Michael Lazin on Thu, 12 Jun 2003 12:25:15 -0400


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Re: [PLUG] Re: gentoo on PPC


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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