Autopartitioning.
by David Woodhouse
The attached patch makes it try to create a bootstrap partition, and
makes it refrain from trying (and failing) to use LVM.
The bit in partitions.py to make isBootable() true on the bootstrap
partition doesn't seem to work, which is why the bootstrap partition
still isn't first. Dunno why.
If you hack it to set numDrives=-1 for Apple Bootstrap even when it's
not bootable, you still end up with the bootstrap after the rootfs.
Again, I don't know why.
If you delete all old partitions, it doesn't realise that partition #1
on a Mac is actually the partition table itself, so it's going to get
confused when it tries to create another partition #1. We possibly want
to fix doClearPartAction() to leave the partition table (partition 1)
alone.
If you tell it to delete only Linux partitions, it doesn't recognise
your original bootstrap partition as such, so it creates another. That
wants fixing too.
Aldy, wanna take over and play with it while I go off in search of good
and life?
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dwmw2
19 years, 2 months
Fedora Core 4 on PPC (was Re: Fedora Core 4 test 1 freeze ahead)
by David Woodhouse
On Fri, 2005-02-04 at 16:29 -0500, Elliot Lee wrote:
>I'm not yet sure whether we'll have PowerPC included - it would help to
>have someone from that team give a summary of the status of rawhide on
>that arch.
I've just done some playing with rawhide installs, and I think it's well
worth including it for FC4T1 -- we can always drop it later if we really
have to, not that I think that'll be necessary.
It's only really the installer which was in question -- the distro
itself has been fairly solid on PPC since at least FC2, if you could get
it to install.
Anaconda in rawhide is now capable of installing the bootloader
correctly and rendering the system bootable -- unlike in FC3. That was
the biggest problem in the past.
Remaining issues (see tracker BZ #121179):
- Rawhide lacks a 64-bit boot.iso for the Mac G5. That's fixed with the
patch in BZ #149081.
- Autopartitioning doesn't work well. That's partially fixed with the
patch in BZ #121266, but there's a few more relatively minor issues
which could do with being fixed by someone who understands anaconda, or
at least speaks python. The problem is definitely tractable though.
- A few X configuration problems. These should also be relatively easy.
There's an Xautoconfig package from Yellow Dog which gets it right, and
it's just a case of getting system-config-display and/or anaconda to
learn the same tricks.
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dwmw2
19 years, 2 months
G5-bootable FC3 tree.
by David Woodhouse
I've produced a tree with current errata and a 64-bit boot.iso,
available at ftp://ftp.uk.linux.org/pub/linux/fedora-ppc/fc3-ppc/
or rsync://ftp.uk.linux.org/ftp/linux/fedora-ppc/fc3-ppc
It's not tested yet, but hopefully images/mac64/boot.iso should boot on
the G5 and allow you to install. I've sent the anaconda patch which
creates the 64-bit boot.iso to Jeremy, so hopefully we'll see
images/mac64/boot.iso in rawhide some time soon, too.
The 32-bit installation should work the same as FC3 does, using
images/mac/boot.iso. One day we ought to put them both on the same CD
image -- it wouldn't be very hard to do so. Ideally, we could even make
CD 1 bootable.
This FC3 tree doesn't contain any of the other Mac-related fixes from
rawhide anaconda -- you still have to do the yaboot stuff for yourself
according to Colin's instructions.
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dwmw2
19 years, 2 months
Re: Fedora Core 4 test 1 freeze ahead
by Colin Charles
On Fri, 2005-02-04 at 16:29 -0500, Elliot Lee wrote:
> I'm not yet sure whether we'll have PowerPC included - it would help
> to
> have someone from that team give a summary of the status of rawhide on
> that arch.
I know Paul did an install on his iMac and was successful
So, I did one today on the iBook G3. X detection from anaconda wasn't
appropriate (first time this has happened, incidentally); relevant
bugzilla filed (radeon 7500 not being configured well).
Autopartitioning is still something that needs to be fixed. Manual disk
druid partitioning works
There is an /etc/yaboot.conf with the appropriate initrd line available.
However, the drive isn't blessed (so running /sbin/mkofboot, and then
saying Y will allow you to get fedora booting - in the instructions,
this is stated to be /sbin/yabootconfig ...)
X, for the Radeon 7500 actually comes up, using fbdev, at 640x480. Its
ugly :P
rhgb works.
SELinux brought up a system that was rather weird - ping, scp,
traceroute wouldn't work (error while loading shared libraries: cannot
restore segment prot after reloc: Permission denied). Bringing it up
with selinux=0 solved that for me quickly.
APM is still installed by default. Why is apmd.spec showing:
ExclusiveArch: %{ix86} ppc
Do we really want apmd running on PPC? I'd have figured pmud/pbbuttonsd
(i'm vouching for the former) would be a better bet. Incidentally, David
Woodhouse should be posting (or has already posted) for pmud's inclusion
into Extras
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"First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you,
then you win." -- Mohandas Gandhi
19 years, 2 months
RE: iBook:EXT2-fs warning, ext2_fill_super, then hangs
by Jason Feingold
image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.10-1.1136_FC4
label=2.6.10-1.1136_F
root=/dev/hda4
read-only
initrd=/boot/initrd-2.6.10-1.1136_FC4.img
>> Hmm, I'm not using FC4, I'm using FC3. Makes me think I should be using
>> FC4?
You can boot to rescue mode to do this; don't forget to run ybin afterwards.
>> Typed "Linux rescue", hung up at the same spot.. "Linux single" doesn't
>> work either. I'm assuming that I need a rescue CD, and then should boot
>> from that cd, do you know where I can get one? Thanks again. Jason
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Fedora Core 3 works on the Mac Mini
by Mike MacCana
(reposted, as I forgot to confirm my list subscription first)
Fedora Core 3 works on the Mac Mini. Went through Colin's instructions
last night and got it installed. X, Apple Bluetooth Mouse and Keyboard,
dual booting, DVD playing, etc. all work seamlessly. Thanks for all your
work.
Some questions:
1. Colin, I'm gonna send you a diff of your instructions to contain
stuff for Mini users, as well as clear some things up I found confusing.
Before I finish, though, I have to know: is the boot.iso askmethod
install mandatory for all installs? I did a network install for various
reasons.
2. Wade: installed system-config-soundcard-1.2.10-2wm (thanks for your
work), the soundcard is detected (the tools says it'll use snd_powermac)
but I can't hear anything when the test sound is played (I hear there's
something weird with volume control on the card - maybe that's it?). On
the console, I get
'amixer: Mixer attach default error: No such device'
I know this sounds silly, but running strace doesn't seem to show the
device its looking for. Maybe I'm blind.
Mike
19 years, 2 months