Re: [PLUG] Re: gentoo on PPC

["Michael Lazin" <mmlazin@hotmail.com>]

OK, I have yaboot working now.  Gentoo is proving to be very difficult to 
install and configure.  Now when I boot up my linux partition I am unable to 
login because my keyboard is not working properly!

:(

Michael


> From: Adam Lazur <adam@lazur.org>
> Reply-To: plug@lists.phillylinux.org
> To: plug@lists.phillylinux.org
> Subject: [PLUG] Re: gentoo on PPC
> Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2003 11:04:53 -0400
>
> grub doesn't work on anything !x86 AFAIK.
>
> I have yaboot going on my ibook, but haven't set it up to work with 2
> disks before. When you bootup, do you get the yaboot menu?
>
> The bootstrap partition stuff may be tricky to configure depending on
> where you put it, but after that the entries for Linux booting should be
> relatively straightforward. Yaboot is similar to lilo in that you should
> be able to give it root=/dev/hdb11 for each of your kernel images.
>
> My (old powerbook) config is online at
> http://adam.lazur.org/pbook/yaboot.conf
>
> If you can't get it worked out, posting your yaboot.conf and partition
> layout would probably be helpful to debug what's going on.
>
> .adam
>
> JP Toto (viceclown@yahoo.com) said:
> > Im a decently experienced Gentoo user but not on PPC.
> > Do you have to use yaboot? Howabout Grub?
> >
> > --- Michael Lazin <mmlazin@hotmail.com> wrote:
> > > I have installed Gentoo linux on my Mac G4.  I
> > > configured yaboot by hand and
> > > I can boot os 9 or os x.  Unfortunately, my linux
> > > partition will not boot.
> > > I am using two hard drives and my linux partition is
> > > on the second hard
> > > drive (/dev/hdb11.)  Does anyone have any experience
> > > with this?  Any
> > > suggestions?  I suspect that I do not have yaboot
> > > properly configured.
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > >
> > > Michael
> > >
> > >
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