Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (1233 mails)

[Andreas Jaeger <aj@xxxxxxx>]

"Richard (MQ)" <osl2008@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> Finally got images for PPC with matching MD5 sums, and now I'm confused
> about booting. As suggested in various places,
> openSUSE-11.1-Beta5-NET-ppc.iso won't boot on my G3 iMac. Nor will
> openSUSE-11.1-Beta5.1-NET-ppc.iso - this was more of a surprise.

Please file a bugreport if 5.1 does not work.  WE need to investigate
this closer.

> I checked the hardware with the 11.0 version, that boots fine but
> install dies with the expected message about a locked storage subsystem.
>
> I saw the extra directory "11.1B5_PPC_Hotfix" but (a) is this relevant
> to my platform (neither Pegasos nor Efika) and (b) if so, how do I use
> teh files?

No, not.

> I was so happy when I saw the image files and this is so frustrating...
>
> Alternatively, is there a way of using the 11.0 boot media, maybe by
> modbprobe-ing the relevant driver module?

Not that I'm aware of.

Please ask also on the ppc mailing list.

> PS - Beta5 looks generally good on i586, though I see the same problems
> reported elsewhere


Andreas
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