Re: Call for testing
Alexander Graf <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.linux.suse.ppc |
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| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
On 01.10.2012, at 22:44, Dinar Valeev wrote: > 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? 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. Alex -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] To contact the owner, e-mail: [email protected]