On Fri, Aug 11, Cameron Bales .:. wrote:
After that it kind of goes to pot. tried following directions from CD#1 - copy Suseboot to boot partition, set that as the Startup drive, and then reboot while holding c to boot of CD#1
That didn't work so well - screen goes properly black, penguin appears at top left, and a lot of text comes up saying it is doing stuff. One of the things that comes up says something to the effect that USB isn't working. It does keep trying to do stuff but eventually a blue/gray dialog comes up asking to make sure that the CD is in. That CD is definately in there. Since it doesn't see the CD nothing happens.
Also tried reading the manual - this was frustrating since the manual, the readme, and the docs I printed off the support database on yaboot all say slightly different things. Using all of the Docs, and a Linux knowledgeable friend I tried setting yaboot up manually - no real joy there either.
Is there one place with a unified set of installation instructions? Is my extremely new iMac too new for Suse PPC 6.4?
Only the kernel is too old for that machine ;=)
I have one report of a successful boot into linuxrc.
Please do it this way:
Get the latest kernel from ppclinux.apple.com/~benh , download the vmlinux*.gz file, extract it with Mac Gunzip in the tools folder in suseboot. replace the old kernel "vmlinux" with the new one, keep the name "vmlinux". Edit the file yaboot.conf, there is a section like that:
image = vmlinux root = /dev/fd0 # apppen = "something" label = install initrd = ramdisk.image.gz
replace that something with ramdisk_size=50000. Then reboot, you don't need to hold down the key "c", the boot device is already set to your Linux Boot partition. Now choose YaST1 and try to install Linux. It *might* be possible that Yast2 works too, but I guess the newer ATI cards are not yet supported.
If it works for you, please read the instructions at http://sdb.suse.de/sdb/en/html/usb2216.html and http://sdb.suse.de/sdb/en/html/keylist.POWERPC.html
The newer kernels have a changed interface for the new USB drivers and you need to update at least the devs.rpm.
If you still have trouble, please let me know.
I got the kernel: http://ppclinux.apple.com/~benh/vmlinux-2.2.17pre13-ben1.gz and followed your instructions - it doesn't seem to work even as well as the CD does - no black screen, no penguin, no text - all that happens is the screen goes white and grey and then it drops down to my OS9 partition. any chance I could get a yaboot.conf and os-chooser files that work e-mailed to me here? that is the only thing left for me to blame. open firmware tells me 0:10 is my linux partition, and 0:9 is my OS9 partition - does that mean that os-chooser should have ultra0:10.... for Linux and ultra0:9 for MacOS, or do they both get set to 10? should it be hd:10 instead of ultra0:10. Cameron .:. -- -- This mirror will show you your enemies. Cameron Bales .:. Sackville, New Brunswick, Canada work: (506)-364-1097 http://www.tantramar.com/ home: (506) 536-3613 http://i.am/cameronbales ---- The current decade shall be known as "The Naughties" ----