From: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
To: Mikael Pettersson <mikpe@it.uu.se>
Cc: benh@kernel.crashing.org, paulus@samba.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mrmacman_g4@mac.com
Subject: Re: Trying to get my shiny new G5 (quad 2.5GHz) to boot under Linux
Date: Sun, 30 Jul 2006 12:50:44 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200607301250.44914.mb@bu3sch.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200607301023.k6UANWKj019190@harpo.it.uu.se>
On Sunday 30 July 2006 12:23, Mikael Pettersson wrote:
> On Sat, 29 Jul 2006 22:06:56 -0400, Kyle Moffett wrote:
> >I just bought a brand new absolute-bleeding-edge Quad 2.5GHz G5 (it's
> >actually dual-proc dual-core, but that's marketing for you) and I'm
> >trying to find a kernel that will boot the system. Well actually I'm
> >_trying_ to install Debian but I have yet to even get to mounting the
> >initramfs. Here's a list of the kernels I've tried:
> >
> > Debian-Installer beta2 (I think this is 2.6.15?)
> > Debian 2.6.16-1-powerpc64
> > Debian 2.6.17-1-powerpc64
> > Custom 2.6.18-rc2+git (64821324ca49f24be1a66f2f432108f96a24e596)
> ...
> >If you have gotten Linux to boot on the Quad G5; I'd really
> >appreciate it if you could send me a working .config (or even better,
> >a working vmlinux image). Thanks for all your help!
>
> You really should try YDL 4.1's kernel. I would be very
> surprised if it didn't work.
It boots, but it's crap. It has not the required Windtunnel
support built in (kernel too old), so the fans go crazy.
(And a G5 with fans going crazy is _really_ annoying).
But installing YDL 4.1 is good to bootstrap another distribution
plus kernel from it.
I first installed YDL 4.1 and (somehow, don't remember all the
dirty details) bootstrapped a Ubuntu on it. After that I deleted
the YDL partition again and made it my /home partition.
--
Greetings Michael.
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-07-30 10:23 Trying to get my shiny new G5 (quad 2.5GHz) to boot under Linux Mikael Pettersson
2006-07-30 10:50 ` Michael Buesch [this message]
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2006-07-30 2:06 Kyle Moffett
2006-07-30 10:41 ` Michael Buesch
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