Re: Call for testing

On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 10:20 PM, Larry Finger <[email protected]> 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?

>
> Any other debugging that I can do?
>
> Larry
>
>
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