On 01.10.2012, at 22:56, Alexander Graf wrote:
On 01.10.2012, at 22:44, Dinar Valeev wrote:
On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 10:20 PM, Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net> wrote:
On 10/01/2012 10:02 AM, Dinar Valeev wrote:
Yay, we have 12.2 code base build for Power [1]. So far we have about 50 packages failed to build and 70 unresolvable.
Please give it a try. Core system should work.
Have fun, Dinar
[1] http://download.opensuse.org/ports/ppc/distribution/12.2/iso/
Thanks for the effort. Should the 32-bit CD work for a PowerBook G4 Titanium? It fails to boot on my machine, which has Mint 9 dual booting with OS X 10.4.
On power up, I get the normal "First Stage GNU/Linux Bootstrap" heading, followed by the normal "Press l for Linux", etc. When I choose "c" for CDROM, I get "Booting CDROM" that quickly results in a screen flash that looks like a restart, followed by a repeat of the bootstrap prompt. The second time, the machine hangs after the "Booting CDROM". One time, I got a "Catch FFFFFFFF" printed. When it hangs, the CPU is busy as the fan runs at high speed. Could you please try to boot it through OF?
When booting the 12.2 image in QEMU, I get an error that OF couldn't find :tbxi. However, looking at the HFS partition on the DVD, it seems to have the flag correctly set:
$ hls -l suseboot f UNIX/UNIX 0 28023754 Sep 25 11:49 initrd32 f UNIX/UNIX 0 29115153 Sep 25 12:04 initrd64 f UNIX/UNIX 0 31994661 Sep 25 12:06 inst32 f UNIX/UNIX 0 35550141 Sep 25 12:06 inst64 f Gzip/Gzip 0 4580676 Sep 25 12:05 linux32.gz f Gzip/Gzip 0 7453094 Sep 25 12:05 linux64.gz d 0 items Sep 26 10:08 loader f tbxi/chrp 0 1830 Sep 25 12:06 os-chooser f UNIX/UNIX 0 502598 Sep 25 11:14 yaboot f TEXT/ttxt 0 551 Sep 25 12:06 yaboot.cnf f UNIX/UNIX 0 502598 Sep 25 11:14 yaboot.ibm f TEXT/R*ch 0 220 Sep 25 12:06 yaboot.txt
and in fact, booting os-chooser manually also seems to work:
Welcome to OpenBIOS v1.0 built on Aug 28 2012 05:40 Trying cd:,\\:tbxi... No valid state has been set by load or init-program
0 > boot cd:,\suseboot\os-chooser yaboot starting: loaded at 00040000 00065a28 (0/0/fff025a4; sp: 07de7ff0) Config file 'yaboot.cnf' read, 551 bytes [...]
Still trying to investigate what's breaking down here.
So the default boot path is \\:tbxi. \\ means "blessed folder on the first HFS volume". :tbxi means "file in a folder with the tbxi file type". Now, the latter part is fine. If I manually say 0 > boot cd:,\suseboot\:tbxi then the 12.2 install DVD works just fine. However, it can not resolve \\. Adding a bit of debug code, an 11.1 DVD gives on "blessed folder" resolution: Blessed: 3c while the 12.2 one says: Blessed: 0 So for some reason the suseboot directory is not blessed. And that's why openBIOS fails to find it as \\. Alex -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-ppc+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-ppc+owner@opensuse.org