Re: Call for testing

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 <[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.

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

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