November 2005 - openSUSE PPC - openSUSE Mailing Lists

boot splash
by Peter Czanik 07 Nov '05

07 Nov '05

Hello, Is there any way to use boot splash on PPC? I read documentation at http://www.bootsplash.org/ but it seems to be a bit outdated. When I tried to compile kernel with bootsplash support, I was not allowed to access the menu (couldn't turn it on). The support packages are installed by default... Bye, Peter

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Re: [suse-ppc] Another 7500 update
by Aymeric GILLAIZEAU 06 Nov '05

06 Nov '05

Douglas St.Clair wrote: > On 11/6/05 8:52 AM, "Aymeric GILLAIZEAU" <macfreesoft(a)free.fr> wrote: > > >> Jobs wasn't the Apple CIO when the 7500 has been released, he was the >> NEXT CIO, he came back to Apple only with the iMac in '99. >> > > Make the CEO and you got it right. > > because of French pronounciation i mistaken ;-) ___________________________________________________________________________ Appel audio GRATUIT partout dans le monde avec le nouveau Yahoo! Messenger Téléchargez cette version sur http://fr.messenger.yahoo.com

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Another 7500 update
by larrystotler＠netscape.net 06 Nov '05

06 Nov '05

Well, I flashed one of my 2940UW cards with the apple rom. It was seen by OS 9 with the new memory, but it wouldn't access the Apple CD drive. After re-installing the old RAM, it was fine. I guess it is time to give up. I've just never seen memory do this and I have been a PC tech for 15 years......oh well....thanx for all the suggestions. __________________________________________________________________ Look What The New Netscape.com Can Do! Now you can preview dozens of stories and have the ones you select delivered to you without ever leaving the Top Home Page. And the new Tool Box gives you one click access to local Movie times, Maps, White Pages and more. See for yourself at http://netcenter.netscape.com/netcenter/

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Beige G3 tower 10.0 and 10.1 Alpa2 installer fails to boot
by Joseph Kubik 06 Nov '05

06 Nov '05

I cannot see to get BootX 1.2.2 to boot the Kernel that comes with either the 10.0 or 10.1 Alpha2 install CDs. I copy the file from suseboot, use gzip up uncompress it. Point BootX at it. The kernel starts to load and then the screen turns strange yellow/black olours and hangs forever. It does not matter if I use textmode=1 or video=atyfb:vmode:17. I have YellowDog 4 installed and it boots just fine. I have tried with both the onboard video card and the add on twin turbo video card. Ideas? Has anyone used bootX to boot the kernel from the CD? Thanks, -Joseph-

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java5 for ppc
by Peter Czanik 04 Nov '05

04 Nov '05

Hello, I just read the news at http://www.pegasos.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=75… that IBM released a beta of Java 5.0 Standard Edition for PPC. If it works, could it be included in the next alpha? It's available at http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/java/jdk/java5beta/ Bye, Peter Ps: they have changed something, or I forgot my IBM ID, but I can't log in...

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PowerMac 9600 problems
by larrystotler＠netscape.net 03 Nov '05

03 Nov '05

Ok, I picked up a PowerMac 9600 the other day. It has 192MB RAM, a 300Mhz 604ev w/ 1MB Cache on chip(100mhz), and an IMS TwinTurbo PCI video card. I installed 10.0/RC1(still need to get the lastest off the net). When I installed it, the Opti OHCI USB card that worked under my 7500 caused a kernel panic until I removed it. When the install was mostly done, it would not let me choose the video card. When the system boots, I get the KDM, but it is very messed up. The colors are very screwy. I logged into the tty1 and changed to init 3 and tried running SaX2. It refuses to load. It gets all the stuff ready and then just stops. I tried again under X, and the same thing. When I run "xf86config", there is no listing for this card. I then tried to use my ATI Rage II card instead, and the system just locks up during the install. It will not do anything else. So, is this card actually supported? I'm pretty disappointed with this 9600 so far.....any help would be appriciated. Thanx. __________________________________________________________________ Look What The New Netscape.com Can Do! Now you can preview dozens of stories and have the ones you select delivered to you without ever leaving the Top Home Page. And the new Tool Box gives you one click access to local Movie times, Maps, White Pages and more. See for yourself at http://netcenter.netscape.com/netcenter/

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Try from CD
by Jakepopejoy＠aol.com 02 Nov '05

