Hi,
I've recently (Sep 04 2004) downloaded the Fedora development boot iso and tried it on my old PowerMac 7300. After burning the image, I've copied the kernel and ramdisk to HD and tried booting through BootX.
The system produces some output on the display but does not start any form of installation procedure - it just sits there.
Is this kernel/ramdisk version (2.6.8-1.541) supposed to work on OldWorld Macs? If yes, let me know, so that I can file a bug report.
Thanks,
Bob Deblier
On Wed, Sep 22, 2004 at 02:19:55PM +0200, Bob Deblier wrote:
Hi,
I've recently (Sep 04 2004) downloaded the Fedora development boot iso and tried it on my old PowerMac 7300. After burning the image, I've copied the kernel and ramdisk to HD and tried booting through BootX.
The system produces some output on the display but does not start any form of installation procedure - it just sits there.
Where does it get to? What messages occur?
Is this kernel/ramdisk version (2.6.8-1.541) supposed to work on OldWorld Macs? If yes, let me know, so that I can file a bug report.
It's not really something we've tried and tested. It may be worth looking at if YDL uses seperate configs for old/new world if not then it may just be something we're missing. IIRC the kernel for oldworld/newworld on ydl should be the same.
Paul
On Wed, 2004-09-22 at 22:28, Paul Nasrat wrote:
Is this kernel/ramdisk version (2.6.8-1.541) supposed to work on OldWorld Macs? If yes, let me know, so that I can file a bug report.
It's not really something we've tried and tested. It may be worth looking at if YDL uses seperate configs for old/new world if not then it may just be something we're missing. IIRC the kernel for oldworld/newworld on ydl should be the same.
YDL4 will not be running on OldWorld hardware (officially).
Might want to bootstrap with an older YDL, then go all the way up to Fedora from there. Referencing to: http://lists.terrasoftsolutions.com/pipermail/yellowdog-general/2004-August/...
On Wed, 2004-09-22 at 14:28, Paul Nasrat wrote:
The system produces some output on the display but does not start any form of installation procedure - it just sits there.
Where does it get to? What messages occur?
If I set my display (AppleVision 1710) to 1024x768x15, the systems gets stuck at after the following output [just noticed that if I wait long enough, the system reboots]:
Welcome to Linux, kernel 2.6.8-1.541
linked at : 0xc0000000 frame buffer at : 0x94c00210 (phys), 0xd0c00210 (log) klimit : 0xc07cf000 MSR : 0x00000072 HID0 : 0x8000c084
pmac_init(): ext id mach(): done MMU:enter MMU:hw init hash:enter hash:find piece hash:patch hash:done MMU:mapin MMU:setio setup_arch:enter setup_arch:bootmem arch:ext
Further testing show that any display mode which is not 24-bits freezes here (until the system reboots after a few minutes).
Any display mode which is 24-bits depth continues past this to a black screen with Tux icon, then after about 5 seconds goes totally black (and doesn't reboot).
It might be something as simple as a corrupt video driver for this particular system.
Specifying kernel parameter 'text' doesn't help - as the text system still needs the framebuffer.
Is this kernel/ramdisk version (2.6.8-1.541) supposed to work on OldWorld Macs? If yes, let me know, so that I can file a bug report.
It's not really something we've tried and tested. It may be worth looking at if YDL uses seperate configs for old/new world if not then it may just be something we're missing. IIRC the kernel for oldworld/newworld on ydl should be the same.
Paul
YellowDog 3.0 with kernel 2.4.20 runs fine on this machine.
I'm willing to spend some time to help test this - if you have any concrete items to check, please let me know.
Thanks,
Bob
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