfortunately the known bug list might make it hard for someone at my experience level. Looking in portage it doesn't seem to be available so I'd have to look for an overlay that might have it. Thanks, Mark