ppc July 2007

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using qemu to boot Fedora
by Jesse Keating 27 Jul '07

27 Jul '07

So I'd really really like to be able to use qemu to test my just composed PPC trees. Alas I can't seem to find the magic key combos to make this happen. Have any of you had any luck doing this? There seems to be scarce documentation on the net about this as well. -- Jesse Keating RHCE (geek.j2solutions.net) Fedora Legacy Team (www.fedoralegacy.org) GPG Public Key (geek.j2solutions.net/jkeating.j2solutions.pub)

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by . 22 Jul '07

22 Jul '07

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quick yaboot Q
by Alan McKay 20 Jul '07

20 Jul '07

Hey folks, I have everything building now and my CD boots just fine, but there is just one little missing piece of the puzzle. When the CD boots it does not run our custom anaconda ks.cfg - it goes into the normal interactive install. This is of course because I'm basing this on the x86 build, and in order to accomplish this task it does the following in GRUB : label xyz kernel vmlinuz append initrd=initrd.img ramdisk_size=8192 ks=cdrom:/ks.cfg quiet This of course tells the initrd to run the ks.cfg file when it boots up. I've checked the yaboot.conf man page and don't see anything obvious there on how to do this. Can someone help? In short, I want the CD to boot and then run our customer ks.cfg right away, not the normal FC interactive install. thanks, -Alan -- "Aikido has but one principle - the universal reality of life" - Mitsugi Saotome

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Making a boot CD - ohhhh, I'm close!
by Alan McKay 19 Jul '07

19 Jul '07

Hi Folks, I'm trying to make a bootable install CD for PPC. We've already done this for i386 and what we did was blow open the FC6 CD1, remove what we don't need, add what we do need, then glue it all back together with a magical incantation of "mkisofs". Works great! (We're installing FC6 and our stuff goes on top of it) PPC has been a really different beast as I'm sure you all know. We're using the same approach by blowing open the FC6 CD1 but are having trouble with the magic incantation. I came upon this list via google (only after some 2 or 3 hours of googling and reading, unfortunately), and found this thread from March of this year concerning this exact topic : http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/fedora-ppc/2007-March/000971.html I thought I was home free, but when I try what pnasrat suggests, I get this error : Uh oh, I cant find the boot image "./yaboot"! I tried with both full and relative paths to the yaboot file. At first I was just pointing to the original file as it exists on the blown-open FC6 CD1 in my filesystem. (./fc6/ppc/chrp/yaboot). Then I tried copying it out of there and putting it elsewhere. Here is my current magic incantation. Note that "fc6" is the directory in my current working directory which contains the contents of FC6 CD1 PPC. mkisofs -r -J -T -V "@SOMELABLE" -A "Created on `date`" -p "somename" -publisher "somename" -x "lost+found" -input-charset iso8859-1 -U -chrp-boot -l -prep-boot ./yaboot -part-hfs -hfs-bless `pwd`/fc6/ppc -map fc6/ppc/mapping -magic fc6/ppc/magic -no-desktop -allow-multidot -o somefile.iso fc6 Ooooohhhhh, I'm so close! Help me Obi-wan Kenobi. You're my only hope! -- "Aikido has but one principle - the universal reality of life" - Mitsugi Saotome

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f7 yaboot problem on G3
by Mike Hammill 19 Jul '07

19 Jul '07

Could someone provide me with a reasonable yaboot.conf file or tell me how to make one to get f7 to boot on a G3? Background: I've been running fc6 on a Mac G3 (blue and white) and earlier version of fc before that. I really like it and decided to upgrade to f7. I used the clean install option (nothing else on the hard drive) from the DVD and the installation went fine. Originally, I choose the default layout, which seems to put nearly everything under LVM. I couldn't boot that, and I figured yaboot couldn't handle LVM. So, I started over from scratch and put reasonable things on LVM, the rest on their own partitions, namely: /dev/sda3 /boot ext2 120M /dev/sda4 /var/cache/openafs ext2 2048M /dev/sda5 / ext3 2048M /dev/sda6 swap 1024M /dev/sda7 LVM where /dev/vg/home 5120M mounted under /home /dev/vg/opt 2048M mounted as expected... /dev/vg/tmp 2048M ... /dev/vg/usr 10240M ... /dev/vg/var 5120M ... /dev/vg/userlocal 1024M ... This also installed fine, and f7 seemed to create /dev/sda2 as an Apple bootstrap partition. However, when rebooting, I got the broken folder icon and the best I can do was reboot to the rescue disk. Rescue did a great job, found my f7 installation, mounted all the above (except openafs partition) and I then chrooted to /mnt/sysimage. There, I have tried various incantations to install the boot image to the bootstrap partition, but nothing works. Is one to do it from outside chroot, e.g., yabootconfig -t /mnt/sysimage -b /dev/sda2 or inside using ybin -v or only use mkofboot? I hate to say it, but the closest success I got was booting with Gentoo's CD, mounting everything, running yabootconfig and then on reboot it at least boots f7's initrd and vmlinuz (however it kernel panics). Using only f7's rescue disk, I tried, after letting rescue find the installation, the following. Note here I did NOT chroot first: Try 1: yabootconfig --chroot /mnt/sysimage Got: Unable to locate bootstrap parition on /dev/sda... Try 2: yabootconfig --chroot /mnt/sysimage -b /dev/sda2 Got: Install yaboot bootstrap on /dev/sda2 to boot Linux from /dev/sda5? [Yes] Creating a simple /mnt/sysimage/etc/yaboot.config... Enter kernel image: /mnt/sysimage/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.21-1.3194.fc7 Enter an initrd image: /mnt/sysimage/boot/initrd-2.6.21-1.3194.fc7.img /mnt/sysimage/sbin/yabootconf: line 733: ofpath: command not found yabootconfig: unable to determine OpenFirmware device name to /dev/sda aborting. Try 3: PATH_PREFIX=/mnt/sysimage yabootconfig --chroot /mnt/sysimage -b /dev/sda2 Got: same as above except it got a little further. After entering the initrd, it gave: Running mkofboot to make the disk bootable... Failed to initialize HFS working directories: No such file or directory mkofboot: /dev/sda2 appears to have never had a bootstrap installed, please run mkofboot. I'd like to not give up on f7, but the above is pretty frustrating. Best regards, /Mike

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