October 2006 - openSUSE PPC - openSUSE Mailing Lists

Help with install on G4
by Dominic Maraglia 17 Oct '06

17 Oct '06

Hello, I am attemping to intall SuSE PPC v7.3 onto a powermac G4. I realize most folks are shaking their heads wondering why I would want to install v7.3. Simple answer is: I do not want to use v7.3, but we developing for an embeded system - using 7.3 is a requirement. I have narrowed down the problem I am having to the boot loading configuration step -- I have managed to install the OS, which I can boot using install CD1. However, I can not boot off the hard drive. I beleive the problem may be related to lilo -- I edited /etc/lilo conf boot=/dev/hdc1 timeout=100 default=linux activate image=/boot/vmlinux label=linux append="" WHen I run /sbin/lilo, this is the output I see: # /sbin/lilo running on pmac_new BOOT_DEVICEPATH = ERROR: device hdc not yet supported OTHER_DEVICEPATH = ERROR: device hdc not yet supported <snip some normal output> set OF boot-device ERRORL device hdc not yet supported,\\:tbxi Usage: nvsetenv [variable [value]] It would be great to b oot off the HD, but it that is not possible, I'd settle for having a boot CD that points to the HD to boot. So, any ideas about the /dev/hdc errors or a link to where I can read about making a PPC boot Cd? Thanks, Dominic Maraglia

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SPAM: major Packman PPC upgrade
by Peter Czanik 13 Oct '06

13 Oct '06

Hello, There is a major upgrade for PPC port of Packman. There are hundreds of new packages, so my machine was compiling for weeks. But finally all the packages, which I could recompile, are up to date. There are also many missing for various reasons: - x86 binary only - Java - has x86 assembly in source - has x86 optimizations in makefiles (I'll fix these later) - just failed to compile (might compile better next time) These packages were compiled, but only partially tested by me. Please let me know, if you have any trouble with the the packages! You can download these at ftp://spike.fa.gau.hu/pub/pmppc101 Sources are not yet uploaded, will do that tomorrow. Bye, -- CzP http://peter.czanik.hu/

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Trouble installing SLES9 on IBM JS21
by Uros Kositer 12 Oct '06

12 Oct '06

Hi! I'm trying to install SLES9 on IBM JS21 blade server. During installation process I get "Kernel panic". I'm attaching part of install messages. I have succesfully installed SLES 10 on same machine, but sadly I have to downgrade to SLES9 because of the problems with oracle. Thank you for your answers and kind regards Uros Install messages: checking if image is initramfs...it isn't (no cpio magic); looks like an initrd Freeing initrd memory: 2570k freed NET: Registered protocol family 16 PCI: Probing PCI hardware IOMMU table initialized, virtual merging disabled PCI: Probing PCI hardware done Using unsupported 640x480 pci1002,515e.1002.515e.2 at a8000000, depth=8, pitch=640 fb0: Open Firmware frame buffer device on /pci@8000000f8000000/pci@7/display@2 Requesting EPOW irq 200, 216, 184, 589825 Requesting EPOW irq 0, 16, -16, 0 Total HugeTLB memory allocated, 0 RTAS daemon started VFS: Disk quotas dquot_6.5.1 Initializing Cryptographic API pci_hotplug: PCI Hot Plug PCI Core version: 0.5 rpaphp: RPA HOT Plug PCI Controller Driver version: 0.1 rpaphp: register_vio_slot: registered VIO device[name=30000000 vio_dev=c000000003d7ec00] rpaphp: Slot [30000000](VIO location=U8844.51G.99DYZ7P-V1-C0) registered rpaphp: register_vio_slot: registered VIO device[name=30000001 vio_dev=c000000003d7ee00] rpaphp: Slot [30000001](VIO location=U8844.51G.99DYZ7P-V1-C1) registered Kernel panic: hash_page: pte_insert failed Entering kdb (current=0xc00000000edbf320, pid 1) on processor 2

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sys/io.h
by Peter Czanik 03 Oct '06

03 Oct '06

Hello, I was trying to compile a package from source rpm with y2pmbuild. Compilation failed with a message, that 'sys/io.h' is missing. I looked around in ARCHIVES.gz, and for other architectures it's in glibc-devel, but for PPC it's not there. What is the reason for it, and how it could be worked around? Bye, CzP Ps: g++ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I../../../config -D_REENTRANT -I../../../base/include -I../../../base/unix/include -I../../../lib/utf8 -I../../../ui/include -I../../../lmc/include -I../../../io/include -I../../../mdb -I./sba -O2 -g -fmessage-length=0 -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -O2 -g -fmessage-length=0 -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -MT rio.lo -MD -MP -MF .deps/rio.Tpo -c sba/rio.cpp -fPIC -DPIC -o .libs/rio.o sba/rio.cpp:66:21: error: sys/io.h: No such file or directory

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