January 2002 - openSUSE PPC - openSUSE Mailing Lists

mk_initrd failes
by Thomas Ruschival 17 Jan '02

17 Jan '02

Hi, I am about compiling and installing a new Kernel to support all of my hardware. The kernel compiles, sound is working all modules are compiled and installed.... If I do a 'modprobe sym53c8xx' an error occurs because of "invalid interrupts or I/O adresses". I read somewhere that SCSI modules must be loaded at boottime. Now I have to make an image so the SCSI modules are loaded at boottime, otherwise my Controller will not be supported I suppose. 'mkinit_rd -k vmlinuz-2.4.17-test -i inird-test' failes because it "cannot find a free loopback device"... This seem quite strange to me because I checked the option for loopback support when I compilesd the kernel and /dev/loop0 ... /dev/loop9 exist. So Has anyone an idea what went wrong? Thanks Thomas

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YAST2 and serial ports on beige G3 MAC
by Mutscheller＠t-online.de 17 Jan '02

17 Jan '02

Hi, using SuSE 7.3 on a beige Power MAC G3 it is not possible for me to install under YAST2 a serial printer on the serial ports of the MAC since the serial ports are not recognized. Does anybody have an idea how to solve this? Best regards Alfred

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RE: [suse-ppc] Re: Unable to install - kernel freezes: more detai ls
by AllanL 15 Jan '02

15 Jan '02

What version of suse, what machine, which kernel, how did you start the install? > -----Original Message----- > From: Herouth Maoz <herouth(a)netvision.net.il>@SUN > Sent: Saturday, January 12, 2002 20:00 > To: suse-ppc(a)suse.com > Subject: [suse-ppc] Re: Unable to install - kernel freezes: more > details > > <<...OLE_Obj...>> > It seems that the problem had something to do with the SCSI ID of the > CD-R. > > Now it boots into the installer, or rather, into linuxrc, which asks > for the language and keyboard, but then, when I want to install, and > I say "from CD", it doesn't recognize the CD-R. > > At first I thought this was because the CD-R was one of two CD drives > in the machine (the old internal one was still there, although not > really functional). So I opened the machine, and removed the I/O and > the power cables from the internal CD/R. > > Tried again. Same thing - the CD-R is not recognized. > > So... Help! > > Herouth > -- > EMAIL: herouth(a)netvision.net.il > HOME PAGE: http://www.herouth.f2s.com/

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boot disk partition corrupted.
by Jonathon Wallen 15 Jan '02

15 Jan '02

Hi, After upgrading my kernel to 2.4.2 and running LiLo again I now find I get a macintosh warning every time I boot into mac. The warning says "disk unreadable, do you want to initialize it?", the disk in question is the macintosh standard partition used for booting linux. When I run disk first aid and try to repair it the program says the disk is unrepairable .. here is the output from disk first aid :- Checking disk "linux_boot". Checking "Mac OS Standard" volume structures. Checking for locked volume name. Checking extent BTree. Checking extent file. Checking catalog BTree. Problem: Invalid BTree Header, 0, 0 Checking catalog file. Problem: Reserved fields in the catalog record have incorrect data, 105, 5 Problem: Reserved fields in the catalog record have incorrect data, 102, 5 Problem: Reserved fields in the catalog record have incorrect data, 106, 5 Problem: Reserved fields in the catalog record have incorrect data, 104, 8 Problem: Reserved fields in the catalog record have incorrect data, 103, 8 Problem: MountCheck found serious errors. Checking catalog hierarchy. Cannot continue. An internal error has occurred. If I initialize the partition will that also erase the data on any other partitions on the disk? If so is there something else I can do to restore the boot partition? many thanks. -- - ____________________________ - Jonathon Wallen - B,DES College of Fine Arts, UNSW - z2213441(a)student.unsw.edu.au - jwal707(a)cse.unsw.edu.au - jonathon(a)fridge.unsw.edu.au - ____________________________

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RE: [suse-ppc] Re: Unable to install - kernel freezes: more detai ls
by AllanL 14 Jan '02

14 Jan '02

Something to try, copy the vmlinux oldworld to your harddisk (I created a small hfs partition for it) also bootx on the harddisk and try to start from there.If that does not work also copy the compressed linux on the cd to the hd partition and try that with bootx pointing to the image on the hd. I have it working on a s900 , but I have not tried it on my powerbase. (which belongs to my wife and I need to create a hfs to start on that). Just a few ideas. > -----Original Message----- > From: Herouth Maoz <herouth(a)netvision.net.il>@SUN > Sent: Monday, January 14, 2002 18:01 > To: AllanL; suse-ppc(a)suse.com > Subject: RE: [suse-ppc] Re: Unable to install - kernel freezes: more > detai ls > > <<...OLE_Obj...>> > At 17:44 +0000 on 14/1/2002, AllanL wrote: > > > > question, this may be minor, but did you point to the kernel in bootx > > with a name like vmlinux - old xxx (I am at work) , and did you point > > to the compressed version on the suse 7.3 disk of the image? > > Yes, I tried both the "install - oldworld" and "vmlinuz - oldworld", > which are on the install CD in the suseboot drive. Neither worked > beyond the mentioned point. > > Herouth

