Re: PPC DVD request (12.1 unstable)

On 11/10/2011 01:56 PM, Larry Stotler wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 9, 2011 at 6:13 PM, Alexander Graf<[email protected]>  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

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