02 Nov '05

Is it possible to try the Linux OS from CD before I actually install it? If so, what is the procedure for obtaining or burning the software? Jake

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forcing Yast into vt100
by Erik Janssen 02 Nov '05

02 Nov '05

Hi all, I'm trying to install Suse10 on an IBM RS/6000 H50, but when I boot from the cdrom and choose install it detects my terminal as an xterm. I'm using a serial console with minicom and the yast messages all get messed up. Normally I could do export TERM=vt100 but I don't see how I can do this when I choose install. Any suggestions? Erik. -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.362 / Virus Database: 267.12.6/152 - Release Date: 31-10-2005

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/sbin/lilo fails on SuSE10 install on Mac Mini
by Julian Seward 02 Nov '05

02 Nov '05

I'm trying to install SuSE10 on a Mac Mini, having successfully installed it on an old iMac DV400. I carefully followed all the directions at http://www.opensuse.org/PPC, and the install goes through OK, but nothing I can do will persuade lilo to be happy. When I run it, I get: linux:~ # /sbin/lilo running on pmac_new BOOT_DEVICEPATH = /pci@f4000000/ata-6@d/disk@0:2 OTHER_DEVICEPATH = /pci@f4000000/ata-6@d/disk@0:7 hmount: /dev/hda2: not a Macintosh HFS volume (Invalid argument) It's this last line I'm concerned about. The partition map is: Partition map (with 512 byte blocks) on '/dev/hda' #: type name length base ( size ) 1: Apple_partition_map 'Apple ' 63 @ 1 2: Apple_Bootstrap 'bootstrap ' 20480 @ 64 ( 10.0M) 3: Apple_HFS 'spare_hfs ' 20480 @ 20544 ( 10.0M) 4: Linux 'spare_linux ' 20480 @ 41024 ( 10.0M) 5: Linux 'swap ' 2048000 @ 61504 (1000.0M) 6: Linux 'root ' 106573104 @ 2109504 ( 50.8G) 7: Apple_HFS 'Apple_HFS_Untitled_4' 47618864 @ 108682608 ( 22.7G) 8: Apple_Free ' ' 16 @ 156301472 My reading of the opensuse.org web pages is that I should direct the bootloader to /dev/hda2. hda6 is root. hda7 contains a MacOS install. My lilo.conf is: boot=/dev/hda2 timeout=100 default=linux activate image=/boot/vmlinux initrd=/boot/initrd label=linux append="root=/dev/hda6 sysrq=1" other=/dev/hda7 label=macos What am I doing wrong? J

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dlpar on sles9/openpower
by Ingvar Hagelund 01 Nov '05

01 Nov '05

We have an IBM OpenPower 720 with hypervisor and a set of lpars. Earlier we got dlpar to work, at least a couple of times, but not anymore. Here's an example: Ran this on the hmc: ~> chhwres -r virtualio -m Server-9124-720-SNXXXXXXX -p mgmt -o a \ --rsubtype eth -s 11 \ -a "ieee_virtual_eth=1,port_vlan_id=1,is_trunk=1,\"addl_vlan_ids=600,601\"" HSCL294C DLPAR ADD Virtual I/O resources failed: HMC adding Virtual I/O ...... HMC Virtual slot DLPAR operation failed. Here are the virtual slot IDs that failed and the reasons for failure: 11 The dynamic logical partitioning operation failed. On the lpar "mgmt", running sles9 sp2 kernel 2.6.5-7.193-pseries64, we have the magic rpms from IBM installed: evlog-drv-tmpl-0.8-1 diagela-1.3.0.0-6 lsvpd-0.12.7-1 ppc64-utils-2.5-2 librtas-1.2-1 and the following IBM services are running: # lssrc -a Subsystem Group PID Status ctrmc rsct 5011 active IBM.ServiceRM rsct_rm 5103 active IBM.DRM rsct_rm 5110 active IBM.HostRM rsct_rm 5186 active IBM.CSMAgentRM rsct_rm 5217 active IBM.ERRM rsct_rm 5221 active IBM.AuditRM rsct_rm 5266 active ctcas rsct 7705 active IBM.SensorRM rsct_rm 7721 active IBM.FSRM rsct_rm 7722 active IBM.ConfigRM rsct_rm 7723 active So, where can I start digging? Regards, Ingvar -- Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends. Gandalf

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