Re: Call for testing

On 10/01/2012 03:44 PM, 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?

It took a bit of searching to find out about booting through the open firmware. 
Once I figured that part out and using the work around from Alexander, I got it 
to boot and started the installation; however, it seems that DNS is not working. 
I was asked for the HTTP IP address - something that I do not know. The wired 
interface on the Mac is working.

I do not have time to work on this problem at the moment, but will let you know 
what I find later.

Larry


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