setup arch

setup arch

[Paul Smith]

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I hesitate to lay this one out here because you all
are way over my head. The regular forums have not
responded to this in any meaningful way.
Hi, 


Box: 
Quad 2.5 PPC 
4.5 GB non ecc 533 Ram 
RocketRaid2320 
Nvida 6600 256mb 


software resources: 
install-ppc64-minimal-2006.0.iso 
install-ppc64-minimal-2006.0.iso.DIGESTS 
install-ppc64-minimal-2006.0.iso.CONTENTS 
install-ppc64-universal-2006.0-32ul.iso 
install-ppc64-universal-2006.0-32ul.iso.DIGESTS 
install-ppc64-universal-2006.0-32ul.iso.CONTENTS 

Checksum.app 



I am still stuck on this installation attempt. 
Here is a recap of the situation: 

Both the minimal .iso
images(install-ppc64-minimal-2006.0.iso) and the
universal.iso(install-ppc64-universal-2006.0-32ul.iso)have
been checksummed and check out good. 
I zereod out my cd media in both cases to make sure I
had no media damage that might cause corruption of the
images. 

When I boot from either the minimal or uninversal ppc
64 ect. ect. I get to a black screen that says: 

Welcome to the the Genntoo 2006 PPC install-CD. This
cd allows you to install on 64 bit apple and IBM
Hardware either a 32 or 64 bit user land, running on
top of a 64 bit kernal. Please refer to help on the cd
to learn more about this install-cd. 

Gentoo Installation Handbook http://ppc64.gentoo.org 
further info http;// ppc64gentoo.org 
Bugs: "bugs.gentoo.org(Cc ppc64@gentoo.org) 
IRC :#gentoo-ppc64 on IRC.freenode.net 
pesss tab to shoow the kernals. welcome to yaboot
version 1.3.11 
enter "help to get some basic usage information 

Boot: 

if I push enter it says "loading kernal" 
Elf64 ramdisk loaded 
(then something else real quick) 

then I hang in a grey screen that says 
Cf00100 
MM Init 
CF000012 
MM Init Done 
Cf000012 
Setup Arch 
The machine just hangs here with the fans running
pretty fast 

When I press tab the kernal that is available is: 

G5 G5-ttyS0,57600 

I know you are not really supposed to guess when you
are asking for help but the above is all the hard data
I know to give. 
I was looking at arch.app and it seems as if this is
the architecture part of the kernal. 
Given that this is very new hardware is it possible
that there is either a bug in the image or that this
hardware is not yet supported? 
Anyone have any ideas?


 		
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Re: setup arch

[Johannes Berg]

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On Sun, 2006-07-09 at 10:09 -0700, Paul Smith wrote:

> Anyone have any ideas?

First figure out what kernel you're actually running (G5 isn't really a
kernel description). Then upgrade that to 2.6.17.

And your machine description also lacks detail. If it's a PowerMac11,2
(Apple Quad PowerMac) then I'll just note that I have one too and it's
working perfectly with kernel 2.6.17 :)

johannes

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Re: setup arch

[Robin H. Johnson]

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(I tried to sent this before, but my mailserver wasn't playing nice).

On Sun, Jul 09, 2006 at 10:09:09AM -0700, Paul Smith wrote:
> I hesitate to lay this one out here because you all
> are way over my head. The regular forums have not
> responded to this in any meaningful way.
> Hi, 
> 
> 
> Box: 
> Quad 2.5 PPC 
> 4.5 GB non ecc 533 Ram 
> RocketRaid2320 
> Nvida 6600 256mb 
> 
> 
> software resources: 
[snip the wrong iso files]

Look in the experimental directory of your local Gentoo mirror for
install-ppc64-minimal-dual-core-2006.0-32ul.iso 

I believe this was because the dual-core patches aren't available in time for
the actual release media creation, and this was created later to make the newer
systems usable.

Additionally, unless you're planning on contributing the the Noveau driver for
accelerated 2D/3D support on the Nvidia cards, you won't be getting far with
the nvidia card.

Getting an ATI card will give you working 3D in most cases.  See this list for
what's supported at the bleeding edge:
http://dri.freedesktop.org/wiki/ATIRadeon#head-298bd23baafb9c2fad1774d1d2fa54bd2aa55e7d

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