Re: PPC DVD request (12.1 unstable)

On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 8:22 AM, Alexander Graf <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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.

This was something I wasn't aware of.

> 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.

hmmm.  Will give that a go.

> 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.

Seems to just ignore the cd for boot purposes, but that's probably for
the reason you outlined earlier.

> 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.

Peter used to hang around here as well, but he's probably like the
rest of us and just hasn't had the time to devote to it.  Life, kids,
bills, and just being able to get things done tends to get in the
way.......  :-)

>> 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.

Actually, I was thinking of Olaf, but Andreas was the first name to
come to me.  Olaf used to help me out on my old world stuff.  Gave up
on those machines because they just couldn't handle newer versions
without at least a G4/400 upgrade.  And even then it was
sluggish(example - the Powerbook Wallstreet only had a 16.7MB/s hard
drive controller, so it wasn't ever gonna be fast, even with a 320GB
drive).  My  Thinkpad A22p may only have a P3/1Ghz and 33MB/s drive
controller, but it makes a world of difference.  And I USE the
thinkpad daily, where my Powerbooks don't really get used.........
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