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RE: [suse-ppc] Re: Unable to install - kernel freezes: more detai ls
by AllanL 14 Jan '02

14 Jan '02

question, this may be minor, but did you point to the kernel in bootx with a name like vmlinux - old xxx (I am at work) , and did you point to the compressed version on the suse 7.3 disk of the image? > -----Original Message----- > From: Herouth Maoz <herouth(a)netvision.net.il>@SUN > Sent: Monday, January 14, 2002 17:30 > To: AllanL; suse-ppc(a)suse.com > Subject: RE: [suse-ppc] Re: Unable to install - kernel freezes: more > detai ls > > <<...OLE_Obj...>> > At 15:55 +0000 on 14/1/2002, AllanL wrote: > > > > What version of suse, what machine, which kernel, how did you start > > the install? > > OK, things as they stand now. I didn't manage to repeat the > performance that actually got me into linuxrc. So here are the > answers: > > 1. SusE version: 7.3 > 2. PowerBase 180 (equivalent of a Mac 7500 or so), with a G3 > replacement CPU. This setup works with 7.0 (kernel 2.2.16). > 3. Kernel: the 2.4.12 which is located in the suseboot directory on > the first CD. > 4. I started the install by accident booting with an older kernel > (2.2.16). > > Currently, with above setup, external MacOS SCSI disk at SCSI ID 1, > and external CD/R at SCSI ID 3 (no internal SCSI device, as I > unplugged the defective internal CD-rom), I get the following boot > messages (this is just the tail of the message, the earlier messages > I assume irrelevant): > > - - - > > SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00 > scsi0 : MESH > mesh: target 1 synchronous at 5.0 MB/s > Vendor: QUANTUM Model: VIKING 4.5 NSE Rev: 880R > Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 > mesh: target 3 synchronous at 5.0 MB/s > Vendor: TEAC Model: CD-R55S Rev: 1.0Q > Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02 > Attached scsi disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 1, lun 0 > SCSI device sda: 8899737 512-byte hdwr sectors (4557 MB) > sda: [mac] sda1 sda2 sda3 sda4 sda5 sda6 sda7 sda8 sda9 > Attached scsi CD-ROM sr0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 3, lun 0 > > - - - > > That's it - this is where it stops, and the CD/R LED remains on > indefinitely. Markus Lischka informs me that he had a similar problem > on his machine when upgrading to kernel 2.4.16, with almost the same > setup. (Thank you, Markus). However, his suggestion to swap the order > of the devices on the SCSI chain so far didn't work. > > Herouth > -- > EMAIL: herouth(a)netvision.net.il > HOME PAGE: http://www.herouth.f2s.com/

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How do I unsubscribe?
by Mark Grewar 12 Jan '02

12 Jan '02

Hello all, I am now satisfyed that the OS 10.1.2 is a preferable system than SuSE 7.1 - for my needs that is. Good luck with your work, One question, I forgot howe to unsubscribe to the list, can anyone help? Regards Mark Mark Grewar B.A., B. ed St (road safety) P.O. Box 5256, Rockingham Beach, Western Australia, 6969 Phone 0417090097

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all our email addresses are being comprimised on this list
by seth 11 Jan '02

11 Jan '02

I just did a check on www.google.com to see if my e-mail address is listed anywhere on the web. Just a little paranoid about spammers getting it. I know a lot of spammers harvest email addresses via web spiders, and due to the already questionable ethics of these individuals, I'm not going to trust that their spiders will adhere to robots.txt directives... Well, the ONLY place my e-mail address appeared was on the www.suse.com website in a publicly-available archive of this list. http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-ppc/2000-Nov/0006.html I would really like my address to be removed from this archive or at a minimum have one of the following done to block spambots from harvesting it: 1. Do a regsub on the '@' with some other combinations of characters (eg. |@|, [AT], (a), etc.) throughout this entire archive. 2. Make the archive available only via formposts. This isn't such a good solution because it also blocks good-natured indexing engines like google. 3. Make the addresses appear via a formpost button that opens a popup window or some such display of the address. Obviously, option #1 is the easiest solution. What do other participants in this list think? Appreciatively, Seth Johnson

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Smpppd
by Uwe Hees 11 Jan '02

11 Jan '02

Hello, I am using SuSE 7.3 PPC for a short while now and have experienced problems with smppd/pppd. I am not quite sure where the problem lies, the older wvdial/pppd combo worked fine on SuSE 7.1 PPC. While booting the /etc/rc3.d/smppd is started. The start_on_start directive is set to always. Just after the machine has booted I login as root and do a ifconfig to find that the ppp0 interface does not exist. After entering "rcsmpppd restart" everything is fine. A closer look to the output of smpppd/pppd revealed that pppd did not go beyond outputting "passwordfd.so loaded" while booting, but did output "Using interface ppp0" and more when restarting smpppd. Any hints are greatly appreciated. Uwe

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Has anyone used Bochs?
by David Callaghan 10 Jan '02

10 Jan '02

According to http://bochs.sourceforge.net/docs-html/whatisbochs.html is x86 PC Emulation Software that allows you to run Windows applications on a PPC.

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