On 11/10/2011 01:56 PM, Larry Stotler wrote:
On Wed, Nov 9, 2011 at 6:13 PM, Alexander Graf<agraf@suse.de> wrote:
Of course, because nobody is fixing it. Please try to find out why it doesn't work - the fact that it's broken won't change otherwise :) That's all well and good if you know HOW to fix it, which I don't and which the OP probably doesn't either.
I don't know either, but that's what the amazing power of the internet is :). With enough time and willpower anyone can look things up! I'm not saying it's easy - but all important bits and pieces should be documented _somewhere_.
The question is: WHO do we report this to to try to get some resolution? I realize that PPC is no longer officially supported, but I would hope that someone would have some experience with it and could at least point us in the right direction.
This is a wild guess, but Mac booting support was dropped from SLES, so I suppose whatever change there was made it to factory as well. The kernel and user space however should run just fine. The way to fix it would be to read yourself into how the boot process works on Macs. Somehow you need to convince the Mac OF that it should load yaboot from the CD. Yaboot then has a config file on the CD that tells it where the kernel and initrd are. You could try to locate yaboot on the CD manually and try to boot it from the OF command line. You could try and see what happens when you pass the kernel and initrd to qemu-system-ppc with -kernel and -initrd. You could even go as far as installing a system with qemu and then dd'ing it over to a disk that you put into your Mac. I don't know the answer really. All I know is that apparently there is nobody on this list who goes "oh, yeah, that is easy, it only takes 5 minutes and I'm done". Either we manage to build a community (and I mean development community, not testing community) around PPC or the whole thing will stay dead.
Is Andreas Jaeger still around? Haven't seen him in a while(and I haven't been around as much as I had hoped to be either).
He is certainly still around, yeah :). I'm not sure if he's interested in getting involved on the ppc port though. Alex -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-ppc+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-ppc+owner@opensuse.org